Yeah, without trying to make this “Straight Guys, Talkin’ about Movies: Starship Troopers Edition”, can we just take a moment to note that if you were a teenaged geek in the mid-to-late nineties, Dina Meyer almost certainly played a foundational role in your development into an adult. I basically talk about Dina Meyer…

The 100 million dollar budget is in the CGI. Phil Tippet Studios did the work, and it is still damn impressive.

My friend, with all respect...if you couldn’t see the glaringly obvious camp and irony at first viewing—not to mention from any acquaintance with the director’s previous work (RoboCop alone would clue you in)—I don’t know what to tell ya. In the theater where I saw it (Berkeley CA, ‘97), everyone in the audience was…

Excellent book if you can look past the militant crap.

“I really like this movie about pretty fascists, but I kinda wish it didn’t keep pushing this fascism-is-bad thing on me.”

Friend of mine says it’s a spoof and that I just don’t get it.

What makes your comment even more astonishing is the very post is about the fact he didn’t get it was satire!!! It’s why he made the “serious” trailer because the film was not.

Poor Dizzy. Still torn up about that.

I mean there’s two options.

Yeah, but no. I use Starship Troopers as a litmus test on whether people I meet are intelligent enough to bother with. You and I sir, shall never be friends.

Eh... Loved the book but... It was definitely flirting with fascism.

Pretty sure the director finished the book, he was just critical of the ideas expressed and sought to parody them. And it wasn’t an anti-nazi agenda, and more of an anti-nationalistic agenda

Troopers 1) has nothing to do with the novel of the same name and 2) is an incredibly subversive look at fascism and how it manufactures conflicts to justify its existence, and throws its best into the meat grinder to prevent the rise of an educated class that could oppose it. Plus it’s got butts, great action, and…

Unfortunately even adult movie reviewers sometimes missed the satire and never saw past the “ugly insects must be monsters”. Failed satire turns into real propaganda.

...time to go watch Starship Troopers again

How do you really feel?

I love Vinnie Jones so much for doing that video. And yes, “compression only” or “hands only” has been the standard for a while now. It seems that between it being hard for some people to do the rescue breaths correctly and some people “locking up” over the correct compression/breath ratio and failing to even start,…

Speaking of CPR: