>There again, there have been many movies that the critics hated yet the public has liked. Almost to a man, critics panned "John Carter", yet almost every person who went see the movie and wrote on-line about it had almost the same thing to say: "We don't know what movie the critics saw, but it wasn't the one we saw".

I'm no high-falutin' cinephile either, but I'm probably a bit more critical of sci-fi movies. Fantasy in general annoys me unless extremely well written and/or performed, by that measure "John Carter" sucked big-time.

"Prometheus" is another massive disappointment, plot holes you could drive a planet through:

"Hey, the air in this alien installation is breathable! I'm taking off my helmet?" What could possibly go wrong?

"Aww, let's make friends with the alien wormy things swimming in the muck!" What could possibly go wrong?