Quote Originally Posted by theGinsue View Post
The acting was horrid, the storyline blew chunks, the special effects were special education quality.
It's camp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_(style)

This is even camp coture, high camp, impressively bad, and all the better for it.

The movie and the book have little in common, but if you tried to turn the book into a movie you'd blow your budget and end up with something like Avatar, with power suits and tanks &c. Also explains why the movie doesn't have any tanks in it.

H.