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Originally Posted by alansplace
Has anyone read Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (first published in November 1959) and also seen Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film, Starship Troopers? The film is almost totally unrecognizable as the same story as the book. |
The interesting thing is I've always felt that the movie was a pretty decent adaptation of the book, and always thought those that thought it was a terrible adaptation must have watched a different movie than I did
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Of course, I think I watched the movie before I'd read the book (I honestly never really developed much of a taste for Heinlein, so I'd never gotten around to reading it before that). So I think that maybe more easily let me see the adaptations they made as acceptable.