• ButtBidet [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Wait, I thought that the original Starship Troopers was anti imperialist???

      • ButtBidet [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Ohhh! Damn I would never survive a sci-fi struggle session.

        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          That's what's so bizarre about the contemporary Starship Troopers content, is it's a fascist's re-imagining of an anti-fascist's re-imagining of a fascist's setting.

          Real simulacra hours, who up?

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The Japanese CGI movie was a blue curtain extravaganza. :pathetic:

      • Beaver [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Verhoven’s film is unironically better than the book, both as a piece of entertainment, and for having a better message.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In the book it opens with them doing space colonialism with the space South Vietnamese aliens, in their cool robot suits that can shoot out nukes like they're passing out Halloween candy. Very :so-true:

      Verhoeven found the book so depressing he literally threw it in the trash and decided to direct it as a satire of the source material