Enjoyed 'John Carter'.. its an spectacular treat... can't believe this will lose around £126 
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Poor Antonio Banderas probably expected more from this 1999 historical action film. It took just under $62 million at the box office but production and marketing costs came to $160 million.
The film originally cost around $85 million to make but the test audiences loathed it, forcing it back into production for another year and driving up the cost.
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20/03/2012 18:10
20/03/2012 20:13
Because a film fails to make its money back in a week it's a flop! This film is nothing like Star Wars, Conan etc, this story was written 100 years ago. Star Wars et al all come from it. John Carter of Mars (Barsoom) is the story that inspired many of the top movie makers and writers. It is the 'creators' of Avatar, Star Wars and all the others who have taken this material and given it to you in the guises that you know.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the man that created the fantasy genre is one of the most plagiarised authors out there. Read some of his work you might actually learn something about the so called originals.
20/03/2012 19:39
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20/03/2012 18:59
20/03/2012 18:21
I am assuming they thought this would be Disney's Star Wars, with multiple sequels. I think it should have come out under their Touchstone brand instead of Disney, because Disney = kids films... and this is no Pirates of the Carribbean... Or they should have released it at the Easter holidays. Who knows... But if this flopped it will mean that Wrath of the Titans with the cockney hero may also flop, we shall see. At least it did better than Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, or did it? 
21/03/2012 02:34
21/03/2012 03:02
I am very surprised that there are not more expensive movies flops, with the trash coming out of Hollywood over the last ten years, It seems to me that the general movie going public are quite happy to watch substandard films with badly written screenplays which a first year drama student could write better and the total reliance on computer generated special effects one or two famous names to sell the movie.
we need good films with great screenplays and good acting not films full of special effects and bad acting.
we need good films with great screenplays and good acting not films full of special effects and bad acting.
21/03/2012 01:44
20/03/2012 21:38
20/03/2012 18:41
Well, looking at this, I am not surprised.
Seen it all before - alien beasties in an arena, hero to a chain, wierd alien ships, hero rescuing princess from panto villain, love interest and other stuff.
Why watch somethjng you have seen so many times in other films? Many will say there is more to it than that, but the audience decided otherwise.
Sides, take into account that its 3D meaning VERY EXPENSIVE tickets before treats, in this debt ridden world, many would probably wait for this to come either on DVD or live streaming - which will be way cheaper!
20/03/2012 20:07
21/03/2012 11:54
21/03/2012 02:41
20/03/2012 19:38
Listened to Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 last week and he said he wasn't a Sci Fi fan and he loved it after going to see it after the critics slagged it off. Other people emailed the show to say the same. the critics were wrong. I read the books 40 years ago and loved the look of the trailer. So I am going to go see it. The other thing is that over the next decade we will see that films like this and Avatar and many others in the past are prophetic. Laugh if you wish ... but wait and see! Its naive and arrogant to think we are the first life forms ... we aren't!
21/03/2012 02:58
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20/03/2012 23:26
20/03/2012 19:02
Dropping "Mars" from the title was a huge mistake. It's the most important word for someone unfamiliar with the material. "John Carter" is such a generic Anglo guy name that this could literally be almost any kind of movie.
Despite the **** marketing and the film's general resemblance to so many other crappy films from the past ten years (Attack of the Clones, Prince of Persia, the Clash of the Titans and Conan the Barbarian remakes, and Avatar, to name a few), I will still see it because I love the character and want to support Andrew Stanton.
Despite the **** marketing and the film's general resemblance to so many other crappy films from the past ten years (Attack of the Clones, Prince of Persia, the Clash of the Titans and Conan the Barbarian remakes, and Avatar, to name a few), I will still see it because I love the character and want to support Andrew Stanton.
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