https://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Miscellaneous / Off-topic : Tars Tarkas - figured out your name Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:38:14 +0000 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:52:46 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 https://www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4303 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.rpod-owners.com/ https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4303&PID=41633#41633 Author: Kickstart
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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"]]> Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:52:46 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4303&PID=41633#41633 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4303&PID=41632#41632 Author: Tars Tarkas
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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
]]> Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:44:02 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4303&PID=41632#41632 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4303&PID=41629#41629 Author: techntrek
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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.]]> Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:11:49 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4303&PID=41629#41629