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"Starship Troopers TWO?!?"It was a straight-to-video release about two years ago. It starred (if you can say that anyone starred in this) our own Lieutenant Womack, Richard Burgi. Basically the studio felt they'd zipped up their collective fly a little too soon before leaving Heinlein's grave.
It was also much lower-budget than the first one, so the special effects are less special.
Or so I've heard.
I love the first one (I find it very funny) but have not managed to see the second one....
I really, really, really wouldn't bother. (Husband with inexplicable fondness for bad sci-fi.)
I saw Howl's Moving Castle last night. It was good but my top 3 Miyazaki films remain unchanged:
1.
Spirited Away
2.
Princess Mononoke
3.
My Neighbor Totoro
They made quite a few changes to the book as would be expected to make it fit in the timeframe of a movie but in some cases, it felt disjointed. Howl is very pretty.
What's the pre-buzz about FF? I have to admit -- the billboard I've seen (the one with a 4 in flames in the sky) looked like pre-teen and Photoshop. I saw the trailer before Mr & Mrs Smith -- Dr Doom looks engaging, as does Johnny Storm, but the rest of it looks kinda flat. I'm not sure what the primary conflict is going to be. With whom, sure, but not what. I'd rather the what (like in Batman Begins, where it's about reclaiming Gotham from ... some bad guys), but that might just be me. And I still think that, although a fine actor, Gruffud was a bad choice.
I remain skeptical about him as well, ita. Though I think Chickliss and Evans are perfectly cast. Months ago they were saying much of the conflict was between the Four themselves trying to deal with their new powers, rather than just a big fight with Doctor Doom . No telling if that's still the case, though.
ita, they are pimping FF on Nickelodeon A.LOT. Mostly the premise they are pushing is the one Matt stated. That's all I get from the roughly 1,000 ads I saw for it this weekend alone. We got a trailer for it when we saw RotS, and it emphasizing the same.
Blah.
I'll see it anyway, not least of all because I don't trust the trailer-makers, but blah.
That's also the impression I've been getting from the trailers, and I think it still sounds cool. It fits in with the comics I'm reading with the more modern, psychological take on superheroes.
I saw Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants yesterday and loved it quite a bit. Cried quite a bit, too. I definitely wouldn't mind if they made a second movie from the second book.