“I recently watched Starship Troopers for the first time. It’s brilliant, isn’t it?”
The book Starship troopers is a classic.
The movie is pure crap. Thats enough to let me know the writer is a fool.
“is a particularly, peculiarly and almost unbearably saccharine, socialist world, at pains to underscore its rejection of money and the moral good of exploration for its own sake.”
and yet some people always have more than others, why is that?
I loved the movie, I did watch it for the first time with about 20 Marines right before a deployment so it may hold a bit of nostalgia for me. It was fun and entertaining.
I loved the movie, I did watch it for the first time with about 20 Marines right before a deployment so it may hold a bit of nostalgia for me. It was fun and entertaining.
The book Starship Troopers is awesome but I think Heinlein channeled Ayn Rand for the teacher in the first part of the book. I love reading pages of lectures in a sci-fi book.
The movie, ugghhh. All I can say that was good was the gratuitous nudity.
A lot of people would disagree with you. Personally, I always enjoy it as (nearly) mindless fun. The "nearly" part is that it did keep some of the ideas from Heinlein's classic about how a society based on human nature and logic would be organized. Brutal at times, and unfair to some, but effective at keeping the peace and letting people live their lives in safety with their personal property rights assured. But the rest was eye candy and really cool SFX. So if one was hoping for a faithful adaptation your disgust with the film is understandable.
The author of this piece, though, did miss one element of both stories. It was not the US that was policing the world (and the galaxy). In the book Rico's native language was Tagalog (Filipino) and in the film a native of Buenos Aires. The accents of the actors (and that he apparently has never read the book) threw him off.
Star Trek, on the other hand, in all its iterations portrayed a utopian human civilization without money or greed but never bothered, with good reason, to explain the details of how exactly that would or could work. In that respect, Star Trek was even more mindless than SST, the book or the film.
The book Starship troopers is a classic.
The movie is pure crap. Thats enough to let me know the writer is a fool.
AMEN! The movie is a travesty of one of the best military books ever. I give a copy to every young ‘un I know who’s about to go to basic or a military academy.
Colonel, USAFR
Mega dittos on that.
***The book Starship troopers is a classic.***
Especially when in the last paragraph we find out what the hero’s native tongue is.
Book is good.
Movie is crap. Special effects, great.
I read a guest editorial years ago in GUNS AND AMMO magazine in which the author expressed a desire to have certain voting laws and requirements. I knew he got that from the book STARSHIP TROOPERS.
The film of Starship Troopers was a satire and quite a good one.