>>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".
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>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.
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>"Prometheus" is another massive disappointment, plot holes you could drive a planet through:
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>"Hey, the air in this alien installation is breathable! I'm taking off my helmet?" What could possibly go wrong?
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>"Aww, let's make friends with the alien wormy things swimming in the muck!" What could possibly go wrong?

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