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A brand new look at the dry landscape of Barsoom, with a city in the distance Meet the Tharks! Riding on some Thoats, towards the water. Our best look so ...
"John Carter" is certainly energetic and manages to be entertaining most of the time - how could it not be, what with the "white worm" of the title battling Tharks and Therns while flitting ...
This is the sort of film where there is talk of Jeddaks and Tharks and Barsoom and you’re supposed to just pick it up and understand, and where we accept that Mars doesn’t look a thing like ...
You’ve seen the amazing trailer for John Carter — now let’s pick apart this alien world, image by image. Stare into the eyes of the green alien beasts from Mars, meet the people of Barsoom ...
Mars isn't a red planet in John Carter, but it should be angry. The fourth rock from the sun can't be happy with its name changed to Barsoom, or being depicted as an oddly Earth-toned landscape of ...
I know there's been a mixed reaction to the latest trailer, but show me hard sci-fi with fully-rendered Tharks (the tall, green martian guys) on Mars—rather, Barsoom —with some epic landscapes ...
Mars isn't a red planet in John Carter, but it should be angry. The fourth rock from the sun can't be happy with its name changed to Barsoom, or being depicted as an oddly Earth-toned landscape of ...
I'VE never read Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels so Disney's $250 million adaptation is a revelation. I now know where George Lucas got his inspiration for Han Solo, Count Dooku and the Sith.
March 06, 2012 at 4:01 pm PST. We were 20 minutes into John Carter and surrounded by a regiment of bloodthirsty Tharks when I realized I was lost. I figured we were probably on Mars. (The movie ...
Kitsch is a battle-weary Confederate Civil War veteran, drinking too much and searching disconsolately for gold in them thar hills when he happens upon a secret portal to Mars (Barsoom to ...
The Tharks are one of the many colour-coded races of Barsoom (Mars). There are giant white apes, symbiotic head and body chessmen and a veritable menagerie of beasts including Zitidars and the ...
Willem Dafoe has revealed that he enjoyed being "invisible" with his alien role in John Carter. The Spider-Man star is barely visible in his portrayal of Tars, the leader of the Tharks, in Andrew ...