Few people have heard of John Carter, making the film's title as unremarkable as its paint-by-number theatrical trailers. There's a certain early 20th century American nostalgia for Burroughs' work, sure - largely fueled by affection for the author's "Tarzan" tales - but, let's face facts, John Carter isn't Tarzan. Quaintly old fashioned, filled with the sort of strange beasts and four-armed aliens that now adorn every junior high artist's sketchbook, and relayed by a chummy, opinionated - I've come this far, so I'll just say it - occasionally racist narrator who insists on pausing the action to speak directly to his audience, it's surprising that so many filmmakers have worked so hard to keep the Barsoom torch burning over the last hundred years. Reading Burroughs isn't a stirring intellectual experience, especially in this day and age, and his flights of Mars-bounding fantasy haven't exactly withstood the test of time. Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the "Tarzan" and "Barsoom" serials and series, was the Michael Bay of early 1900s pulp fantasy and science fiction. If it forms the habit of reading in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature." That's right, dear readers. ![]() ![]() If it entertains, it is good literature, or its kind. ![]() ![]() "No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment.
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