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Re: Name That Movie (Was: Misperceptions of America)
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:56:15 GMT
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Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:
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> James,
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> Wow, I thought that was an obscure line. Yes, I know, I saw the movie first
> before reading the book, and it is very much off, but I still enjoyed it
> tremendously!
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> > Starship Troopers, one of the most liberal "let's see how huge we can make the
> > gap between book and movie" movies out there.
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> Liberal? Politically or the off-the-book? I thought it was a great political
> advocate of rightism. :)
Really? I thought it was dreck.
The book is a well written and thoughtful examination of what it would
be like to organize a society around the principle that only those that
have made a contribution to society (in the form of defense or civilian
service) have the right to make decisions about how things will be in
that society, and only AFTER they have finished contributing. At the
same time it's a good military SF story, perhaps one of the very first
ones. If I can't have libertopia, I'd consider living there...
The movie twists the society around to be a consumer-fascist one where
everyone appears to be a moron. It interjects gratuitous nudity (about
the only part of the movie I actually LIKED) that does nothing for plot
development, kills people off for no reason, has excessive gore for the
storyline, and distorts just about every major character into something
completely different from the book.
RAH said no one was really able to make movies of his books. I agree.
Not his fault. Most of hollywood isn't up to it.
What a terrible movie.
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