Sir, With all due respect I think you have have been looking merely at the 'Bug-Hunting' veneer of the movie of Starship Troopers. There are some very strong anti-fascist and proganda statements within the movie, often hidden within metaphor and symbolism. The Director's Commentary on the DVD version is particularly enlightening, almost predicting America's current (and future?) stance. Nige ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Re: "Fantasy" Films > 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 >