Pretty sure no one noticed anything but the young Jewess Dina Meyer and Jewess (by conversion) Denise Richards.
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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If anyone missed that theme is seriously retarded.
I haven’t read it in decades but I remember it as being an interesting serious tome about war and military presence. IIRC I think one of the take-aways I have is that the book proposed voting rights only, or in heavier merit for veterans.
Yep.
The movie aims as the above author stated, as a satire, which mostly misses the mark of Robert’s book.
Heinlein’s books, read in the order in which they were authored, shows an incredible range of evolution in the themes he was trying to play with. His fiction is rife with philosophy and investigations into the corners of human interaction.
Doesn’t mean everything he wrote was pure gold, but every bit of it was interesting for what it was...
No kidding.
Agree with you wholeheartedly. While I enjoyed the movie, it was a silly satire about fascist militarism and a war with a bug planet. — It is a fun visual movie. However, it is a movie which marginalizes some great philosophical ideas the author had on the preservation and protection of freedom-loving republics and the causes of their assorted downfalls.
I finally got around to reading the book fairly recently and it is a very prescient commentary on the self destruction of the various republics and Heinlein (USNA (1907?) graduate). The political/philosophical discussions during the protagonist’s education are very thought provoking. And, there is actually very little discussion of the bug planet.
The book was great but the movie was garbage except for the hot women.
Dumb movie. Infantry using rifles to go after swarms of oversized insects. The book had them lobbing small nukes. I’d say the book’s parallel with reality was with Iwo Jima’s flamethrowers.
Worst part of the movie, while we get to see a flat Dina Meyers in the co-ed showers, we never get see an amble Denise Richards
Jewess shmooess. Hot chicks by birth.
Maybe some don’t Grok?
Mmmmmmm good cracker
That was my favorite scene....the unisex showers.
Young military men taking showers with beautiful, naked young women.
If the U.S. military allowed men to share the showers with beautiful, young female military recruits, the lines of men at recruiting stations across the country would be a mile long.
I knew for a long time that Heinlein fans HATED the movie, so I finally got around to reading it. Here comes the heresy - the movie was much more entertaining than the book. The book was endless pontification with rather mundane battle scenes and weak characters. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was a far far better Heinlein book that covered much of the same political ground.
The one thing that has always bothered me about the movie though is the absolutely sub-standard weaponry the humans carried. If you have to shoot something a few hundred times to bring it down, you very obviously need a more powerful weapon. You're in the freaking future, for godsakes! Invent something that stops them in one shot.
Did not misunderstand Paul Verhoeven took the NAME of a great book and made a bad movie.
I noticed them alright.
As a young man, even my fantasies were kosher.
I can only say that Johnny Rico
Chose the wrong girl. The movie was a huge disapointment to those who had read the book.
Still looking for the Bayer Zyklon B ad, too...
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