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| (...) I'm not sure where they came from. I *think* they are from x. Lemme dig around my instructions pile... (...) AAAAHHHH!!! No, say it ain't so! ;-) I must admit, I have been tempted to see the movie, even though I understand that it thrashes (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.)
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| (...) -Yeah, it was very different from the book, but it was entertaining in its own right. The movie was done by the same guy that did Robocop (Voerhoeven?). It has some really funny parts, especially the public service announcements and the parts (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: Starship Bloopers (Was Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.))
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| (...) It was just all too phony for me, the way they all just chased the bugs around like a youth soccer team, then how they got pinned down in that fort like the Alamo. The hordes of bugs did look good, though. The landings were just boring. When (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Starship Bloopers (Was Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.))
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| Marc Nelson Jr. wrote in message ... (...) it (...) but (...) understand (...) casting (...) I just think of it as a completely different story. To be quite honest, I didn't (and still don't) think that Heinlein's book would have made that exciting (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: Starship Bloopers (Was Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.))
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| (...) When you lose the armour, you lose a big part of the storyline--the corporate angle--right? It was half the book, forcibly extracted. But in its own right, it was entertaining, if only as a parody of "gung-ho" war (sort of like ID4). (...) As (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
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