Ah, so they knew that several years in the future they wouldn't look so ugly in comparison!
As for the reaction, it seems that they didn't show much more than what's already been in the trailers, so still hard to tell what the overall reaction to the actual movie will be. Which is of course true for every movie, but I do want this to do well.
Me, too. I'm hopeful. I've been following the John Carter Files since you mentioned them earlier and now they have a Tarzan files section. Interesting article about the director's feelings about source material:
LOT relevant part, but the whole article is interesting:
Legend of Tarzan — What Solution Has Yates Put Forward?
With Tarzan, unlike John Carter (and more like Superman), we have a film franchise that is in danger of being perceived as having been “done to death” — and one which, like Superman, has a hero that might be perceived as being a little on the vanilla side, an eternal do-gooder–a perception that is based on the previous Hollywood movies, of which there are about 40.
One of the great ironies in the marketing of Legend of Tarzan thus far is that the ‘pitch’ is that this is basically not your granddad’s Tarzan, this is something new and different and fresh and 21st century cool. All of which is fair marketing, because all of these themes are true in relation to the movie Tarzans that have come before.
But the irony that seems to be emerging is this. This “new, fresh Tarzan” that Yates has come up with is actually (shh….don’t tell anyone) the old, original Tarzan that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote and which was largely ignore by Hollywood as it went down the road first of all of a “Me, Tarzan,You Jane” primitive character, and later a jungle boy scout.
We’ll see if that is really where it all ends up. But fans of the books are excited because it does seem like Yates has gone back to the original source material for both the story setup of Tarzan returning to Africa from life in London and for the themes of internal conflict that were an inherent part of Burroughs’ Tarzan character at the point in his life (ten years after leaving the jungle) that the story explores.
Has Yates avoided the pitfall that befell both Stanton and Snyder?
We’ll find out soon enough.
http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2016/...-legend-of-tarzan-do-and-dont-have-in-common/
And, relating to this article, saw that Ben Affleck will definitely be directing and starring in the next stand alone Batman movie. A director who actually cares about the character. That's why I do hope that David Yates, who is an ERB fan and wanted to make this movie will do a good job.
