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Not the point of this post but I think starship troopers did an excellent job of skewering the military, government, and the whole propaganda machine.
Yeah it's not the movies fault that people have zero media literacy
Paul Verhoeven did a beautiful job of critiquing fascism. I can't help it that my fellow citizens are stupid other than to vote for more money in education.
I'm doing my part.
i would buy that for a dollar!
YES! Another Verhoeven banger! Straight from Old Detroit.
see you at the party richter ;-)
verhoeven was over the top.
My critique of Starship Troopers is that it's not a good satire of fascism if the people it needs to reach don't understand it.
If modern movies have shown us anything, being unsubtle and blatantly preaching at the audience in a way that everyone will understand also doesn't have an effect. It just gets labelled as "woke" or whatever by people that have fascist tendencies.
I find that kind of thing annoying myself, even when I agree with the message.
I prefer the movies of the past where you weren't spoonfed the message and had to think about it.
If you have to make it such that even those people understand it, it becomes unwatchable to the rest of us.
What, you didn't like Dr Strangelove?
I remember someone saying Dr. Strangelove was stupid because there's no way the US would employ Nazis as their scientists.
Did they also complain about Django Unchained because the US would never have slaves?
To be fair, though, I did really like Jojo Rabbit, and I don't think that one's been latched onto by them in nearly the same way. Could be wrong, though.
The thing that's really difficult for them is that Jojo Rabbit never makes them look cool. Hitler throws a tantrum because a little boy doesn't like him, then he gets kicked in the balls.