re: #197 goddamnedfrank

Starship Troopers was one of those film projects that probably shouldn’t even have been attempted before the more recent developments in CGI. 1997 was just too soon, the work on the bugs was actually pretty decent for the most part but they obviously didn’t feel ready to tackle the mechanized infantry suits as Heinlein described them. Their solution, to just have massed infantry running around in the open like idiots, was hokey as hell.

Even with modern CGI the combat aspects of the book would be boring to most people. Most of the time the MI were jumping around on patrol with a minimum of 3 kilometres distance between files. They couldn’t even see each other save as blips on a radar screen.

Pretty dull stuff.