I thought of you when I saw the John Carter trailer. (Almost sent it to you, but I wanted to be something more substantial than the "hey! here's a link" guy.) It has the potential to be a lovely, moody work, with an attitude of "Can we save this world?," not of "RAAAARRGGH I'VE STABBED EVERY SINGLE BLOOD-BEARING ORGAN IN THIS THARK." Anyway, I'm reeeeeeeally hoping it's good. (I'm invested partly because I've read both the first John Carter and the first Tarzan novel, and much preferred A Princess of Mars.)

I kept thinking of the overused word "beautiful" when looking at the John Carter trailer. Reminded me that I find much Mars-inspired art beautiful. Like the Bob Clampett tests for a 1930s animated John Carter of Mars (http://slyoyster.hypervocal.com/movies/2008/john-carter-of-mars-or-what-could-have-been-for-animation/):