starship troopers

does anyone else like this movie? it was so far ahead of its time in special effects.

Meh

It was fun. But once I read the book I realised what a disappointment the movie was,and how much cooler it would've been if they stuck more to the book.

You wouldnt happen to have a copy of said book would you Dave?

didnt this movie come out like 10 years ago?

Rhys: I do indeed.

Arthur: 1997

Originally posted by fordjay16
does anyone else like this movie? it was so far ahead of its time in special effects.

And yet, so far behind it's time in PLOT and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT...

Read the book long before the movie came out, and so obviously, I was not impressed...

Looked like "saved by the bell" in outer space.

Yup this movie did come out like what 7 years i think. And yup i gots the DVD loved the movie. Its like watching an Anima!!!:bigthumb:

Sweet. Would you mind if I borrow it? It you're not reading it, that is.

You can have your choice of anything Ive got in return too. Ive got The Godfather on order right now. The old copy fell apart.

I havnt yet read the book, but Iv read all of Heinliens adult series of books, and all of his short storys.
After seeing the movie it only has a very passing resemblance to a proper Heinlien story, its certianly not nearly out there enough, altough the uni-sex shower scene is a hint at the sort of society he generaly creates in his storys.

starship troopers was part of his "young adults" sci fi books, and I did buy a 2nd hand copy the other day, but only because Iv seen the movie, Iv yet to read it, but from reading another one of his they seem generaly rather tame, and over simplified for me in comparison with his full length novels.

the plot was a little confusing.

How? Bugs attack earth, humans kick bugs collective arses.

Simple.

Originally posted by zebrathree
Simple.

The exact reason I really didnt care for the movie. It was boring and dumb, not to mention there were a lot of cheesy parts in it when it came to acting, but hey, just one guys' opinion.

i mean confusing as in why did the bugs shoot asteroids out their ass? wouldn't that hurt? they should really get sum metamucil.

They didn't shoot asteroids. They shot "bug plasma" and used that to push an asteroid towards earth.

The movie sucked, but the show was amazing. Definetely one of my all time favourite shows.

i personnally hated the show

The movie was mental so completely mad

the running explosion was immense pity they didn't show the full 5 minutes of it.

I wathced the movie expecting loud explosions and lots of special effects. I got what I expected. I was happy :smile:

Originally posted by ci5ic
Looked like "saved by the bell" in outer space.

:lol:


At the time I thought it was a cool movie, I was young still though. I have since watched it and its utter crap. So much more could have been done with that movie...

Originally posted by YogsVR4
I wathced the movie expecting loud explosions and lots of special effects. I got what I expected. I was happy :smile:

Exactly.

BTW: how was the book? I might go buy me a copy.

I read the book............soooooooooooooooo much better than the movie, but that was because it was also a lot longer. If they had made more of the training aspect of the into the movie it would have been a lot better since they tell about "jump jet" equppied units that you never see in the move. Bah.

hot topic:bigthumb:

Series rocked - book was awesome - the movie sucked big time. Puppet masters was a better Heinlein adaptation

Book > (Movie * 999)

IMO...