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    Posted: 08 December 2011 at 11:48am
http://io9.com/5864597/why-is-hollywood-remaking-verhoevens-starship-troopers

I really hope they make more like the book this time.
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Starship Troopers is on my list of "No Socially Redeeming Value" movies. Maybe the remake will be better?
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Originally posted by oldpbnoob oldpbnoob wrote:

Starship Troopers is on my list of "No Socially Redeeming Value" movies. Maybe the remake will be better?


That's because the movie focuses on killing bugs and Dina Meyer's fantastic tatas rather than the issue put forth by R.A.H. of having to earn the privilege of voting through service rather than having it given as a carte-blanche right.

It was one of Heinlein's more thought-provoking critiques of our system at a time when he was more focused on whargarbling about how commies were taking over America from within.
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Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by oldpbnoob oldpbnoob wrote:

Starship Troopers is on my list of "No Socially Redeeming Value" movies. Maybe the remake will be better?

I enjoyed the original.  A lack of redeeming social value does not necessarily make a movie bad.
 


That's because the movie focuses on killing bugs and Dina Meyer's fantastic tatas . . .

There are worse things for a movie to focus on.

. . .  rather than the issue put forth by R.A.H. of having to earn the privilege of voting through service rather than having it given as a carte-blanche right.

It was one of Heinlein's more thought-provoking critiques of our system at a time when he was more focused on whargarbling about how commies were taking over America from within.
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I thought Starship Troopers was a pretty great satire. I never read the book, but really enjoyed the movie.
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Originally posted by Mack Mack wrote:

 
Originally posted by oldpbnoob oldpbnoob wrote:

Starship Troopers is on my list of "No Socially Redeeming Value" movies. Maybe the remake will be better?


I enjoyed the original.  
 A piece of me just died inside hearing someone say that. Gawd, it was awful.
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I loved the movie, it's great :D
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One of my favorites, I can watch it any time.

OPBN has no taste.
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Those tatas aren't that great
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Originally posted by stratoaxe stratoaxe wrote:

I thought Starship Troopers was a pretty great satire. I never read the book, but really enjoyed the movie.

From what I know, the movie had the complete opposite message of the book. The movie was making fun of everything that happened in the plot while the book was advocating for it.
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Originally posted by High Voltage High Voltage wrote:

One of my favorites, I can watch it any time.

OPBN has no taste.
More likely I dont watch movies stoned anymore.
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I liked the original movie too.

It wasn't a good representation of the book, but it was a good action flick.

I always thought Terra Nova : Strike Force Centauri was a better version of the book, just with no bugs :(

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I thought this thread was going to be about the VT shooting today.
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