John Carter Bombs!

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    300M to make and bombs in the first weekend. I'm not surporsed with a name like "John Carter". That name doesn't exactly inspire you to watch it.
     
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    The first time I saw the trailer I thought it was going to be an advertisement for some product or maybe a TV show. It just looked cheesy.
     
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    I saw 21 jumpstreet. It was fucking hilarious
     
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    They probably should have kept the original "Chronicles of Mars" name. Never understood why they dropped that part of it.
     
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    I loved the books when I was 8-9. The first real books I read were Tarzans, Mars-series followed after them. Looking back now, the storyline of the books was really silly and there was absolutely nothing original in the John carter character, it would be difficult to create a good movie out of it
     
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    I agree with Sly that's an awful name. I never heard of the movie and just hearing the name of the film makes me wanna think it's some boring bio pic...
     
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    Same here. Read them both. Edgar Rice Burroughs was solid.

    You're right. John Carter was pretty silly. I never really bought the idea he transported to Mars through his mind (If I remember correctly). Still fun reads.

    His Tarzan material was brilliant. Much darker then the stuff we got out of Hollywood. The Christopher Lambert version was best, by a longshot IMO.
     
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    I hate Disney, so I hope that this fiasco sinks the whole studio like Heaven's Gate did to United Artists at the time.
     
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    No Wonder, Disney films sucks hairy bollocks.
     
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    I liked the Marvel comic when I was a kid, so I hoped it would do well. I think it's a neat premise: his mind is transported to Mars while his body sleeps in a cave or sarcophagus. I also like that he leaps around like the original version of the Golden Age Superman---no flying. The doglike creature looks neat as well.

    Ah well, they can't all be winners.
     
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    I don't know either but if I was in charge I'd change the name back today, in an effort to recoup 300 mil.

    Actually I'd have to think its a really bad thing when a movie like this bombs. The worst thing to happen would be for studios to become too afraid of losing money on iffy blockbusters.
     
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    Wall-E was pretty great, imo. That was Disney, wasn't it?
     
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    Maybe he meant the non-Pixar stuff.

    The Pixar movies are usually pretty solid, though I think their relationship with Disney has often been on shaky ground.
     
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    I mean live-action films.
     
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