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**down_under** · 27-05-2008, 23:48

Originally Posted by TheCheerfulSubbie

Starship Troopers 2...???

There's a ST2?

**TheCheerfulSubbie** · 27-05-2008, 23:56

Originally Posted by down_under

Originally Posted by TheCheerfulSubbie

Starship Troopers 2...???

There's a ST2?

Sadly so. It was awful though: Starship Troopers 2 at IMB.com

Best off waiting untill ST 3 comes out. :D

**tonto108** · 28-05-2008, 14:12

Considering when the book was writen, it was the insperation for a few films before the original ST, Full Metal Jacket springs to mind.
as for Heinlan being a sex obsessed facist, he was in the US Navy in the 1930's. say no more you know what jack is like.

**Ritch** · 28-05-2008, 14:17

I love the scene when the drill Sgt. (his name abandons me) throws the knife at the squaddies hand, turns round and casually yells, "MEDIC!"

**Trans-sane** · 28-05-2008, 14:26

Sgt. Zim. He is far better characterised in the book. In the book he also ends up as Ricco's platoon sgt in his first platoon. This is at the time he is also wearing the CSM hat as well. Only work of fiction I can think of where undermanning was discussed in a similar way to real life.

**devexwarrior** · 28-05-2008, 14:27

The configuration of the weapons in the movie look oddly familiar. Perhaps by version A34 they will have found an export customer

**suits_U** · 28-05-2008, 14:50

A2's in 'the stan' look more like that almost everyday :D

**Doc1701** · 28-05-2008, 15:51

Originally Posted by Dwarf

Crap film, book fun but written by a sex-obsessed fascist.
Makes a good point that if you don't give to society you shouldn't have a say in how it is run.
Seems reasonable to me as a proposition. Cut out all the chavs and wasters voting on maintaining their benefits for doing nowt, and a government shite-scared of alienating them.

Here's an idea for you: If you live off the state, you don't get a vote.

Comments?

**Civi_Git** · 28-05-2008, 16:10

Originally Posted by Doc1701

Originally Posted by Dwarf

Crap film, book fun but written by a sex-obsessed fascist.
Makes a good point that if you don't give to society you shouldn't have a say in how it is run.
Seems reasonable to me as a proposition. Cut out all the chavs and wasters voting on maintaining their benefits for doing nowt, and a government shite-scared of alienating them.

Here's an idea for you: If you live off the state, you don't get a vote.

Comments?

Meritocracies have thier , erm , mertis...

**OldAdam** · 28-05-2008, 17:43

Originally Posted by Doc1701

Originally Posted by Dwarf

Crap film, book fun but written by a sex-obsessed fascist.
Makes a good point that if you don't give to society you shouldn't have a say in how it is run.
Seems reasonable to me as a proposition. Cut out all the chavs and wasters voting on maintaining their benefits for doing nowt, and a government shite-scared of alienating them.

Here's an idea for you: If you live off the state, you don't get a vote.

Comments?

I’ll go with that. I’ve been keen on that idea for years, ever since I read the book in 1967-ish. There were half a dozen copies floating about the Battalion and they were read by just about everyone, to the point where they fell to bits and were held together by sellotape. If you are a soldier the book is worth reading simply for way it examines why we fight, even though the book has an American orientation.

The idea that Heinlein was a fascist is still maintained by the whinging left because the idea of qualified voting effectively cuts them off from their vote base, amongst the witless illiterati and the whining wasters.

If that view makes me a fascist, fine, I can live with that

The films are simply crap!