On Oct 10, 11:11 pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:26:12 -0700, "David E. Powell"
>
>  wrote:
> >On Oct 9, 1:24 pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> >> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:56:32 -0700, "David E. Powell"
>
> >> I confess I'm one of the purists. I mean, the movie robbed the book of
> >> most of its thought and intelligence -- which is pretty much par for a
> >> movie. But in the process of doing that, they lost the message, made
> >> Heinlein seem like a fascist rather than the libertarian that he was.
>
> >True, the movie was basically a parody of Fascism in a lot of ways,
> >and indoctrination. Problem was that Heinlein wasn't that.
>
> >What I would really like to see would be a properly done version of
> >"The Long Watch" as a movie. I think that story remains
very relevant
> >today.
>
> I didn't remember that story, so I looked it up in Wikipedia and it's
> in not one but two books I've read. -- What were we talking about?

A young soldier is caught in a mutiny on a moonbase which threatens to
compromise nuclear weapons capable of hitting Earth.

> --
> Josh
>
> "Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels
> missing." - Duke Ellington
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