Robert A. Heinlein has not been well served by the movie industry. That's why I get worried when I hear a studio is talking about doing "Stranger In a Strange Land" or "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress".

"Moon" could make a GREAT movie, though.

Sadly, I don't think "Stranger" could...there's too much THINKING required, and I have little hope that the general American public CAN think when it comes to movies.

But if you think Starship Troopers is bad you should see Starship Troopers 3. It was so bad but we had to buy it! I loved the corniness of the first one. Never saw the 2nd one.

Whan Starship Poopers 2 was released, a number of people on this board teased me about my HAVING to see it.

It was well known here how much I despised the first one.

Ken V.

They were meant to be corny, goofy, whatever. That's what makes them great to laugh at.

In the novel, Heinlein had created a fairly free society.

When Paul Verhoeven made the movie, it was said that he wanted to play a trick on the viewers of the movie: he turned Heinlein's free society into a NAZI-like totalitarian society. He tried to get the viewer to cheer for the NAZI's.

(Verhoeven grew up in NAZI occupied Holland.)

Ken V.

Robert A. Heinlein has not been well served by the movie industry. That's why I get worried when I hear a studio is talking about doing "Stranger In a Strange Land" or "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress".

"Moon" could make a GREAT movie, though.

I gather that Tim Minear was attempting to write the screen play for "Moon."

I think he would have done a good job of it. Minear was one of the writers of the FIREFLY series.

Sadly, I don't think "Stranger" could...there's too much THINKING required, and I have little hope that the general American public CAN think when it comes to movies.

It's more a case of too much of what happens in the story, happening inside people's minds. That's nearly impossible to translate to the screen.

Ken V.

Like all movies, Starship Troopers, was "just" a movie. As such, I liked it but I liked the book better. I liked the Forever War and Armor, too.

But if you think Starship Troopers is bad you should see Starship Troopers 3. It was so bad but we had to buy it! I loved the corniness of the first one. Never saw the 2nd one.

I MUST watch this movie once a year....I get out my crackers and enjoy!!!