Starship Troopers Music Question.

[Lhorgrim]

When I heard it and saw the trailer I was blown away.......then the movie releases and, being a fan of the book, I was severely disappointed. I think I was looking for the Power Armor and the orbital drops mainly.

I agree wholeheartedly.

I was hoping for Power Armor and Skinnies. Just the first combat from the book would have made an opening movie sequence that would have left jaws on the floor.

 

[Joker]

The following is just a theorie of mine, I have no proof whatsoever to support my views.

I don't think there is a big audiance for hard-core military sci-fi which delves into such matters as "control" "freedom" "human nature."

That said, I too would like to see a movie based on the book. One that follows it closely.

 

[Darthjaye]

Someone needs to do a animated version of this with some serious CG maybe.

 

[kitoy]

Someone needs to do a animated version of this with some serious CG maybe.

There was an animated version of Starship Troopers that used the designs from the movie and followed the book better than the movie. Yes, it had skinnies, one was a member of the squad. If I remember correctly, they even had the powered armor towards the end of the series. I watched it religiously when it came out 6 or 7 years ago.

It was called Roughnecks. There's a copy of the entire series at my local MovieStop, I just haven't got around to buying it yet.

 

[Lhorgrim]

There was an animated version of Starship Troopers that used the designs from the movie and followed the book better than the movie. Yes, it had skinnies, one was a member of the squad. If I remember correctly, they even had the powered armor towards the end of the series. I watched it religiously when it came out 6 or 7 years ago.

It was called Roughnecks. There's a copy of the entire series at my local MovieStop, I just haven't got around to buying it yet.

I used to watch that on Saturday mornings when I was on third shift. I would make sure I got to roll call 30 minutes before end of shift so I could catch it. I thought it was pretty cool. It was heavily CG as I recall, but I thought it worked for the series. The problem with a TV animated show as opposed to an animated movie is the volence. Starship Troopers needs the violence because that's integral to the story. On TV (not cable) the best you can get is "A-Team" violence. Hundreds of rounds fired, but no actual casualties. Cap troopers have to get killed, or it won't BE Starship Troopers in my mind.

 

[kitoy]

The problem with a TV animated show as opposed to an animated movie is the volence. Starship Troopers needs the violence because that's integral to the story. On TV (not cable) the best you can get is "A-Team" violence. Hundreds of rounds fired, but no actual casualties. Cap troopers have to get killed, or it won't BE Starship Troopers in my mind.

I may be mistaken, but I think one of the things I really liked about the series was the amount of violence in it. That was the beauty of having bugs as the primary villains, you could blow them away with impunity. Also, I distinctly recall members of the troop dying on a semi-regular basis. That's how Razak's Roughnecks became Rico's Roughnecks, right? I may be remembering incorrectly. Maybe I should go buy those dvd's!

 

[Moonstone Spider]

I may be mistaken, but I think one of the things I really liked about the series was the amount of violence in it. That was the beauty of having bugs as the primary villains, you could blow them away with impunity. Also, I distinctly recall members of the troop dying on a semi-regular basis. That's how Razak's Roughnecks became Rico's Roughnecks, right? I may be remembering incorrectly. Maybe I should go buy those dvd's!

Indeed. Razak bought it, although they had him drawn underwater in the attack to hide the actual death. Karl lost his mind, the one pilot dude was infected by bugs and turned into a monster, and I recall at least one point where they came across a huge pile of helmets with holes bored in them in the middle of a bug city.

Deaths weren't totally regular but the show managed a heck of a lot of violence for a cartoon.

 

[Lhorgrim]

Indeed. Razak bought it, although they had him drawn underwater in the attack to hide the actual death. Karl lost his mind, the one pilot dude was infected by bugs and turned into a monster, and I recall at least one point where they came across a huge pile of helmets with holes bored in them in the middle of a bug city.

Deaths weren't totally regular but the show managed a heck of a lot of violence for a cartoon.

I remember some of the cap troopers buying the farm off camera in the "Roughnecks" series, but I was thinking of a movie based on the "Starship Troopers" book. I guess I should have started a new paragraph and made it clear that I was talking about the proposed movie mentioned in Darthjaye's post. "Roughnecks" did a pretty good job with the violence. I remember bugs getting vaporized by bombs and cut down by sentry guns.

An animated version of the book would have to deal with Dizzy Flores dying in the first episode/act, not to mention the skinnies that get burned down with flamers. Heck, if I remember correctly, Rico's first unit takes so many casualties that he has to be reassigned to the Roughnecks after his first drop. The book goes out of the way to point out how deadly service in the MI can be.

Further off topic, I saw the Starship Troopers miniature game demo at GenCon last year and was blown away. If I had anybody to play with around here I would so own that game. The Demo was the "Alamo" type scenario from planet P in the movie. The MI was set up in a communications outpost, and the bugs were...everywhere else. It was something to see on the table top.