I just saw a Starship Trooper Preview. The bugs look pretty good, sorta
like preying mantises on steroids with a wild color pattern (yellow and green
in jagged stripes?) However all the troopers looked like LAPD in riot gear, no
power suits to be seen. They even landed in assault shuttles. Doesn't appear
to have a whole lot of technology connection with the novel, looks much more
like Aliens above ground and in the daylight.
--Binhan
There's been some talk about this both hear and on the newsgroup. I've heard
rumours that the power armour couldn't be modelled because they broke the bank
on the bugs, but I'm not sure I believe that. More likely that the script
writers didn't think the power armour was that useful. They've taken out most
of the politics from the book (not necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't
leave much). I've also heard that it takes place on Earth. Don't expect
anything close to a faithful adaptation. I'm going to watch it with the
attitude that they paid the Heinlein estate for the name and the bugs. Other
than that, I'm going to rate it on its own merits.
> At 06:41 PM 1/5/97 -0700, Binhan wrote:
> green in jagged stripes?) However all the troopers looked like LAPD in
> riot gear, no power suits to be seen. They even landed in assault