From: grendel@doubleaught.com (Greg) Newsgroups: alt.games.marathon Subject: Re: Starship Troopers Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:22:53 -0500 Organization: Double Aught Lines: 47 Message-ID: <grendel-1311971022530001@192.168.1.2> NNTP-Posting-Host: gregk.dialup.access.net Xref: lamont.ldeo.columbia.edu alt.games.marathon:43633 On the topic of starship trooper: <grin> i got it from a reliable source that aaron spelling was in charge of the casting for the movie, and that the bugs were the best actors in the film. yet another vacuous (albeit reasonably "fun") science fiction movie with the word "science" used liberally. More like Carnage Fiction or Bug Fiction. Yet, i'm mistaken. Science is good at understanding explosions. How about Explosion Fiction Expansion Fiction Exothermic Reaction Fiction Nuclear Decomposition Fiction Super-Cool-Gun Fiction Death Fiction Zap Fiction Let-the-masses-spend-their-money-on-crap fiction If you remove all these kinds of science fiction from movies, i think we have a few good standouts: The Day the Earth Stood Still (is this the correct title?) Blade Runner Brazil (sorta) Alien (horror-space fiction) Star Wars (Epic-Western-AkiraKurosawaRipoff-Airplane-guns Fiction) Barbarella Warriors of the 21st Century Yor Hunter From the Future Zardoz (i am aurthur Frain.. iam the puppet master..) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (old version) Here are my list of "bad" sci-fi movies: WaterWorld Alien2,3,4 (it's going to be bad, see previous post) (brain dead.. not remembering.. seems like something from a dream) <insert any unoriginal or sciencefictionally vacant science fiction film> <please note that these movies can still be "fun"> later greg |