• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    I've literally seen a few clips of the starship troopers movie and the satire is incredibly obvious. Is media literacy really that bad now?

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      4 months ago

      The movie is different from the book tho. The movie is practically a parody of a war movie that makes fun of Earth's hyper-militaristic and fascist government. The aliens are insect like and more savage and are just defending themselves against some stupid humans.

      In the book, the aliens are much more humanoid and are a rival hypermilitaristic empire that is fighting against the humans, who are also hypermilitaristic, but good, because the creator was a fascist weirdo. There is also a second faction of aliens in the books who switch sides to help the humans after their capital is bombed.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      I saw it for the first time during the Bush admin and it wasn't clear to me that it was satire. More like "I hope this is satire."

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 months ago

        That was pretty much everyone from 1997 to 2007. It wasn't until long after it's release thatpeopl generally learned it was satire. Which says pretty much everything about America in the90s because looking back it's so obvious that it's painful.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Most people do know it was satire (as you said it's really obvious) but yeah, every few days in entirely unrelated place i read some dumbass that don't get it and love it, so there must be quite a lot of them.

    • s_s@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      We just had Hulk Hogan unironically mime Idiocracy at the Republican national convention.

      Whenever you wonder, "can republicans really be this dumb?" Just expect the answer to go even lower.

      So yes, of course, Starship Troopers is about society loyally defending itself from Gutians to these people.