I watched John Carter. Mostly because I've seen
Princess of Mars by Asylum studios (the ones that make movies with similar titles and themes as the famous ones, like Alien vs. Hunter or Universal Soldiers or The Da Vinci Treasure). PoM was bad, but it exceeded my expectations greatly. Then John Carter was bad and even though I didn't think much of it (IMDB score is not so high), it failed to amuse me
I think my rating of John Carter could be highly influenced by this quality/expectations factor, but... it seems worse than PoM.
Worse than the rip-off.And it wasn't even closer to the story, both movies were just as accurate, picking some parts of the book and discarding others, however it was PoM which seemed more internally consistent.
2/10.