10 Terrible Mars Movies That Don't Bode Well For The Martian

Rotten Tomatoes score: 37%

Box Office: $39 million ($150 million budget)

When John Carter was released, there was speculation that it might be Disney's biggest ever flop. Which is ridiculous, because it wasn't even Disney's biggest Mars based flop within that year. Almost exactly twelve months before John Carter arrived, the Mouse House had already ventured to Mars and come back with their tail between their legs to a loss of well over $100 million (at the time the biggest box office bomb ever).

In the 1890s, Herbert George Wells gave us the definitive vision of a Martian invasion of Earth. Over a century later, his great-grandson Simon, who had already parlayed the family name into making a hamfisted adaptation of his ancestor's The Time Machine, proved that quality Mars-inspired storytelling does not run in the family.

Wells (Simon) had worked with producer Robert Zemeckis on the latter's Polar Express, and this motion capture animation has the same uncanny valley creepiness in its human figures. Worse, though, is the film's total lack of charm, which leaves it a film that it's very hard to like.

What other TERRIBLE movies have come from Mars? Shout out any more we missed down in the comments.