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I just watched Starship Troopers 3

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Shalia Ripper
#21 - 2011-10-19 01:31:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Shalia Ripper
Jno Aubrey wrote:
Shalia Ripper wrote:
Myxx wrote:
ST1 was the best of all.


I think you meant "the worst book to movie adaptation ever".



Clearly, you have never seen Dune.

" . . . Dune . . . Arrakis . . . desert planet . . ."



Which one? The original, the director's cut or the Sci-Fi channel miniseries? All of them had redeeming qualities, the original is inferior to the directors cut, and the Sci-Fi miniseries actually managed to capture a lot that was left out of the DeLaurentis attempt, but most of the acting in that version was horrid. I can't fault DeLaurentis for what happened, Dune simply cannot be summed up in a normal length movie.

Oh, and Dune didn't try try to change the whole purpose of the Herbert's book. Someone commented that Starship Troopers was anti militaristic and made fun of propaganda. RAH's entire PURPOSE behind Starship Troopers was the VALUE of citizenship and patriotism. While Jonny Rico starts out by following his gonads, he discovers true esprit d'corps in the Mobile Infantry. While he may not be ready for citizenship when the book ends, he knows his role in puttign himself in harms way for the benefit of the ones he loves as well as those faceless masses that the soldier protects. It had very little to do with propaganda at all.

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Obsidian Dagger
Nitrus Nine
#22 - 2011-10-19 12:07:57 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
now i feel dirty.. abused...

don't know what to do.. or where to seek help.. so i came here.




help



*Dr Who Voice*
"I'm sorry. I'm so, SO sorry."
Davelantor
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#23 - 2011-10-19 17:20:49 UTC
First was best ...
with the profit from 1 ... they did 2 ... it sucked .. but people had high hopes.. (also a game was release.)
with the profit from 2 ... they did 3 ... it sucked even more ... but some people saw it coming.
with the profit from 3 ... they did something ... i have no idea ... an anime maybe ?
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#24 - 2011-10-20 04:41:17 UTC
Can anyone tell me something I might have missed, after watching ST1 I was inclined to read book, and to be honest had to finish it out of principle rather than fun.

In short the Movie for me was fun and light headed, the book was about a bunch of guys combating the threat of space bugs and some kind of manlove homoerotic paraphilia about military organization, ranks, ways of thinking , possible degrees, paths to take when you were an officer and how military units work together perfectly when everyone understands their job.

So movie and book are like ... what? I don't get , also despite some extremely original theories on why certain governments are doomed to FAILURE by the lack of proper discipline, most of the book was utter crap to me, I remember falling asleep during the self masturbatory notes on the ways ranks within the space army were labeled and the ways a career officer could progress in certain areas and others, despite being tougher and less well paying had way more responsibility but managed to make you a super human in leadership skills ... and on and on ... I got more amusement out of reading the manual for my new earphones than "ST the Book".

Woa, please tell me the other books he wrote, which I have on my TO READ list, are not like that ...

Or, considering I might have lost a lot of the "meaning" in translation , can anyone tell me why the book is so good? is it like the Tolkien vs Salvatore effect? I'd hate to say it but I feel im in the Salvatore team if the analogy works like that for ST.

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