Up there with American Psycho,Starship Troopers, and Taxi Driver as films that sketchy men with terrible media literacy love and take absolutely the wrong things from.
If there wasn't before, there will be soon. Starship Troopers is back in the zeitgeist with TV shows, video games, toy lines etc. being made about it and each of these iterations is more derivative of the verhoven critique of the blatantly fascist source material.
I just watched a trailer for Starship Troopers: Extermination the other day and it has all the trappings of the Verhoven film except, it's played sincerely and the humans win in the end and that's a good thing. There are alot of people where this is/will be the dominant Starship Troopers medium for people new to the setting, and maybe I'm being uncharitable with this part, but I assume it will also color interpretation of the film (if they ever get around to watching it.)
I definitely see people on twitter praising it without seeming to realize that it is satire, but you're right that twitter is not Real Life and shouldn't be mistaken for such.
Up there with American Psycho, Starship Troopers, and Taxi Driver as films that sketchy men with terrible media literacy love and take absolutely the wrong things from.
Reading Junji Ito Manga and deciding that climbing into your hole is for Cool Dudes.
idk if Starship Troopers has a big unironic fanbase. It's just so in-your-face with how stupid and incompetent the regime and the propaganda is.
If there wasn't before, there will be soon. Starship Troopers is back in the zeitgeist with TV shows, video games, toy lines etc. being made about it and each of these iterations is more derivative of the verhoven critique of the blatantly fascist source material.
I just watched a trailer for Starship Troopers: Extermination the other day and it has all the trappings of the Verhoven film except, it's played sincerely and the humans win in the end and that's a good thing. There are alot of people where this is/will be the dominant Starship Troopers medium for people new to the setting, and maybe I'm being uncharitable with this part, but I assume it will also color interpretation of the film (if they ever get around to watching it.)
I definitely see people on twitter praising it without seeming to realize that it is satire, but you're right that twitter is not Real Life and shouldn't be mistaken for such.