What did you think of "John Carter" when you first saw it?

I liked the movie and Taylor Kitsch

In my opinion this film is so underrated! I love this movie and I think it's great! It's a shame we'll probably never have a continuation of the series on film! 😢

It was a good movie.. sad that it bombed. Would have been great for a sequel.

I loved this movie and the actors were perfect. I get so aggravated when a movie doesn't make all the millions they want and they blame the actors. There are many reasons a movie doesn't make money. The price of a movie ticket is outrageous. The average person can't afford to go see a movie let alone families that have low income. So maybe theaters and movie makers should think about this. Taylor Kitsch is a very talented actor!!!

Star Wars had unknown actors in the lead, with the two big names of the time (Sir Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing) playing supporting roles, and that worked. So I don't think you can blame lack of star power as one of the reasons for it bombing.

I actually think this film was completely underrated.

This was a very good movie. I have read all of the books several times and I was pleased with this adaption and disappointed that we did not get more, but you are right not having a big name star hurt the movie.

John Carter is so underrated. I seen it at the movie with two of my siblings at the time.

Frankly, I loved this movie. I’m guessing people took it too seriously so they didn’t like it 🤷🏾‍♂️ But I think Taylor Kitsch is a great actor and played this role very very well. And Lynn Collins is GORGEOUS! So idk what more they wanted.

I loved the movie. Taylor Kitsch was a perfect selection to play John Carter.

Well, I loved the movie and I was disappointed to learn it wouldn't be a sequel.

It was better than avatar imo.

John carter was amazing movie plenty of actions in this movie🎥🎥🎬🎬🎬

Let's all spend as much as possible on dvd, blueray, streams and push the film forward. I so freaking like the film. It needs to be continued

Another problem with the director was that he was used to directing animated movies (Pixar) and was unprepared for the differences in live-action directing. This caused the movie to experience several delays, reshoots, long days, needing multuple takes, massive re-edits, etc during the filming and editing processes, which caused the already large budget to balloon even higher, and the end of the productuon to be severely rushed.

As an avid sci-fi reader, I really enjoyed _John Carter_ as both an adaption and for its own merits. Even my father - who flagrantly hates the sci-fi genre as a whole; up to and including _Star Wars_ - absolutely loved the film and still quotes lines from it to this day.

I think John Carter was a good movie. Would love to see a spin off, sequel or a redo. Hope it happens.

I’m glad most people, virtually everyone, agreed the movie was not an “ok” movie as described. But it’s a great movie. I also loved it when I watched it. There are some underlying issues that we still do not know about the movie that rendered it not being successful. Which leaves room for speculation. Movie was awesome! Cast were great. 👌

I actually liked the movie, it was entertaining and had enough to hold my attention ... good Saturday/Sunday afternoon movie

Movies released from 2009 to 2012 (besides Marvel and Twilight films) struggled due to the Recession. Remember "Tron: Legacy", "Prince of Persia", "Clash of the Titans", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" or "Percy Jackson"? They all failed.

Still waiting on 2

I really liked this movie. I believe one of the biggest reasons it didn't work was because the books are called John Carter from Mars. The movie was just called John Carter. Disney changed it because a movie called Mars Needs Mom's flopped so Disney dropped the 'Mars" from the original book leaving NOBODY to know what the hell John Carter was. 🤨

The first time I heard of John Carter it sounded boring by the title but after watching I enjoyed it. Don't judge a movie by the title.

Such a good film tho!!

Nobody ever talks about the fact that Avengers opened in theaters 2 months after this film. I remember Disney’s marketing being primarily focused on Avengers rather than John Carter. Ads were everywhere especially at Disneyland.

