"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"
October 13, 2017, 07:48 PM
RogueJSK
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.)
October 13, 2017, 08:28 PM
PCWyoming
Filmed in Wyoming at Hell's Half Acre.
PC
October 13, 2017, 08:58 PM
Sig209
Can't even watch that.
Worst movie adaptation ever. They should have been banished to outer space for making that travesty.
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October 13, 2017, 11:04 PM
Hound Dog
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
October 13, 2017, 11:51 PM
zoom6zoom
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.
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October 14, 2017, 02:20 AM
corsair
They took a good book...an old book at that, and made a farcical movie.
October 14, 2017, 03:55 AM
mbinky
They've been playing it alot on TV lately. Watch it every time
The book was even on the Commandant's Reading list.
October 14, 2017, 06:55 AM
Maestro
[In Michael Ironside's voice] They sucked his brains out.
October 14, 2017, 08:16 AM
2BobTanner
Maybe not one of the best movies, but Dina Meyer made it enjoyable.
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October 14, 2017, 08:18 AM
mikeyspizza
I like the special effects.
October 14, 2017, 09:34 AM
sigmonkey
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Originally posted by corsair: They took a good book...an old book at that, and made a farcical movie.
You mean these are not the transmission of historical documents?
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October 14, 2017, 10:13 AM
Hound Dog
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.". .
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October 14, 2017, 10:34 AM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by Hound Dog: 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.". .
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."
October 14, 2017, 12:18 PM
46and2
I love the movie, but wish it were named something different, and wish a better / actual film adaptation of the book would be made.
October 14, 2017, 01:40 PM
Anubismp
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.
October 14, 2017, 02:24 PM
Prefontaine
quote:
Originally posted by 2BobTanner: Maybe not one of the best movies, but Dina Meyer made it enjoyable.
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!”
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October 14, 2017, 02:44 PM
mr kablammo
I like the Avalon Hill game, wish that I got to play it more.
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October 14, 2017, 03:44 PM
2BobTanner
quote:
Originally posted by Prefontaine:
quote:
Originally posted by 2BobTanner: Maybe not one of the best movies, but Dina Meyer made it enjoyable.
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!”
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?
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"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
October 14, 2017, 09:24 PM
KShooter
quote:
Originally posted by Anubismp: 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.
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.
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