Comments on: It’s Mars, Jim, But Not As We Know It http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/ The Blog Of An Open Source Librarian, In Which There Is No Shushing Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Pat Powers http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73824 Pat Powers Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:26:30 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73824 I think your analysis is spot on. If you want to do a Mars story, I think you have to take a running leap and do Barsoom the way Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined it. We've got the CGI to do the Martians right, but I don't think filmmakers have the balls to do the nudity right any more. Maybe back in the 70s they could have done it right, but nowadays the meme seems to be that nudity and naked sex in any but the tiniest quantities are strictly for porn. What a shame. And speaking of nudity, my website link is an article about the Flash Gordon TV series, and contains some NSFW images. I think your analysis is spot on. If you want to do a Mars story, I think you have to take a running leap and do Barsoom the way Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined it. We’ve got the CGI to do the Martians right, but I don’t think filmmakers have the balls to do the nudity right any more. Maybe back in the 70s they could have done it right, but nowadays the meme seems to be that nudity and naked sex in any but the tiniest quantities are strictly for porn. What a shame.

And speaking of nudity, my website link is an article about the Flash Gordon TV series, and contains some NSFW images.

]]> By: Keith http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73512 Keith Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:08:09 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73512 Mission to Mars was good up until they found the face and got bogged down in hokey alien pan spermia nuttiness. Mission to Mars was good up until they found the face and got bogged down in hokey alien pan spermia nuttiness.

]]> By: andy http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73405 andy Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:12:23 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73405 total recall is the best film ever. total recall is the best film ever.

]]> By: Caitri http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73360 Caitri Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:12:32 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/03/12/its-mars-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comment-73360 I must say I thought "Mission to Mars" was a well-done film, even with the gratuitous use of The Face etc. But frankly anything with Don Cheadle and Gary Sinise is going to be pretty good. I must say I thought “Mission to Mars” was a well-done film, even with the gratuitous use of The Face etc. But frankly anything with Don Cheadle and Gary Sinise is going to be pretty good.

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