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Yeah, I remember that yellow moss ‘stretching for miles in all directions’ I think. By the trailers it doesn’t look alien enough.

When I first heard they were doing this I was thinking Pixar doing the first full on American digital animation action/adventure block buster with a heaping helping of violence. I was thinking Frazetta coming to life, and the imagery of barsoom captured with fidelity, because they could actually pull it off with that studio.

Here’s what conservative sci-fi writer John C. Wright has to say about it—he gets into a lot of the character stuff he says they got wrong:

http://www.scifiwright.com/2012/03/a-reluctant-hero-of-mars/#more-5064

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I’ll have to read some of John C. Wright’s books. I enjoyed his criticism of the movie. Unlike so many others—even critics—who can’t seem to describe their likes and dislikes with any degree of coherency or consistently, John did trouble to genuinely argue his points.

As for the good in the movie, I agree with all his points.

I honestly didn’t see all the PC nonsense that Mr. Wright saw, but I can see how political correctness may have subtly influenced the director and writers—and certainly the studio—to reign any impulses to follow the source material more closely. They either sublimated it pretty well or I need to give my PC detector a more sensitive tune-up.

...But he really prefers Suzee Pai to Lynn Collins? The same Suzee Pai who was the Penthouse centerfold? And he has the marbles to call Lynn a skank??? Whatevs. This red-blooded American male grokked both the movie and Lynn Collins!