Spoilers...
How the hell, can you have spoilers for Starship Troopers??
Anyway, lots of space including subliminal messages..
Read the book
Read the book
Read the book
Read the book
Read the book
anyway.. enough of that
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A couple of nit-picks tho.
I'm about to reorder what you wrote. No context was harmed in the cutting
and pasting of this posting.
Having had their arses kicked on Klendathu, you'd think they'd have learnt
their lesson, and just nuked any planet with bugs on. I mean, how hard is
it to bomb a planet?
Anyone notice how the uniforms looked slightly WWII german style, and how
doogie howser looked like a gestapo officer?
Well that was the point of the movie. Verhoeven (sp?) was making a point
(badly) about facist cultures, and how evil they are. Did we really
need another movie, to explain this to us?
It's a shame really. The book basically portrays a facist state that
could actually work. Heinlein in my opinion, was trying to make the
point that you shouldn't automatically judge a culture by it's colours.
In the modern day and age it could have made a very interesting film.
But when you watch Verhoevens movie you wonder whether he read the book,
and either completely missed the point, or decided to take the piss.
On klendathu, it took 4 or 5 troopers to just pin a bug down, and 3 or 4
died before the bug croaked it. Why didn't the troopers get equipped with
better weaponry when they went to the second planet?
"Because children, facism is evil, and will needlessly send men to their
deaths".
You'd think they'd have learnt their lesson from Klendathu that once the
dropships have dropped the troopers, they'd get the fuck out of orbit. How
comes they were so thick as to wait around, in *close* formation, to be
blasted out of the sky a second time by the plasma bugs?
Well our theory is that they couldn't afford the rending time and just used
the same sequence from the first battle.
anyway, plot-holes aside, i spent most of the film with a big grin on my
face, every time some arrogant american 90210-reject got splatted. I'm
suprised that brain bug managed to suck that much brain material out of
that pilot at the end tho... :)
No, no. It was sucking that hard in an attempt to get something out!
Personally it was a disapointing film. I could have lived with a straight
bug hunt with cool guns, the power armour (read the book) and real
nuclear hand grenades. But we didn't get that. We got a poor attempt
at a moral lesson. Your meant to spot the uniforms, and the pointless
waste of human life. Your meant to wonder whether the humans sent
the original meteor to spark off the war, your meant to wonder if the
bugs are really the bad guys. Frankly it was just a little bit tacky.
Of course I say all this having read the book. Most of the people I've
spoken to who like it, haven't. I think it may just be that the film
is just that little bit to close to the book. That you can't divorce
the two.
Still some of the casting wasn't bad. Dougie as a gestapo officer had
a certain irony. Whoever it was that played Dizzy (Dizet?) reminded
me a lot of the character from the book. (Perhaps that was part
of the problem). Sims (the drill instructor) played a good psycopath.
The lieutenant was about right.
On the other hand, the squared jawed hero was about as wooden as the
hot shot pilot he was in love with. The guy who's brains were sucked
out at the end would have made a much better Rico to my mind.
Still I suppose at least watching the film will mean that I'll probably
read the book again.
Later,
Adam Hattrell, Support, Cimio Ltd. adam@
