>>213972275
>Verhoeven kino is miles better than the book.
The book is awesome though, although not Heinlein's best. But the parts in Starship Troopers about the failed Klendethu attack were amazing, and the training and organization of the Federation and Mobile Infantry in the book were fantastically depicted. I liked the flick but it was retarded standard foot infantry were "mobile infantry" and the training and organization of everything was mediocre. Good flick for entetainment and ra ra action but saying it's better than the book is just asinine.
>>213972661
>Same with with LotR, with the exceptions of the ghosts. That was retarded.
The ghost army was not remotely the problem with Hackson's flicks. I'm glad you brought this up, as it is extremely pertinent to the thread: the march of the ghost army in the book allowed Aragorn to cause fear in the Southron army which caused enough defections and fleeing to let Prince Imrahil sally out from his besieged cities and defeat them, then rally to the defense of Minas Tirith. To depict this in a film would require introducing those cities, Imrahil, and other things that take time, when Return of the King already had bad pacing issues because of Hackson's shit decisions on the layout of the second half of The Two Towers. Since the basic plot point of Aragorn's arc and the ghost army, was Aragorn rallying them as the legitimate heir to the King of Gondor, and using their presence to assist in the war effort. This is what was done in the film, in the simplistic way of his ghost army relieving the battle at Minas Tirith. Anyone who thinks the ghost army in the films was "retarded" is one themselves; Hackson's films have plenty of things to critique, but that isn't one.
