Comments on: Three More Disappointing Geek Movies with High Potential

By: Second Cloverfield Trailer Outshines Previous Monster Movie Disappointments » Great White Snark

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:19:46 +0000

[...] a reason that Godzilla has been heralded (by me… I do love me some heralding) as one of the most disappointing geek movies. It’s no small trick to make a visual-effects extravaganza about a giant lizard laying waste [...]

By: Fatmoon

Fatmoon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:28:00 +0000

Fat girls wear sweaters. Winnie Cooper doesnt.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:08:07 +0000

I just grew up watching Boy Meets World.

And yes, she kinda let herself go. Hah.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:37:35 +0000

Topanga wins every time we’re having a who’s-the-best-spokesmodel-for-nutrisystem contest… ;)

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028730.html

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:24:09 +0000

Sorry, but Topanga wins every time.

And Starship Troopers wasn’t too bad. I loved the campy-ness of it, especially the little ads in-between scenes. No, I haven’t read the book.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:08:18 +0000

Teen Commandos Vs. The Bug Monsters certainly would have set expectations a bit better… let’s call a spade a spade.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:29:20 +0000

I have read the book and dude, it would make a boring movie. Half the book is dissertation on capital punishment. And do you really they could have afforded the special effects to have all the soldiers in body armor? The same thing goes for the capsule troopers.

I think the biggest mistake with the film was actually tying it in with the book. If it would have been called Teen Commandos Vs. The Bug Monsters a lot more people would have liked it. That way they could make Starship Troopers closer to the book and every nerd could pick that film apart.

By: Anim8or

Anim8or — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:33:59 +0000

So, I think people who liked the Starship Troopers FILM, have simply never read the book. One of the best sci-fi novels ever, and so few have read it…. things I loved about the book that made the movie horrible for me.

1. No love triangle in book (women were pilots, but there were no female characters, Dizzy is a dude, and he dies on page 8)
2. Power Armor, the entire book revolved around it how baddass is POWER ARMOR!?!
3. “Cap” Troopers = Capsule troopers, as in they are shot out of a ship encased in capsules like machine gun rounds, in their power armor.
4. Best action sequences EVER in the book, and they just don’t translate without power armor.
5. Humans were retarded in the movie, and had no idea what they were doing, in the book they were smart, bugs were just as smart.

Anyway, read the book, then tell me it was a good movie… I strongly agree with great white on that one (in fact, I think it was friday, that I said someone should make a “real” Starship Troopers movie).

By: paul

paul — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:38:06 +0000

lol I don’t know what it is about her. Her face has never seemed attractive to me. Its the same thing with Drew drew barrymore or Reese Witherspoon. I just can’t seem to dig them.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:33:00 +0000

Uh oh, Paul. You lost me after (1).