Let me start off by saying, I only listened to about one chapter of the audio book, then like many things, I got bored, started listening to Asimov instead. I liked the movie, the pacing and storyline seemed to go pretty well, I was disgusted at some points with the bugs, found it funny when carter killed the guy that held his chains with just a flick of his wrist and loved the funny nature of the alien species that took him in. The movie could have potentially been great, had it not been for other factors.
Now, the other factors, in sequence, 1)gravity, mass, carter has to slow down in an arc and somehow stop himself jumping between peaks at the start
2) Do not have a shot of a slow moving hovering land barge with an entire paragraph of dialogue being said by an actor
3) do not have a long drawn out escape from the land barge during the initial vicious attack of the land barge
4)the flying bug attacks on Traci lords, we see her swarmed, but as we know, not actually swarmed because the hero's woman does not get injured, they should have simply surrounded the cage and freaked her out, way more plausible
5)the martians somehow got outside the climate control station?
6) I was very confused about the atmosphere effect at the end, going away? coming back? they looked reversed, it was only when i saw the second graphic that I went "oh the first one is the atmosphere going away"
Anyway, alright movie, just be ready for things beyond your control
Now, the other factors, in sequence, 1)gravity, mass, carter has to slow down in an arc and somehow stop himself jumping between peaks at the start
2) Do not have a shot of a slow moving hovering land barge with an entire paragraph of dialogue being said by an actor
3) do not have a long drawn out escape from the land barge during the initial vicious attack of the land barge
4)the flying bug attacks on Traci lords, we see her swarmed, but as we know, not actually swarmed because the hero's woman does not get injured, they should have simply surrounded the cage and freaked her out, way more plausible
5)the martians somehow got outside the climate control station?
6) I was very confused about the atmosphere effect at the end, going away? coming back? they looked reversed, it was only when i saw the second graphic that I went "oh the first one is the atmosphere going away"
Anyway, alright movie, just be ready for things beyond your control