Haha I'm stuck in the same pre-100 barrier that you're at.
I thought the menu/building options seemed a little sparse at first also, but Banished only seems simple at the outset. As your town gets larger and larger so do the problems and myriad things that must be managed and balanced. I'm only up to about 80 citizens, (not anywhere near the 300 needed for some of the…
Been playing this game heavily over the last day or so and it's pretty enjoyable. I wish that there was a little more content and complexity to it, but I'd still definitely say that it's worth its price tag.
And considering this was made by just one guy, I'm actually pretty damn impressed with the result. I'd love to…
Why did you feel the need to tell everyone that homosexuality wasn't your cup of tea?
I dunno, this has the potential to warp into a mashup of Night of the Lepus and Watership Down at a moment's notice.
I love his commentary on Starship Troopers, basically the movie was about "fuck America."
Damn straight. And it's just as non-subtle in it's satire as Robocop! (Also, if you want a much more subtle and kind of terrifying movie from Veerhoven, try Black Books; it's about the Dutch Resistance in WWII and it's really, really good. Has nice acting jobs by the woman who plays the Red Witch in Game of Thrones…
A lot of people really just don't get how brilliant a director he can be. He really is a master of the satire.
Hilarious, because he was working from a completely different script during preproduction of Starship Troopers. After they optioned the Heinlein book, they gave him a copy and told him to follow it. He says he didn't even finish reading it before deciding to make it a satire on hypermilitarism and facism.
From what I read, Verhoeven initially hated and even threw away his copy of the Robocop script until it dawned on him that it could be a great satire of Reagan's America.
I think Verhoeven might be the king of putting real ideas in stupid movies. Starship Troopers is another awesome example.
If anything, its exaggerations are our current reality. I doubt most viewers in the eighties believed everything that was privatized in RoboCop might actually be run by for-profit companies some day.
Starship Troopers is amazing!
I love this movie so much that I have a copy on every sd card and hard drive I own. I keep the laserdisc version as well as the 2 different dvd copies on every hard drive. It is one of the first movies that was rated R that I saw in the theater by myself.
I only saw it for the first time a few years ago. It is such a fuckin' great celebration/criticization of hypermasculinity. The absolute best bits are from Kurtwood Smith. His famous line is:
RoboCop looked like the dumbest fucking movie ever on a poster. In the theater, it was the best movie of its decade.
One of the best movies of the 1980's in it's satire, acting and blowing up things real good? Hell yes.
Unfortunately, a lot of Blow Shit Up movie fans completely missed director Paul Verhoeven's point that the movie was a mockery of 80's American society. "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
I took it as my personal mission to expose people to the glory that is RoboCop about ten years ago when I discovered some people has escaped the 80s without seeing it. I have yet to have had an ungrateful pupil.