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Starship Troopers (1997) - So Good That It's Bad

They're Just Movies

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The Movie Is a Pro-War Book

I think the social commentary is interesting in it. I don't even know if Verhoeven fully read it. He had some really good two of him. Apparently he refused to finish it. The book is basically about what would a society look like that was forced into a protracted period of fascism because that was the only way that you could rise to the occasion to fight this foe. It's kind of all intertwined and tangled. So I think we should just break down the subtext of the movie.

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