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To: Swordmaker

And they shouldn’t have bothered.

Loved the book. The movie wasn’t horrible, just stupid.


121 posted on 05/22/2015 2:05:38 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
Loved the book. The movie wasn’t horrible, just stupid.

The book was nuanced and deep. I haven't seen the movie. They butchered the society that Heinlein constructed for "Starship Troopers" based on some very good thinking of having to actually earn the franchise and just turned it into a Fascistic dictatorship and missed it entirely, turning it into a basic bug hunting us v. aliens with great swarming monsters. They even threw away Heinlein's power suits which were perfectly possible given our modern CG.

I have no faith that Hollywood could ever handle the philosophy found in many science fiction . . . and that is where many philosophers have gone to explore the ramifications of philosophy.

143 posted on 05/22/2015 10:21:36 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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