Micah Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 It is the most awful best movie that you are not watching on Hulu! This was my first date movie...I had to sneak in with my date since it was rated R. So bad it's good baby Hulu Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogiebb Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 It is the most awful best movie alright ...i kinda liked it i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyZip Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 James Cameron should redo that movie BY THE BOOK with the killer CG and extraterrestrial ladnscapes to boot. (Bug hunts and Skinnies) The idea of how the switching in the suits, the "bounding" and the nuclear warfare woudl jsut be the greatest eye-candy that the current movie misses all over the place. I loved the book. I hated the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Pharoah, you are wayyyy tooo young! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 I think its a good movie! But then again I think the original Robocop was a good movie. "Dead or alive your coming with me". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 I think its a good movie! But then again I think the original Robocop was a good movie. "Dead or alive your coming with me". I will neither confirm nor deny ever seeing that movie..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 You know you HAVE seen it and LIKED it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 You know you HAVE seen it and LIKED it! neither confirm nor deny.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Joe-Bob Briggs would say to "check it out" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Joe-Bob Briggs... God, was he cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe4d Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eerw Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 To fight the bug, we must understand the bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthMuffin Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Book: Awesome. Movie: Terrible. I think the writers of the movie may have at one point been in the same room with the book... that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
open17 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 I loved the book. I hated the movie. MASH DUNE STARSHIP TROOPERS The three that come to mind first where the book was much better than the movie. LORD OF THE RINGS. The only one I can think of right now where I loved the book AND the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 The movie Blade Runner was better than the book. It's probably the only movie that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmw5142 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Would it make someone a dork if they had that on DVD? Hypothetically.... of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe4d Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 "Fleet does the Flying, MI does the dieing." Sorry But this movie is great ! If nothing else for the great one liners, best of all My last few years in the Army none of the young troops had ever heard of the movie so when I used lines they though it was me making it up, Things like, "Come on you apes you wanna live forever!" "Everybody fights, If you dont fight I'll kill you myself" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Starship Troopers the book was great. If you're a Heinlein fan - and I am - Starship Troopers was interesting on a couple of levels. For one, it really was Heinlein's transitional novel between the juveniles he'd written before and the adult novels to come. The book can be enjoyed on several levels; on the surface it's a cracking good battle yarn of the Space Marines, but underneath that it's really a meditation on political systems. Good stuff. Watching Aliens in the theater, there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that Jame Cameron had read - and loved - Starship Troopers. The Space Marines, the drop ships, it all came straight out of that novel. I've since learned that I was right, Cameron gave the actors on Aliens copied of Starship Troopers and told them to read it. Starship Troopers the movie sucked - just a horrible, horrible betrayal of Heinlein's vision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Smith Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 A lot of good books would be nearly impossible to make into a movie without significant changes. Starship Troopers is a case in point. I wish that they had changed the title and dropped all pretense that it was "based on the book". That said, the movie was what it was, and on it's own level, for what it was, it was a fun movie (as opposed to being a good movie). That's my rather embarrassed long winded way of saying that I have watched it more than once and rather enjoy it for what it is. As to the comment about Blade Runner being better than the book, it's really apples and oranges. Philip K Dick is included in the list of 100 great novels of the 20th Century and is the only SciFi writer included in the "Library of America". That said, his books can be rather deep and even somewhat pedantic (not unlike Heinlein and Clarke). It's rather ironic therefor, that the final version of the movie is more true to the original screenplay, which spent more time on the core issue of the book ("what is it to be human"), than the original release which the director, and subsequently the producers, had mucked around with too much. Just going to prove that less is often more. And, FWIW, Philip K Dick eventually came to appreciate what was done, famously telling Ridley Scott that the look of the city was exactly what he had in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
03k64 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 It's one of my favorite bad movies that I have to watch whenever it's on. Plus I went to junior high school with Dina Meyer who played Dizzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillD Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 A little bit of trivia: The actor who played the drill instructor and later captured the smart bug is now the voice of Krusty Krab in Spongebob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precision40 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 A little bit of trivia: The actor who played the drill instructor and later captured the smart bug is now the voice of Krusty Krab in Spongebob. Clancy Brown, he's a great actor. From "Kurgan" in Highlander to the voice of Krusty Crab....What happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillD Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 I forgot he was The Krugan. I really liked his safety pins..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Plus I went to junior high school with Dina Meyer who played Dizzy. I really liked the character of Dizzy. Dina Meyer was definitely the best thing in the movie. Actually, Dina Meyer is usually the best thing in any movie she's in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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