The satire didn’t hit because they never showed the ‘Nazi’ soldiers actually doing anything evil.

Starship Troopers has them all running around wielding M4A1 pulse rifles from Aliens, so it’s fair game.

That comment missing satire in a thread about people not understanding satire is too subtle to be good satire.

At this point, I think it’s mostly people commenting about how 30 years ago no one knew it was satire and sitting around talking about how weird it was that no one knew it was satire.

For all of its sensational stunts and flashes of wit, however, “Last Action Hero” plays more like a bright idea than like a movie that was thought through. It doesn’t evoke the mystery of the barrier between audience and screen the way Woody Allen did, and a lot of the time it simply seems to be standing around…

Nothing in that decade or after it can be described as fascist.

Last Action Hero was not ahead of its time, it was just bad. There were over a half dozen action movie parodies released in a three year period around this movie and it was the worst one and it made the least amount of money.

I think some people hate unsubtle satire because unsubtle satire makes it very obvious it’s making fun of THEM. The people begging for nuance want someone who will soft-hand them a bit and try to see things from their point of view. But when you grow up in Nazi-occupied Holland like Verhoeven did, you ain’t got time…

Sorry, man. The book Starship Troopers was incredibly fascist. You just don’t realize you think fascism is pretty cool.

A lot of big name critics were disgusted by what they watched onscreen and thought it was serious. Some of the same people also had that response to Fight Club.

Spending 10 minutes building to a reveal when the movie had clearly explained how the portal device thing worked was certainly an interesting approach.

Go all in on VR or HoloLens type tech.

The PS4 Pro is really throwing off the game development window because the jump from Base to Pro was huge and the jump from Pro to the PS5 is... raytracing and speed. And that’s basically to be expected because it’s human beings that craft character models and environments and machines that capture those images as…

Spidey’s voice was the iconic Spider-Man voice for decades. Almost every Spider-Man voice actor does an impersonation of that voice.

Jennifer Lopez’s career is being hot, a good actress, and an exceptional dancer who can sing on key.

If someone literally came to me with tears in their eyes, I’d mention it just because it feels really sincere.

Hate to say it, but if Jennifer Lopez is the alternative, that’s one way.

This isn’t Kotaku’s fault. The song was written and performed by C+C Music Factory with Martha Wash (half of the Weather Girls, aka, “It’s Raining Men”) as uncredited vocals on that song (also a bit of irony considering this clip).

So in this one, specific instance John Cleese isn’t the asshole and Eric Idle is?

This joke is so old it’s got McCallan’s on the label. I’ll allow it.