Re: STARSHIP TROUPERS!

Yup. Take SST as a satire of, or commentary on wartime 'propaganda' 
films and you'll enjoy it. It's got a lot of Robocop in it, which is a 
good thing from where I sit.

Allan Goodall wrote:

>On 15 Feb 2004 at 11:25, DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
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>>SST; THE MOVIE, i must say i did  enjoy.
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>You know, I did too. I figured that Verhoeven knew _exactly_ what he 
>was doing. There's a scene when some characters are in the foreground 
>talking and some soldiers are in the background firing at a bug. The 
>bug is in the middle of a circle! It should have resulted in a lot of 
>friendly fire, but it didn't... and it looked just like what I 
>thought it was: comic relief. I'm almost certain that Verhoeven knew 
>it was farcical. His tongue was firmly in cheek.
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