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"Marc Nelson Jr." wrote:
> > > > 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.
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).
> > > 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!")
As Frank deCaro called him: "Doogie Himmler."
> 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.
Co-ed showers! Who says that sci-fi isn't prescient?
best
Lindsay
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