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I lost my heart to Starship Troopers [Jul. 19th, 2008|11:15 pm]
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Best movie you remembered liking, but forgot you liked as much as you did?



It's weird seeing this again after not seeing it for a few years. I kinda forgot just how much of a satire it is, and at the same time I don't get how anyone ever thought it was actually Paul Verhoeven endorsing Nazism. That's like watching Dr. Strangelove and thinking it's a straight political/war thriller, or reading 1984 and thinking that George Orwell was a Communist.
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[User Picture]From: [info]wretchmuffin
2008-07-20 04:08 am (UTC)

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I'm with you; I watch this thing a couple of times a year, so I've never forgotten how much I like it.

Usually, though, it works the other way; I'm all "Oh, I LOVED this movie when I was a kid," then it turns out I was a stupid kid.

Oh, but wait: I just rewatched The Princess Bride for the first time in . . . yikes, probably a decade, and was delighted to find it's still pretty awesome.
[User Picture]From: [info]shadowofsummer
2008-07-20 06:31 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, when I was a little kid I cried at the end of Short Circuit 2, when you think Johnny 5's dead. Then years passed and it became a vaguely embarrassing childhood memory. When I saw it again I was probably twenty or so, and damned if by the end I wasn't going 'No! Not Johnny Five, You motherfuckers!'

The Goonies also remains awesome no matter what age I see it at.
[User Picture]From: [info]the__seeker
2008-07-20 05:43 am (UTC)

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If only the sequels resembled it at all...
[User Picture]From: [info]shadowofsummer
2008-07-20 06:27 pm (UTC)

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I haven't seen either of them. Or the TV animation series.
Thing is, I know it's the same scriptwriter, and I know he understood the whole satire thing going on in the first one, so I was holding out hope... but... no?
[User Picture]From: [info]zero_shadow
2008-07-20 05:54 am (UTC)

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I love this film.

Mainly for the images of Warhammer 40k.

But ye, the film is just ace and a somewhat plausible way of the world? Minus the bugs.
[User Picture]From: [info]shadowofsummer
2008-07-20 06:25 pm (UTC)

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It's about life under Nazi rule. Perpetual warfare, the creation of an underclass, the whole 'brute strength is the supreme authority, from which all other authority derives...'
And hell, look at the aesthetic of their future worldeven down to NPH's gestapo uniform in the picture above...
[User Picture]From: [info]shadowofsummer
2008-07-20 06:26 pm (UTC)

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Plus yeah, I remember when this came out and Games Workshop ran their international campaign of Tyranids vs. Imperial Guard. That was awesome.
[User Picture]From: [info]evil_egg
2008-07-20 12:12 pm (UTC)

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The book's good, too.
[User Picture]From: [info]shadowofsummer
2008-07-20 06:22 pm (UTC)

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I'm currently about halfway through reading it. It's what set my mind to watching it again. I was surprised to see how much they kept, considering how much they changed...
[User Picture]From: [info]joellevand
2008-07-20 02:21 pm (UTC)

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You mean Orwell *wasn't* a Communist?

I'm so confused. The British government said he was!