reave said:
The problem with
John Carter, is it's a CGI film. All the films up to about 1990-ish used almost the same slight-of-hand trickery developed in the early cinema of the 1900s, so making a pre-1990 film look like a 1950s film, or a 1970s film look like a 1930s film isn't too difficult. Any FX movie in the last two decades uses a totally different style of film-making, so to properly sell John Carter as an oldskool adventure it would need all the FX replaced, not just the ships but the characters too. But the look aside, it does have the feel of an adventure film story wise.
I might have already suggested it, but the original
'Captain America' is a great canditate for the
'Strikes!' treatment IMHO. It could do with a basic fanfix for starters, the glamour of B&W would help make the budget look less 'limited', it would be a treat for the legion of
Marvel fans in this community and it very much has that 1950s serial straight-down-the-line good-versus-evil adventure feel.
(^ Something like this)
The fact that The Cap wakes up from being frozen in ice, in "Present Day" 1993 counts against it as a period 50s film. Unless footage from other films could be added somehow skewing it into a 1950s idea of 1993, by cutting in shots of hover cars, monorails and food in pill form
.
With two months (April 4th) to go before the new Captain America hits cinemas, this edit could be timed beautifully to view along side 'The Winter Soldier'.
