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Not the point of this post but I think starship troopers did an excellent job of skewering the military, government, and the whole propaganda machine.
Yeah it's not the movies fault that people have zero media literacy
Paul Verhoeven did a beautiful job of critiquing fascism. I can't help it that my fellow citizens are stupid other than to vote for more money in education.
I'm doing my part.
My critique of Starship Troopers is that it's not a good satire of fascism if the people it needs to reach don't understand it.
If you have to make it such that even those people understand it, it becomes unwatchable to the rest of us.
What, you didn't like Dr Strangelove?
To be fair, though, I did really like Jojo Rabbit, and I don't think that one's been latched onto by them in nearly the same way. Could be wrong, though.
The thing that's really difficult for them is that Jojo Rabbit never makes them look cool. Hitler throws a tantrum because a little boy doesn't like him, then he gets kicked in the balls.
i would buy that for a dollar!
YES! Another Verhoeven banger! Straight from Old Detroit.
see you at the party richter ;-)
verhoeven was over the top.
Mobile infantry made me the man I am today!
I think it may not have conveyed what it was trying to do when it was in theaters, but my friends and I (millennials so we saw it as kids) watch it as a ridiculous satire. One of my favourite movies I think. Sadly, I love Hackers, but that is not a satire, they were trying real hard.
I love hackers too, friend. In fact I'll say I love it because they were trying so hard lol.
Yeah man, like rigor mortis, habeas corpus