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Meh, whatever. Maybe you should fasten that tinfoil hat you're wearing a little tighter. It's explained in the novel that this movie is based on that the world is overpopulated, and two of the reasons for perpetuating this war is 1) population control (hence the very ineffective weapons the mobile infantry is armed with), and 2) a different kind of population control, ie keeping people distracted by the war so that they don't realize how fucked up the society they live in is.
If you really think I am a bot, please don't reply. Let's just go our separate ways. Goodbye again.
Thanks for the level-headed reply. This movie is intentionally the way way you perceived it. It really helps watching it with the director's commentary, just to see what his intention was. That's the reason I love Starship Troopers so much.
Lol, whatever. Goodbye.
I love encountering people who get this movie. The entire war is a farce. The bugs aren't the villains. The humans, who literally dress like Nazis, are the villains. There's that throwaway line that the reporter says to the camera: "Some say that the bugs were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their natural habitat. That a live and let live policy is preferable to war with the bugs." Most viewers miss that line and don't realize that we are in actuality the bad guys in this movie.
Do you not remember the part just before the invasion of Klendathu, about 54 minutes into the movie, when that reporter says to the camera: "Some say that the bugs were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their natural habitat. That a live and let live policy is preferable to war with the bugs"? Then Rico, because he has been brainwashed into thinking that this is a righteous war, juts in and says, "Let me tell you something. I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!" Rico has drunk the propaganda Kool-aide to the extent that he's not even willing to consider that maybe humans are the ones who instigated this war.
Here's a tip: Earth is located on one side of the Milky Way Galaxy, while Klendathu is situated on the other side, tens of thousands of lightyears away. A meteor shot from Klendathu to Earth would take millions of years to get here. This isn't a plothole. Paul Verhoeven, the director, has a degree in physics, and he knows this. That, for me, is proof that the entire war is a farce and that humans are the villains in this movie. In the Starship Troopers universe, everyone literally dresses like Nazis, for crying out loud.
There's a whole new perspective to this movie once you realise that humans are the villains and the bugs are actually just a species fighting for their territory. The whole spiel about about bugs "hurling their spawn" thousands of lightyears to Earth with pinpoint accuracy is utter nonsense that humans have been brainwashed into believing in order to gear them up for an unjustified war. One of the scariest things about this movie is the bit about the "murderer" who is caught in the morning, tried and sentenced in the afternoon, and his execution is live on TV in the evening. Lol, whaaaat???? That's insane. What kind of society tunes in to watch executions??? And why are executions advertised like game shows or sports events? Such a clean, beautiful future on the surface, but really nasty when you think about it. This is easily one of the best satires or sci-fi movies of all time.
There's a Facebook post I once read where this one guy was sick and tired of his little brother always "borrowing" his stereo from his room. So the guy hatched an insidious revenge plot. He got a recording of sheep bleating in a meadow and made a looped cassette of it. The next time his brother "borrowed" his stereo, he waited until he was asleep, then snuck into his room. He put the tape in and played it on low volume. Then, every 20 minutes or so he would increase the volume, until it was pretty loud, and left it. The next morning his brother woke up really tired, grumpy and confused about why he dreamed about hundreds of sheep harassing him. This is an evil genius.
"Ken Park" has an explicit and thoroughly disgusting one.
Months later, but they offer the idea of liquefaction of sand as a result of sonics in this video. It's plausible for sand, but beneath that sand there's rock. Arrakis cannot possibly be an ocean of sand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNxd2xDr38&ab_channel=CorridorCrew
Wow, this is just so sad.
Charlie Sheen can snort enough cocaine to kill two and a half men!
Two & A Half Men - Ashton Kutcher is simply not funny.
Definitely Catherine. This movie and Total Recall are peak Sharon Stone. She has never looked more attractive than she did in these two movies.
Idiot
I will vouch for Korea. I cannot stand horror movies, partly for the reasons that the OP outlined, but "The Wailing" is absolutely brilliant!
I'm having a hard time choosing between Smaug the Dragon and Gollum
Lol, good point, but I really don't think Saving Private Ryan is appropriate for toddlers.
Interestingly I have let him have a taste of his own medicine several times and somehow I have never been put on his ignore list. Just when I think, "There, now I am on his list," a couple of months later he replies to one of my posts. `\_(",)_/`
Been using this site for years and it's remarkably good at suggesting similar movies. Other sites are like "Did you enjoy Finding Nemo? We recommend Saving Private Ryan."
A list for the people who might have a hard time remembering similar movies that came out at the same time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films