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Posted February 21, 2011
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orcishgamer: The movie was okay but only drew the setting from the book. The book was a deep, insightful social commentary, the movie was a parody of our current society.
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dudalb: ANd not all the clever a parody. The Satire in the film was, IMHO, obvious and not that funny.
Heinlein has not fared well in the movies. "THe Pupper Masters" film which came out a couple of years after Starship Troopers was another failure.
I don't think Stephan King has been done justice in movie adaptations of his books either. It's kind of ironic when you think about it.
Posted February 22, 2011
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reaver894: There was an AVP RTS????
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Sielle: Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction

Only released on the XBox and PS2

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Versus_Predator:_Extinction]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Versus_Predator:_Extinction[/url]
Aww man. That is awesome. Wish it was available for PC, I'd be ALL OVER THAT
Posted February 22, 2011
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TheCheese33: I've heard rumors that the director didn't even finish reading past the first few chapters in the book (which, if true, is incredibly arrogant and hilarious).
Oh come on, of course he read it, and (given his background) obviously hated it for the fascist drivel that it is. Otherwise, he'd hardly put together such a brilliant parody of everything the book is about. Stating he didn't even read it was a joke, just to mess up with the legions of upset fans some more. Verhoeven is a very cynical person.

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doccarnby: Although, thinking about it, I think that's the only Heinlein book I've ever finished. I've started reading Stranger in a Strange Land and Number of the Beast (that was him, right?), and never finished either of them. Maybe it's his writing style?
His writing style, together with his fascinating fluidity of opinions. Heavily jingoist in the 1950s (Starship Troopers), then apparently discovering sex and advocating free love (Stranger in a Strange Land) very early after that in the 1960s and eventually settling on increasingly creepy tales full of naked people and incest in the 1970s. Seriously, the second half of Number of the Beast is just people having sex with each other, in all possible combinations. It's not only bad literature, it's pretty bad sci-fi, too.

Puppet Masters was decent, though. I'll give him that.
Posted February 22, 2011
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dudalb: ANd not all the clever a parody. The Satire in the film was, IMHO, obvious and not that funny.
Heinlein has not fared well in the movies. "THe Pupper Masters" film which came out a couple of years after Starship Troopers was another failure.
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orcishgamer: I don't think Stephan King has been done justice in movie adaptations of his books either. It's kind of ironic when you think about it.
There are plenty of bad movies based on King Novels, but you do have some good ones, "Carrie" "Misery" and "Stand By Me" are all very good adaptions of King novels; Heinlein does not have a single really good film version of one of his novels.
Posted February 22, 2011
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macuahuitlgog: How come the humans don't use tanks or other kinds of armoured vehicles in the Starship Troopers movie? The bugs wouldnt be able to touch them.
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Sielle: Honest answer? They ran out of budget for the effects.
I haven't seen the movie, but apparently as I understand it the movie skips the ENTIRE POINT of the novel, which was the M.I.
Post edited February 22, 2011 by Runehamster
Posted February 23, 2011
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Runehamster: I haven't seen the movie, but apparently as I understand it the movie skips the ENTIRE POINT of the novel, which was the M.I.
The MI, and Rico, where largely second fiddle to Heinlein's opinions on politics. IIRC there where only three or four chapters of actual combat, and IMO Rico was fairly two-dimensional.
Posted February 23, 2011
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the_redstar_swl: and IMO Rico was fairly two-dimensional.
Thus, Casper Van Diem... Perfect casting.
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