Personally I love the podcast tangents. It’s because of the GWC Crew that I decided I had to give Firefly a try and now I’m sad I missed the chance to support it.
I’m a leaf on the wind…
There is still a chance <Wagging fingers hypnotically> join us. join the browncoats. there are many podcasts and buy the latest Serenity collectors edition… join us…
To be fair, neither have I. I just remember thinking it was awful and wanting to get up and walk out.
As to where Luciana Carro, the actress who Audra asked about, she is not a New Yorker but is from the GTA…that is to say, Toronto.
And eventually…I might actually finally finish #65…it’s been a crazy week!
I don’t understand why Starship Troopers is apparently such a bad movie . . . it was alright, a solid action film, why all the hate?
Kat looks and sounds like she is from the Bronx . . . I think that’s what Audra was talking about.
I take it that you never read the book… 
If the director had named the movie “Bug Squashers”, I would think of it as just a silly, brain-dead, and slightly forgetable action movie with nice special effects. Something that would be fun to watch on an MST3K night. Mind you I would still have to shift my suspention of disbelief into the next state to keep from saying “Awww, come on!” every five minutes.
But what the director did was take a great Sci.FI. novel, keep the title and the name of the lead character and change everything else. Turning the characters from smart professionals into idiot clowns didn’t help any either.
To put it another way, a few years ago, on another message board far, far away, someone said that they had just read the book, and they were confused because it was like the writer hadn’t even watched the movie before writing the novellization. Someone else quickly explained which came first.
No I haven’t read the book at all . . . people make that mistake a lot and it’s annoying, because novelizations are generally rubbish. . . anyway I thought the film was ok . . . I can understand why people are annoyed that it’s not the same as the book . . .
a lot of paul verhoevens movies are kind of like starship troopers in that they are sensationalized action based and media driven shallow stories . . . disbelief needs to be suspended whenever you watch any of his films, including robocop.
The main problem most people have with the movie is that it is in many ways completely antithetical to the theme of the book. Making a movie based on a book and then producing something completely opposite to the theme of that book is not a good way to get fans of that book to like your movie. (And, yes, I have heard the argument that the theme of the book and the theme of the movie are the same and I’m just too stupid to realize it. No it isn’t.)
The only problem I have with the movie is that it claimed to be an adaptation of the book Starship Troopers. ATGreat is right; if he had called it A Planet Too Far or All Quiet on the Aldebaran Front I don’t think that anywhere near as many people would have had as many problems with the movie as they did. For the record I didn’t think it was that bad of a skiffy action flick, I just couldn’t get over the fact that it was destroying a book that I had quite enjoyed.
Whoops. I posted under the wrong episode! Sorry.
I quite agree. And it is a disturbing trend. E.g., there’s going to be a ‘remake’ of Killer soon. But it’s not a remake, it’s an adaptation of the story to a settin where the geography is more important than it was in the original.
OK, fair enough. But at that point, you’re making a different movie. Why tie yourself to the original?
Answer, b/c the original has name recognition, and all those people who care have just given you buzz. Game, set, match.
Bastards.
I think I get it . . . I saw they are doing “I am Legend” into a movie and it is starring Will Smith . . . so I understand your hatred now.
I posted this on the Frakk party; should have posted it here. Still getting used to the Forum format. Apologies for the redundancy. Anyhow, regaring the podcast…
Chuck, nice “Hot Dog: The Movie” reference: “… not on zis side, und not on zis side, but in ze middle!” It’s arguably the ultimate 80s sex comedy, right up there with Hardbodies and Bachelor Party (if you choose to include it in the genre).
And I can’t think up a clever way to reference the Clerks cartoon’s Last Starfighter bit, so I’ll simply acknowledge it.
And Audra, don’t sweat all the haters. When you deal in volume, you’re bound to make a couple mistakes. I don’t know anybody who bats a perfect 1.000.
Re: Gazoo, Does anyone have any parallels/connections between the Great Gazoo and Head Six? Is Head Six merely Head Six, or is she a Gazoo/Gazoo-like figure?
pps. BSG = addictive. GWC = addictive like crack. GWC Forum = addictive like space crack.
No one ever, and I mean ever, gets that. No one. You rock, my friend. You indeed rock.