I’d love a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers
For sure. The movie we got was still pretty good though. Gotta love how Verhoeven meant the movie to say one thing, but then he ended up doing the complete opposite by accident.
(some of) Verhoven's movies are so good they have to be the product of an ironic genie.
Its like he wishes to satirize some subject or genre but the genie instead makes an exemplary example of it that perfectly rides the edge where it can simultaneously be enjoyed seriously and as a send up, depending on the position of the viewer.
I don't remember anything about the movie but I do remember my Dad rocking out to the Scorpions song in the soundtrack and telling me how it was better than "todays music" because he thought it was Rolling Stones because Mick Jagger was on the VHS case.
Then I showed him it was a contemporary band and he was quiet and embarrassed.
Yeah, Jagger played the main antagonist in the movie (as the guy sent to hunt down Estevez), but I don't think any Stones music was actually in it.
Anyway, I think the book was called Immortality, Inc, and I found it to be mostly just a kind of boring love story, BUT it did feature "suicide booths" of the sort later seen in Futurama ...
While they are few and far between there is still the very occasional instance of the movie being better than the original book or media.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for example.
Forrest Gump is another. But yea, few and far between. I’d love a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers
For sure. The movie we got was still pretty good though. Gotta love how Verhoeven meant the movie to say one thing, but then he ended up doing the complete opposite by accident.
(some of) Verhoven's movies are so good they have to be the product of an ironic genie.
Its like he wishes to satirize some subject or genre but the genie instead makes an exemplary example of it that perfectly rides the edge where it can simultaneously be enjoyed seriously and as a send up, depending on the position of the viewer.
True it was good. I didn’t know it was a book till early 2000s.
I think the closest we ever got was the CGI Saturday morning cartoon version.
Also Freejack.
That's a name I've not heard in a long time
I don't remember anything about the movie but I do remember my Dad rocking out to the Scorpions song in the soundtrack and telling me how it was better than "todays music" because he thought it was Rolling Stones because Mick Jagger was on the VHS case.
Then I showed him it was a contemporary band and he was quiet and embarrassed.
Just thought I would share.
Yeah, Jagger played the main antagonist in the movie (as the guy sent to hunt down Estevez), but I don't think any Stones music was actually in it.
Anyway, I think the book was called Immortality, Inc, and I found it to be mostly just a kind of boring love story, BUT it did feature "suicide booths" of the sort later seen in Futurama ...
Lol at The Scorpions being contemporary. I'd agree with your dad today, since The Scorpions are better than today's music. ;)
listen here whippersnapper, this was in the early 90s when the movie came out and MTV didn't suck as much and the Scorps were a big deal!