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Old 11-20-2016, 05:56 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington View Post
Why buy the rights to a famous book if you intend to gut it and change it to something it never was? Why not just steal the basic plot, call it a different name and keep all the profits?
I very much enjoyed the Starship Troopers film and Paul Verhoeven had artistic and philosophical reasons for the changes he made.

But I do agree with the gist of your argument. I felt the same way about what became I, Robot.
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