Re: SPOILER<<STARSHIP TROOPERS REVIEW>>

In a message dated 97-11-07 20:14:06 EST, you write:

<< Some chance. Expect pissing and moaning on every sci-fi oriented
 net forum for the duration.
 
 I'm guessing Starship Troopers holds a place in the collective 
 heart of sci-fi fans because so many people read it when they were
 children.
 
 Heinlein was a children's author. I wish I'd read ST when I was 
 12, or so, rather than being twenty-something. It would have been 
 great to stomp about for a week or two with a new found sense of 
 Moral Philosophy recieved unquestioned from Uncle Bob. It would
 have suited me really well, since at that age I was a hardcore
 Marxist-Leninist. Seriously. Disenfranchise all who will not serve 
 the state in heroic strife and toil. I'd have loved it.
 
 ....
 
 Why are people bitching about tits and ass in the film? I read
 loads of Heinlein when I was young enough not to find it insulting
 and I recall striking theme of gratuitous nudity. Maybe Bob was in
 the same hot-tubs as Allan.
 
 That's what I remember most of RAH. Ludicrous over-educated 
 heroes, gratuitous nudity and gratuitous incest. And swordfighting. 
 Couldn't he have just seen a psychiatrist? Did he have to write it
 down?
 
 ....
 
 Blond hair? Blue eyes?... didn't I read that the director's next
 project was a revisionist Hitler biopic?
 
 -- 
 David Brewer
 
 
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Your kidding right? Your writing this just to the devil's advocate, not
because you really believe it?