I've been aware of the series for decades. Right off the top, the marketing was ABYSMAL. The title of the film is so utterly, FORGETTABLY generic... Instead of "JOHN CARTER", it should have been "JOHN CARTER OF MARS"-- or, the actual name of the novel: "A PRINCESS OF MARS". And the movie posters should have had Carter holding a sword and standing next to a HALF-NAKED GIRL, painted either by Frank Frazetta or Boris Vallejo. The actual poster used, combined with its title, gave NO HINT as to what the hell the movie was! In addition, I've heard stories that 2 different departments inside Disney were involved in a hateful feud... and this resulted in one department deliberately SABOTAGING the marketing of the film on every level. When a company is TRYING to self-destruct... Incidentally, there had been a relatively cheap direct-to video version of the identical story named "A PRINCESS OF MARS" released only a few years earlier. I saw part of that, and it wasn't bad. Much earlier, Amicus Films in England had planned to do a version all the way back in 1977, as a follow-up to 2 other Edgar Rice Burroughs films they did that were both very successful: THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, and AT THE EARTH'S CORE, both with Doug McClure. For unknown reasons, at the last minute, their plans for thr 3rd film fell through, and, instead, they did a sequel to the first film-- THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT, which had Patrick Wayne and, in what was virtually a cameo, Doug McClure. That film had a lot of potential, but when I finally saw it, I wanted to KILL the screen-writer. In the words of one reviewer: "WORST rescue-mission, EVER."

I liked this movie & I'm glad they waited until special fx could do it justice. It might have helped had they added Edgar Rice Burroughs & On Mars to the title to get the attention of an audience. It isn't as well known a title as Tarzan is but there was an entire series devoted to adventures & characters on Mars (Barsoom)& it would make for good action scifi imo or possibly even given a steamr punk aesthetic since if was written in the early 20th century (around WW1)

1. They called it John Carter. Who is John Carter? Even if you read the books, you still might not recognize the name. This was based on "Princess of Mars" by Burroughs. If you'd called it that, you would have described the movie. 2. Burroughs' books had been popular decades before the movie, but not at the time. Even if you were a sci fi fan, you might not be familiar with them. Disney should have made a deal with the publisher/estate to have the books reprinted and promoted at the time, to tie them in. I was familiar with the books, but had never read them. So I went to see the film. It was fine. I don't need big name actors to make a film good. Witness Star Wars.

This movie was hella amazing seriously feeling like I should watch it again

I really enjoyed it. And believe that all the actors involved did an amazing job. I see John Carter as another great underappreciated film like Dredd 2012 with Karl Urban 🤷🏿‍♂️.

I reay liked John Carter. I also never knew it was in the theaters. Never saw/read an ad. I wasn't looking but these things find their way to the public.

Should have used the title that Marvel Comics did -- John Carter: Warlord of Mars or just Warlord of Mars.

Grossly underrated.

Taylor Kitsch was great in this movie imo. I enjoyed it and saw it in theaters. Wish it had done better.

GREAT FILM just not marketed right

Hope to see part 2 Really liked it too much

I realy liked this movie that is very underrated, to bad it never got a sequel.

It was a good movie. Just was t marketed right. I mean the books did inspire George Lucas.

The marketing for this movie was as bad as the marketing for Bud Lite.

If only they called it "John Carter On Mars", (faithfully to the book) then people would know it's a science fiction movie, instead of some boring documentary about some guy they never heard of! Could be a selling point...

It’s not a bad movie. It just tastes really changed

The movie is a documentary. They already know what is on Mars.

Oh yeah how come they never made a part 2 that was a dope ass movie !

The mainly problem I saw with it was that it was only available in 3D

The movie was SOOO good! I was devastated when their wasn’t any sequel!

it was a really cool movie. some people are just really really stupid is all. taylor kitsch is a good actor

I love this movie and it’s so underrated.

I went the day it came out, and I enjoyed it. I knew nothing about its background story; I'd never heard of the book (I've also never read nor watched Tarzan). The advertisement during the Super Bowl intrigued me enough to go, and I had a pretty good time.

Loved this movie!!! Can't understand this. It had everything needed for great entertainment. One of my favorites.

I actually enjoyed this movie. Sometimes I just ignore the critics.

Still waiting for JOHN CARTER II!!

I enjoyed the movie.

Ya know ... if done properly, this could be adapted to a pretty-decent streaming series.

That thumbnail looks like that green guy with the cigarette in his mouth

I loved this movie. Had no idea it bombed in the box office.

Disney is in trouble

I enjoyed the movie. Good plot. Good characters. I had already read some of the books before. Marketing screwed it big time. Should have stuck with Princess of Mars.

I think I'm ready to watch it for the third time.

Really like John Carter. Watch it whenever it is on but how many times can you reimagine Pocahontas.

with all those robots on Mars, really ?

I thought the movie was okay, but if someone said it was too faithful to the source material I'd question if that person ever read the books. I felt that the biggest weakness of the movie was the changes made to the story. Nothing wrong with the actors. Terrible marketing strategy from start to finish.

