It was an honest question, why not answer it honestly as an adult, instead of trying to perpetuate this immature "get your ass beat" garbage?

Do you honestly believe that anyone here doesn't already know that the original SW movie makes reference to many, many books, comic books, album covers, TV shows and other movies?

There you go again creating a straw man argument.

When did I say I honestly believed people here don't already know this stuff? I'm sure you'd like me to have said something like that, because that would be a easy argument to win, and because you're not here to discuss John Carter, and whether or not it was more an influence on SW or was SW more an influence on JC, even to discuss all SW many influences, you'd prefer to make yet another thread about you.

Why is that?

Please point out where the thread ever turned to the discussion of me. Besides your off-kilter asides, all I can find is the second paragraph of post #593865.

The thread is also not generally about John Carter. It's about the John Carter movie. Which, coming in this late in the game, cannot help but be influenced by SW.

Sure it is, depictions of the characters on comics and novel covers were discussed right from the start.

Sure the original SW influenced everything after it.

The second trilogy? That's debatable. As is how much of the SW movies were influenced by the original Burroughs Mars novels.

How the CGI effects employed in the second set will influence the JC movie is anything but debatable. Nobody has the guts to do a full-on large-scale practical production anymore.

And why do you think that is?

Because people are generally lazy and stupid.

Your mere existence makes that hard to argue with.

Even with that highfalutin' collidge edumacation a yers?