******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I have major respect for director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo,” “Wall-E”), and I think he got a raw deal from Disney regarding publicity for his underrated “John Carter” (2012); the epic, though imperfect adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “John Carter of Mars” books. Stanton’s evolution from high-end Pixar classics to live-action movies has…
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“John Carter” (2012), the unfairly maligned adaptation of the original space hero…
Before Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Luke Skywalker… I was born about a half-century too late to have been among the first generation to read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “John Carter of Mars” books, but my own first inklings of them came via Carl Sagan’s landmark 1980 PBS TV series, “COSMOS.” The late pop scientist reminisced…