Father/daughter movie week was a bit tight this week, due to other evening commitments, but I finally got Starship Troopers up on the screen (if nothing else than to explain why I occasionally say at at appropriate moments, "Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" thought that line is actually from the book).
A ★★★ review of Starship Troopers (1997)
Somehow I’ve never written a review of “Starship Troopers,” even though I’ve watched it multiple times before — not quite as many times as I’ve read the novel it was somehat based on, but enough. Paul Verhoeven is Paul Verhoeven, pursuing a satirical polemic about how war makes everyone a fascist, whether it’s girl-crazy rich-boy BMOC Johnny Rico, or kind-hearted psionics nerd Carl Jenkins. Sandwiched into a hyperviolent (in the blood-drenched c…
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Deep Space 90210. sigh Where are the jump suits???
Hard to show Hot MI-on-MI Action when they're running around in powered armor. (Not a story problem Heinlein thought worthy of addressing.) 😛