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Book to movie inconsistencies that are genuinely annoying and unneeded
satsugaikaze:
Reading the book of Starship Troopers, it was pretty much just a long serious, journal of sorts centering around a civilian's rise to citizenship with socio-political commentary sprinkled on top blah blah.
You could say that the film was pretty much the opposite. It was a friggin cheesy satire. It did what it did with absolute hilarity. Yeah, it did completely butcher the book by taking the source material and arguing that Heinlein's ideas are a total shit.
But in terms of entertainment and being funny, it could have been a lot, lot worse.
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: satsugaikaze on 09 May 2009, 04:11 ---Yeah, it did completely butcher the book by taking the source material and arguing that Heinlein's ideas are a total shit.
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To be fair, this is completely true.
CardinalFang:
I think the main problem with the movie Starship Troopers was the complete lack of...well...Starship Troopers.
Where was the power armor? "On the bounce!"
What about the missile launchers firing tactical nukes? C'mon!
No flamers, no talking bombs. Feh!
An old movie Von Ryan's Express.
In the book Von Ryan makes it onto the train and escapes the Germans.
In the movie Von Ryan gets gunned down just before jumping on the train.
According to wiki the idea for changing the ending came from Frank Sinatra who was playing Colonel Ryan. I guess you don't argue with Frank.
axerton:
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--- Quote from: axerton on 08 May 2009, 21:03 ---The things that irritate me in book to movie transitions are the little things, I can understand why plot elements need to be changed so as to save on time or to make it more cinematic, but when something visual is changed for no apparent reason it pisses me off. The example that comes to mind is Harry Potter POA
1) the Patronus: the book clearly stated it was a white glowing stag that charges down dementors causing them to flee, but the movie had just a sort of glowing sheild where with a stag in the middle of it that dementors bounced off.
2) Werewolf: Book - "The werewolf differs from the true wolf in several small ways" Movie - fuck it we'll just make a giant bipedal wolf
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Those aren't frankly very big changes.
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--- Quote from: axerton on 08 May 2009, 21:03 ---The things that irritate me in book to movie transitions are the little things
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Thank you for telling me exactly what I had already said myself. Just to reiterate: What pisses me off is when changes like these are made for no reason, when it would be so easy to get it right.
MadassAlex:
Oh well. Sorry.
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