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Re: Starship Bloopers (Was Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.))
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Sat, 13 May 2000 16:15:45 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Paul Baulch writes:

Frankly I feel that the battle scenes would have been about one hundredth as
exciting if it featured bugs being bombed/lased from 150kms by people flying
around in suits. They made a conscious decision to make the Bugs up-close
and personal. I think that it was the best thing that they did, that first
scene where the green recruits meet their first wave of Warrior bugs and get
slaughtered was one of the most exhilaratingly frightening things I've ever
seen in a movie. Real brown-pants stuff.

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 they could have been falling out of the sky, guns blazing, they just
landed in the ships and walked out. I guess it would have been harder to
distinguish characters if they were in big suits. Really, I liked everything
about the movie except the goofy combat and lack of suits.
On the plus side,
it does have Denise Richards and Doogie Howser.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
;-)

But Doogie got to walk around in a Nazi-looking uniform and be mean to people.
It was hilarious! ("This one's for the species, boys and girls!") And why
didn't Denise Richards shave her head, like Carmen did in the book? The same
reason they didn't want to stick the hot MI chicks inside big suits, I guess.
Anyway, if anybody hasn't seen it yet, you should.



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  Re: Starship Bloopers (Was Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.))
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)

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  Starship Bloopers (Was Re: Colonial Marines minifigs (Was: I have a question.))
 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)

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