> -----Original Message----- > From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 07:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Starship Trooper > > > >David Hobby wrote: > Dan wrote: > > > > Personally, I think the movie is superior to the book. The book > >takes > > > > itself seriously. > David H. replied: > > > I agree. The movie is actually pretty good, you just > have to watch > > > it the right way. View it as a propaganda film produced > by a state > > > so warlike that only soldiers can vote... > > Adam responded: > >I view it as a P.O.S. that you couldn't pay me to see again. > > > >Paul Verhoeven (sp?) is the Lizzie Borden of satire. I've seen > >7th-grade film projects that were better, and that's if I count the > >shower scene with Denise Richards' boobies.
The "best" part was listening to the director's commentary on the DVD; for a while I thought it was for a different movie! Apparently Mr Verhoeven made a cutting satircal film about the horrors of war and the short-sightedness of human bigotry... > The CGI animated series, for all it's problems, was 10 times > the movie that the movie was. I'll agree with that. It was pertty good. > (And from a marketing standpoint, the studio could have made > a mint on > marketing if they'd have only used the powersuits from the book!) What, and get all the bad press from them flinging nukes around? I thought the book was supposed to be about responsibility, not killing bugs? ;) > Oh, and someone mentioned Delaney finding homo-eroticism in Starship > Troopers. As much as I like some of Delaney's work (_Nova_ springs > immediately to mind), he would probably find homo-eroticism > in a VCR user's guide... You mean those perverts make VCRs, too? I'm glad we've got TiVo in my compound - the Idaho nights would be so boring without good, old-fashioned entertainment -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
