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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: A fresh take on the Star Wars films
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 06:14:32 -0400
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On Sun, 12 May 2024 06:54:55 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>Sat, 11 May 2024 22:35:20 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>Fri, 10 May 2024 19:06:45 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>>>>Well, *somebody* with wit had to have been behind it.  That much 
>>>>tongue-in-cheek can't have been accidental.  Fwiw, the Internet seems 
>>>>rather definite that Verhoeven (a dedicated Liberal) was satirizing.
>
>>>Got a cite on that? Sounds like an interesting article or two.
>
>>https://collider.com/starship-troopers-review-satire-at-its-best/
>
>>The cold hard truth of Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven's 1997
>>follow-up to his infamous 1995 Showgirls, is painfully obvious from
>>the start: this is not Oscar bait. The acting is wooden, especially
>>from lead actor Casper Van Dien. Denise Richards' performance is also
>>suspect, playing aspiring pilot Carmen Ibanez. The only actors that
>>stand out are the steady veterans Clancy Brown and Michael Ironside.
>>What Starship Troopers is, though, is satire at its best, with
>>Verhoeven masterfully weaving social commentary and potshots
>>throughout the film. 
>
>But the novel he was adapting wasn't satire, and the social commentary
>was different. Quite frankly, I didn't care for the movie. I thought
>the potshots he took were against easy targets. For that reason, I've
>seen the movie once and never revisted it and had no interest in the
>sequel.

No doubt. He took the name of the book and some of the ideas from the
book to make a very different movie. So there's no way you can judge
the book by the movie because they are so different. I've seen the
movie a few times as background noise but never a serious watch
because it isn't something one should take seriously. Even his satire
is so broad it prevents me from even taking his obvious potshots
seriously. I have the sequels on my list to watch some day just to see
what they are like but I'm clearly in no rush to see any of them.