Ruatha - I only heard about the animated/cgi Version of Starship Troopers but never have seen it. I wish I would, sooner the better.
Dogscoff - That movie was such an abominable use of the book it's barely funny. On its own right, it's a dumb movie with some good action. Given how butchered the vision was of the story, it was truly ghastly. Verhoeven might have had Robocop fighting alongside the soldiers, it was the exact same world...and that's half my point. He had done that already. The understanding of the military was so completely absent it boggled the mind. My ears ache every time they called a sergeant "sir" and he didn't tear the speaker wide open, and that was just a small detail.
Do I need to bring up the "it's okay that I'm dying, because I had you" line??
On top of that, it is clear there was no effort to bring the world to life as Heinlein described. And since Troopers has been derided as some sort of fascistic vision, that wasn't too surprising, only disappointing. But no powered armor??
And I still saw the movie twice...in the theater. I'm just hopeless that way!
BTW, thanks for the Wilma Deering memories! She wore those outfits so well. Princess Ardala was cute too, but not as much so, since she couldn't fly a space fighter. It was horrifying to see Colonel Deering playing third fiddle to Ricky Schroder and Ardala on that godawful Texas detective show...but I guess everyone has to find work, don't they?
[ February 15, 2003, 04:48: Message edited by: Cheeze ]