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Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies Ever
The Atlantic ^ | November 7, 2013 | Calum Marsh

Posted on 11/09/2013 1:46:38 PM PST by EveningStar

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi; starshiptroopers
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To: SES1066

It was a good series and it suffered the fate of most good shows on fox, it died.


81 posted on 11/09/2013 4:47:28 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: KarlInOhio

**Then the military tactics..**

They could have cleaned up the place with a little DDT.


82 posted on 11/09/2013 4:48:11 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Hootowl

***it cut out the extraneous crap like the fling***

With books like this I often wonder if the author is getting paid by the word.


83 posted on 11/09/2013 4:51:21 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: CrazyIvan

i admit i didnt read that book


84 posted on 11/09/2013 4:52:54 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: EveningStar

Sister Bluebird flying high above,
Shine your wings forward to the sun.
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What you don't know, I have never heard.

Starship Trooper, go sailing on by,
Catch my soul, catch the very night.
Hide the moment from my eager eyes.
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul.
What you can't see, can't be very whole.


Sorry... wrong one.

-PJ

85 posted on 11/09/2013 4:59:10 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Hootowl
the fling

so you are crying fowl in a fish story or maybe there are better fish to try but maybe the sherfs devotion to his job hunting a man eater was better than a cold fish at home

or maybe i am READING too much in to it

86 posted on 11/09/2013 5:02:09 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: EveningStar

LOL...when your beloved home planet is being taken over by giant cockroaches, you have a right, a duty, an obligation to be a “right-wing-militant”.

hahaha

And I use the term “cockroaches” as an analogy.


87 posted on 11/09/2013 5:02:44 PM PST by left that other site (.)
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To: bigheadfred

With the exception of “Jaws.” The book had a patently ridiculous ending and Spielberg improved it by leaps and bounds. The affair Hooper had with Chief Brody’s wife was.... Just stupid.


88 posted on 11/09/2013 5:07:36 PM PST by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: EEGator

vivacious!!!


89 posted on 11/09/2013 5:09:06 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: cld51860
like i doan know much but i int seen an affair that want Just stupid
90 posted on 11/09/2013 5:12:38 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: EveningStar

They made the wrong book into a movie. They should have done “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”.


91 posted on 11/09/2013 5:13:05 PM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: left that other site
And I use the term “cockroaches” as an analogy.

good thing or it would be just another day at the racists

92 posted on 11/09/2013 5:15:37 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Tom Bombadil; EveningStar

just for kicks lets say they made a movie of the obama years saving private “ryan” would it be warfare scifi drama comedy or horror


94 posted on 11/09/2013 5:20:48 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: USNBandit
Good book, but the movie sucked.
Yeah..Good book, Great Graphics/spoiled script for Movie.....

95 posted on 11/09/2013 5:21:03 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Teacher317
no mention of the third race...in the movie.

96 posted on 11/09/2013 5:23:23 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Tom Bombadil

Maybe they’ll make it someday. Sci-fi is doing rather well right now. Hunger Games, LOTR, The Hobbit, Ender’s Game, etc.


97 posted on 11/09/2013 6:02:06 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I know LOTR and Hobbit are fantasy not sci-fi.


98 posted on 11/09/2013 6:02:57 PM PST by EEGator
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To: bigheadfred
the book is always better than the movie

Jaws

99 posted on 11/09/2013 6:03:37 PM PST by verga (We used to be the land of the free. Now weÂ’re just the land of the freebie.)
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To: EEGator; null and void
I know LOTR and Hobbit are fantasy not sci-fi.

im a freud yore rite was the typical arch reply

100 posted on 11/09/2013 6:12:18 PM PST by bigheadfred
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