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   From: mvp@shell.calweb.com   
      
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   Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >D B Davis  writes:   
   >>Sometimes Hollywood takes and sometimes it gives in regards to RAH.   
   >>First it butchers _Starship Troopers_. And then it adds excessive   
   >>violence to "-All You Zombies-."   
   >   
   >The _Puppet Masters_ film was fairly close to the novel, sans nudity.   
      
   Yeah... I was fairly impressed with how much of the novel they   
   retained.  Donald Sutherland really nailed the role of "The Old   
   Man."  Its main change was that they got a handle on the slugs   
   before Schedule Suntan was necessary.   
      
   And how the heck did they get that baby chimp to act so *creepy*?   
      
   It's too bad they ran out of money and couldn't do a proper   
   alien spaceship.  (The makers of the movie published an account   
   online some time ago detailing the issues they ran into.)   
      
   The only part that ticked me off was (Yaphet Kotto?)'s character   
   being able to partially and intermittently resist the slugs.   
   The whole horror of the things was that *nobody* was immune,   
   once one of those things hooked into your brain, you couldn't   
   even *think* about *wanting* to resist.   
      
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