Scifi Movie you would most like to see made?

[maxpayne2409]

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Denise Richards



She looks like she could be the younger sister of Jeri Ryan, now there's a thought and the number 3 involved

hhmmm you want to...... listen to 3 doors down with them both?

[Stinky]

Just as a true WOTW would be eagerly anticipated. I would LOVE a true to the book Starship Troopers. Power armour, Skinnies, Bugs that carry guns, the international flavor. (i.e. Johnny Rico is Phillipino not blue eyed, blonde) and the development of Johnny Rico into an officer... etc etc etc.

BUT... I did the like the "would you like to know more?"'s and the propoganda messages in the current movie. But seeing as how this movie will probably not be re-made.

I'd like to see "Footfall" by Niven and Pournellle. Humans getting hammered by weapons dropped from orbit by baby elephants. Hard sf. Elements of Red Dawn, V and so many others. Heh! But as with any adapation from a book it wouldn't live up to my expectations *sigh*. Staship Troopers is what? 250 pages and they couldn't get more than 20 on the screen. I shudder at the thought of a 600 page book.

Soooo....

I second the Warhammer 40k idea. I think this actually WOULD translate to the screen well and could be accurate while being fun and shallow!

Stinky

[maxpayne2409]

starship troopers was a book???? i hated the film though thought it was real crap lol

[spudthedestroyer]

hell yes, it was a great book from the reviews I've read. Was written way back in the 50s or 60s, or something.

Mr Robocop did a great job making that film into something, I thought it criticisms of the US army and the propaganda machine were excellent. He's good at doing stuff like that, when he directed robocop is the way everything was fluffy and happy even though people were getting murdered and mutilated left, right and center. You can tell its the same directed and he loved the project as much as Robocop, just by the way the TV comercials are filmed and interleaved into the films. Really was a good film, and pruposely dumb to get its point across (and make it an easy watch)

Music is stunning too

[mw2merc]

Music was great. I love OSTs. Makes up probably 50-75% of my music collection.

[maxpayne2409]

Music was great. I love OSTs. Makes up probably 50-75% of my music collection

i love OST's too

[Stinky]

The book is probably my fav Action SF book. It's also the first literary referance to using power armour/mecha in combat. The tactics of the book are completely different than the movie. Every MI (Thus the mobile part of MI) wears a power armour and drops alone. The suits are so destructive that they are over the horizion from eachother when they fight. The training is MUCH harder and the esprit de corps among MI's is that much higher. The motto of the MI is "Everyone fights. No one gets left behind." The MI are not mixed gender units. Females are Navy. The book asserts women have better balance and reaction time so they are needed as pilots.

I still love the movie for totally different reasons. But the book is one of the greats.

[spudthedestroyer]

sounds like i really should read it then . But first, I need to read my Zombie Surival Guide.... its coming through the post any day now! I hope its just not too late...

[maxpayne2409]

Zombie Surival Guide...

where did u find it? amazon? coz i want that damn book

[mw2merc]

sounds like i really should read it then . But first, I need to read my Zombie Surival Guide.... its coming through the post any day now! I hope its just not too late...

Ooh! Sounds cool. Gotta link?

[maxpayne2409]

its on amazon.co.uk mate, i presume its on amazon.com too, its written by mel brooks son

[O.G.N.A.N.O.]

ahem.

Not to drag this topic back a week but there's actually a anime of that book (starship troopers).....

Dunno it's name though , but it does stay closer to the book in the field of combat suits ....

yeah , leave that to the japanese to pick up

[maxpayne2409]

its ok we all have time machines to go back to the week lol teh cartoon of starship troopers was on sky one once i believe, never watched it though

[mw2merc]

Anime? Do you mean the CG cartoon? It's called Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles. It's very cool. Haven't read the book, so don't know how well it sticks to it. I do know that there are powered armor suits, Skinnies (main one's on the next to last cover), and Mechs (one of them is on the first & last covers). The Mechs are similar in size to the Loader from Aliens. There's 40 episodes in the one season covering the 8 DVDs, most are ~5 episodes per campaign. My favorite part is Clancy Brown reprising the role of Zim.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Sh ... owid-7750/








Not yet released!!!



PS - The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

[Jynks]

man those cartoons blow!! Mt mate made me sit though like about 10 in a row or somthing one night... there just isn't enough beer to watch that show ma.

[maxpayne2409]

hehe i know the cartoon existed, never watched it tho due to my hatred of starship poopers (sounds like german porn that lol)

[Gorehound]

I´m DLing the "Homefront Campaign" at the moment.

Roughnecks.-.The Starship Troopers Chronicles -.The.Homefront.Campaign.ac3(5.1ch).[1of2].avi

Roughnecks.-.The Starship Troopers Chronicles -.The.Homefront.Campaign.ac3(5.1ch).[2of2].avi

Has got anyone verified links to the rest of those Roughnecksepisodes?

[ Add all 2 links to your ed2k client ]

[Purple.Nightmare]

I'd like to see "Footfall" by Niven and Pournellle.

quality book!! there are quite a few niven books i'd like transferred to film but guess a lot wouldnt work out well unfortunately

starship troopers was a book????

didn't know that either, will have 2 find now

[helenahandbasket]

Personally, I'd like to see a movie made based on the book Season of Passage by Christopher Pike. It's scifi/horror. A group of american astronauts land on Mars nearly three years after a group of russian astronauts do. The russians all had dissapeared without a trace. They find out why and it isn't pretty.

[maxpayne2409]

Personally, I'd like to see a movie made based on the book Season of Passage by Christopher Pike. It's scifi/horror. A group of american astronauts land on Mars nearly three years after a group of russian astronauts do. The russians all had dissapeared without a trace. They find out why and it isn't pretty.

sounds good, sounds like it would be a good film too

wasnt christopher pike the captain in the star trek pilot?