re: 2 things: I enjoyed John Carter ... Wish Disney would make a Sequel

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The fact that they didn't call it "John Carter of Mars" or "A Princess of Mars" was the first problem marketingwise. It would have been like calling "Dr. No" "Jame Bond" in 1962 or calling "Star Wars" "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller."

If you are going to make a sci-fi flick about a war on Mars, having said planet in the title would help.

The second problem is with the initial reviewers..."It's like xxxx meets xxxx," or "It was just like xxxx."

Problem here is that this series was ahead of its time. Many people took from it, and John Carter was made to seem like a rip-off by the reviewers, instead of the granddaddy of them all.

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The fact that they didn't call it "John Carter of Mars" or "A Princess of Mars" was the first problem marketingwise. It would have been like calling "Dr. No" "Jame Bond" in 1962 or calling "Star Wars" "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller."

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Good point.

I've said the same thing for The Assasination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford since it came out. It was one of the 3-4 best westerns in the past 20 years. But it was a huge flop in theatres so hardly that many people saw it and cared to see it after it was released on DVD despite critics loving it. A lot of people around here like it but dang do yourself a favor and don't make the movie title four sentences long. The Assasination of Jessie James would have been fine. I read that the director asked Brad Pitt to play Jessie and he said he would if that was what he named the title. That's a funny story but I feel like it worked against them. That, the marketing and it not being what everybody expected combined made for a disaster at the box office.