"Same with Starship Troopers... I'm missing how exactly it was a bad movie."
Starship Troopers was an abomination of a movie, one that directly contradicted many of the ideas that Heinlein wrote into the book. The book went out of its way to repeated deglamorize war, to show the tedious nature of the motorized infantry, played up the scary factor of fighting totally inhuman foes, and how in their society gender roles may have evolved but have continued to stay separate and roles in war played to each of their strengths (all female pilots, all male infantry.) The movie version went so far as to show integrated showers because all soldiers are equal (OMGBOOBIESLULZ), female infantry, did away with the mechanized suits entirely, had a jingoistic feel good ending with the fearful slug, and turned the combat into an over the top video game. It was one of the worst adaptions ever made, an insult to the author of the book, and jam packed with 4th rate crappy acting, and a paper thin story. I get annoyed every time someone reminds me that movie exists. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > How was GI Joe a bad movie? It delivered everything a big screen > adaption of the property should deliver. > > Same with Starship Troopers... I'm missing how exactly it was a bad > movie. > > I can point you in the direction of some pure garbage crap, and those > two are not examples of it. > > On Jun 16, 8:32 am, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are some fairly obscure reviewers listed there (at least to me). > While all of the top critics have panned it so far, I've seen reviews from > what look like little more than blogs too- Larsen On Film, DustinPutman, > Badass Digest, Metromix. Maybe I'm too sheltered, but I've never heard of a > single one. > > Critical consensus != personal impression. I've loved some bad movies > (I'm looking at YOU, Starship Troopers). GI Joe was undeniably a bad movie. > So far, even the positive reviews have caveats in them, so I have no faith > that this will be a worthwhile movie. Maybe it won't be Ghost Rider bad, but > I doubt I'll be spending money on it. > > > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Eh. RT is good if you want to see what mainstream critics are saying, > > > but pretty much all of the movies I have seen in the theaters and > > > enjoyed over the last few years have been "certifiably rotten" > > > according to them. (GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra being a prime example, > > > with a 33% rating but ranking as one of my favorite films of the > > > 00's.) > > > > > On Jun 15, 10:16 pm, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Link: > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/green_lantern/(viashareaholic.com) > > > > >> Not looking good so far. 30 reviews, 20% approval rating. "Noisy, > > >> overproduced, and thinly written". > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "The Unique Geek" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
