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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
On the "movie is better than the book" theme, ...Anyhow:
The Firm: movie FAR exceeded the book. Much better ending.
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Nope. Can't agree with you there. Book was better. Same is true for The Client. I thought the movie for The Rainmaker was better. I haven't read the others, so I don't know. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Runaway Jury with John Cusack, but only because it has Cusack in it.
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Starship Troopers: Now, this is one of those interesting "how can you compare them" problems. The book was, overall, better than the movie. The movie was radically different than the book. The movie was also one of the better thematic translations of a book to screen that I have ever seen. The book was basically a philosophical and political treatise, and the movie translated the ideas pretty well.
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I can't believe you think this. The movie completely shifted the philisophical underpinnings of the book. It did retain the obvious military service for citizenship theme, but really dropped the more interesting theme of the book that explored autonomous thought versus centralized command. In the book Starship Troopers, the war boils down to individual humans highly enhanced through technology with a great deal of autonomy fighting against an insect hoard with little independant thought and a centralized command. In the movie it was just hoard against hoard. I suppose this reflects a generational shift in thought about the influence individuals can have by themselves.
Still, it was a visually stunning movie and the use of the newsclips was clever. I enjoyed it, but I had been looking forward to the visualization of the scene in the book where a single platoon of humans subdues a planet.
