[TrueKnightGalahad]

The film of ‘Starship Troopers’ was a satire.

What a load of hooey! Repetition by film critics manque won't make it true; just because VerHoeven, possibly the worst director of ALL TIME (makes Ed Wood look like a genius), said it was a "satire" doesn't make it so. He self-admittedly never even got beyond a few pages in the book, fer gosh'sakes! It's a "satire" -- how? Where? What is it satirising?

[Bender2]

Re Borges: The film of ‘Starship Troopers’ was a satire.

& True: It's a "satire" -- how? Where? What is it satirising?

Fellas! Fellas! It satired... Denise Richards being smart enought to become a starship pilot.

[Borges]

Verhoeven is a brilliant natural filmmaker. (He also has a Doctorate in Mathematics btw). ST is a satire just like Robocop is a satire. If you know hiw work at all its concerned with intimations of fascism and the loss of personal identity through subversiveness to any extreme form of law and order.

This is present in Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers and his great recent Dutch film ‘Black Book’. ST is a send up of action movies and the way people respond to them. You have a bunch of indistinguishable Ayran-like goons fighting a bunch of indistinguishable giant spiders and the audience is left to rooting for human ciphers. By revealing that the whole thing was a fascist propaganda film was the sting in the tail.