(04-15-2013, 01:11 PM)lIceColon Wrote: A've read the book, can't say its ba, just different. Why can't people think of Starship Troopers - Heinlein as a completely separate entity from Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoven?
Why all this hate to the movie? It's just a film using the same name of the book, i bet if the book hadn't existed people would stop hating on the films.
I agree there should be a distinction between Verhoven's and Heinlein's version, because they are remarkably different. And...Heinlein's is superior in my opinion, for same reasons others have already stated - movies are more popcorn/cheesy cheap entertainment that showcases boobs instead of good story. The book would be the equivalent of making "Band of Brothers" set in the future. Surely awesome if done correctly.
If I was gonna vote for a good space war movie....even though it's not a movie, I would put the short-lived t.v. series "Space: Above and Beyond" as one of my top 5, easily. And I'd probably throw the whole "Firefly" universe in there as well.
Quote:@Highland Laddie : he was talking about movies , not SciFi books . You surely need to read Stanislaw Lem , Frank Herbert , Arthur C. Clark , H.G. Wells , Asimov (in any order , plus some others) .
About the movies , yes i could also state that Starship Trooper (1) is one of my preferates , but still that depends on what are we talking about here . Is not an deep movie , is a pop-corn movie instead . I have some other preferate SF movies too , i'll just put them all on the same scale , none is the best and none is the worst .
I'm not sure where you just assume I've not read any of those, but yes, I've read Arthur Clark, Frank Herbert (loved the first 3 books of Dune...they got weird after that), Wells, Asimov, etc... but since this thread was talking about Starship Troopers, I was trying to keep it somewhat on-topic.
I'm sure we could have a spirited debate on what is the best scifi-space war series.
