Title: Some people won't get it
Product review: I heard (from some sci-fi fans, even) about how bad the Starship Troopers movie is. Bad acting, they sneered. Goes overboard on the violence, they said. Fascist message, they claimed. That's the whole point. Verhoven takes Heinlein's gung-ho novel and turns it into a propaganda film. The vapid, plastic, 90210 characters -- who were raised in a militarized society -- spout stupid, silly lines about guts and glory. Meanwhile, Verhoven gives the audience a (science-fictionalized) taste of what war is really like: Yes, the ultraviolent battle scenes will make you sick. This ain't Star Wars. Perhaps more Saving Private Ryan meets A Clockwork Orange meets ... uh, Star Wars?
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