Re: SPOILER<<STARSHIP TROOPERS REVIEW>>

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Mark A. Siefert wrote:

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> > >Saw Starship Troopers yesterday (preview showing).
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>	I WANT TO SEE EVERY COPY OF THIS MOVIE BURNED AND ALL OF CAST
> (excluding Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown) AND CREW SHOT, HUNG,
DRAWN
> AND QUARTERED, AND SPACED!  ROBERT HEINLEIN IS ROLLING IN HIS
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Wow, you aren't mad or something, are you? :)
 
>	There, now that I got that off my chest.
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>	Major nitpicks:
>	1.  How are the bugs capable of hurling asteroids from one side
of the
> galaxy to another in such short a time?  They obviously don't have any
> starships or plot device drive.  
>	2.  BTW, why do I have the feeling that the asteroid that hit
Buenos
> Aries should have done a lot more damage than it did.  All that
happened
> was a South American city got flattened.  I real life... does anyone
> remember what happened to the dinosaurs.  I got the feeling that they
> were try to combine "Starship Troopers" with "The Moon is a Harsh
> Mistress."  They failed miserably.  

"Harsh Mistress" is my all-time favorite RAH novel, how dare they steal
stuff from it...

>	3.  Rasczak wasn't Rico's teacher.  Mr. Dubious was.
>	4.  OK, not only do men and women fight with one another (which
I don't
> have a problem with as long as the women can met the physical demands
> that combat calls for), but they also share the same barracks and
SHOWER
> TOGETHER.  Someone told me that they were trying to say that sexual
> mores have changed in future... what I really think that the writers
> were doing was a lame attempt to throw on some tits and ass. (Pardon
the
> vulgarity.) It comes to no surprise that the director of this horror
> also directed the equal poor "Showgirls."
>	5.  It surprises me that the bugs are able to evolve into such
useful
> creatures,  warrior bugs, huge heavily armored bugs that spit acid,
> flying bugs that have an uncanny knack for cutting of people's heads,
> bugs that can shot down starships from orbit with a plasma fart, bugs
> that suck out peoples brains to learn what they know... OH COME ON. 
> Evolution just isn't this lucky.

Check the various threads on the limits of bio-freakishness that have
been
running on this list...general concensus seems to be that any
'plasma-farting' biological entity is impossible...and you're right, the
movie's writers/producers do seem to have a rather odd view of
evolution..maybe they're actually creationists? :)

 >	6.  For all of you who are still upset with the fact that
the movie
> leaves out powered armor, rumor has it they are planning to include it
> in a sequel. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOT ANOTHER ONE!!!

another one? I'd rather be attacked by a plasma-farting bug...

>	7.  So Doogie Howser (or Col. Dolittle as I call him) can talk
to the
> bugs.  Maybe he can ask them what poscessed anyone to make this movie.
>	8.  From what I gathered, Rico wasn't a blond haired, blue eyed
white
> kid in the book, no?

If Beunos Aires (sp) is Rico's hometown, the odds are against him being
a
nice blond Aryan uber-hero...but everyone knows that ALL heros are
blond-haired, blue-eyed all-American twits, right??? (Sorry, don't mean
to
offend the American list members..it's not you, just Hollywood...)

I think the book mentioned Tagalog as Rico's home-language, another blow
for the case of him as uber-hero...

>	Well I got to go. I'm going to finish the novel just to flush
this
> movie out of my system. I plan on sending this to the Phil Farland's
> Nitpickers Central page (edited, of course).	I won't be too surprised
> if there was something up already.  
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Don't know if it's the same page, but there are already websites up with
criticism of the movie, based solely on trailers/teasers/ads...bet
they've
gone nuts now that the actual movie is out...

Later,

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)

 > Later,
> Mark A. Siefert
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>	  "Well Mike, I guess it's just a magical land.  I HATE MAGICAL
> LANDS!" 
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