I enjoyed it when I saw it on DVD.  Didn't catch it in theaters.  I couldn't quite understand why it underperformed at the box office.  It was a good enough flick.  Might be one of those movies that has to "find it's audience"...

It's 10 am at the morning.
I am drunk.
I am going to listen for new DIF before sleep..
Trey and Mike start to speak how much John Carter-books/movies sucks.
I am listening for that and start to scream: "No no! It was good when I was 12! I have 10 books of those.."
I then realize: it is 12 hours too, late, I only have mp3-player, my mic is off..
I keep screaming..

P.S I didn't like the movie either..

As I mentioned in another thread, I don't understand why this bombed and Avatar made more than a billion. I therefore challenge someone to come up with a justification of why Avatar is "1 billion dollars better".

Thanks for the commentary, really looking forward to listening to it.

It is definitely not worse than Avatar.

I think they're looking at the movie and asking why it bombed, when obviously whether or not something bombs does in fact have more to do with the marketing and trailers. I thought the books were great fun, even though I didn't get to them until I was an adult (as a kid, I was "above" SF that wasn't realistic). The ads just looked stupid, so I avoided it.

As for why Avatar did well and this didn't... well, a couple things.
a) Avatar was first. Don't discount this. The Avatar experience was new, exciting. Audiences often give the first to do something a pass, coming down harder on later versions that yes may be better.
b) Nobody saw it, so nobody knew John Cater was better. This is the more important thing. The movie doesn't matter if people don't want to see it. I went to a free preview of Titan A.D. years ago. The audience liked it, the comments coming out being things like "Well, it was better than the live action SF we've been getting". But, it bombed. Why? Animated SF just didn't get people into theaters to even see if it was any good. Disney's Treasure Planet suffered the same fate.

The DVD is waiting in the mailbox, so I've only listened to the intro so far, but... really? Nobody read at least the Tarzan books as a kid? It's amazing how something can keep going for a century as adaptations and the originals become ignored...