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[RedKing]

Spoiler: Proper response for most YouTube comments. (click to show/hide)

[Flying Dice]

Spoiler: Proper response for most YouTube comments. (click to show/hide)

The latter. Always the latter.

[Loud Whispers]

The first. Always the first.

Except when it's the second.

I like the first with the second.

[Flying Dice]

Does it really matter if the trolls are all stupid enough to count as the latter?

[Loud Whispers]

Sounds like you've been trolled

[Flying Dice]

To clarify: If trolls are stupid enough that their trolling is entirely transparent, do they count as trolls or idiots?

[RedKing]

Maybe they're being deliberately transparent in their trolling, just to provoke the aforementioned response.

Meta-trolling.

[Flying Dice]

We need to go deeper...

[Lovechild]

Starcraft, schmarcraft. I still maintain that the first Starship Troopers movie is the only real Warhammer 40,000 movie.

[Flying Dice]

The novel was far more brutal than the movie adaption, in a somewhat different way than newer media.

[Frumple]

Starcraft, schmarcraft. I still maintain that the first Starship Troopers movie is the only real Warhammer 40,000 movie.

... there's W40k movies outside that fan one that wasn't supposed to be released but was anyway? *checks* Woah, what the hell. There is. Surprising.

[Delta Foxtrot]

I'd say the book did this part with a little bit more class. Based on that trailer it looks like they're going to go for a more faithful adaptation than what the live-action films did. I'm definitely hopeful about this project, here's hoping it won't end up like that WH40K animation that came out some time ago. It was... It could have been better.

I wonder how much (if any) Skinnie action we'll get.

[Flying Dice]

I'd say the book did this part with a little bit more class. Based on that trailer it looks like they're going to go for a more faithful adaptation than what the live-action films did. I'm definitely hopeful about this project, here's hoping it won't end up like that WH40K animation that came out some time ago. It was... It could have been better.

I wonder how much (if any) Skinnie action we'll get.

The book did everything with more class. The thing that comes to mind the most for me is when Rico is flogged for failure in a combat exercise. The book? I don't remember exactly what it was (IIRC it was a simulated training exercise, and he "detonates" a nuke rocket too close to a teammate, who in real combat would have been caught in the blast), while in the movie he has a trooper take off their helmet in the middle of the course during a live fire exercise and they get shot in the face. Yeah.

The novel was far more brutal than the movie adaption, in a somewhat different way than newer media.

... there's W40k movies outside that fan one that wasn't supposed to be released but was anyway? *checks* Woah, what the hell. There is. Surprising.

Wait, what? I was talking purely about Starship Troopers (and by extension, that the novel was as brutal in its own way as WH40K). That said, there is?! Ya learn something every day...


On the note of the Skinnies: Hell yes. They were more interesting opponents than the Bugs, in some ways (Hah, the talking bomb) and cutting that entire section of the novel about the raid on their homeworld (and later, the mention of the new alliance with them against the Bugs) really bugged me.

Another thing that really annoyed me about the movies (and, I suppose, about this new adaption) is how they completely tossed out the rather interesting weapon selection Heinlein had (flamethrowers, pocket nukes, a wide variety of bombs, etc.) for fuckin' assault rifles. At least this new thing looks like it is getting the armor closer to right.

[Aqizzar]

Another thing that really annoyed me about the movies (and, I suppose, about this new adaption) is how they completely tossed out the rather interesting weapon selection Heinlein had (flamethrowers, pocket nukes, a wide variety of bombs, etc.) for fuckin' assault rifles. At least this new thing looks like it is getting the armor closer to right.

You do have to admit, putting any number of live actors into convincing looking powered-armor suits on a movie screen in 1997 would have been quite the undertaking.  And in case you didn't notice, they did have "pocket nukes", what do you think those bazookas were?

Why an animated adaptation might skimp on such things, I have no idea.

[MrWiggles]

The bugs in the novel proper were very interesting opponent. Despite how they've been popularized, the bugs had DEW, space ships, and faster then light travel.

The skinnies, from what I got we're not on the same level of technology that the Federation are or the bugs are.

Although that talking bomb is awesome.