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10 Responses to “ Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Starship Troopers ”

1. Metz77
   March 21st, 2009 at 10:02 pm
   

   Psychich? :P

2. Scott
   March 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 am
   Official Comment

   Oops

3. Adam Friedlander
   March 22nd, 2009 at 11:18 am
   

   Heinlein did have psi powers (telepathy, telekinesis, maybe others) in a few of his stories, most famously Stranger…now you’ve got me trying to remember if there was ever a psychic nosebleed.

   But yeah, adaptations of Heinlein’s stories have ranged from mediocre to awful. Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters, and the recent TV version of Jerry Was a Man…lousy all around.

4. Metz77
   March 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
   

   Starship Troopers is an excellent film if you don’t think of it as an adaptation of the Heinlein novel. The director basically inverted all of the novel’s themes because he hated it.

5. Randallw
   March 22nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
   

   Actually he was making a movie when someone mentioned the resemblance to Starship Troopers, so they tacked the name on. The director tried to read the book but supposedly gave up after a few pages. It’s not an adaption when the director is too lazy to even read it.

6. Dr Archeville
   March 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 pm
   

   The CGI STARSHIP TROOPER series (ROUGHNECKS) was based largley on the flick, but included a lot more elements from the novel (like the Skinnies and drop pods and actual powered armor). I enjoyed it.

   I also enjoyed the movie, though that’s largely because I think both Dina Meyer and Denise Richards are ridiculously hot. The presence of Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, and Michael Ironside also helped.

7. D4
   March 23rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
   

   On a related note, let me note that I’m amused that a recent movie all about psychic powers (Push) didn’t really have any of the standard psychic nosebleeding. There were nosebleeds (and earbleeds, etc.) , but they were associated more with extensive damage being done to the body, not telepathy.

8. Sean Duggan
   March 23rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
   

   As a satire of wartime propaganda, the Veerhoeven movie was excellent. As an adaptation of Heinlein and as a representation of military tactics and equipment… yeah. I liked it though. I don’t expect to see a realistic depiction of military tactics from Hollywood anymore than I expect a realistic depiction of childbirth, music, or religion.

9. Randallw
   March 23rd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
   

   Bit of information. Here in Australia we had a party called One Nation (and it didn’t mean multiple cultures living together as One Nation). After the movie was out they had ads like this. I exagerate a bit, though not much.

   Foreign boatpeople are flooding into our country. One Nation is working to keep them out

   Would you like to know more? Yes/No

   Our decent society is being tainted by un-Australian values and foreign beliefs. One Nation is fighting for a decent Australia.

   Would you like to know more? Yes/No

   I mean there’s ignorance stupid, and then there’s stealing propoganda techniques from a satire stupid.

10. Red October
    March 26th, 2009 at 1:30 am
    

    Ah, someone else who’s read By His Bootstraps! (Though I must say I’ve read a great deal of Heinlein’s novels and I loved most of those that I read, with favorites being Friday, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Time Enough For Love, and The Door Into Summer.

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