Geez o’ Pete, didn’t they have National Geographic when you folks were kids?
Fine, I guess I stand corrected. Apparently the major artistic accomplishment of Burroughs was granting 12-year-old boys ten novels worth of spank material because he mentioned on one page that a woman was naked. There, you’ve officially ruined the Mars series for me. I’ll never be able to read it again with the same naive innocence.
Now for God’s sake don’t tell me why any of you liked Tarzan!!! :eek:
Must be, there was certainly no other.
Let’s see … coat … hat … Now where’s my huff, so I can leave this thread?
'Cause is was cool. It was privately proven that he was Lord Greystoke, yet he kept it secret so that the girl wouldn’t chose him over his rival just because he was a peer.
Speaking like Sir Larry Olivier rather than Johnny Weismuller was cool, too. 
In that day and age, it was quite an accomplishment! 
Just mentioning that everyone ran around naked on one page was enough to set plenty of adolescent imaginations afire back in the era of the Hayes Code and the Comics Code and all the other damned censorship they was having. It was a very different time, and frankly, I’m kinda stunned that Burrough A) mentioned that the characters ran around pretty much naked and B) Got away with it.
It’s not that that was the only thing good about the books; it’s just that it was certainly one of them, and can’t easily be ignored.
Scheduled for March release? To me, that doesn’t bespeak a lot of studio confidence in the product.
Why is that?
Usually, big releases are either in the summer, or timed for a major holiday.
There are exceptions, but generally speaking movies that the studio thinks are big blockbusters are released during the summer. And movies that the studio thinks are possible Oscar contenders are released in the fall (closer to the end of the year, more likely to be remembered when people are thinking of Oscar noms).
Generally, movies released in January through maybe April are not big contenders for box office money or awards season.
And Nicholas Cage is in every other one of them.
I have all the books and I don’t remember this comparison. But I could have forgotten. I think I’ll read the books again, with the upcoming film in mind, and maybe I’ll see something I didn’t before.
My impression of the different colored Barsoomians is that they are simply…differently colored. I never got the idea that ERB thought one was better than then other. In the books, when the plot has a different race being encountered, there are always heroes and villains in each one.
Well, the different colors also have different cultures. And the Green Martians’ culture in particular is very different from all the others’.
BTW, you can read about half the Barsoom novels online here.
The green Martians are also anatomically very different, and probably a different species (or differ at an even broader taxonomic level, most likely).
Hellboy was released in March and Watchmen was released in April, and they were both damn good films. I bet the studios thought they would bomb – so you can’t really judge a film’s quality by it’s release date, though films released in August almost always do suck. April and March are more problematical.
They seperated from the tree of life early.
And they’re twelve to fifteen feet tall. The one I glimpsed in the trailer was a runt.
Green Martians also have eyes mounted on the sides of their heads. (And the one I saw in the trailer seemed to have a conventional human binocular arrangement.) That would be a challenge to any director – not the makeup, but making the audience relate to a character that can’t look at you with both eyes at once. Think about it. Even with a Cyclops it would be easier.
Some of the Green Martians are “Thurds”.
How could I have forgotten?
