re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I used to love that book, and always imagined how they would film the troopers in combat in their powered space suits. Except they didn’t…

As I’ve mentioned before a film of people bouncing around unable to see each other save on radar screens would have been rather boring.

My thoughts before the movie came out? “Don’t fuck it up. Don’t fuck it up ad infinitum.”

After I saw it? “They fucked it up.”

To me it appears Verhoeven is one of those people who thought Heinlein’s book was all about war and that war mongers are Nazis. The parallels he drew in the movie were just too blunt for me.