We need a Gone With The Wind remake.

[KeithTalent]

I would like to see Starship Troopers remade right myself, I loved that book growing up and it was such an abortion.

Was waiting for someone to finally do it with the Mobile Infantry, then a movie with no real MI.

Big let down.

Bullshit, that movie is amazing.

KT

 

[MongGrel]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one, I usually agree.

You ever read the book ?

 

[alkemyst]

OP you just want to see Anne whip out her dick and fuck wolverine in the ass, dontcha?

 

[smackababy]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one, I usually agree.

You ever read the book ?

Ban this man from the thread! Book spoilers omg!

 

[KeithTalent]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one, I usually agree.

You ever read the book ?

I never finished it. Read about a third of it when I was a kid, but it felt like some pro-war propaganda thing which I did not enjoy, so I stopped reading and never went back.

The movie on the other hand is brilliant satire. Maybe I misunderstood the book as a kid and I should re-read it?

KT

 

[alkemyst]

Here we go, the "other forum" is playing spoiler games here.

Yay!

 

[qliveur]

I never finished it. Read about a third of it when I was a kid, but it felt like some pro-war propaganda thing which I did not enjoy, so I stopped reading and never went back.

The movie on the other hand is brilliant satire. Maybe I misunderstood the book as a kid and I should re-read it?

KT

Pretty sure the book is dead-serious and not satire.

The movie rocked. I loves me some Verhoeven. :thumbsup:

Not surprised our resident elitist booknerd didn't like it.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Pretty sure the book is dead-serious and not satire.

The movie rocked. I loves me some Verhoeven. :thumbsup:

Not surprised our resident elitist booknerd didn't like it.

Loved the movie & the Book.

Movie was pure propaganda film as if Goebbels himself had made it. Fantasticly done. I saw it in the theater as a teenager. At the end of the film, when the bugs were getting blown up, people were cheering.

I learned a lot about human nature from that experience.

I learned essentially, how "good people" can be brainwashed into doing horrible/terrible things beyond belief.

Verhoeven is/was one of my very favorites.

 

[SKORPI0]

More GWTW related books were written.

Rhett Butler's People

Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind"

Upcoming Prequel, October 2014.

Ruth’s Journey
The Story of Mammy from Gone with the Wind

 

[MongGrel]

Ban this man from the thread! Book spoilers omg!

He he he good one +1

 

[MongGrel]

I never finished it. Read about a third of it when I was a kid, but it felt like some pro-war propaganda thing which I did not enjoy, so I stopped reading and never went back.

The movie on the other hand is brilliant satire. Maybe I misunderstood the book as a kid and I should re-read it?

KT

It is pro war but the Mechs in it were one of the earlier things that were cool.

More like pro Republic I'd think actually.

I wish they'd make some of the old Cordwainer Smith books into movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

There is enough material there could keep Hollywood active awhile, parts of Cloud Atlas reminded me of his and I liked that movie also myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Lost_C%27Mell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Ralpha_Boulevard

 

[MongGrel]

Pretty sure the book is dead-serious and not satire.

The movie rocked. I loves me some Verhoeven. :thumbsup:

Not surprised our resident elitist booknerd didn't like it.

I'm not elitist, just loved the book growing up and didn't care how they did the movie.

I waited years for someone to make that one and felt it was done badly was all.

 

[T9D]

Quick wiki check says that the American Film Institute puts it at top ten all time. What can possibly be gained from remaking it? Shouldn't the objective in remaking something be to do it better?

No the objective is to make money regardless of and despite anything else :awe:

 

[JManInPhoenix]

no spoilers please. i haven't seen the original.

Bruce Willis was really dead for the whole movie but didn't know it.

 

[BladeVenom]

I never finished it. Read about a third of it when I was a kid, but it felt like some pro-war propaganda thing which I did not enjoy, so I stopped reading and never went back.

The movie on the other hand is brilliant satire. Maybe I misunderstood the book as a kid and I should re-read it?

KT

Paul Verhoeven didn't read the book either. So you have a movie based on the jacket cover turned into satire.

The book had some great sci-fi ideas. Powered armor with heads up display and night vision.

 

[poofyhairguy]

 

[smackababy]

Loved the movie & the Book.

Movie was pure propaganda film as if Goebbels himself had made it. Fantasticly done. I saw it in the theater as a teenager. At the end of the film, when the bugs were getting blown up, people were cheering.

I learned a lot about human nature from that experience.

I learned essentially, how "good people" can be brainwashed into doing horrible/terrible things beyond belief.

Verhoeven is/was one of my very favorites.

The book was great and still gets a lot of criticism for being fascist and romanticizing war. I liked it, but the movie is a classic.

 

[desura]

Only if Spike Lee directed it.

I'm dead serious.

 

[smackababy]

Paul Verhoeven didn't read the book either. So you have a movie based on the jacket cover turned into satire.

The book had some great sci-fi ideas. Powered armor with heads up display and night vision.

It also had some pretty different views on society and the role of it's citizens. Conscription was still the law in the US when he wrote the book, which was heavily about a volunteer force.

 

[feralkid]

No the objective is to make money regardless of and despite anything else :awe:

Just an FYI:

"Regardless" and "despite anything else" mean the same thing.



-A public service message from the Department of Redundancy Department.




.

 

[shortylickens]

Irregardless, he used the words he should of.