While I've read the Pellucidar books and some of the Tarzan books, I have yet to read the Mars books.
Hmmm....
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I have no idea how they'd make the Carter books family-friendly. Is the world ready for a PG-13 Pixar film?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
It's easy enough. They just do what Disney did and create an "adult" brand name for the harder-edged stuff. Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures are used to release most of the Disney projects that are judged family unfriendly.
(To this day, it weirds me out that The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Sixth Sense were actually Disney flicks.)
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I have no idea how they'd make the Carter books family-friendly. Is the world ready for a PG-13 Pixar film?
I wondered that about Ratatouille and the two "violent altercation turned makeout session" scenes, not to mention the questionable parentage of the human protagonist.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Where'd they get "six novels" from? I have all 11 books in the series, and I love, love, love them.
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
Me too, Lisa, I grew up on them. I've still got all of my 1960s editions, some of them falling apart, but all lovingly kept and still readable.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: (To this day, it weirds me out that The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Sixth Sense were actually Disney flicks.)
The Sixth Sense and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle are both by Hollywood Pictures. Although Hollywood Pictures is owned by Walt Disney Corporation, and their movies are distributred through Buena Vista Pictures, I hardly consider them "Disney flicks".
REAL "Disney flicks" to me are produced through Walt Disney Pictures, and although I haven't analyzed every movie in that list I don't see anything glaring.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cashew: Me too, Lisa, I grew up on them. I've still got all of my 1960s editions, some of them falling apart, but all lovingly kept and still readable.
Truth, I was inspired to read them after reading Heinlein's "Number of the Beast". The Oz books, too, but I couldn't get through those, while I totally loved the Mars books.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: While I've read the Pellucidar books and some of the Tarzan books, I have yet to read the Mars books.
I've actually only read a few of the Tarzan books, and nothing of Pellucidar. Are they any good? I was hooked on the Warlord first time around, and I knew that Skartaris was inspired by Pellucidar, but I never got around to reading any of them.
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
If you like the Mars books you should enjoy the Pellucidar books and the Tarzan series. I've gottem all, as well as the Venus series. In fact the only books that Burroughs wrote that I haven't got are the westerns. The Tarzan books are great, although there are a couple of duds. Avoid Tarzan and the Leopard Men, and Tarzan and the Ant Men. Most of them are great fun though.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nighthawk:
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: (To this day, it weirds me out that The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Sixth Sense were actually Disney flicks.)
The Sixth Sense and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle are both by Hollywood Pictures. Although Hollywood Pictures is owned by Walt Disney Corporation, and their movies are distributred through Buena Vista Pictures, I hardly consider them "Disney flicks".
REAL "Disney flicks" to me are produced through Walt Disney Pictures, and although I haven't analyzed every movie in that list I don't see anything glaring.
Nighthawk, that was my point. Disney created Hollywood Pictures and Touchstone so they could make and distribute adult-oriented, non-Disney films.
It's not like Miramax or ABC, where Disney got a pre-existing entity.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Nighthawk, that was my point. Disney created Hollywood Pictures and Touchstone so they could make and distribute adult-oriented, non-Disney films.
Ah... Duh... Sorry. For the record, I thought Hollywood was an acquisition as well.