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Originally Posted by dave mcnasty
It doesn't seem like they were trying to honor the book (from the way people have described it). They had some pretty blatantly cheesy moments that are hard to say were unintentional (news reporter guy getting gored by a bug, or the cheesy commercials: 'we're doing our part too' with little kids stomping bugs). From what I can tell the filmmakers took the premise of humans fighting bugs and just did their own thing with it. And that would easily be lame in comparison to some brilliant book about people in the military, but for what it is, I think its pretty good (mindless, gory, alien killing action movie).
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But is that really fair. Yes for what it is, it hit the mark.
But to take the name and rights of a book, which concentrates on thought provoking ideas and morals in war, and make it into a cheesy action movie seems pretty stupid.
For example, "Catcher in the rye" is a book that most of us have probably read. How would you feel if they made it into an "American pie" style sexy teen comedy romp through the city of New York based on the premise of a kid expelled from private school.
Yes, it could be fine for what it is (Teen Comedy), but it's a slap to the face of the original book. Would it be justified?
Jul 08, 08
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