OFF: Starship Troopers (was Classic Rock)

[J. Michael Looney]

At 12:05 AM 1/8/98 +0000, you wrote:
>I went to see this movie on personal recommendation only, enjoyable
>for what it was but absolute crud in any objective sense. Maybe the
>book is worthwhile, i don't know but i wouldn't even bother to watch
>it on tv, only worthwhile for seeing big spaceships on a big screen
>and impressive computer generated stuff (also Diz (?) stirred
>feelings within me). If the movie makers were trying to say anything
>other than this is a shit movie i'm afraid they failed.
>

I, as you may have noticed am a major fan of RAH.  I went to see ST, knowing
full well that it was a hack job.  What I tell my friends is this:
1) As an action adventure movie, it rocks.
2) It has great computer graphics, better that the silly things with T. Rex
3) It has nadda to to with one of the best SF books ever written, other than
the names.
4) And don't even think about the politics of the movie, it's typical 90's
hollywood, in that it is trapped in 1968, in that the military must be evil,
and a government based on voluntary service before you can vote must be Nazi
like or something.
5) Diz is hot...