And certainly more fun than the movie. Nothing like dropping a nuke down a bug hole to cause a friend some discomfort.
Posted on 12/02/2014 7:02:56 AM PST by C19fan
When Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers hit theaters 16 years ago today, most American critics slammed it. In the New York Times, Janet Maslin panned the “crazed, lurid spectacle,” as featuring “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys.” Jeff Vice, in the Deseret News, called it “a nonstop splatterfest so devoid of taste and logic that it makes even the most brainless summer blockbuster look intelligent.” 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.”
But those critics had missed the point. Starship Troopers is satire, a ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism. The fact that it was and continues to be taken at face value speaks to the very vapidity the movie skewers.
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I agree, but how can anyone not like a young Denise Richards?
“Uh, we didn’t miss that. And, for the author, it’s “must have” not “must of”.”
Must of = must’ve.
The author must’ve come from the “Hooked on Phonics” era...
Apparently a very awkward scene for the actors. Filmed when weather precluded working on other scenes.
Starship Troopers: based on the back cover of a novel by R.A.Heinlein.
The reason so few saw the parody is that the original novel was what was parodied. Movie reviewers are writers, and regardless of their politics, to so unfairly use someone else’s work is unthinkable to them. They couldn’t conceive that Vorheoven would have so little respect for their craft.
Especially since the very last sentence of the book shows us the main hero was not a blond blue eyed Argentinean.
If DDT were legal the insect wars could have been over real quick.
***Invent something that stops them in one shot. ***
DDT or Chlordane works wonders.
You should see the difference between the James Bond books and the movies. It seems to me the movie makers only bought the name for the books and made their own stories to go with them.
And certainly more fun than the movie. Nothing like dropping a nuke down a bug hole to cause a friend some discomfort.
Starship Troopers (the book) has not aged quite as happily as certain other of Heinlein's novels because much of its libertarian principles have been better documented and explored since then. That is often the problem with classic literature - once the ground is broken and behind you, it is sometimes difficult to remember why it was so original at the time, and that it was so good because it was so original.
“Starship Troopers is satire, a ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism.”
One of Liberalism’s greatest successes is the propaganda that Fascism = Right Wing. They would have you believe that conservatives are Nazis.
Fixed it.
Ahhh.... had to post to this.
My tagline for years was, “Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl.”
Anybody care to post a picture of Dina Myer?
Hey Pluribus, see my post above.
Awesome! Made my request of pix before I saw this.
Sweet...but there are better, I’m sure. :-)
That's exactly how I took it. Using RAH's name was just to get the picture funded.
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