Excellent movie.

Wasnt a big problem that they tried a new style of marketing vs established methods?

DOLTAR SOLJAT!! FUCK THAT this movie was AMAZEBALLS

This is random 😂

I loved that film.

Liked it a lot, just a strange story

I liked the movie!

such a dope movie

The Reason it flopped was the title thats all.. this film had everything going for it but the actual screenplay lead role has a stupid name and then having an uknown actor to recover from the nobody title.. So as for the lead character smh its like making a matrix movie and calling it “Smith” or “Mr Anderson”

I watched it because I was on a plane and didn't have a ton of movies I wanted to watch. I thought it was good.

Dam, i liked this movie... sucks we'll never get a sequel

Tamed down the Boris Vallejo type characters of the genre

I liked this movie. It wasn't too thinky, but it had heart.

I liked it. Didn't go to see it in theaters though

The movie is good. But other people think is not. I think they are interesting characters and situations.

Underrated movie

Brad Pitt would've made a great John Carter

How many more of videos are y’all going to make about this movie? Let it go!

Referring to "Disney's TARZAN" was one of the stupidest comments I've heard in any video online this year. It completely ignores that there have been TARZAN movies, serials, radio shows, newspaper comic-strips and comic-books, and TV series going all the way back to 1918.

I remember seeing the Trailer from some movies we went to see before John Carter came to Cinemas & to us this movie didn’t look interesting at all despite all the Action which we liked. I agree with this Young Man on the Video,if a bigger star would have played John Carter maybe it would have done better. We will never know,unfortunately.

Why now, Looper?

Surprisingly this movie was good asf

It was an AWESOME movie, its one of my favourites

I wanted to like this movie, but I didn't. For me, it was the script that let it down. As this video said, it followed the source too faithfully. I think with a better script/adaptation and there's an epic movie waiting to happen.

The CGI aliens. The problem with CGI is that not only does it need to look good, but you must also connect with or like what you see. Avatar is all about looks. The films are very average but lifted by the "WOW" of the CGI. Plus, nearly everything is CGI, almost to the point where live actors look out of place at times. With other films, CGI should be there to enhance what physical effects cannot do...well, that's how I see it. When You have a lot of CGI aliens, it's hard to connect with them, even more so if those aliens are family-friendly, and that's where I think the issue was. People did not care or feel towards them. Yes, it was good CGI at the time, but as soon as they turned up, I was not instantly bothered, and as the film went on, I could not care less if they lived lol. This makes me think that it would have flopped no matter who you put in the film. Some books just work better on paper. A good example of how some CGI can spoil a film is I Am Legend. Liked the film, but hate every single shot with the creatures in. As soon as I saw them, I thought, "Why use CGI, and poor CGI at that." If you look at the makeup effects Ridley Scott was going to use (before he dropped out) it was way better.

The movie was great!! They failed on promoting it

Definitely better than Disney Star Wars

This movie is badass.

Wt... Heisenberg sale en esta peli?! 😅

Love this movie

I loved this movie,idk why it flopped

I love John Carter and Taylor kitsch was great I just don't understand why they hated it or the movie had to be a bomb like it was a good movie 👈. It's kind of sad that we couldn't get a sequel that would be like what's the next of the character I guess not😢. Actors were amazing by the way

I love this movie so I bought it have watched it many many times

I loved the movie

I went to see it cause it looked cool

A mi si me gustó la verdad

I thought it was a good flick

The people making it didn't know one Damn Thing about John Carter! I have no film experience and I could have made twice the Movie for Half the Budget! Did no one in charge even read the books? Why did no one Fire the director after the first week of Dailies? The B Movie with the horrible casting of Traci Lords was better than this Drek! Few things off the bat; the White Martians don't show up until the 3rd book and they have NO such advanced technology! The Bug ships are totally inaccurate to what Burroughs wrote! The costumes were atrocious! The Martians were basically nude in Burroughs work, now, we know that can't happen, but Conan style costumes would be okay. The Martians do NOT have tattoos, especially those grotesque facial ones! The Tharks are very poorly designed, and again, have very little resemblance to the illustrations in Burroughs work! This is not even half of the inaccuracies made. Again, did No One even glance at the book! Or even look at the various Comic Book adaptations if they were too lazy to read the book!