OFF: Starship Troopers (was Classic Rock)

[M Holmes]

J. Michael Looney writes:

> <major snippage>
>
> Any body that claims to say any thing about what the makers of the movie
> were trying to say, who has not read Heinlein's book "Starship Troopers"
> (from which the movie was based on, baddly I might add) is, to be blunt,
> missing the whole point, and is most likly wrong about one or more points.
>
> 1) The politics, at least in the book IS the point of the book.
> 2) The Makers of the movie didn't like Heinlein's views, so they made it,
> well, almost evil.  If you have not read the book, you WILL get the wrong
> idea about the concepts the R.A.H was trying to get across.

So if they wanted to make a rebuttal of Heinlein's book, surely the
obvious film to make would have been The Forever War?

FoFP