Starship Troopers: Invasion
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Posted on: 2012-03-17 18:56 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Loved the first one had zero idea there were any more lol.
If it's anything like the animated series was, I'll be interested in it.
The animated series was a rare find I happened to stumble upon, thought to myself 'this is going to be garbage' and was actually shocked it wasn't.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
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I liked the movie, and I LOVED the animated series. I remember having to rush home from school because it was on at an obscure time that meant no one could watch it... friggen network.
But as an adult, I can rent the DVDs and watch the whole series. Unfortunately they never quite ended it...
Friggen network...
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
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Kinda eerie how accurate that was for what we are quickly approaching now.
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Kinda eerie how accurate that was for what we are quickly approaching now.
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Hmm wonder if they'll include the bigass Mecha and the other alien bug race (that could talk in their own language) from the books.
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Far from it. I love the book, and hated the movie until I managed to (in my mind) "divorce" it from the book. At that point, it became good clean fun.|
Originally Posted by Nos482
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As much as anything Paul Verhoeven touches can be considered clean.
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Fun Fact: Paul Verhoeven didn´t read the book before filming... he said it would only get in the way of his vision.
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Far from it. I love the book, and hated the movie until I managed to (in my mind) "divorce" it from the book.
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I can't get past the sticking point that they have the same name and characters. Thus I still despise the movie. Oh yeah, and skipping powered armor, and the cool tech. Nevermind that.
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Originally Posted by Elf_Sniper
Far from it. I love the book, and hated the movie until I managed to (in my mind) "divorce" it from the book. At that point, it became good clean fun.
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Well at least he was honest about it. Most of the time when Hollywood tries to make movies out of books they do their best to try to convince us that they are "being true" to the source material so that they can trick people into thinking we are getting perfect translations. Obviously translating books to movies is never going to be 100% perfect.
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Originally Posted by Nos482
Fun Fact: Paul Verhoeven didn´t read the book before filming... he said it would only get in the way of his vision.
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Nope, I read it long before the movie ever came out. The movie is nice, popcorn fun; I just try to think of it as a non-named movie, instead of a literary translation. The first time I saw it, though, it bothered me because of the connection to the book.
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Originally Posted by Nos482
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I find your lack of signature disturbing.
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Half the fun of beating on the movie is the ludicrous signature commercial inserts. They practically were Verhoven's signature in films for a while.
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You're not. Loved the book which is why I was at first disappointed with the first movie. Turned out to be a good flick tho, despite what that idiot Paul Verhoeven did to it.|
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Edit: One of the things I found funny about the first movie was the criticism it got from some people about the films political environment(?) compared to our democracy, and I ask myself did any of those self righteous morons actually read Heinlein's book before opening their stupid traps? He explained how it came about.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Book? There was a book?
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Back in the WWII they'd have buy bonds advertising and stuff going on before and between films, so I can imagine the commercial sigs being believable in the world of Starship Troopers.
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No but I hated the fact that the movie missed the fundamental point about tying government service to voting.
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They practically were Verhoven's signature in films for a while.
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I found Starship Troopers to be a rare instance where the movie was better than the book, and I thought the movie sucked. I tip my hat to Verhoeven for not reading the source material, he made a better movie because of it (but it was still terrible).
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Better books than Starship Troopers are either The Forever War or Armor. I recommend both.
Though the Roughneck Chronicles cartoon was pretty good, I thought.
But as for this... well, I'm pretty sure the lines in the trailer were the opening lines to the book. And hey, it's power armor.
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The Forever War or Armor.
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Both excellent books. Personally I'm also fond of John Ringo's Posleen Wars:
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And there are tons of other great books available for free via the Baen Free Library, and the BaenCD Archive at the Fifth Imperium.
And before anyone gets upset about piracy, the first link is part of the Baen website, and the second... well:
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Loved the first one had zero idea there were any more lol.
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Thankfully, it's a animated movie this time around and looks pretty damn good even though it's a teaser.
Liked the first movie, liked the animated series...the last two movies that came out (that I know of...) were garbage...