Stories You Should Have Had: The 'Battleship' Free Pass

I’m not saying you didn’t slam it. I’m saying nobody wrote a story like this that said it feels like it’s getting much more of a free pass than “John Carter.” I’ve been thinking about it in my own head ever since it came out: So many people were mauled, destroyed and ruined -- for weeks -- over Disney’s movie…while the Peter Berg film seems to represent just another costly misfire. Its failure is really just relegated to normal box office stories everywhere (except for this), while “John Carter” had volumes and volumes and volumes written about it. So good on Patrick Goldstein for saying something.