[jimbo123]

Hurray for Hollyweird! This historic financial flop means massive layoffs at Disney, just in time for the election!

[Blue Ink]

Most movies flop. And most flops don’t do a hundred million domestic/foreign on opening weekend.

Disney will lose a hundred fifty million on John Carter in the end.

Not a layoff scenario.

[mylife]

Space Rangers~ King Of Mars

[Keith in Iowa]

Lets hope Disney/ABC’s “GCB” in on the next ‘flight’ to Mars.

I wonder if Walt would be appalled by much of what his namesake company hat wrought?

[Gene Eric]

Instead of promoting “Good Christian Bitches”, perhaps the studio could generate some cash promoting “Good Disney Bitches”.

[GeronL]

Amazingly even huge flops don’t seem to keep the same actors and directors from being hired again and again.

[tumblindice]

Traci Lords, yet no mention of the 7th planet from the sun. Must be some kind of record.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Too bad. I loved the books when I was young.

[who knows what evil?]

Sad that people choose to propagandize their children with environmentalist pap like ‘The Lorax’...

[jmcenanly]

Part of the problem is that since so many people have borrowed from it, from Conan the Barbarian and Superman, through Star Wars and Dune, everything looks familiar. Viewing the movie is an exercise in Dejah Vu.

[ssaftler]

My biggest problem with this flick is that, unless you want to go at 10 O’Clock (AM or PM), you gotta go to either the 3D or the XD version, each of which has a $3-$4 “up charge” attached to it.

For matinee or Costco prices ($7.50), it might be worth it. “Regular price” ($11-$15), not so much.

[EDINVA]

Bush’s fault, anyway!

[tarheelswamprat]

Watched the trailer. Dejah Thoris appeared to be overdressed... /g

[Caipirabob]

I'm seeing pretty good user reviews on Yahoo. If I had been picking a movie, I usually trust their user reviews, they almost always go against what the hollywood type say about a flick.

OTOH, the poor numbers may be just an extension of Barry's "vision" of "America is back" (to the 1930's.)

[big'ol_freeper]

I just got home from watching it with Lil. Pretty good flick.

[cookcounty]

Wasn’t John Carter Jimmy Carter’s grandddfather?

[Pharmboy]

A few weeks ago my wife and I saw the trailer. I said to her at the time: “Are they kidding? Even a 15 y/o boy wouldn’t fall for this crap.”

[PapaBear3625]

I know I will be in the minority here, but I saw it with my wife and daughter and we all liked it.

[Eye of Unk]

I just saw it this afternoon, the NYT is wrong as usual, they are treating it like it starred Sarah Palin.

it was good, it was nearly faithful to the original script from almost a century ago and where they did some changes it felt right, the special effects are original and the costumes should win awards.

Here is my take, liberals hate it and thus the bad reviews.

And it screams to become a trilogy, Disney did good on this, its Obamas fault for making it too expensive to leave home to go see this.

I again enjoyed it, not quite as good as Indiana Jones or Star Wars but its not a flop, they just want us to think it is.

[DollyCali]

Saw the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it — as did the 5 folks who I attended with (various ages). I think it will do quiet well in box office, overseas & then BluRay & DVD sales.

[Vaquero]

Disney for the most part STINKS in the scifi arena...

Think ‘The Black Hole’