As a life-long fan of the Burroughs Mars books — I was disappointed.
Guess too much of it formed in my mind as a kid — unable to accept another vision of it.
I don’t have TV and had never seen a commercial for it. I was in the library looking for a movie to rent and just happened by it. I’d never heard of the author and about halfway through it I thought, “this must be based on science fiction from the 19th century” because of the way things worked. That made it rather intriguing.
I think the reason I liked it was I expected very little and was pleasantly surprised.