Here he is!

[phyncke]

I love this guy's name, Kent Slugger. Be still my beating heart.

*Not safe for work*

Kent Slugger We Love Guys

Hope you enjoy that.

Short movie review. I really enjoyed John Carter - a visual, science fiction feast based on the novels of the early 1900's. I don't want to give too much away but our hero - Civil War confederacy cavalry captain, John Carter is transported to Barjoum (Mars) when he happens upon a magical cave and amulet. He finds the gravitational differences give him super human jumping and warrior abilities there. There is a complex political culture and 9 races of peoples on Mars (Barjoum). I found this interesting enough that I might even look up the original books to see how those are. I love science fiction. Anyhoo. The movie held together structurally and it was visually beautiful. Taylor Kitsch is gorgeous here as the main character and the rest is well acted too. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen for the landscape and grandness of the film.

I love movies that deliver. Anyhoo. Happy Sunday to all of you and hope you are having a good weekend. Don't forget to change your clocks today, spring ahead by one hour, if applicable.

Cheers!


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Comments

[aschicca.livejournal.com]

A friend wants to go see John Carter but I am unsure if I want to go with her or not. For this reason, I truly appreciated reading about your impressions :)

Kent's body is impressing *nods*

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

I really liked the movie and was interested all the way through. It held together. Visually beautiful. :)

And Kent is impressive, for sure. I like his pose.

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

You can download the audio or ebooks of the 5 original John Carter novels for free at Project Gutenburg. Check John Carter at Wiki for the names and order of the first five books. Also you can read some interesting tidbits about John Carter there.

One other thing, since you were a beta and an artist at the Big Bang, would you like a code for Archive of our Own? It's a decent place to archive your writing.

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the info. I will check those out.

I will check out the archive and see about that. I primarily use OEAM for my fan fic. So let me look there and let you know. You still have codes? I am late getting back to you.

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

Yep, I still have some codes.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Man = not to my tastes, movie review however is. I read the books when I was a kid and loved them, so I should give them another look after the movie, I guess. It sounds wonderful - love good sci fi and there's so little of it out there.

Thanks for the pimpage for Secret Garden last post, it's much appreciated. I need to respond to reviews - just so overwhelmed with B2MeM it's hard to stretch the hours. Will do better :|

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

He's ok.

I really enjoyed the movie. My friend who read the books said there were some differences that were forgivable in the movie. It seemed a lot tamer than she described the books as being so keep in mind it is a Disney film...no nudity or sex there and I heard that the books were racy. But I also love a good epic sci fi story.

I am really enjoying the story so happy to post about it. I look forward to each installation.

I pinged you about this. I am rereading Doubt and having fun with that too. I love that one as well. That is in my always keep cache of stories. :)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Aww, that is cool that you're rerading Doubt. Thank you :) I hope it's the final version on my website or the SWG? - need to get a few scenes edited on OEAM but it's such a pain having to copy and send...

I need to get the next chapter of Secret Garden up. I've got lost in writing the SWG B1MeM prompts, I'm losing track of time,

Will definitely look out for the movie when it's released here - saw a trailer a few days ago so maybe we won't be too far behind you on this one.

[perkyandproud.livejournal.com]

Oh...my heavens! :-)

Hm...I'm looking forward to the movie! I was a big fan of the books growing up :-) (In the books he was rather amazing even before he went to Mars...plus, he resembles Tarzan in his noble brow and grey eyes ;-)

What Alex said, just be aware that there are 11 books :-)

*hugs you*

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Ha! Nice reaction!

I heard it is interesting, the books so might try them. I also have a pile of books to read right now so will have to see.

Thanks for commenting!