# Starship Troopers: stupid or brilliant?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-troopers-stupid-or-brilliant/161386>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 14, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-troopers-stupid-or-brilliant/161386 "2003-03-14T17:14:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gumbercules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gumbercules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gumbercules)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-troopers-stupid-or-brilliant/161386/121 "2003-03-31T19:17:55Z")

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C’mon, how can any movie with Dina Meyers’ boobies be bad?

Did anyone else notice the uncanny resemblance between this movie and Quake II?

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-troopers-stupid-or-brilliant/161386/122 "2003-03-31T19:25:12Z")

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> This is kind of funny, because THe Sound of Music was ‘based’ on a true story, but the filmmakers went so far astray from reality in bringing their own insulated, sugar-coated artificiality to the screen that the final product resembles its source even LESS than does Verhoeven’s reworking of the elements of ST.
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> NOT a good example, Cal.

The filmmakers were copying another grossly changed film, which itself was a bad adaptation of reality.  
My point is not how far things are from the original, but how far you can get from expectations.

In fact, my example is excellent, if you want to show how grossly things can be changed from their original sources. But even the real Maria wasn’t a crypto-Nazi.

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**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-troopers-stupid-or-brilliant/161386/123 "2003-03-31T19:32:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \*  
> \*\*I’d imagine RikWriter is pretty much a closed-minded lost cause \*\*

Funny, I of course think the same about you. Only I am intelligent enough to appreciate the irony, whereas you…

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