Don’t you hate when, after seemingly never-ending warnings that if you did or said a certain thing, that you would come to no good end, happened to be right?

So, you not only have yourself eye-deep into a situation that’s unhealthy in the truest sense of the word, but you could have avoided the whole thing if you had listened to someone that perhaps knew a little better.

It’s hard to resist the urge to bitch-slap such people senseless, not only because of the seemingly almost unbearable level of arrogance emanating from them like flop sweat, but because they HAPPENED TO BE RIGHT.

So, forgive me in advance if I sound like the aforementioned person, but box office receipts have started to come in from the opening of “John Carter,” and it’s not looking too good, which is to be expected when a film about a Dr. Seuss character is eating your lunch.

Now keep in mind that I am not saying that “John Carter” it isn’t entertaining or well-done.  After all, I intend to see it this weekend, and suspect that I will have a good time.

Reviews that I have stumbled upon have been pretty positive, though not overwhelmingly so.

What I am saying is what could have possibly compelled the powers-that-be at Disney to spend +$200 million on a film with a relatively unknown lead actor (Taylor Kitsch), based upon a series of novels, the ‘Warlord of Mars’ series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, that most people don’t know of, or that evoke little in the way of buzz.

If it were up to me–and it isn’t–I would have done a ‘Lone Ranger‘ on the film’s budget, by which I mean if it could not be cut by at least $100 million, I have abandoned the project.

I know that it’s easy to say such things after the fact, but that’s just it:  It’s no mystery why “John Carter” will more than likely not do well, though why Disney couldn’t see it is what’s so odd.