[SJSAMPLE]

Anybody who's read the book would agree with him.

The movie might as well have been based on some other work, because almost every important tenant of the novel was overlooked, marginalized or - even worse - mocked.

[katana]

I have read the book about six or seven times and agree that disgust would be warranted if one expected or hoped for a faithful rendering of the original. I enjoy the film as a separate piece of fluff and don't take offence. But that's just me.

I usually only get offended when there's a political motive behind turning a good story upside down, as with the film version of Clancy's The Sum of All Fears. Turning rabid Iranian monsters into American right-wingers was vomit inducing.

[WileyC]

The movie might as well have been based on some other work, because almost every important tenant of the novel was overlooked, marginalized or - even worse - mocked.

The 'director' hates Heinlein... a lot. And has stated so in several interviews. I won't even mention his name but somehow he keeps getting these big paying gigs for science fiction movies which are uniformly crappy.