I wish I’d gone to see it with you. That was my experience too, but the guy I was living with at the time *really* didn’t get it. And LOVED the movie. He bought the video cassette, the soundtrack and was unbearably fan-ish about it without for a moment understanding what it was about.

Understandable, I still have a HUGE crush on her.

Heil Howser!

The initial critical response to Starship Troopers (and some other Verhoeven movies I could name) is really telling, and what it tells us is: a lot of professional film critics are dumb.

Halfway is probably two to four times longer than you needed to read to get that Heinlein really liked the military.

Supposedly the cast and extras only agreed to that shower scene if Verhoeven stripped too. So he did, and directed naked.

In one episode of the documentary series The Story of Film: An Odyssey, the screenwriter said that years earlier he and Verhoeven had talked about making a movie about young would-be soldiers in pre-WW2 Germany who are super-enthusiastic about the Nazi “cause” without realizing that they are really the bad guys, but…

I would like to know more.

That’s sort of the idea. It’s being dumb to make a point. It's a spoof of the pro-military fascism that pervaded many action movies of the time.

I saw this movie on a first date. I loved the movie, did not get a second date.

Sounds like you should grab one of those insanely cheap preowned Nissan Leafs.

If it was electric and 6800 I would buy it. I don’t drive much right now, and what I do drive is short trips around town, no more than 2-3 miles. I don’t want to drive my diesel car on those short trips since it never warms up, and i don’t want to pay for gas when it will just sit in a tank for months. An electric,…

How about a 883 Harley powered Prius?

Put something big in it. Because Leaf blower.

While I would never step foot in one of his establishments, I do enjoy Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, for the fact that it gives national exposure to local chefs doing great things in the culinary world.

Total “gotcha” questions. Why would the leader of the free world need to find Iraq on a map? He has missiles for that!

The only thing that annoys me about star trek transporters is that they rarely are used as a weapon. The standard attack plan should be:

I was hoping for a substantial, thoughtful analysis on these particular customers, but I’m afraid of deep things.