Undrave
Legend
The titled didn’t even mention Mars. No ‘Princess of Mars’ no ‘John Carter of Mars’, just ‘John Carter’ and trailers that mostly showed a long haired Taylor Kitsch dressed in brown in a pale brown desert and MAYBE a CGI creature or two it was really boring looking.I think marketing killed that movie. If they'd sold it as an alternate steampunk style universe I think it would have done better. Instead they proffered it like the books assuming that all the 1890's to 1920 pulp scifi was something reasonable and not surprising. ' the cognitive dissonance between the psuedoscience and actual reality was just too much.
This also reminds me that, from what I’ve read, EVERY Tarzan adaptation is really boring, except for Tarzan the Epic Adventures. Tarzan and John Carter are meant to be in the same universe! Tarzan visits an Inner Earth realm! Any movies is just boring white savior in the jungle…