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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 1307453" data-attributes="member: 1194">a) Come on.You know what a "WW2-era" description means.It means that the backdrop is about a war that is fought for Good reasons against a truly despicable foe, with a loss meaning genocide.To retort that the book happened to be published in 1959 is completely argumentative and ignoring the point.Do you disagree that Starship Troopers is a "WW2-type" book?b) I totally guessed.c) Never did.Do you guys understand that many other people are able to read a book, then see an adaptation that is DIFFERENT from the book, and still enjoy the influences on the film from the book?Many people don't require a wrote-recreation of a book (even if it WAS filmable) to make them happy with a movie.Hell, I think I could make a pretty good objective case that people who read books and don't like a movie becuase it's not exactly like the book are (at best) ineffecient and unrealistic in their expectations.Here's how:The people who like the book (most likely) are fans of the material and genre.The movie is almost always in the same genre and uses a lot of the same material/backdrop.Therefore, any person who likes the book should like the genre and material that the movie presents. That (IMO) is the majority of the way towards liking a movie.The majority of films made do NOT have material or a genre that appeals to the average person (total guess).Therefore, using the fact that a movie doesn't follow exactly by the book as reason for not liking a movie that matches the genre and material that the viewer enjoys, is inefficient and unrealistic.</blockquote>

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