Why John Carter Bombed At The Box Office
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Date: 2023-08-19
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Comments and reviews: 15
ShadowDemon
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.
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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.
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Linda
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!
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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!
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Lutz
Nothing to do with the lack of star power or any of that. Disney knew it would bomb even before release. I was doing professional film reviews back then and the distributor's representative during the press screening freely admitted that it sucked, but they had to go all the way for tax write-offs. The truth here isn't complex at all. It's just not clear what went wrong internally and why the project wasn't stopped.
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Nothing to do with the lack of star power or any of that. Disney knew it would bomb even before release. I was doing professional film reviews back then and the distributor's representative during the press screening freely admitted that it sucked, but they had to go all the way for tax write-offs. The truth here isn't complex at all. It's just not clear what went wrong internally and why the project wasn't stopped.
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Jim
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
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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
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DarkenedProgress
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.
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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.
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Patricia
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.
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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.
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Acb
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.
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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.
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Bill
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.
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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.
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Edward
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.
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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.
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Alan
You failed to mention the real reason John Carter failed. Disney just bought Star Wars and so they failed to promote John Carter because they now had a bigger fish in the hook. Lazy reporting, Looper.
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You failed to mention the real reason John Carter failed. Disney just bought Star Wars and so they failed to promote John Carter because they now had a bigger fish in the hook. Lazy reporting, Looper.
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kitegem
This is, in fact a good movie. Better than The Force Awakens; better than Avatar: The Way of Water. Should have done much better than it did. Shame there weren t any sequels.
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This is, in fact a good movie. Better than The Force Awakens; better than Avatar: The Way of Water. Should have done much better than it did. Shame there weren t any sequels.
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Lordbeagle
No Brad Pitt or Leo. they too pretty for this role. Matt Damon is pretty but he could've pulled it off.
I love Taylor cause im a huge Friday Night Lights fan.
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No Brad Pitt or Leo. they too pretty for this role. Matt Damon is pretty but he could've pulled it off.
I love Taylor cause im a huge Friday Night Lights fan.
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Danny
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!
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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!
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Rusty
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
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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
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Marcus
I actually liked the movie, it was entertaining and had enough to hold my attention. good Saturday/Sunday afternoon movie
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I actually liked the movie, it was entertaining and had enough to hold my attention. good Saturday/Sunday afternoon movie
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