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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Annanova posted:
Starship Troopers
WHAT!?
Maybe my favorite B-movie of all time. Love that show. Can (and have) watched it 100 times.
I hope it is for the boobies and not the story line 
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DunesVladHarkonnen  Title: Moderator
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rabbitslayer posted:
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Annanova posted:
Starship Troopers
WHAT!?
Maybe my favorite B-movie of all time. Love that show. Can (and have) watched it 100 times.
I hope it is for the boobies and not the story line
It's for the one-liners, the absolute ridiculousness of it, the fake blood that is so bad it's hilarious.
And NPH. Can't hate on NPH.
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uglydwarf  Posts: 129
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the original Robert Heinlein book is STILL one of the great sci-fi classics. the movie? they could have just changed the name of the movie to BUG HUNT, changed all the names of the characters, places, and ships, made the same movie, and no one would have been able to guess that it was supposed to have been taken from the book.
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Annanova's second choice, battlefield earth- the book was terrible, and the movie has got to be the WORST piece of garbage ever made.
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Annanova posted:
Starship Troopers
WHAT!?
Maybe my favorite B-movie of all time. Love that show. Can (and have) watched it 100 times.
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Terminius_Est  Title: Moon River
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uglydwarf posted:
the original Robert Heinlein book is STILL one of the great sci-fi classics. the movie? they could have just changed the name of the movie to BUG HUNT, changed all the names of the characters, places, and ships, made the same movie, and no one would have been able to guess that it was supposed to have been taken from the book.
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Annanova's second choice, battlefield earth- the book was terrible, and the movie has got to be the WORST piece of garbage ever made.
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Annanova posted:
Starship Troopers
WHAT!?
Maybe my favorite B-movie of all time. Love that show. Can (and have) watched it 100 times.
Have you read the book?
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uglydwarf Posts: 129
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yes. i have read both starship troopers and battlefield earth, more than once. the book starship troopers is still one of my favorite reads. it was probably the book that first got me interested in science fiction. battlefield earth, not so much. the first half isn't actually to bad. the second half reads like it was written by committee just to push the page count up. but that is a common problem with L. Ron's sci-fi books. just look at the mission earth series sometime. 10 books, each one close to 1000 pages long, read like they were wrote by 4-5 different people.
Terminius_Est posted:
uglydwarf posted:
the original Robert Heinlein book is STILL one of the great sci-fi classics. the movie? they could have just changed the name of the movie to BUG HUNT, changed all the names of the characters, places, and ships, made the same movie, and no one would have been able to guess that it was supposed to have been taken from the book.
and
Annanova's second choice, battlefield earth- the book was terrible, and the movie has got to be the WORST piece of garbage ever made.
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Annanova posted:
Starship Troopers
WHAT!?
Maybe my favorite B-movie of all time. Love that show. Can (and have) watched it 100 times.
Have you read the book?
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Ungabhunga posted:
The return of the king.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
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Uccello Posts: 46
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The running Man by king (Richard Bachman) - I do not even know where they got the idea of what the movie was, but it was no where near the book.
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Maleraka Title: Postponing the inevitable
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Starship Troopers
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DunesVladHarkonnen Title: Moderator
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Terminius_Est posted:
uglydwarf posted:
the original Robert Heinlein book is STILL one of the great sci-fi classics. the movie? they could have just changed the name of the movie to BUG HUNT, changed all the names of the characters, places, and ships, made the same movie, and no one would have been able to guess that it was supposed to have been taken from the book.
and
Annanova's second choice, battlefield earth- the book was terrible, and the movie has got to be the WORST piece of garbage ever made.
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Annanova posted:
Starship Troopers
WHAT!?
Maybe my favorite B-movie of all time. Love that show. Can (and have) watched it 100 times.
Have you read the book?
Actually no. I heard its even close to the same thing as the book. But the movie is good on its own.
That's like saying The Count of Monte Cristo was a bad movie because it completely changes the end (the point) of the book. That movie is still entertaining on its own as an interpretAtion even though Dumas writes a much more violent and cold book whereas the movie has a happy finish.
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