Quote Originally Posted by Ramza00 View Post
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It is getting mad the Starship Trooper film of Paul Verhoeven and Edward Neumeier Satires the original novel by Robert A. Heinlein.
That it satirises the book is way, way down on the list of problems people have with the movie. Of course it is hard to satirise something you have never read - yeah, Verhoeven never read the book. He went on what he thought it was about, which is a cray way to do an adaption. And it kind of shows that he never read it as the plot in the book and the plot in the movie have basically nothing on common. And that was a result of them having actual worked on a film script called something cheesy like Bug Hunt on Planet Nine. When they heard the rights for the book were available, they bought it, changed a few names in the plot and pretty much called it a day.

If they had actually read the book, they'd have known the main character was actually Filipino, not some Aryan poster child.

And the biggest complaint people have is that it removed the defining feature of the troopers in the book - the power armour. Taking that out is like trying to do an adaption of WoT and remove the magic system all together.

SST the movie is a fun, cheesy D-grade movie (and I even own the straight-to-DVD sequels) but it kind of it a poster child of how not to do an adaption.