Hey Avatar, my movie Starship Troopers can kick your movies ass!......Go Federation! Down with the Bugs! What do you wanna do? Live Forever?
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Starship Troopers was another of these anti-military films. It was sickening to see the moral inversion of the original story. My friend who saw it with me was as gung-ho as you, but had already read the original; I was so disturbed (it was obvious that the audience was supposed to root for the bugs by the end) that I read it later and confirmed that the filmmakers had made a movie AGAINST the book, not OF the book.
I’m not even going to watch this when it’s free on cable.
The film of Starship Toopers was a satire. An action film framed as mock fascist propaganda. If you know Paul Verhoeven’s previous work (Robocop) you wouldn’t be surprised.