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Starship Troopers is hardly a great science fiction classic. It's not even a great Heinlein novel.
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Rhodoman  Posts: 1,397
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ikkoikki posted:
What about IT, that was Stephen King. That movie is a cult classic.
IT was the book where Stephen caught the disease known as "Diarrhea of the Pen". I haven't read much from him since.
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NeoKarnak  Posts: 346
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Queen of the Damned for me. The book was epic and the movie should have resulted in the producer and director being hanged.
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Lyli  Posts: 215
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Eragon. Hands down.
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Terminius_Est  Title: Moon River
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
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.
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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?
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.
No, it's not at all like the book. They kept the names and the aliens and the war but that's all.
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Terminius_Est posted:
No, it's not at all like the book. They kept the names and the aliens and the war but that's all.
My understanding is the book is about totalitarian government and youth indoctrination (primarily) and is a social-political commentary on such.
The movie barely touches on that, and it's about young, good looking people, slaying monsters.
Should have just called it 'Bugs' or something 
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Rhodoman Posts: 1,397
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Terminius_Est posted:
No, it's not at all like the book. They kept the names and the aliens and the war but that's all.
My understanding is the book is about totalitarian government and youth indoctrination (primarily) and is a social-political commentary on such.
The movie barely touches on that, and it's about young, good looking people, slaying monsters.
Should have just called it 'Bugs' or something
Totalitarian government? Hardly.
Go read the book.
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The Princess Bride
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purplehugmonkey posted:
I think Hitchhikers Guide pissed me off the most.
_Alexandra_ posted:
I have been disappointed in ALL book to movie crossovers.
I thought they adapted the Harry Potter books pretty well, and Shawshank Redemption was pretty true to the book as well. Mostly I agree though, I almost always hate the movie after reading the book.
Watch the BBC version of HG. The movie sucked ass.
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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.
Battlefield was horrible sci-fi, of course it was written by L. Ron "Trapped in the Closet" Hubbard, lol.
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