Starship Troopers (reboot)
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TrollfaceDeux
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they are rebooting because that's the trend. Conan the Barbarian, Recall, Robocop, Carrie.
End's Game is another trend called, "what the fuck can we adopt from book and make a lot of money from copying shit that people already know about" circa Harry Potter/LOTR.
End's Game is another trend called, "what the fuck can we adopt from book and make a lot of money from copying shit that people already know about" circa Harry Potter/LOTR.
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The original pretty much has nothing to do with the book aside from the bug war aspect. Whats truly retarded about this is that the producer of I Am Legend(another movie that had absolutely zero to do with the book aside from "vampires") is working on this movie.
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What? The entire premise is the same. War. Service. Earning you citizenship. They just shoe horned a teen love story in. And to be fair, that book wouldn't translate well to an action movie at all.
I am legend gets more shit than it deserves because of the name. I didn't hate the movie. I hadn't read the story so the movie was ok for me. Same as world war z...decent film ruined by the lack of faith to source material. I'm able to sort of separate the projects and not let the differences bother me, but I can understand why fans would be upset.
I think starship troopers is much close than Either of those films.
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wait...what?the book of i am legend had vampires/zombies too?damn....i was hoping the book was better.
the movie totally sucks.could have been really great but no....it was another zombie movie.
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ohkcrlho
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to lazy to read ahah besides,sometimes i don't trust wikipedia.
but i already did,and from what is written there,is far better than the movie.the finale is topnotch.
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starship troopers is a great movie. It has the same sort of outlook on society. Sure the stories are different, but it fits well into the universe or starship troopers, and stands on its own legs.
I could give two turds less if books and movies match. What matters is if the movie is good, and that's it. Take Blade runner. So many people like that movie, but the movie takes a dump on the book fucking hard. That movie literally takes everything the book is about and rapes it hard with no regrets. I think that movie is bad, but I won't say its because of the former. I don't have a problem with a movie diverging or completely ignoring source material, I only have problems with movies sucking.
I could give two turds less if books and movies match. What matters is if the movie is good, and that's it. Take Blade runner. So many people like that movie, but the movie takes a dump on the book fucking hard. That movie literally takes everything the book is about and rapes it hard with no regrets. I think that movie is bad, but I won't say its because of the former. I don't have a problem with a movie diverging or completely ignoring source material, I only have problems with movies sucking.
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This. Good Example too. Stand by me is another that shits out the ending but still comes out as a great movie.
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Starship Troopers kind of grew on me. At first I was like, seriously WTF? But boobs. After I watched it a few times, I thought, okay, not so bad, actually kind of interesting. Not something I would like to see rebooted though unless someone went full hard on over it, obsessed over making it some kind of franchise. Humans vs. army of sentient killer space bugs? Fuck it, I would be all in on that story if it was told under the umbrella of Heinlein's vision. Futuristic marine types fighting aliens will always have a few kernels of awesome hidden in there somewhere.
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Starship Troopers was the first science fiction book I ever read, and while it was enough to get me hooked on the genre, the movie really is far, far more entertaining. A true adaptation of the book would be fairly bleak and depressing. Now, if they did it right and "Platooned" it so to speak, it could be a great movie in its own right, and I'd love to see that. But what are the chances of it being even remotely decent?
It's a classic sci-fi story though, so at some point it will get redone no matter what we want, and then redone in another 20-30 years, etc. etc. most likely. Still, I'd rather see them tackle some other classics like the Foundation series or Ringworld or countless others that haven't been done before.
It's a classic sci-fi story though, so at some point it will get redone no matter what we want, and then redone in another 20-30 years, etc. etc. most likely. Still, I'd rather see them tackle some other classics like the Foundation series or Ringworld or countless others that haven't been done before.