Andrew Bailey <andrew at networkharmoni.com.au> writes: > Randi128 at aol.com wrote: > > > I have been disaapointed with many of the recent releases, namely > > Starship Troopers. A great book could have been made into a great > > movie. The director and producers chose instead to adapt the book to > > fit their budget. > > Ok I have to disagree with this. I found Starship Troopers to be a good > film not so much cause of its special effects, but more because of it > being an underlying resistant adaption of the book. That is one of the > things I enjoy about SF is the commentry upon society. We're getting a bit off-topic here, but I have to say that the movie of Starship Troopers was offensively stupid (farting superluminal asteroids????) *and* was grossly and intentionally disrespectful to the book it claimed to be based on. Did I mention I have strong opinions about this? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info