To: Publius772000
Book is fantastic, I’ve read it probably 20 times. Movie was stupid.
2 posted on
04/09/2010 6:50:29 PM PDT by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
You read the same book 20 times?
In all fairness, I watch my garden grow.
And I've been known to watch paint dry.
4 posted on
04/09/2010 6:53:40 PM PDT by
MaxMax
(Conservatism isn't a party)
To: driftdiver
The movie had its moments, but the reason it was stupid was that it tried to make the world some sort of fascist propagandist dictatorship, which is not what Heinlein envisioned. I reread the book a couple of weekends ago in preparation for next school year’s discussion with my AP Gov’t class. I’ll likely read it again a couple of times over the summer as well.
5 posted on
04/09/2010 6:54:36 PM PDT by
Publius772000
(http://theconstitutionalalamo.com)
To: driftdiver
I love Heinlein. Great writer.
9 posted on
04/09/2010 6:57:00 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
To: driftdiver
If they had called the movie "Spaceship Troopers (in no way related to Heinlein's book)" it would have been a passable B-grade scifi movie. However they took a great book dealing primarily with the relationship between the citizen and the state and changed it into the opposite of what was written.
14 posted on
04/09/2010 7:02:43 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
To: driftdiver
Movie was okay, if a bit too campy. Sequel sucked royally.
24 posted on
04/09/2010 7:24:24 PM PDT by
PackerBoy
(Just my opinion ....)
To: driftdiver
Yes. The book was very good. The movie was was absolutely stupid.
28 posted on
04/09/2010 7:38:10 PM PDT by
Jagdgewehr
(Gun, Bible, Gadsden Flag...the definition of a hater and far right-wing extremist)
To: driftdiver
Denise Richards,Blake Lindsley, Brenda Strong, and Dina Meyer were pretty hot in that movie.
39 posted on
04/09/2010 8:05:31 PM PDT by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: driftdiver
"Book is fantastic, I’ve read it probably 20 times. Movie was stupid."The first movie was watchable. So was the third. The second one, however was about as excrable and S T U P I D as anything I have ever seen, and had absolutely nothing to do with the original story. I kept watching because I thought there was going to be a pony in there somewhere, but it turned out to be one of the WORST movies I have ever seen.
57 posted on
04/09/2010 10:48:52 PM PDT by
redhead
("If you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." --Ronald W. Reagan)
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