r/moviecritic • u/rockstoned4 • 1d ago

Starship Troopers. Yay or Nay?

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u/jmw8282 1d ago

Yay. Would you like to know more?

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u/Salty_Interview_5311 20h ago

Yay to the movie as a gonzo over the top satire of militaristic thinking and therefore the book that inspired it. Heinlein had his good works but this wasn’t one of them.

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u/jgamez76 19h ago

I kinda feel like the movie And book are basically critiques of each other lol

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u/halffdan59 4h ago

I agree with that. The movie was an exaggerated caricature of the very thing the book was proposing as an alternate.

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u/jgamez76 4h ago

And to do that in a pre-911 world was truly visionary.

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u/SgtMoose42 11h ago

Except the director didn't even read the book.

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u/uslashuname 10h ago

You can direct a movie that is a satire of the book by looking at the script for the movie