Recently I took an avid interest in Heinlein's work (and lack of availibility in my country).
It still suprises me how he was blamed with every single existing political label.
(Quite ironic, when compared to the fact, how revolutionary and modern his books were at the time).
It's also disquiteing how fast people seem to forget that he personally made SCI-FI into form of art and serious intellectual experiments, that he laid the foundations of worldbuilding (in written fiction).
Never the less what sparked my interest (and bandwith usage) ferverish was the following homepage:
http://www.trooperpx.com/Never mind 99% of the page deals with the SST movie, some of you seem to love (smg. I outgrew quite fast, once the novelty wore off).
Verhoven's film is good, on its own - violent, propaganda satire of the semi facist nationalism.
However it's light years away from an accurate rendition of Heinlein's book.
The following film though is not:
Starhip Troopers - Uchu no Senshi ("Space Soldier/Warrior")
A 6 episode OVA anime made in 1988.
http://www.trooperpx.com/AFS/AFS01.html - was the link that brought my attention to it.
More (mostly production) info:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4136It's meant to be the best damn heavy metal action as it was meant to be.
Discuss.
