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   From: davidjohnston29@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2019-07-24 6:41 p.m., J. Clarke wrote:   
   > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:17:30 GMT, mvp@shell.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > The thing that bothered me about it was that it totally lacked the   
   > ambiance.  Heinlein placed it in a spacefaring culture with nuclear   
   > energy commonplace (remember the General Atomics house core?) and   
   > heavy aircar traffic.   
   >   
      
   I'm not sure the hokey 1950s future would have made it a more effective   
   horror movie.   
      
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