More to the point, Hollywood simplifies the plot until the admen backing the movie (stupid and infantile morons they are) can understand it.

That is why Starship-Troopers sucked.  None of them understood the basis of the plot.  Starship Trroper Chronicles were  100% better and computer animated,too.  ANy knid of science fiction that gets reamed through the blind lens of Hollywood almost always sucks.  Only rarely do people show that good movies make money when it comes to movies out of the main-stream.  Mostly action-adventure movies with explosions, robots, or scantily clad girls that claim to be science fiction make money.

Most good Scifi movies like Bladerunner, Gattaca, 2001: A Space Oddessy and others of similiar ilk get pushed onto the back burners and covered by the studios in favor of commercial successes that miss the mark from a dramatic stand point.

That is the 'why' of Hollywood stripping what makes a good story GOOD out of almost every novel to movie production ever done.  This is being rethought after the staggering success of the Harry Potter novels being translated into movies that capture the feel of the books.

I'm not much on fantasy stories, but in twenty or thiry years I would NOT be surprised to see remakes of all the Harry Potter movies by people convinced they can do it better.

AND so it goes in moviedom. :laugh:

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