Tars Tarkas - figured out your name

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   My kids and I just watched John Carter last night.  Interesting back-story on that movie with the 100 year history before it was completed, almost beating Snow White as the first animated feature-length film in 1937, and how so many modern sci-fi movies borrowed every main element from the book.

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techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062	Topic: Tars Tarkas - figured out your name Posted: 04 Jan 2014 at 3:11pm
	My kids and I just watched John Carter last night. Interesting back-story on that movie with the 100 year history before it was completed, almost beating Snow White as the first animated feature-length film in 1937, and how so many modern sci-fi movies borrowed every main element from the book.
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Tars Tarkas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1447	Posted: 04 Jan 2014 at 5:44pm
	The recent movie was pretty bad. The books are much, much better. There are a lot of great characters. I got on a Edgar Rice Burroughs kick -- actually a Tarzan kick several years ago. After reading most of the Tarzan books I moved on to Barsoom and then a lot of the other books. Time to go back through them. It was really too bad about the Disney movie. I don't know what they were thinking. They ruined the idea of a John Carter movie franchise for at least a generation and there is plenty of great material there. I can't tell objectively, other than by the reviews and response the movie got, but maybe the movie was okay if you'd never heard of ERB. I don't think so though. TT
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Kickstart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Location: Ocean Shores, W Online Status: Offline Posts: 267	Posted: 04 Jan 2014 at 6:52pm
	"Princess of Mars" was on TV yesterday--Pretty poorly done. I read and collected most of the Burroughs paperbacks in my youth. I passed them on to my son, and he says Burroughs was one of the early authors that inspired him to follow his chosen life's work as a writer. Proud as a parent and retired teacher to say he is now a published author, and not vanity press either! Lance Weller "Wilderness"
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