RE: Mission to Mars

>
> >If they had named it something else and taken away the vague
> references to
> >Heinlein's book (a few character and place names, and some very
> vague plot
> >ideas), it would have been a fun, but silly, sci-fi action pic.
> >
> >Hopefully this doesn't ignite the conflict yet again ;-)
>
> The moment I saw the men standing around in a circle, firing at a
> bug in the
> middle, I started laughing my arse off and realized Verhoven was
> laughing at
> Heinlein. Now, to be honest, I DO think that Heinlein fans
> deserve a serious
> treatment of Starship Troopers. But I also think that most sci-fi
> fans (who
> tend to be a very conservative lot) give his views far too much
credence.
>
>
> Allan Goodall 		 agoodall@interlog.com
> Goodall's Grotto: http://www.interlog.com/~agoodall/
>

I'm not sure why it having a decidedly conservative bent would preclude
it
from being given good movie treatment.	Can't there be movies with a
more
conservative appeal.  We've all been treated to liberal fare (sometimes
extreme liberal stuff) from Hollywood for years and years.

Chris