10 Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Of The Decade

6. John Carter (2012)

From Kaboom to Barsoom.

John Carter's production and marketing is one of Disney's biggest tragedies. After decades under consideration for adaptation, the studio finally got their big money plans off the ground with Pixar graduate Andrew Stanton and then they changed the name to mean absolutely nothing to anyone and the burial started.

Nobody saw it and it's one of the most notorious box office bombs of recent times, but that doesn't mean it's actually bad. Far from it in fact. Based on a story that set the mold for sci-fi story-telling (it's so widely ripped off, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a greatest hits of cliches reading it now), the film is imaginative, entertaining and charming in an old world sci-fi sort of way.

But thanks to it making no money and costing Disney a $200m writedown, plans for a trilogy died with its release. It's a bit of a cult classic now, but it still deserves more than that.