re: Biggest movie flops this year

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Meets the definition still, and was initially before King Candy took over. She still fits the bill regardless.

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Some major league crawfishing you have going on there guy.

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I wasn't proposing they call it that. Why not call it "John Carter of Mars"? John Carter doesn't tell anyone anything for people not familiar with the character. When they see the poster, they're simply confused and don't give a damn. When you add the "Of Mars" to it, then the audience is a little more caught up on what this film is supposed to be about. Its about someone with a very ordinary name and how he somehow gets to Mars and fights beasts there. That was a massive, massive blunder by their marketers, and likely led to the film being a massive flop.

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The title was a very minor issue. Their bad ads were the problem. The trailers and ads did a piss poor job of representing the movie itself. The shitty Peter Gabriel song, overly featuring Lily Collins, and not hyping it up as the "original" outer space sci-fi story really hurt it.