{"id":41466,"date":"2014-03-20T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/movie-review-starship-troopers-1997.html"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:52:54","slug":"movie-review-starship-troopers-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/movie-review-starship-troopers-1997.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Starship Troopers" (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Father\/daughter movie week was a bit tight this week, due to other evening commitments, but I finally got Starship Troopers<\/i> 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).\ufeff<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Starship Troopers (1997)<\/a>
\n 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…\n <\/p>\n

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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).\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605 review … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Starship Troopers" (1997)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/starship-troopers-the-reboot-coming-eventually-to-a-theater-near-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":41466,"position":0},"title":""Starship Troopers: The Reboot," coming eventually to a theater near you","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Nov-16 4:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I enjoy a lot of aspects of Paul Verhoeven's version of this story, between its cheesy melodrama and its biting satire about militarism and propaganda, but I can understand the desire to actually do something that tries to take Heinlein's 1959 novel seriously.The problem is, I'm not sure you can.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":96,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/13\/roughnecks.html","url_meta":{"origin":41466,"position":1},"title":"Roughnecks","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jun-03 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally finished the last of the (published) Roughnecks: Starship Troopers DVDs. 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