History YMMV / JohnCarter

* OlderThanTheyThink: The source material of this film inspired hits such as ''Film/StarWars'' and ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. Or inspired the works which inspired them. Yes, the "John Carter"-novels have been around for that long.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Source of many claims the film is a ripoff of more recent fiction such as ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''TheLastSamurai''.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The source material of this film inspired hits such as ''Film/StarWars'' and ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.

** [[CuteButCacophonic Well I sure hope you never become a father then]]

** The second trailer had a symphonic instrumental cover of LedZeppelin's "Kashmir". though unused, the lyrics start with: ''Oh let the sun beat down upon my face / Stars to fill my dream / I am a traveler of both time and space / to be where I have been.''

* TheWoobie: Sola.

** [[CuteButCatatonic Well I sure hope you never become a father then]]

* [[CuteButCatatonic Well I sure hope you never become a father then]]

* IdiotBall: Dejah gets smacked in the face with one when she [[spoiler:has the opportunity to publicly kill Sab Than, ''with his blessing'', which at the very least will prevent the wedding she doesn't want and, to the best of her knowledge at the time, stop the superweapon that only Sab Than knows how to use.]] Naturally she doesn't do it, and [[spoiler: decides to marry him after all.]]

* PungeonMaster: Michael Giacchino's titles for the tracks from the score are about twenty percent terrible puns: 'A Thern Warning', 'Thernabout', 'The Carter They Fall', and so on.

* CriticalDissonance: Critics seem to see the film as being SoOkayItsAverage - often criticizing the sci-fi elements they've seen before, [[DidNotDoTheResearch even though Burroughs' novels were the]] TropeMaker or TropeCodifier [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny for many of those elements]]. Audiences, on the other hand, love this film, giving it a similar situation to ''Film/TronLegacy''.
** Given how few people actually went to see this film and that it has an audience rating of 68% (with an average of 3.7 out of 5) on RottenTomatoes, saying audiences loved this film might be slightly overstating it.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The cries of the just-hatched baby Tharks are... unsettling, to say the least...

* CriticalDissonance: Critics seem to see the film as being SoOkayItsAverage - often criticizing the sci-fi elements they've seen before, [[DidNotDoTheResearch even though Burroughs' novels were the]] TropeMaker or TropeCodifier [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny for many of those elements]]. Audiences, on the other hand, love this film, giving it a similar situation to ''TronLegacy''.

* FranchiseKiller: The film was originally intended to be the first of a trilogy of films, however mediocre box office results have seemed to put a dent in that plan.

** Might not be so dissonant considering that [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442200 Disney expects to lose $200 million from it]].

* ClicheStorm: A common criticism, despite the book being the originator for many sci-fi tropes.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It had the biggest opening day ever and the fourth biggest opening weekend ever in Russia while the American opening was mild. The Russian first-week gross amounted to $16.6 mln, or 56% of the U.S. gross; given the huge difference in infrastructure in cinema attendance figures and infrastructure between the two countries, it really is a spectacular achievement.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The source material of this film inspired hits such as ''Film/StarWars'' and ''Film/{{Avatar}}''

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Source of many claims the film is a ripoff of more recent fiction such as ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''TheLastSamurai''.
* UglyCute: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/woola_7701.PNG Woola.]]
** Also, the baby Tharks.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It had the biggest opening day ever and the fourth biggest opening weekend ever in Russia while the American opening was mild.

* UglyCute: Woola.

** The film's title is simply ''John Carter'', he doesn't really get the title of "John Carter of Mars" until the end of the film, and the onscreen title changes accordingly. (However fortuitous, the lack of Mars in the title was originally due to ExecutiveMeddling.)

* FridgeBrilliance: The title is simply ''John Carter'', he doesn't really get the title of "John Carter of Mars" until the end of the film.

** The first trailer featured the ArcadeFire song "My Body is a Cage" as covered by PeterGabriel. The lyrics start with: ''My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing / With the one I love / But my mind holds the key.'' At the end of the film [[spoiler:John's Earth body keeps him from being on Mars with Dejah, and he uses his wits to find a way to return to Mars. (His Mars body is a duplicate while the original is left in suspended animation.)]]

** The first trailer featured the ArcadeFire song "My Body is a Cage" as covered by PeterGabriel. The lyrics start with: ''My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing / With the one I love / But my mind holds the key.'' At the end of the film [[spoiler:John's Earth body keeps him from being on Mars with Dejah, and he uses his wits to find a way to return to Mars.]]