Princess of Mars (Patreon Clip)

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[00:00:29] Oubliette Minisodes. Hello, patrons, and welcome to this month's Minisode. How are you, Dan? I am very well. How are you, Conrad? I am very well, yes, and I've had a formative experience. Oh, okay. Do I need to know? Well, as a result of the assignment for this episode, I have seen an asylum movie for the very first time.

[00:00:59] Oh, right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. I feel like you need to experience one movie just to realize the products they're putting out into the world. Yeah, it needs to be savored. You can't just criticize it from afar. You need to actually sink your teeth in, really, savour it.

[00:01:24] So, of course, in our mainstream episode, we looked at John Carter, Brackets of Mars, the Disney 2012 box office disaster, and we found a lot to be admired in there. I felt it wasn't enough to justify letting it out of the Oubliette. You thought that it did. Patrons agreed, generally. Mm-hmm.

[00:02:17] And I suggested to Dan, hey, let's cover that for the Minnesota. Yeah. Yeah, I was surprised because I did not think you were going to enjoy this whatsoever. I'm probably right. Yes. And yeah, so those that don't know The Asylum, it's a film studio that tries to cash in on big budget names.

[00:02:45] They definitely tried to cash in more around the DVD era of movie watching and hiring and buying because they would often have very, very similar names to big blockbuster movies so that your old dotty grandma might pick up transmorphers in a bargain bin for a dollar thinking it's transformers.

[00:03:12] And then you have to sit through the absolute garbage that is the Asylum films. Yes. And if you go to Tubi, they've got all of them. There's this like Android cop, which is just, yeah, it's Robocop. You've got Triassic Park. It's endless. And they churn these movies out as fast as possible, like less than a year, I think.

[00:03:42] Like often they'll hear a rumor that something's coming out and they will just spit this piece of stinking trash out before the movie, before the big blockbuster movie comes out. It's insane. Their business model is insane. And I'm surprised they're still going with it, except they've kind of changed it a little bit now.

[00:04:07] Because they did have a little bit of success with Sharknado, which I have to admit, it's a terrible film, but it's kind of one of those so bad it's good movies. And there are like five of the movies or something. They get ridiculous. Like at one point, I think it's like Jedi powers. It's like laser eyes at some point. I don't know. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.

[00:04:30] But they seem to sort of cash in on that sort of ludicrous monster movie cash grab of Sharknado. And there's like Sharktopus and all these other ridiculous monster movies have come out. And people seem to be enjoying them. I don't know. They're pretty bad. They're pretty bad. But yes, Princess of Mars is kind of within their sort of DVD age, where I think they were trying to cash in on Avatar.

[00:05:01] At the time. And that's why Conrad, I think in some countries, Avatar of Mars is what its title is. Because James Cameron has cited John Carter as one of the big influences of his Avatar movies. But yeah, so this is trying to cash in on that, I guess. It was, yeah. I don't know if that's because, was it not public knowledge that Disney was working on John Carter in 2009, 2008?

[00:05:30] I'm not sure. Maybe. Maybe. Certainly. Yeah, definitely seems to be Avatar that they were after in terms of trying to capitalize on another film's success. Hmm. Yeah, I mean, maybe they did hear rumors about Disney making John Carter and they just, they just got Princess of Mars out really quickly. Three years earlier than John Carter. Maybe, maybe that's it. I'm not sure. Minisense.

[00:06:07] Minisense.