Re: [SG] Re: Powered Armor Reading List

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:13:31 GMT, Charles Taylor
<charles.taylor@cableol.co.uk> wrote:

>I was amused by the description in the Guardian TV schedule for when
>Channel 5 showed it last week - they considered it a highly amusing
spof
>of 50's B-movies and Anerican War movies :-)

I thought this the moment I saw Rico and another character talking in
the
foreground while a group of troopers were standing in a complete circle,
firing at a bug in the middle.

I thought it was somewhat disengenuous of Verhoeven to write what was
essentially a parody of the book while people thought it was a serious
adaptation. From what I've read about him, it's unlikely that he could
have
taken Heinlein's political philosophy seriously. On the other hand I
figured
it wasn't serious at the time, and I had a good chuckle and came out of
the
theatre entertained.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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 you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
 brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan,