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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday!
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:19:37 -0700
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On 10/22/2024 2:27 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 10/22/2024 7:30 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 10/22/2024 2:54 AM, Xocyll wrote:
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
>>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>> say:
>>>
>>>> On 10/21/2024 1:11 PM, Ant wrote:
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> Snip
> 
>>>>> Ah. Someone needs to reboot Starship Troopers movies. Maybe a TV 
>>>>> series instead?
>>>>
>>>> There was an animated series (have the DVDs) and a series of animated
>>>> movies in addition to the two sequels to Verhoeven's movie.
>>>
>>> Four Sequels.
>>>
>> Oh for fornication's sake.  I've seen 2 and 3, when did 4 and 5 come out?
>>
> 
> I don't think I've even seen 2 or 3.  I was a big fan of the book, I 
> enjoyed the movie, but not so much to watch any of the others (I think) 
> are they any good?
> 
2 and 3 are crap, even for direct to video.  The director of #2 was the 
writer of #1 who played the criminal that got executed in it.  #3 IIRC 
was the second DP of one of the prior ones.  #3 was one of those "We'll 
just film it in complete darkness so no one will see that we didn't even 
have change dug up from the couch to finance it".

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.