Nicely done.

They blew the marketing on this film. I don't live in cave but I barely even saw an ad for John Carter and didn't even know the release date. Next thing I know I'm reading about what a failure it was. Good work Disney.

It was advertised heavily on tv. The problem is the ad was garbage. No story elements, characters, or any dialogue at all were in it. It was just a collection of half second long action sequences stuck together telling you absolutely nothing about the movie other than that it has a decent special effects budget.

No, Jules Verne gave us the gift of science fiction... half a century before E.R.B.

I think the problem was just Lucas destroying the CGI movie for the mainstream. No one wants to see any more animated aliens having parades.

Was the movie any good though? Was it poor marketing on a poorly done movie or poorly done marketing a movie that could have done really well had it been marketed right?

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Was the movie any good though? Was it poor marketing on a poorly done movie or poorly done marketing a movie that could have done really well had it been marketed right?


It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad enough to deserve to flop as hard as it did. I've seen much, much worse movies that did much, much better (e.g. all of the Transformers films).

Wait, Jane Goodall? Did I miss something about her?

I thought the movie was great. I think the marketing was bland, but mostly the name is just terrible. "John Carter" sounds like a 1930's american president bioflick or something.

John Carter of Mars is better, hell, why not go with "Princess of Mars" which was the book title.

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Was the movie any good though? Was it poor marketing on a poorly done movie or poorly done marketing a movie that could have done really well had it been marketed right?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/john_carter/
looks like a flop regardless of marketing.

No trailer for an action adventure movie would / should ever *EVER* start with a history lesson about the source material.

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