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  Starship Bloopers

   • Kevin D. Conod
     29/11/1997 00:00:000 UTC

     So what'd you folks think of the Starship Troopers?

     --Doc

       • -=(JC)=-
         29/11/1997 00:00:000 UTC

         Kevin D. Conod wrote in message

         <01bcfce6$e5696ae0$f*******d@w**.*******.***.*******y.net>...

         >So what'd you folks think of the Starship Troopers?

         >--Doc

         A lot of people in the Forum thought it was the epitome of
         filmmaking.

         I myself originally was caught up in the action that I saw it a
         second

         time. It's filled with gaping plot chasms and science
         impossibilities.

         The bugs aren't scary like I hoped they would be. I probably
         shouldn't

         compare it to Verhoeven's previous films, but Troopers certainly
         isn't

         Robocop. Basically, I guess, just a fun war movie. Oh yeah, the film

         also stooped so low as to grab every war movie cliche in the book!

         But I still liked it a lot. But as the memory recedes, I realize how

         substantial the movie really is. Contrast that with Alien
         Resurrection,

         where I wasn't immediately sated, yet memories of the plot have me

         looking back and realizing, "Hey! That was a deeper movie than I

         suspected!". In the end, it's the intelligent films like these that
         I'll

         love

         forever, not the near-mindless death-fests.

         But Mortal Kombat Annihilation did suck more than any other film
         I've

         seen this year.

         -JC (SF4MAC/2, **@c*******h.com)

       • s******r@s**.***.*****n.edu
         01/12/1997 00:00:000 UTC

         In article
         <01bcfce6$e5696ae0$f*******d@w**.*******.***.*******y.net>, "Kevin
         D. Conod" writes:

         > So what'd you folks think of the Starship Troopers?

         LOVED IT. Perhaps my expectations were low, since I came into it

         convinced that they would butcher a novel I loved. A lot more of the

         novel made it into the movie than I thought possible. The special

         effects were the best I've seen.

         Two minor beefs with the film:

         1) When the starships were being cut up in the first big battle,
         they

         were all crashing into each other. SPREAD THE HELL OUT! Heinlein

         would have cringed at it. Of course, the real reason is that

         Verhoeven wanted as much action on the screen at one time as
         possible.

         2) WHY, WHY, WHY did they have Doogie and his droogies wearing SS
         officer

         uniforms at the end of the film? Only the insignia were different.

         Heinlein would have removed his name from the film before seeing
         that.

         Inexcusable.

         Best invention for the film: The bugs that shot down the starships.

         That's sense-of-wonder stuff. It takes a certain audacity of
         intellect

         to come up with insects that can take out starships *from the
         ground*.

         My advice: Do see the film, but DEFINITELY read the novel.

         -- K.

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