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Starship Troopers (1997)
Not Merely Terrible, But INSULTING to a great man's legacy
But Paul Verhoeven is a revolting, greedy, pandering hack who should be ashamed of himself. He apparently isn't content to think up his own ideas for mindless hackneyed crap-drivel shoot-em-ups, he has to take an amazing premise that was ahead of it's time and drive it straight into the ground as hard as he can.
By his own admission, he read 2 chapters of the book, got bored, and decided to make the whole thing up from scratch. What kind of a frigging monster proudly ADMITS to deliberately perverting a respected writer's work? Does this guy have a SHRED of dignity? I might be able to forgive Verhoeven if it was merely a terrible movie. But it's not merely terrible; it's insulting to a great man's legacy.
Heinlein would have NEVER supported that trash if he'd been alive to see it. It completely mocks his politics, discards or perverts beyond recognition all of his revolutionary technological ideas, shamelessly panders to the chest-beating Rambo watchers of the US, and throws in some nudity for kicks.
The fact that this movie made more than 10-cents at the box office makes me sick. And the fact that most people who SAW it didn't even know it bore the same name as one of the best pieces of Sci-Fi ever written makes me even sicker.
Uchû no senshi (1988)
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Verhoeven's movie was utter and complete garbage. He's a disgusting hack of a director and should be ashamed. By his own admission, he read 2 chapters of the book, got bored, and decided to make the whole thing up from scratch.
Heinlein would have NEVER supported that trash if he'd been alive to see it. It basically steals the name, mocks politics of the book (which is a good portion of it), and throws in some T&A so the average idiot American moviegoer doesn't get bored.
This anime isn't perfect, but it's at least mostly accurate, as best I can tell.