tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post7831211247338757164..comments2024-02-21T12:08:15.924+00:00Comments on The Good the Bad and the Insulting: Starship Troopers - A Second LookBellariushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02652722543111095280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post-7355905417190130682014-08-26T01:23:34.644+01:002014-08-26T01:23:34.644+01:00It's understandable,, the problem with it is t...It's understandable,, the problem with it is that it manages to simultaneously play itself completely straight faced and ludicrous beyond belief. Given it was using irony rather than more obvious satirical elements, a few writers and reviewers did mark it down purely as a bad propaganda film at its time of release. It does admittedly help a lot more if you go into it knowing what the director was aiming for to begin with and watching for the specific bits where he's mocking society or history. Well, that or the novel.Bellariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02652722543111095280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post-651141381444012082014-08-25T05:36:54.377+01:002014-08-25T05:36:54.377+01:00This is one of those films I didn't like that ...This is one of those films I didn't like that almost everyone I know loves, the reason I don't like it is because there's no possible way for the bugs to aim the asteroids (even if they learn where earth is, it moves, and even if they factor in the movement of the earth, the solar system itself moves), not to mention just how long it takes for an asteroid to reach earth in the first place, I wouldn't focus on this except for the reason I couldn't take it as a parody (when the characters did something stupid for example) and that's because of all the times it tried to play itself seriously, and when it tries to play itself seriously I can't help but take a lot of other things in the movie seriously and think about stuff I'm not supposed to because I'm not supposed to take the film seriously.<br />Because of those two things I couldn't really get into the film, and its conflicting tone made it just kind of average in my opinion, but it's been a while since I saw it, so maybe I'll watch it again sometime in the future and see if my opinion changes.grdaathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722216755745063033noreply@blogger.com