Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
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Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
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Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#2I always described it as happy hardcore.
Everyone doing it was in on the joke and played for it. At first glance it was Ken & Barbie go to Space War, but then there was sooooo much blood...
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#3I'm surprised the author never even mentions the book by Robert Heinlein. Granted the movie tells a different story than the book but they share the similarity in that on the surface they both preach of the virtues and nobility of war but upon closer inspection, we see that they're telling a different story entirely.
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#4After reading this, watch Robocop again. Same director, same critique on society.
Really adds another layer to it.
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#5It's funny the article mentions rifftrax. For their halloween special they did a live performance over night of the living dead. One of the jokes during the movie was the fact that online bloggers will never stop trying to educate the rest of the world about the brilliance of starship troopers.
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#6I'm surprised the author never even mentions the book by Robert Heinlein. Granted the movie tells a different story than the book but they share the similarity in that on the surface they both preach of the virtues and nobility of war but upon closer inspection, we see that they're telling a different story entirely.
"The screenplay, by Robocop writer Edward Neumeier, furnished the old-fashioned science-fiction framework of Robert A. Heinlein’s notoriously militaristic novel with archetypes on loan from teen soaps and young adult-fiction, undermining the self-serious saber-rattling of the source text."
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#7Pretty much on the money. Another greatly misunderstood masterpiece would be Natural Born Killers.
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#8I watched Starship Troopers a few months back. One of the thing I loved the most about the movie is those TV segment where it just broadcast propaganda and always ends with: "Do you want to know more?"
It remotely felt like when I read 1984 for some reason. Couldn't entirely tell why.
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#9I'm surprised the author never even mentions the book by Robert Heinlein. Granted the movie tells a different story than the book but they share the similarity in that on the surface they both preach of the virtues and nobility of war but upon closer inspection, we see that they're telling a different story entirely.
I only recently read the book, and I was surprised just how different from the movie it was, and better.
The book is a good read.
Re: Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
#10"Roger Ebert, who had praised the “pointed social satire” of Verhoeven’s Robocop, found the film “one-dimensional,” a trivial nothing “pitched at 11-year-old science-fiction fans.”
I was about that age when it came out. Still one of my favorite movies, sci-fi, satire and all. I think I'll sit down and watch it this weekend.