“I still love this movie despite the hate, and I hate that it didn’t become a franchise.”

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"Which is so sad because I came out of that film thinking that was such a cool concept I can't wait for more."

"I think the issue though is that it was too high concept for the average movie goer, or at least the movie goer they were aiming for."

"To this day, I still think this movie is very underrated. It's not phenomenal by any means but I do think it had all the bones of a franchise launching film.

I think the name doomed it. John Carter is just a terrible name for the kind of story this was. John Carter From Mars would have been a little better at least."

"The only issue was cramming the first 3 books into a 1 hour and 40 minute film, everything else was done excellently but the plot and substance was rushed. It was frustrating at the time, but we at least have the excellent TV series now!"

"Jim Carrey as count Olaf was crazy good casting."

"The books (there are four) are far better than the movie. The only thing the books and the movie have in common is the concept of teleportation (it's kind of a World War Z situation)."—Bigtits38

"Yeah, as a huge fan of the books this is for the best given the writing of that movie. Now on the other hand, it's well known that Mike Flanagan has the rights to adapt The Dark Tower now and is going to make it into a TV series. I have great faith in his adaptation…whenever it comes."

"After the previous Dungeons & Dragons movie train wrecks, I fully expected the 2023 version to be terrible and was underwhelmed when they announced the casting. I then saw it in the cinemas and absolutely loved it. It was a great movie for both D&D people and non-D&D people too."

"I'm so bummed it bombed. I could watch 100 of these."

"You know, it's funny. The more time passes, the more I'm okay with District 9 not getting a sequel. It makes the ending even more ominous and uncertain."

"God yes. This is probably my favourite Henry Cavill role."

"That was actually a good movie. I have no idea why it wasn't more successful."

"I still love this movie despite the hate, and I hate that it didn't become a franchise."

"Didn’t Sean Connery hate doing that movie and said it was a mistake?"

"I still don't understand how they managed to spend over $200M on a western. Westerns are supposed to be cheap, the greatest ones always are."

"I still don't understand how someone saw Johnny Depp dressed as a Native American and decided to invest $200 million."

"I loved this book series growing up and I was so upset when they blew it on the movie. I wanted to love it, but it was pretty rough."

"I think a lot of the cast blew up after that movie. There probably was never a franchise clause in their contract. Then by the time they started to develop a sequel, the cast was already doing better things."—cleanclotheschair

"I still mourn the imaginary good version of this movie. Could have kept most of the same cast, even."

"Same. I don't understand how they failed twice with a movie and TV show. They had such good source material that should have been easily adaptable to film."

"It's sad because it’s probably the best movie anyone's mentioned here."

"Absolutely. Master and Commander is a fucking masterpiece."

"I liked this one. It wasn't perfect but it could have used more fleshing out. There was more to the story..."

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.