NeverarGreat said:

Nobody has mentioned John Carter yet. After listening to the director's commentary and hearing about how everything in it was designed to simply begin an epic series of movies, It's really sad that they won't be making any more.

I was waiting for somebody to mention John Carter Of Mars'. I really enjoyed it, I didn't LOVE it, but it was way better than alot of other half baked franchises that go on for film after film. It deseved a couple of sequels, the plot twist at the end was very clever and it left me wanting more. But when you go over on the budget so much that the film needed to be one of top grossers ever to break even you've killed the franchise yourself before the audience even queued up.

The problem was that GL and others had ripped off the source books already leaving the film feeling (Unfairly) derivitive of Star Wars.

^ A screenshot from AOTC