The “good guys” in that movie were representative of fascists and if you watch closely were actually the bad guys. They invaded the bug’s homeland and the bugs were just fighting back. Th bugs were metaphor for dehumanization etc. Starship Troopers is a very underrated movie. Made by the same guy that made the original RoboCop, which is excellent as well.
An interview with Verhoven indicated, to me, that he changed the source material to try to make a point about fascism. Don't get me wrong, Verhoven is a total libtard, but he's made some compelling sci-fi that gets overlooked as campy or whatever by people that don't look a little deeper. Talk to anyone with a below average IQ about RoboCop or Starship Troopers.
Robocop is one of my favorite movies ever. The only detail it's off with is set in Detroit all the criminals should look like 80% of Detroit's population, but I figure if they went for that it never would have been made. But the satire, the action and the story all work great.
Verhoeven from an interview "I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring... It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book. And with the movie we tried, and I think at least partially succeeded, in commenting on that at the same time."
My favorite fantheory about the asteroid strike from back when reddit was a half-ass decent place to visit.
Basically either the bugs have FTL technology, or use light from great distances, or Carmen Ibanez (math genius) changed the ship's route to a ricochet course. All while conveniently taking out comms to report the event, and the military industrial complex used propaganda to justify war.
You are correct about the movie. If you've ever seen the TV series "Above and Beyond" then you probably figured out that it was headed in the same direction (the humans were the real aggressors) when it got canceled.
But the meme is labeled, and the bug-faced Democrats are the bad guys! :-)
The “good guys” in that movie were representative of fascists and if you watch closely were actually the bad guys. They invaded the bug’s homeland and the bugs were just fighting back. Th bugs were metaphor for dehumanization etc. Starship Troopers is a very underrated movie. Made by the same guy that made the original RoboCop, which is excellent as well.
Heinlein is the author of the story. Too deep for the creators of the movie; They tried to make humans look bad and did the reverse.
An interview with Verhoven indicated, to me, that he changed the source material to try to make a point about fascism. Don't get me wrong, Verhoven is a total libtard, but he's made some compelling sci-fi that gets overlooked as campy or whatever by people that don't look a little deeper. Talk to anyone with a below average IQ about RoboCop or Starship Troopers.
Robocop is one of my favorite movies ever. The only detail it's off with is set in Detroit all the criminals should look like 80% of Detroit's population, but I figure if they went for that it never would have been made. But the satire, the action and the story all work great.
Verhoeven from an interview "I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring... It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book. And with the movie we tried, and I think at least partially succeeded, in commenting on that at the same time."
Agreement!
How did you completely miss the part where the bugs bombed the earth, and took out Buenos Ares? Which led to the invasion of their planet?
It's just an overblown, camp take on the book, anyway. Which is far, far, far, better.
My favorite fantheory about the asteroid strike from back when reddit was a half-ass decent place to visit.
Basically either the bugs have FTL technology, or use light from great distances, or Carmen Ibanez (math genius) changed the ship's route to a ricochet course. All while conveniently taking out comms to report the event, and the military industrial complex used propaganda to justify war.
You are correct about the movie. If you've ever seen the TV series "Above and Beyond" then you probably figured out that it was headed in the same direction (the humans were the real aggressors) when it got canceled.
But the meme is labeled, and the bug-faced Democrats are the bad guys! :-)
That was a great show.
The book was much better than the movie. The movie was good, but it shouldn’t have been called Starship Troopers.
I highly recommend reading it.