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Starship Troopers movie, maybe book too

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Deadlywonky:
supposedly the film in the series that got closest to the book was actually ST3 because of the whole 'power armor' thing. rather than sending men into combat protected by little more than ballistic vests and helmets

Mad Cat:
I have a bad habit of finding out a popular book is coming to the big screen, running out and reading said book, and then being sorely disappointed by the movie-going experience. Luckily, that didn't happen with Harry Potter, because I had no interest in it until my mom dragged me to the movie, or Twilight, because there's no way I'm watching the movies OR reading the books.

With Starship Troopers, I had to go a little schizophrenic. The book was so good, once the on-screen drek started, I had to disassociate my book experience from the movie and tried to appreciate the movie on its own merits. As far as I'm concerned, there were no scenes in the movie that did not include NPH. Hearing that ST3 came closest to the book, I'm wondering about seeking it out to watch it as if it were the only movie to bear the name.

Earin:

--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 03 Feb 2012, 10:12 ---Hearing that ST3 came closest to the book, I'm wondering about seeking it out to watch it as if it were the only movie to bear the name.

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Bearing in mind that I haven't read the book: ST3 was hilariterrible, but I really liked the first ST film - it was quite silly and fun as an action film, and I definitely saw it as a pretty blunt satire on the Glory Of Military Service and the role of media influence.

J:

--- Quote from: Black Sword on 03 Feb 2012, 09:51 ---RE: Verhoeven's film

I honest to God loved it for being a mindless action flick. It led me to Heinlen's far superior book, which tempered my enthusiasm. I cannot imagine the sort of spite it takes to go out of your way to license something specifically to give it a middle finger larger than Mount Everest.

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supposedly, the story is that he'd never heard of the book before & was originally making a completely different film called 'bug hunt', but near the end of pre-production some producer dropped it into his lap and told him "this is your movie now". when he read the book, he disliked it so much he didn't even bother finishing.

now if you give the guy who made robocop a book he doesn't like espousing politics he doesn't agree with and tell him to make a movie out of it, what do you think is going to happen?





--- Quote from: Akima on 03 Feb 2012, 19:02 ---
--- Quote from: Kugai on 03 Feb 2012, 14:59 ---I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   :-D
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Isn't she everyone's hero?

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yes. though personally, i prefer sarah connor.

Mr_Rose:
Yeah, see "I didn't like the bits of the book Idid read so I'm going to parody the bits I made up to fill in for the stuff I didn't read" is a pathetic explanation for anything, never mind such an appalling treatment of a much-loved source.

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