Leave Heinlein Alone

Leave Robert Heinlein Alone. Please stop making crappy as Starship Troopers Movies. Please quit bleeding the legacy of a perfectly good novel. Please, Just Leave Robert Heinlein Alone!

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[MoondogUSA]

If you think Heinlein is actually sexist then you probably haven't read too much. His female characters are more often than not smarter, more successful, and more capable than the men.

[Oriz78]

Uh dude, Juan Rico in the novel is filipino, his ethnic language is tagalog. He's mother is not Brazilian, she was in Buenos Aires for a vacation. In addition to that, Juan's father is not American, but he probably did go to Harvard.

[calabiyou]

@rangeclerk agreed, bradbury and heinlein are my favourite from that gen. i can't get as much from azimov or clarke. i think the youtube animation 'lightglobal meltdown' may have been inspired in part by this era of scifi

[Toracube]

Agree 100%

[WilliBond0007]

By the way if U do a search for In defense of James Cameron by Steve Sailor U will find that Avatar has "Heinlein's fingerprints" all over it. Time4theStars: one identical twin must substitute at the last minute for his brother on an interstellar voyage. Starman Jones: a planet where the entire ecosystem is a single living network. N Red Planet & Between Planets: the heroes R human settlers on Mars/Venus who enlist the admirable indigenous aliens in their fight 4 independence from Earth.

[WilliBond0007]

What I find interesting is the movie is made after he died. I agree with ur analysis. Of course, it shines light onto their own depth of intellectual prowness. Let's face it, most novels by Heinlein R over theads of ur average movie producer. Take Avatar. I enjoy the beginning, but the last half is essentially so predictable. I am a Cameron fan, the Terminator, Aliens, Terminator II, haven't seen Titanic. But Hollywood most likely can't honor Heinlein's best.

[blandoworthlessness]

the music at the start and finish of the video is about 4 times as loud as your voice (what i wanted to hear in the first place) but i agree with your comments

[sammislawa]

I agree completely. But if you want to see an actually good (and surprisingly recent) sci-fi film, check out 'Moon.' (If you haven't already)

[lancsFrogger]

dude, hollywood creates stinkers. maybe in the future it won't, but at the moment pretty much everything big budget is tosh

its not personal to sci-fi, unfortunately

[rangeclerk]

You hit the nail on the head! They have done the same thing to Ray Bradbury and his stories! Ruined many good stories created and written by Heinlein and Bradbury!

[Dogmeat1950]

Starship troopers the Book was amazing. they need to do a complete remake!

[Not2Sane]

I always love how children say they were "being sarcastic" after the fact. It's such a wonderful scapegoat.

Also, I love how my original comment has gone from +2 thumbs up to 0 since our little flame war has started. I wonder who could of been behind that? Hm.... This mystery is too complex for me. I guess I am going to need to call in the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.