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.
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It was a good series and it suffered the fate of most good shows on fox, it died.
**Then the military tactics..**
They could have cleaned up the place with a little DDT.
***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.
i admit i didnt read that book
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
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
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.
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.
vivacious!!!
They made the wrong book into a movie. They should have done “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”.
good thing or it would be just another day at the racists
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
Maybe they’ll make it someday. Sci-fi is doing rather well right now. Hunger Games, LOTR, The Hobbit, Ender’s Game, etc.
I know LOTR and Hobbit are fantasy not sci-fi.
Jaws
im a freud yore rite was the typical arch reply
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