Posted on 09/27/2012 6:46:06 AM PDT by C19fan
I recently watched Starship Troopers for the first time. It’s brilliant, isn’t it? I can’t believe I’d never seen it before. If you can set aside the laboured subtext about militarism and the whole America policing the world thing, it’s a brilliant epic about love and the indomitability of the human spirit. And they’re all pretty hot, which helps. But I had another train of thought watching this movie. It reminded me of a guilty secret, and of a violent change in attitude I’ve had toward science fiction in the past few years, and toward Star Trek in particular.
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2 - neither can staff
What an idiot writer...that is EXACTLY what Starship Troopers was about!!! Militarism and citzenship.
Read the book!
I hated it.
Even replicators had to use basic materials to create.
If I recall correctly, they still got paid credits in STNG.
Although, when you can produce anything you want just by commanding it to appear, presumably including houses, how could money really play a part in the world?
The movie is nothing like the book. Though, to be fair, the book is practically impossible to make into a movie.
What claptrap, such wimpy liberal thinking.
Picard was full of it when he said that, and Lily let him know it later on. Picard's moral superiority was a facade, and he knew it.
I thought Dr Crusher was very attractive. I like red heads and her facial expressions are very animated.
We are working through DS9, gotta love Quark. All about profit.
...except how they treat women...
The film of Starship Troopers was a satire and quite a good one.
Robocop and Total Recall are terrific SF films.
Not so much
Eh, I'd give Robocop a B- (followed by truly terrible sequels) and Total Recall a C- because of the horrible, horrible ending and the lack of true paranoia about the main character's status. IMO, there should have been three times as many scenes (or signs) that hinted he was in a dream state without saying explicitly one way or another.
Verhoeven had nothing to do with the Robocop sequels. For big budget Hollywood film making of the time they were relatively complex. Total Recall had a lot more detail of an alien society than is usual in behemoth films like that. The question is which films were better in that regard?
P.S. His 2006 film ‘Black Book’ made back in Holland (in Dutch) is one of the best WW2 films of recent years.
Vernor Vinge or Orson Scott Card smoke Azimov. Azimov was an arrogant atheist practicing liberalism throughout his book. That know-it-all didn’t really know it all. I just reread Foundation and it was a real disappointment.
I’d read it in gradeschool and it was really neato. Then I grew up and realized just how dumb and crazy psychologists are, how most experts get it wrong, and how central planning doesn’t work. Azimov was an adult, but never seemed to learn.
Great series!
I remember the episode of TNG where a crewman was addicted to the holodeck. I cracked up because, let’s be frank, if such a thing actually existed, rare would be the person who would not become addicted. Access would have to be mind bogglingly restricted and tracked.
And it exposed the main flaw in the show: to suggest that future men would be “better”. It throws out my strong belief that times change but people don’t.
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