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Good book, but the movie sucked.
According to Heinlein, his desire to write Starship Troopers was sparked by the publication of a newspaper advertisement placed by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy on April 5, 1958 calling for a unilateral suspension of nuclear weapon testing by the United States. In response, Robert and Virginia Heinlein created the small "Patrick Henry League" in an attempt to create support for the U.S. nuclear testing program. Heinlein found himself under attack both from within and outside the science fiction community for his views. Heinlein used the novel to clarify and defend his military and political views at the time."
Some people grok...
Some can’t...
The wife and I went to the RiffTrax Live showing this pretentious clown mentioned in his screed. It was absolutely hilarious and rightly skewered the movie. Even most of the film’s stars went to see it and loved it. There were no protests about the RiffTrax crew not “getting it.”
One of the greatests minds EVER. Here are a few of my favorite thoughts of his. They help me out a LOT when the world is depressing me:
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
“Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
AMEN, Brother! AMEN!
Not that I didn’t appreciate Dina Meyer’s boobs as much as any other red-blooded American boy, but the book was better and smarter. Speaking of which, as far as Verhoeven’s work goes, “Robocop” was better and smarter.
On the other hand, Neil Patrick Harris in that uniform...how’s it that it took me ten years after that flick came out, about the time Neil came out, to hear the nickname “Doogie Himmler”?
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The movie is an abomination. The director admitted that he despised the philosophy espoused in the original book by Heinlein.
>> right-wing militarism
Leftwing agitprop covering the increasing statism we’re seeing under this Marxist regime.
Eat it, Calum Marsh.
IF that’s what the movie was all about, it completely diverged from the society of personal responsibility envisioned by Heinlein.
Always fascinates me to see journalists that do absolutely no homework on what they’re writing about. The book is a 3 hr read max; at least read the book an do some bio reading about Heinlein, idiot.
Calum Marsh? Perhaps short for calumny
A movie I did not want to watch again.
Actually, it was pretty obvious the movie was a satire, at least to anyone who actually read the Heinlein book.
Oh, and the movie stank on ice.
Military is military. There was no difference between the Soviet Military and the Ole US Military. One was left. One was right. If anything, the movie is making fun of totalitarianism. But those of us with any wisdom, expect juvenile subtleties in anything Hollywood produces. We just ignore it or laugh at it. Squash them bugs !
I suspect that Mr. March smokes mucho potto before viewing a movie.
Mr. Marsh did not read the book and obviously did not read other fantastic Sci-Fi novels by Heinlein. The movie was a shadow.