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Review title: John Carter never even started to live up to the book.
Product review: I know that it is difficult to make a movie of a book and please all the fans of the book. In the case of John Carter it appears that the movie was never introduced to the book! The film took what was one of my childhood favorites and made it into something I was sorry to have wasted money on. The only things that remained true to the books were some of the names. The entire paradigm for the movie changed, In the book the residents of Mars had faced the danger of extinction and had come forth victoriously into a state of victory in an advanced civilization. In the movie the residents were hanging on, barely!The movie did not do justice to the books or the characters in the books. Even if I would have never read any of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, this attempt would have failed to entertain me. To me, that entertainment is the mark of a good film. John Carter missed the mark.
