Starship Troopers Remake
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:21    Post subject: Starship Troopers Remake
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32603

The remake mill over at Hollywood never ceases to work!
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:23    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:36    Post subject:
I predict it will suck intergalactic balls.

Fuck this shit anyway, I'm going to listen to Klendathu Drop ramped up to 11.


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:37    Post subject:
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The main brain behind the revival is prolific producer Neal Moritz, the man behind the Fast & The Furious films and several thousand other titles.

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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:41    Post subject:
It's not like these films are even that old, ffs, the first one came out in 1997. Not 1977. This is like remaking Con Air.



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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:48    Post subject:
To be fair, the original isn't that good of a movie. It has some funny moments as that was what the director was best at - But generally it's a shit movie.
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:49    Post subject:
No. The original was excellent.
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:54    Post subject:
The original Starship Troopers is an excellent movie! 9/10 Mad

They should remake the second and third movies. Basically just make a new second and third one and simply erase the other crap.


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:55    Post subject:
PumpAction wrote:

They should remake the second and third movies. Basically just make a new second and third one and simply erase the other crap.


Now you're talking! To be honest, I'd kinda blocked the existence of the two sequels from my memory Vomit
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 22:22    Post subject:
I'm actually happy with that news,I'm actually having hopes for a good movie this time,the First was ok,but I didn't saw it's sequels,heard they are suck,but the third actually has a Cool Face ,the series justifiably needed to be Rebooted,and we need more "Men vs Space Bugs" films,there is few many of time in relation, of how popular they are.

Edit: and I hope for The Skinnies to be added.


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 22:28    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
No. The original was excellent.


No. It wasn't. It's OK at best due to the SFX at the time, and the funny commercials like he tends to do in all his films. But generally, it's a shit film.
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 22:36    Post subject:
Mchart wrote:
sabin1981 wrote:
No. The original was excellent.


No. It wasn't. It's OK at best due to the SFX at the time, and the funny commercials like he tends to do in all his films. But generally, it's a shit film.


No, it's a work of fucking genius. Only Verhoeven could have taken a well-loved sci-fi novel and made a film that satirises its source material's central philosophy. Not to mention the the eerily prophetic parallels that can be drawn between the film and last 10 years of US foreign policy. Add to that the still unmatched CGI, Basil Poledouris' bombastic score and Neil Patrick Harris in a Nazi uniform.

You're not looking hard enough.


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 22:45    Post subject:
Star Ship Troppers is a classic!

Highly doubt they will be able to recreate the magic of it. I don't really care that much about a remake though, not like we will be missing this ground breaking director/screen-writers ability in other projects Laughing


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 22:59    Post subject:
Mchart wrote:
sabin1981 wrote:
No. The original was excellent.


No. It wasn't. It's OK at best due to the SFX at the time, and the funny commercials like he tends to do in all his films. But generally, it's a shit film.


In your opinion.
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 23:57    Post subject:
The movie's 'decency' has been already stained. Take a look at the sequels. Total garbage.
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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 00:22    Post subject:
Pfff, that is like saying that matrix one is shit, just because reloaded and r.. r... fuck it, I've even forgotten the name of the 3rd piece of crap.

Starship Troopers is just perfect in everything it wanted to achieve! The only thing that they could have possibly done any better, would have been 2 hours more of all of it So Much Win


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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 00:25    Post subject:
I was quite surprised when I read the book Very Happy So damn different. Still, both very good in their own way.


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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 00:34    Post subject:
I'm on the Starship Troopers love train as well. Brilliant movie.

Time to go grab it now actually Wink
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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 00:41    Post subject:
KLoNe wrote:
I'm on the Starship Troopers love train as well. Brilliant movie.

Time to go grab it now actually Wink

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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 07:04    Post subject:
was going to post this yesterday but meh. lazy.

also i dont REALLY mind. i mean the first film WAS based on a book, and didnt follow it very closely anyway, so a remake thats more true to the source material would be a DIFFERENT movie, so that wouldnt bother me.


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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 07:19    Post subject:
I hope they make this one more according to Heinlein's book.


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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 07:49    Post subject:
I would like to hear more...
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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 08:43    Post subject:
you can always get the XXX version Starshit poopers Laughing Yeah, it really exists...
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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 10:23    Post subject:
I heard Critics about the fact that the Troops are barely using Nuclear weapons or at least not using much of Air Force Bombing,which seems to be very effective.


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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 10:50    Post subject:
Mchart wrote:
To be fair, the original isn't that good of a movie. It has some funny moments as that was what the director was best at - But generally it's a shit movie.


WHAT!!!!!!!! Its a fucking classic! the FX is brilliant, all forms of the art on show and even CGI that actually blends in!
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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 11:09    Post subject:
Original was great brimming with satire and for its day remarkable FX. Doubt that will reappear in the remake. I have not read the book however.


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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 11:23    Post subject:
PumpAction wrote:
Starship Troopers is just perfect in everything it wanted to achieve! The only thing that they could have possibly done any better, would have been 2 hours more of all of it So Much Win

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