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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

5 comments:

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky said...: Would you like to know more?; April 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM
lopez said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; April 26, 2010 at 4:21 AM
lopez said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; April 26, 2010 at 4:24 AM
lopez said...: Brilliant film!
Verhoeven knows how to live.
Does this extend to its proto-
Robocop?; April 26, 2010 at 4:24 AM
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky said...: He sure does.

I think he's one of the great satirists of our era, but what often gets overlooked in what could be called "Verhoeven defense studies" (aka treating Verhoeven movies as pools of subtext -- this kind of reaches its apex with Showgirls academia) is that he makes intentionally entertaining movies and has a lot of fun with them. Just because a man wants to mercilessly lampoon militarism doesn't mean he can't like special effects.; April 26, 2010 at 6:01 AM

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