Film: John Carter (2012)

[clovis-man]

I liked the movie. It was fun and maybe a little campy but not overly so. The marketing for it was really really bad though. I didn't even know who John Carter was until I looked up the name even though I read Princess of Mars when I was really young after finding a copy of it on a shelf of old paperbacks in the garage. I think if they had just called the movie Princess of Mars it would have got way more interest. It's too bad the movie flopped but I enjoyed watching it.

This was pretty much my point in my first post on this thread. The problem was in large part generational. Who under the age of 35 or 40 would know anything about John Carter? Enough to spark interest in a movie about him?

Poor promotion of the film.

 

[manephelien]

I quite enjoyed this for what it was, an adventure. A shame it flopped.

 

[finbaa]

I worked on this film (in quite a low-level role) in both production and postproduction: It was supposed to be huge. I was looking forward to it from about four years before it came out.

So disappointed in the cinema. Everyone seems to be saying here that it was a simple film and what did you expect?

Here is what an audience has a right to expect from a huge budget film like that

Good acting
A non-ridiculous script (THE FIRST ITEM IS BEANS!)
Chemistry between the two leads
Identifiable characters

None of this was in the final package. Waste of time and money