Hey; FourFingerWu is on board with any old ODeckers joining him at;

Oh that’s right! Same guy playing Paul in both.

It was an early James MacAvoy, and he’s always interesting to watch.

Also relevant;

I commented on Boing boing that if it had been an enjoyable, workmanlike and ultimately mediocre movie, like The Last Starfighter, or Wargames, it would have come and then sunk into obscurity. Whatever anyone’s opinion, it is not mediocre. I think the brushes with greatness and genius do make it epic and unforgettable.

I’m giving you a “star”, but it may disappear, because kinja has been doing that to me.

I went with someone who had somehow managed to miss seeing Sean Connery in anything, and in this, he was in his mid-fifties, and had ditched the toupee; she came out fanning herself, saying “Now I see what all the fuss was about!”

I saw it a big screen theater, one of the huge ones, the first week it came out. I never had an issue with the visuals; it was more the clunky dialogue, the scenery chewing by some actors and the wooden performances by others, and the focus on Lynch’s body horror fetish to the detriment of the plot. Honestly, I find…

How strange; kinja won’t accept my “star” when I click on recommend. It will show up immediately after I click on it, but if I leave and come back, it’s gone. KINJA!!! *shakes fist*

I liked John Carter myself; it had a lot going for it, and I think in terms of the movie itself, it was Kitsch in particular who was the weak link. Lynne Collins was, as you say, fine in the part, but there was no chemistry between them. But that may have been Kitsch’s fault.

A fair take on MacLachlan’s performance; people read different things into performances. It didn’t resonate with me.

The algorithm missed the twinkle-in-eye that all the Chris’s have.

Case in point; Outland, a remake of High Noon in the asteroid belt. Sean Connery in the Gary Cooper role.

Chalemet is old enough to have some acting chops, but still has the baby face to pass for someone much younger. Kyle McLachlan was very pretty, but it was pretty much his first real acting job, and he didn’t yet have the skills to pull off a lead role.

Re Hunnam; the first time I saw him was in Pacific Rim and I had trouble telling him apart from the main antagonist/clone, Robert Kazinsky. They were both large, blonde men who had trouble keeping their accents from slipping. So yeah, kinda generic.

I’ll get back to you that; the communities have to give the go-ahead.

Tatum is more than a pretty face; there is the same star-making twinkle in the eye that the Rock has, and Kitsch does not. He is very boring as a performer. As you say; they seemed to be all made from the same mould.

It could have been such a romp. It seemed that Purefoy and Kitsch thought they were in different movies; one was campy fun, and the other was a plodding drama.

It was the hundredth anniversary of the publication of the serialized novel “A princess of Mars” (the original title) in All Story Magazine (Argosy), and they could have capitalized on that, but noooooo.

See if you can lay your hands on the short novel “Selkie summer” by Ken MacLeod. It’s a lovely sweet story about modern selkies.