iirc, it was supposed to be a hatchet job, an ott pisstake of the book. Except it backfired because everyone loved it, they realised the truth in it, and its still being memed hard 25 years later.
Yea and didn't do justice to the very cool cyborg-ish military equipment depicted in the book. That was one of my biggest disappointments about the film. Maybe it was partly a budget thing because those war suits would've cost a lot in CGI and material.
It was a budget issue. I've read articles that have stated that power armor wasn't included in the film because it would have made the movie too expensive to make.
iirc, it was supposed to be a hatchet job, an ott pisstake of the book. Except it backfired because everyone loved it, they realised the truth in it, and its still being memed hard 25 years later.
Heinlein wrote an idealized libertarian/liberal society. Where you can do anything as long as you're responsible for it.
Verhoven read it and said "wow, that's so fascistic" and tailored the movie as such.
Verhoeven admits that he never even finished the book because he found it "depressing."
Yea and didn't do justice to the very cool cyborg-ish military equipment depicted in the book. That was one of my biggest disappointments about the film. Maybe it was partly a budget thing because those war suits would've cost a lot in CGI and material.
It was a budget issue. I've read articles that have stated that power armor wasn't included in the film because it would have made the movie too expensive to make.