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  1. Shipmaster Sane

    Starship Troopers general thread

    It's good as a non brainless action movie, if you can look past the paper thin veneer of campiness it works as an entirely unironic good action film. It's just not what it was *supposed* to be.
  2. Shipmaster Sane

    Starship Troopers general thread

    Have you ever thought you might be psychic? Maybe you are.
  3. Shipmaster Sane

    Starship Troopers general thread

    I would argue that the film works well on a political-philosophy level as well, just not the way the creator hoped. See, unbeknownst to him having scenery chewing actors shout objectively correct things that you find offensive, without any kind of counter point or strawman-distortion of those...
  4. Shipmaster Sane

    Starship Troopers general thread

    The federation of the film is in no way fascist. They're a strongly militarist republic. The simple presence of thriving private industry and the fact that Civilians, even those who publicly speak out against government dogma, are wealthy and comfortable, should have been enough to show that...
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