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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Disney

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I mean it felt like 4-5 movies was mushed together into one. Main lead had no character same as main antagonists. Overall it was mega bland and boring.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its better than the book thats for sure

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's too out there for the average movie-going audience, who are currently illiterate to the ideas John Carter is riffing on. Mainstream culture first needs to be reintroduced to and primed with adequate knowledge of astral projection, space opera (of the sword and sandals variety) or else it just feels like genre mashup to them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It came out three years after avatar you stupid Black person.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Avatar is neither astral projection nor space opera, dimwit.
        Astral projection is not reliant on technology and Avatar is grounded hard scifi, not space opera.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Bruh they’re both isekai. One is isekai from shitty ugly world into gorgeous world, the other is isekai from shitty ugly world to shitty ugly world.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Mars in space opera wasn't always ugly.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              here's your scantily clad (by 1940s standards) otherworldly beauty bro

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Poorly marketed. I didn't know of the source material at the time and thought it was just same gay shit. Didn't find out it was kino until later.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They adapted the wrong Burroughs book

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The same kind of problems that Tomorrowland had killed this too. It starts multiple times so the audience has a problem getting invested, the lead simply isn't interesting and the plot doesn't make much sense.
    There are ways to make a movie like this work. You can either go fun and camp and make Flash Gordon or go expansive and deep and make something like Chronicles of Riddick. Instead they made something that felt like Prince of Persia again. Which is a shame because except for Kitsch the cast is fricking stacked: just as a start Caesar, Marc Antony and Atia from Rome are here. A better version of this would already have gotten two sequels and we'd be sick of it by now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >or go expansive and deep and make something like Chronicles of Riddick

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bad marketing, kind of weird structure to the movie, and ended on a cliffhanger setup
    i loved it, but it didnt do well because your average normoid wants a blockbuster to be point A to point B, not point B to point A to point C to point B again
    i'd shoot a man for a proper sequel but the chick that played dejah probably isnt hot anymore so it wont happen

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I am wondering why you’d shoot a man before tossing him out of a plane

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Filmento has a good review of this on YouTube. Pretty much explains perfectly why this film flopped, and why I can't be bothered to continue watching it after the first 15 minutes.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Jews

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I remember enjoying the books they're based on but never bothered watching the movie

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What went wrong?
    The girl wasn't naked the whole time. Simple as

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Correct if I'm misremembering, but Burroughs had a lot of worldbuilding in the original works that wasn't present in the movie at all. Disney doesn't know how to adapt his stories and just end up making their own fanfiction using the setting (Tarzan was the same).

      Also this.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Princess of Mars consists of John bumbling around Mars randomly and occasionally running into something weird that is immediately explained because it's supposed to be his memoirs. It didn't have much plot and the movie had to borrow from the future books.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah that is sort of what I remember. It's not really something you can easily adapt into a full length movie.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Actual reason coming through:

    Because it was just a clone of avatar where, instead of metal overcrowded shithole to gorgeous jungle planet, it’s a dude going from one desert to another even shittier desert

    There was no way to “market” this in a way where people would look at it and not see an inferior version of avatar.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      shit. i didn't even make the connection to avatar while i was watching it. just knew i was bored out of my mind and watching a worse version of something i'd already seen, but it was too far removed from anything for me to place a finger on it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >movie adapted from a book that predates Avatar by almost a century
      >It'S JuSt A bOrInG aVaTaR cLoNe!!!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yep. but you forgot the part where
        >avatar is also HEAVILY inspired by the same book
        >avatar retools/improves virtually every solitary aspect of the book

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >colonisation is… LE EVIL!!!
          is that supposed to be an improvement?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            i see... you were, somehow, too stupid for avatar.

            i'll leave you to your children's movie.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No idea. I thought it was fine. Nothing spectacular, but not unwatchably bad either.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i liked it.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Came on the heels of Avatar and looked like a cheap rip off. Also no marketing

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no marketing because there was nothing they could say or do to make it not look like a mockbuster level ripoff.

      i mean shit, imagine being in pre-production of john carter, and then avatar drops, also heavily inspired by princess of mars, except better in literally every way. its dead baby delivery tier.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't really know. I watched it for the first time last Christmas and I loved it.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its indians acting like john carter wasn't shit, isn't it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It has one really well-edited scene that consistently makes me tear up without fail. It's not shit, but not specifically because of that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        ... bruh that shits bollywood tier... but i guess thanks for answering my question

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Wasn't talking about the action at all.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            i'm talking about the entire scene.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Eh you should probably watch the movie to have the scene in context.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                i've seen the movie. that scene had me cringing inside out. its not even unintentionally hilarious like, say SVU. its just shit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What's cringe about it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No idea, but if you like it that means it's bad.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                trying far too hard to humanize the block of wood they cast as john carter.

                i'd be more sympathetic if he was burying a dead sapling.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I don't really pay attention to how men compose themselves outwardly because most men especially those with trauma are really great at putting up a stoneface stoic front. It works for me and I think it's a weird thing to get caught up on.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                sure, if you don't really pay attention to the bad acting, and instead focus entirely on what is supposed to be on screen, then i guess the movie is actually really good.

                ya know, just like the star wars prequels.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                All American movies have bad acting, so what.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                so what country are you from?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Canada, but I mainly only watch Britkino

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                do you have one or all of the symptoms of heavy metal poisoning?

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Some idiot exec removed "from Mars" from the title

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wouldn't have helped

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I liked it

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >poster count doesn't increase

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    wasnt bad i liked it

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Roy Jr died

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Saw it when I was 10 for my friends birthday. I liked the bit where he was figuring out Mars' gravity and jumping around. I thought the rest of it was boring at the time, haven't seen it since and can't remember any other scenes.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I only saw it because some friends took me along and I didn't know it was going to be scifi until they went to space

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