Kevin's Watch

Ah, yes, Jar-Jar the action hero, beloved by children everywhere, who nightly go to sleep in their Jar-Jar jammies...

Isn't it funny how Jar-Jar tends to take over a topic like a bad fungus once someone mentions his name?

LOL ROTFLMAO FUNNY Now you could hug an Ewok,cute little fuzzy fellows.I have to say that the Lucus Jar Jar is an improvement.

Did anything in "The Fifth Element" make sense? No. Did it kick ass? Yes.

..."The Fly" was a movie with the world's easiest gimmick: Watch a guy turn into a fly. There should be more movies like this. Watch a guy turn into a lobster. Watch a guy turn into an oyster. This is what science is all about.

Oh, and I love the way you think, HLT!

Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:
Oh, and I love the way you think, HLT!

Thank you!
It's funny how the ideas that just pop into my head come out better than if really think about it.


I just had to mention this because it was on again last night and for some ungodly reason I watched about 30 minutes before falling asleep but could Starship Troopers have *SUCKED* any more than it did?
I mean, I seldom say something sucks but man-o-man this movie really really sucked!!!
I...I just don't know.....what...how....I mean....total crap.

It looked good though.
The filming, colors, lights costumes.....
But 30 minutes of that story literally sucked about 10 years out of my life.
I was 38 yesterday now I'm almost 50!

Giant bugs on the planets surface farting balls of plasma into space and hitting the starships above them?

I almost got up and set my TV on fire.

Such a pity, the book is excellent. Suppose we're used to film versions that screw up the whole story unrecognisably.

--A

Of course the book is better, but the movie only sucks if you don't realize it's a satire with the setting taken out of the book. And if you've never read the book and are just looking for a good pulp sci-fi action flick (something I'm sure the producers were counting on), then it was also good.

Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.

Starship troopers is a good movie, stupid, but entertaining.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:could Starship Troopers have *SUCKED* any more than it did?

Yes. It could have bad cinematography, bad acting, a lousy story-line and poor effects.

But it didn't.

Syl wrote:Of course the book is better, but the movie only sucks if you don't realize it's a satire with the setting taken out of the book. And if you've never read the book and are just looking for a good pulp sci-fi action flick (something I'm sure the producers were counting on), then it was also good.

Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.

I recognize and enjoy satire.
Woody Allen is satire.
The Simpsons is satire.
Starship Troopers......is satire?
I guess.
I just can't get past the ludicrous science.
How did bugs that have no technology plot a course and make an asteroid hit the Earth from the other side of the galaxy?
Like I said, visually it was pretty cool and I could watch Denise Richards ALL day.

(And no I don't have a yellow ribbon on my car. For the same reason I don't wear green on St. Patty's Day.)

Hm, my vision wasn't colored by having read the book, but, I loved Starship Troopers. It's an excellent satire. Sequel wasn't worth the time it took to watch, but, the first was great, IMHO.

Hmmmm - I've never read the book, but I've missed out on the satire of Starship Troopers - someone mind filling me in?

Like I said, visually it was pretty cool and I could watch Denise Richards ALL day.

And the other chick, the red head - man, she was even hotter than Denise!

Syl wrote:Of course the book is better, but the movie only sucks if you don't realize it's a satire with the setting taken out of the book. And if you've never read the book and are just looking for a good pulp sci-fi action flick (something I'm sure the producers were counting on), then it was also good.

Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.

Gosh, Syl. I've read the book, loved it, realized it was satire. Enjoyed the movie, alhough not as much as the book. My car has a spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.

Another generalization shot to hell!

Yeah, I did make a broader generalization than I meant to. Sorry. Just because all jingoists have yellow stickers on their car doesn't mean all people that have yellow stickers are jingoists. (I'm still against the car stickers in principal, though. But that's a different subject altogether).

But you have to admit, people smashing bugs and thinking they're 'doing something' to fight the war are no different than people slapping a sticker on there and thinking the same. Again, not that all people who put on the sticker think that way. Solidarity is a good thing. Expressing that you miss someone is a good thing. But if that's all there is to it (and I felt the same way about the yellow bracelets)...

Where are the flag lapel pins? Where have all the flags flying from cars gone? Or better yet, where have all the military discounts gone! (business men forgot them every one. when will they ever learn...)

No harm done. And, I'm no jingoist. I am opposed to our involvement in Iraq but I do support our troops. Got to.....son in the Army!

dlbpharmd wrote:And the other chick, the red head - man, she was even hotter than Denise!

www.imdb.com/name/nm0000539/

That would be the lovely and talented Dina Meyer.

For the record, there's nothing better than a redhead. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........Redheads...<drool>