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10-06-2007, 01:28 AM
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Re: Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first. [/ QUOTE ] In lieu of making the hilarious sarcastic comment I was originally going to make here, I'm going to actually be serious and point out that the movie was meant to be a satire of the book and the militarism Robert Heinlein espoused in it. Would you like to know more? [/ QUOTE ] Why? It is still one of the worst movies I've every watched. [/ QUOTE ] Haha, someone didn't get the fact that it was intentionally satirical. 
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#32
10-06-2007, 02:03 AM
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Re: Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
I thought both of these movies were Kool, although KK is an hour too long and needed more violence, nudity and profanity.
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10-06-2007, 02:04 AM
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I thought both of these movies were Kool, although KK is an hour too long and needed more violence, nudity and profanity. [/ QUOTE ] I wish you were an executive producer for this movie.
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#34
10-06-2007, 05:00 AM
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Re: Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
I remember reading an LA Times article when Starship Troopers that pointed out the satire aspects of the film (according to this link it was by Jon Zelazny). A couple of the points:
- Paul Verhoeven grew up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during his childhood. There were a bunch of similarities between Starship Troopers and the WWII-era Nazi propagnda films. - The initial scene describing why the humans started attacking the bugs was that the bugs hurled asteroids at Earth killing a bunch of people. But does that really make sense? At any point in the film, do the bugs show even tool-making capabilities? - Verhoeven also said in the DVD commentary that it was a take on American militarism. Plus, those propaganda-like news pieces that appear in the film make it look like satire. It was a pretty controversial film when it came out, Kenneth Turan called it complete fascism and recommended it at the same time. I thought it was good, but I'll admit it wasn't exactly high brow cinema. All that said, I've never seen King Kong so I can't vote. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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#36
10-06-2007, 05:21 AM
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Re: Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
Well, it seems pretty obvious now but I loved Starship Troopers and hated King Kong. I didn't think enough happend in King Kong. Waiting 1.5 hours for the big monkey to show up was bad but when he started doing Kung-Fu against 3 T-Rex's I wanted to shoot myself.
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#39
10-06-2007, 06:55 AM
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Re: Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
You and your buddy both suck if you think Starship Troopers was a crap movie. It was awesomenous personified. In fact this thread has inspired me to go find it and watch it this afternoon in front of the fire on the couch with the rain pouring down outside, a six pack and some snack food by my side.
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10-06-2007, 09:53 AM
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Re: Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
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It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first. [/ QUOTE ] You ever talk about a movie with someone who read the book? They're always so condescending, "Ah, the book was much better than the movie." "Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie? No reading. It only took two hours, and then I could take a nap."
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