(urth) everyone gets one good book
Lisa Schaffer-Doggett
harlekin at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 1 22:58:00 PST 2004
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, at 11:15 PM, turin wrote:
>
> Forgot to mention Dan'l, I was completely hundred percent thinking of
> Starship Troopers when you said military science fiction. How many
> times have we seen space marines since Heinlein? The film could have
> been a harsher juvenelian satire of Nazi germany than what it was, but
> it did an okay job I guess. Verhoeven drops the ball on it I think.
Verhoeven's not satirizing Nazis. He's satirizing the Bush One (and
scarily enough, Bush 2) administration and mocking the filmgoer at the
same time. I've said it to many people, we're living that film. Sorry
for heading further ot.
Don
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