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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
Starship Troopers is one of my all time favorite novels. It's one that I reread every year at leat once.
I saw the movie before I'd read the book, and I hated it. It was because of that experience that I refused to read what I thought was drivel.
I wish wish wish that I would have read the novel years earlier, and had never seen the movie.
I'm not one of those fortunate souls that are able to clear my mind of the book before watching the movies. Sometimes, as with LotR, and The Hunger Games, one is pleasantly surprised. Other times, as with Congo and Sahara it feels like a bout of food poisoning in my brain!
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Have you ever stopped and thought about 'why' you 'hated it'? It probably wouldn't appeal to someone who wasn't looking at it as the satirical piece that Verhoeven was aiming for when he made it. The NAZI-like society complete with both broadcast and chanted political slogans in a Scifi-comic book wrapper.
