John Carter didn’t exactly take the box office by storm as it was suppose to. Which was surprising. The reviews were flatlined, but given the major marketing push and the Disney name, one would expect to see some domestic success in the release. Fortunately it did far better internationally which almost helped make up for its massive $300 million budget. Disney still took a loss.
It's hard to like a movie when almost all of the media was hating it before they even saw it.
I loved it though, thought it was great, and I'll be buying it on Blu-ray. Even the user reviews everywhere are positive until the negative "get rid of the John Carter fanboys" step in and rate it super low.