Starship Troopers
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Of course, the film is very, very tongue-in-cheek.
Mediocre book. Great film. (if you 'get it')
That´s the problem. Many people either expect it to stay true to the book or just don´t plain get it.
"MEDIC!!!"
Nobody else could have said that line quite like Clancy Brown.
For the longest time I swore that the FedNet narrator was Kurtwood Smith but it isn't. It's John Cunningham (who I've seen on L&O many times).
As for the film: It was obviously a joke. I don't see how anyone could have missed that. It was so over-the-top as to be meaningless as anything other than that. Apparently Verhoeven didn't get what Heinlein was really talking about (I loved the novel).
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Oh i think he did (hard to miss the points from the book) but he chose a different way to represent it.. more of a satire than a socially critical and serious tone.
He used the same style (though not that overdone) on Robocop.. it is just his style.
I can still hear that high-pitched screaming.
Nor has Paul Verhoeven himself. At least he didn't finish it. So where does he get off adapting a book he's never even read cover-to-cover?
I bought myself this as an end-of-term present just a few months back. Every so often I would found myself thinking, "You know, I could really go for loud CGI battles, contemptuously slick propaganda, and co-ed nudity right about now." Problem solved. I think this is a movie I enjoy even more now than on first viewing; it was always evident, even as a teen, that the movie was meant to be satirical, but I appreciate it more now after having experienced the real thing, since I'm too young to remember Reagan. I can't imagine how some people thought, or indeed continue to think, that this was some kind of paean to fascism; do they think the Colbert Report is genuine too? 
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IIRC, Verhoeven was working on a sci-fi bughunt project that someone noticed was similar to Starship Troopers' theme and so elements of the book were merged with the original project.
Some of Verhoeven's work seems lost on most Americans, very satirical and pushing the envelope of good taste. He pushed horror-level violence , along with social satire, into action movies with Robo-Cop and Total Recall (which Americans, violence junkies ate up), and pushed sex with violence with Basic Instinct, another hit. But when he did a movie with lots of sex and nudity, Showgirls, it was met with hatred (though in the end it was actually anti-hedonism). When he made an action sci-fi that was propaganda satire and the heroes were fascist thugs...no one got it. He had pushed American audiences a bit past their limits, then went too far for them.
Some of Verhoeven's work seems lost on most Americans, very satirical and pushing the envelope of good taste. He pushed horror-level violence , along with social satire, into action movies with Robo-Cop and Total Recall (which Americans, violence junkies ate up), and pushed sex with violence with Basic Instinct, another hit. But when he did a movie with lots of sex and nudity, Showgirls, it was met with hatred (though in the end it was actually anti-hedonism). When he made an action sci-fi that was propaganda satire and the heroes were fascist thugs...no one got it. He had pushed American audiences a bit past their limits, then went too far for them.
Hell, even Roger Ebert missed it and he's presumably seen all the old WWII movies it was spoofing.
Do that and you get what Roughnecks: Starship Treeper Chronicles was like; my favorite to come out of the universe. The book wasn't bad though and the first movie was pretty good, but the animated series takes the prize.
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Starship Troopers is a great film.It is one of these films that I can let my inter 8 year old run out and play. It has cool ships, big guns, bad acting,a hot redhead missing some clothes, and little in the plot department. It is a great B movie.
Exactly! It was funny, non-serious, plenty of action, a little nudity, what's not to enjoy?
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