John Carter

[cyclops83]

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nice ni xa nga movie?

[MetalManiac]

nice movie but if flopped at the box office,now disney wants to recoup even the production cost for this one

[Shugi]

Nindot ni? Tan'aw nya ko kung nindot.

[botyokoi]

ni flop lage ni nga movie bisan daghan nag ingun nga indot daw

[sucre]

super hot and sexy ang princess, the rest, 6/10...

[jeszeiahsmom]

nice man ni n movie..try to watch it and ul see

[girly_band]

super nice movie...just watched it a while ago..

[MetalManiac]

Why John Carter flopped: 6 theories ; Why John Carter flopped: 6 theories - Yahoo! News


The bloated $250 million sci-fi epic tanked at the box office this weekend, grossing a meager $30.6 million and finishing behind The Lorax. What went wrong?
As expected, the ambitious sci-fi "fever dream" John Carter tanked at the box office this weekend, earning just $30.6 million on its estimated $250 million budget and finishing behind the The Lorax (which is in its second week). By comparison, four recent films with similarly out-sized budgets — Spider-Man 3, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Avatar, and the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean sequel — averaged $99 million in their debut weekends. Observers had predicted that John Carter would flop, based on its poor performance in audience tracking studies. But now that the film has fulfilled those low expectations, they're enumerating the reasons. Here, six theories:


1. There was no star power
John Carter is a rarity: A massively-budgeted tent-pole film without a single recognizable name in its cast, says John Young at Entertainment Weekly. Producers cast a completely unproven lead, Friday Night Lights' Taylor Kitsch. And while Avatar starred a similarly untested Sam Worthington, "James Cameron's name is as big as any movie star," and Worthington was joined on screen by known-quantities like Sigourney Weaver and Michelle Rodriguez. "The most familiar face in John Carter was… Mark Strong?"


2. The marketing was a misfire
The movie is the victim of some "really rotten marketing," says Nikki Finke at Deadline. A series of bland, confusing trailers — "as generic" as the film's title — failed to convey the scope of the Civil War-to-Mars story or build interest around the characters. Though you wouldn't know it from the trailers, the film features a compelling love story, which could have snagged female audiences. Shortening the title from the original John Carter of Mars also turned the film into "a sphinx," says Young. "Who is John Carter? Where is he? Why can he leap great distances?" The marketing answered none of these questions.


3. The young guys didn't show up
John Carter is the kind of effects-heavy, action-adventure sci-fi film that's supposed to appeal to the young male demographic that flocked to Transformers or Clash of the Titans, says Amy Kaufman at the Los Angeles Times. Yet the audience that turned out this weekend was surprisingly older; 59 percent were over age 25. Blame the marketing again, says Finke. The studio mistakenly catered to the fanboys of the source material instead of the general public. See exhibit A, says Young: The Super Bowl commercial that "wrongly assumed audiences were so familiar with the John Carter brand that simply seeing the movie's title would excite them."


4. The reviews didn't sell any tickets
Critics were largely polite to John Carter, says Robert Fure at Film School Rejects. Apart from a few hyperbolic raves and pans, most reviews fell into "it's alright" territory. "Consensus is you'll probably think the movie is okay, but you might want to wait for the DVD" — a death knell for a film that cost $250 million to make.


5. It never overcame the initial negative buzz
The movie was "doomed by its first trailer," says Claude Brodesser-Akner at New York. That first action-less and effects-less trailer in July was so "disastrously impotent [and] muddled" that audiences were simply left thinking, "What was that?" Later attempts to refine the marketing campaign came too late. The film "had become a punch line — to those on whom it managed to register at all." Once the "established simplistic narrative that the film is a big-budget flop started to take hold in the press," says Mark Hughes at Forbes, the negative buzz spread so quickly and so loudly that John Carter never stood a chance.

6. Nobody, it seems, wants to go to Mars
Disney now has three relatively recent films set on Mars that have flopped. See previous box office duds Mission to Mars and Mars Needs Moms. "Avoiding the red planet for the next few decades might be a smart move for the Mouse House," says Gregory Ellwood at HitFix.



your take ......

[euan]

Who cares about profits? I enjoyed it, and those who didn't, don't know jack sh*t about the film. Enough said.

-RODION

Well, most films with cult following were flops. Wala lang na cla nakasabot ang uban sa ila gi-watch.

[rodsky]

Well, most films with cult following were flops. Wala lang na cla nakasabot ang uban sa ila gi-watch.

Whenever I watch a movie based on a cult following of something I cherised during my childhood years, I always pretend or just have the mindset that the MOVIE WAS MADE FOR ME. This is precisely why issues like flopping or failing at the box office is NIL to me--you don't even exist--inside the theater, all I care about is just the movie and me, and there was even one movie I saw when I was still in Cebu (that was indeed based on a cult following) nga ako ra ang tawo sa sulod sa sinehan. Pasalamat lang ko nga it was made into a movie

For instance, I want Macross to be a movie, but the chances of it being a live-action movie is very slim. But think how I would feel if nadayon? What if Macross really did become a live action movie? Chances are it will flop, but THINK...nag WISH gud ko nga it will become a movie, and it did! Kinsay winner? Ako.

-RODION