Posted on 03/23/2025 3:49:43 PM PDT by Angelino97
I thought Carmen was the shit when it came out. But as I’ve aged Dizz is definitely the best of them all.
It was a fun movie. They kicked @$$. Hot chicks.
What else do you need?
I agree. I know a couple of direct-to-video sequels were made. One had power suits in it. I wonder how they were?
I remember that
Maybe I'll watch them on one of the streaming apps.
I've never seen the entire movie. To me it was unwatchable and I don't think I missed much. A movie true to the original book would be great, but I realize I am not the target audience. I would love to see the opening raid against the ‘Skinnies’, with capsule drops and powered armor, introduction to Lt. Col Dubois and basic training at Camp Curry. There are strong characters throughout the novel: Fleet Sgt. Ho, Ace, Rico's father, etc. with a neat plot twist at the end.
I'd love to see it done, but I won't get my hopes up.
I’ll second that, although there’d be no way to include all of the heart of it, which is the social and political part...
TANSTAAFL!
Yeah, quit reading when his homo side emerged.
Apparently he was into the whole hippy thing of free love and do it with anything that holds still.
never read another book of his after “Stranger in a strange land”
Could not finish that steaming pile.
SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ THE BOOK!
The last paragraph is when.....
The main character wonders if the reports of what they have accomplished will be given to his father in his father’s language,Tagalog, showing the main character is not a lily white as in the movie.
The author used bugs as a metaphor for communists.
Every time my mom spotted and the swatted a bug she called it a dirty democrat.
Haldeman’s books are great, but I’m not sure how well they’d adapt because they are very dense. There’s a lot more intricate plotting and detail than something like Starship Troopers.
My mistake - I was thinking of Joe Abercrombie ‘s work. I’d agree that Haldeman’s Forever War would make a great movie.
Yeah, I think you are probably right. Heck, when the first Dune movie came out decades ago I thought to myself, there is no way you can cram that into a couple of hours and have it still make sense.
I’m not perfect, but I sure got that one right.
I read my first James Bond book from the 50’s a couple of years ago. It was ridiculously simplistic and at a 7th grade reading level. But it was a perfect story for a film. Just like many popular songs are a few chords and seven or eight lines of text, half of them repeated. But look at the words of old Genesis songs. I love ‘em, but they are way too wordy to ever be truly popular for the masses.
It’s why Ringworld can’t be a movie, though maybe it could inspire a simple movie script. But even then, you can end up with what happens in the auto industry: The concept car is amazing, but when you remove an inch here, a couple inches there to make it something mass producable, it completely changes the look to be downright repulsive. As exhibit A I offer the pointiac Aztec. Beautifu concept car, ugly final product.
I think the same thing happens often when putting a beloved book to film. It’s best that it is constructed in your mind, rather than the screen.
Language. The bugs made me want to blow chunks. Too much gore. Savagely whipping a trooper because of a weapons practice blunder. Put him the brig or the firing squad because the main actor killed a buddy because he didn’t engage the safety. Not some whipping that smacked of homo leans.
Were the bugs actually attacking Earth at any point? So why in the heck did they go there to their planet? I remember something about a city called New (?) that was destroyed but was it the bugs? Ok I think it was, but…
If that’s the case, why dump scores of troops into a situation where they’re being slaughtered and maimed and a serious lack of intelligence?
Destroy the daggum planet, reduce its surface to a burnt out cinder like Klatu said would happen to Earth if its population extended its warlike mindless destruction from it’s atmospheric or orbital boundary.
Well here I am either doing a rewrite or a personal novel based on the movie. Not.
I just loathed the movie, it was gross and seemed really stupid.
Am I delusional? I knew he was not Caucasian throughout the book?
7th grade reading level for 1950s 7th graders.
Today, many high school graduates would have trouble getting through it.
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