The Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs laid the groundwork that all modern science fiction built itself on. John Carter was Disney's attempt to bring the series to the big screen. It was the most expensive film made at the time, and became Disney's biggest box office bomb. But did this film deserve it? Was this film's disaster the fault of poor advertising? Or, has the tropes the series created been around so long, that the original story became cliché in retrospect?

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