Gravity (no spoilers)

[Aesop]

Or how about re-doing Starship Troopers, this time with actual Mobile Infantry instead of Aliens Marines?

I'm still waiting for someone to actually do Starship Troopers, since that story is as yet unfilmed to this day.

First, set Paul Verhoeven's feet in concrete and talk him for a walk off the Santa Monica Pier. (Or, being that he's 75, just knot his shoelaces together and hide his walker.)
Second, shoot what Heinlein actually brilliantly wrote in the book, rather than bootlegging the title and a few scraps, then inserting generic anti-military, antiwar, anti-American screed, the polar opposite of where Robert H. was coming from.
Third, leave Denise Richards at home with Charlie's kids, and find someone who can sell smart-enough-to-fly-a-spaceship.
Fourth, Dale Dye as Mr. DuBois, Lee Ermey as Fleet Sgt. Ho, and Adam Baldwin as Sgt. Zim.

And being a USNA ('29) grad, even though Heinlein called his grunts Mobile Infantry, simply reading about the training, nobody would ever mistake it for not-the-Marines. However, the Keystone Klown tactics of the Space Marines of Aliens iteration should probably stay home, although they got more right with the characters than wrong in that one, and they had to kill most of them off to leave room for Sigourney Weaver.

[HTRN]

I'd pay to see a properly done Starship Troopers.. Watching MI suits bound over the landscape, firing micronukes at the bugs...

[mekender]

There were a few things I found implausible:

Your #3 is supposed to be because of angular momentum. Thrown by spin as it were.

[spoiler]The second part of #3 is also physics.

First of all, the elasticity of the tether would matter. I expect that the elasticity of a tether used in space is probably much closer to that of a cargo strap than a bungee cord.

Secondly the object on the end of the tether would matter as well. Human bodies are not static objects, they move and energy is distributed throughout. We also have a tendency for our muscles to mitigate some of that energy by resisting it.

There are several other factors that would be involved as well, I have not actually seen the movie yet so I am speculating and visualizing in my head.[/spoiler]

[Dinochrome]

Or how about re-doing Starship Troopers, this time with actual Mobile Infantry instead of Aliens Marines?

I'm still waiting for someone to actually do Starship Troopers, since that story is as yet unfilmed to this day.

First, set Paul Verhoeven's feet in concrete and talk him for a walk off the Santa Monica Pier. (Or, being that he's 75, just knot his shoelaces together and hide his walker.)
Second, shoot what Heinlein actually brilliantly wrote in the book, rather than bootlegging the title and a few scraps, then inserting generic anti-military, antiwar, anti-American screed, the polar opposite of where Robert H. was coming from.
Third, leave Denise Richards at home with Charlie's kids, and find someone who can sell smart-enough-to-fly-a-spaceship.
Fourth, Dale Dye as Mr. DuBois, Lee Ermey as Fleet Sgt. Ho, and Adam Baldwin as Sgt. Zim.

And being a USNA ('29) grad, even though Heinlein called his grunts Mobile Infantry, simply reading about the training, nobody would ever mistake it for not-the-Marines. However, the Keystone Klown tactics of the Space Marines of Aliens iteration should probably stay home, although they got more right with the characters than wrong in that one, and they had to kill most of them off to leave room for Sigourney Weaver.

Also, it would be appropriate to cast a Philippino star as Johnny Rico. His native tongue is Tagalog and he was recruited in Manila. Buenos Aires was the city where his mother was living when the Bugs destroyed it.