Thank you for the welcome Avatar. I really didn't like Starship Troopers much either, but I'm very picky. I didn't see Nigfhtfall.
Sorry Rincewond. I meant the first movie they made, not the mini-series. I hope that was done better. (I didn't see it). I read the books and I liked them, but that movie was just strange. I'm sure if I thought about it more, I would come up with other movies taken from books that were bad. That was just the first one I thought of.
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i have to insert in this conversation that i LOVED the movie Starship Troopers because i felt that Verhoven (director) REALLY REALLY understood Heinlein's sense of humor and exaggerated characterizations. I felt Verhoven paid tribute to that aspect of Heinlein's writing so i loved it! got a big kick out of "seeing" the things i'd imagined!!
loved it.
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(inCLUDing Heinlein's insistance that EVERY woman in the place has gigantic bazooms!!!hahahahaha!!)
loved it.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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If you'd all read the book, instead of only the movie, you'd realise that the movie missed the entire point of the book, which, while it was satire, was a social and political one.
Far too much emphasis on the "shoot-em up" aspect in the movie, as far as I was concerned.
While there were subtle elements of that satire, not only were they comically portrayed, but they were not the focus of it.
(And while I agree that the miniseries was marginally better than the David Lynch movie, it was only marginally.
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Far too much emphasis on the "shoot-em up" aspect in the movie, as far as I was concerned.
While there were subtle elements of that satire, not only were they comically portrayed, but they were not the focus of it.
(And while I agree that the miniseries was marginally better than the David Lynch movie, it was only marginally.
)--A
um...'scuze me Avatar, i DID read the book! and i STILL liked the movie. 
(paul verhoven made the movie i saw...don't know what david lynch you're referring to)
(paul verhoven made the movie i saw...don't know what david lynch you're referring to)
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
