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https://youtu.be/1TzAxL-O43w "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
Holy shit, that movie came out 20 years ago? God, I feel old.  That was one of the first Rated R movies I can recall seeing in the theater. (I think Air Force One was the very first, a few months before.) | |||
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Filmed in Wyoming at Hell's Half Acre. PC | |||
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Can't even watch that. Worst movie adaptation ever. They should have been banished to outer space for making that travesty. -------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
That's actually pretty good. . . This is one of the all-time cheese movies, which I never took seriously from the beginning. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Of course, the movie makers paid little or no attention to the actual tactics used in the book. And of course the book makes it clear that if they had actual had the mobile armor, tanks would have been pathetic and irrelevant. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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They took a good book...an old book at that, and made a farcical movie.  | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
They've been playing it alot on TV lately. Watch it every time  The book was even on the Commandant's Reading list. | |||
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Conductor in Residence |
[In Michael Ironside's voice] They sucked his brains out. | |||
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Maybe not one of the best movies, but Dina Meyer made it enjoyable.   --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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I like the special effects. | |||
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A Grateful American |
You mean these are not the transmission of historical documents? "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Official Space Nerd |
From what I've heard, they took an existing movie, found the book, and said "Hey, let's slap THIS title on it and we can sell more tickets.". . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
It was an unrelated generic sci-fi script that was then superficially altered to include some of the names and concepts from the novel. The director even admitted that he didn't read the book, stating: "I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring." | |||
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I love the movie, but wish it were named something different, and wish a better / actual film adaptation of the book would be made. | |||
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I'm actually pretty fond of both the source material which I read rather recently and the first movie (only the first movie). I do agree they are only slightly related and there is shenanigans on the part of the director who didn't like the source material and had some issues with the military culture of it. With all the stupid reboots we get from Hollywood I'd like to see them do justice to the book. And without the Nazi parallels. | |||
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Denise Richards was in her prime in that movie too. A 90’s Richards, wow! Gary Busey’s kid was actually pretty funny in it as well. “You don’t deserve that!” What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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| Slayer of Agapanthus |
I like the Avalon Hill game, wish that I got to play it more. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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You can keep Denise Richards; I’ll take that red-headed Dina Meyer over Denise R any day of the week. And the Busey kid played “Dixie” on his electronic violin. Wonder how that would go over if re-made today? --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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I came here to pretty much post this exactly. That being said, I never understood why they didn't just nuke them from orbit. Why did they need boots on the ground? I know, I know. No story otherwise. ------------------------------ I'm a right wing, anti-illegal, pro-life, gun owning, straight, white, college educated, politically informed, conservative, Christian male. Liberals hate me. | |||
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