Forum - View topicINTEREST: CG Starship Troopers Anime's Ships Previewed
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
otakunomike
Posts: 39 |
|
|||
|
So I'm gonna nerd out and point out that Alesia was a city in Gaul, now France, not Eastern Europe. As disappointed as I am they're using that terrible 1997 movie for inspiration instead of the original book, it is nice to see them somewhat maintaining the naming scheme for the ships. In the book the small ships are named after famous soldiers, while the large cruisers are named after famous battles so I hope they just accidentally flipped them here.
|
||||
|
||||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
|||
|
That ship doesn't look wide enough to fit a revolving launch system.
I guess I shouldn't expect this to even hold a candle to the book. If you're not going to keep things at least a little bit faithful then why not just make a brand-new show? Name recognition aside, that is. |
||||
|
||||
Chunx
 Posts: 75 Location: Lion City High Command |
|
|||
|
Oh that 1997 film may be terrible, but it was terribly fun to watch!
|
||||
|
||||
ikillchicken
 Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
|
|||
|
The 1997 movie is, in fact, both brilliantly satirical and hilarious.
|
||||
|
||||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
|||
But it wasn't Starship Troopers. Where's the realistic depiction of military life (as much as anything fictional can be at any rate)? Where's the powered armour? Where's the infamous philosophical discussions on the nature of man? Heck, where's the quality writing? Unless the scene where the asteroid grazes the ship was a parody too... |
||||
|
||||
|
ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
|
|||
I'm not disputing that. However, the fact that it "wasn't Starship Troopers" doesn't make it a bad movie. It is in fact a great movie regardless of how faithful or unfaithful it is to the source material. |
||||
|
||||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
|||
|
Well I'm just annoyed that it was given the Starship Troopers name when it only shared superficial similarities to the book. As a satirical piece it is fine, with the fascist-invoking trenchcoats and the "Would you like to know more?" propaganda pieces. But they didn't need to latch onto the Starship Troopers name to make a satirical piece about fascism. Heinlein would roll over in his grave if he knew how badly the movie shat all over the book (and not in a satirical way, just in a "let's eff up everything that made the book great and ruin its reputation").
Now Spaceballs on the other hand, that was funny. Last edited by dtm42 on Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:59 am; edited 1 time in total |
||||
|
||||
fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1850 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
|
|||
|
If it wasn't for the movie I probably never would have read the book or Heinlein in general. Loved Robocop and Total Recall, but I never really got into Verhoeven's Starship Troopers.
|
||||
|
||||
Beltane70
 Posts: 3972 |
|
|||
|
Funny thing is that the movie supposedly didn't start out as a Starship Troopers film.
|
||||
|
||||
enurtsol
 Posts: 14888 |
|
|||
|
How many anime deviated from its source material and still turned out good?
|
||||
|
||||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
|||
Lots. Probably. Usagi Drop is a recent example and a notable one at that. But I'd be willing to bet that many more Anime are inferior to their Manga or Light Novel predecessors. |
||||
|
||||
|
Lordziba
Posts: 41 |
|
|||
|
Although, I do not want to sound like a nag, but what about the CGI Roughneck Chronicles, which I liked very much (up until the tech improved).
|
||||
|
||||
|
ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
|
|||
To be fair though, that's going to be primarily because a lot of times when anime deviates from the source material it isn't really them deviating by choice but rather, going off into filler or shit made up basically on the fly because they've run out of source material (or occasionally run out of money). If we're talking about cases where they wilfully opted to go in a different direction then I don't know that there's actually more bad than good. |
||||
|
||||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
|||
I take your point. To me, the first Fullmetal Alchemist is far better than FMA: Brotherhood, not only in the later stages of their respective stories but even in the chunk of the story the two shared. Can't believe I didn't think of that one while typing up my previous post. |
||||
|
||||
|
otakunomike
Posts: 39 |
|
|||
|
The problem with the movie, is that while it is something of a satire of war, it is absolutely horribly acted. I've tried rewatching it recenetly and I am convinced you could find an elementary school pageant group who can emote better than the actors. Plus I'm more sympathetic to the books original message anyway, but hey.
edit: aha, I got the analogy I was looking for now. The Starship Troopers movie is a lot like Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino. Il Teatrino is based on an amazing manga but is utterly unwatchable due to the fact its atrociously executed. In both cases you can almost see the good movie/series brimming under the surface trying to get out, if only the director and actors would get out of the way |
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group