A while back, I watched a review of Starship Troopers on YouTube, by some skeletal english faggot. I always overestimate my ability to tolerate these soylent grinned and their constant mixing of left-wing activism with impotent, infantile sarcasm, so I could only put up with it for a short while. The bit I watched was entirely just about the Heinlein book and the bit about their society being stable and conservative for some 500 years. The feckless bassoon couldn't comprehend a world in which there was no more progress, no more destruction of society for no other reason than sheer radicalism, that everything would settle into a society shaped to serve those that serve IT and the parasites would be left behind, forced to feed on the scraps. Never even got to the movie, but Verhoeven was explicit about painting America as Nazi Germany so fuck him, too.
All of Verhoeven's movies, from his very first short he did as a teenager, can be summed up as "Mean Nahtsees Do Thing". RoboCop is Mean Nahtsees Take Detroit, Starship Troopers is Mean Nahtsees Take Showers...
The most telling change is the knife training scene. In the book, one recruit asks why they are learning knife fighting when they have tactical nukes, and the instructor explains the importance of being capable of responding appropriately no matter the level of violence required - a folly we see today with female police officers who are incapable of challenging a criminal physically and so have no tools between "ask for cooperation" and "shoot him."
In the movie the instructor instead stabs the recruit in the hand for wanting to understand why the training was important, because Verhoeven is a troglodyte.
It's a shame because Robocop was really a classic (and the dystopian future-Detroit of the 80s is idyllic compared to the reality) but if it was remade today all the gang members and drug dealers would be gudboi dindunuffins
And that's why the book should be taught in schools. Heinlein was prescient, and actually understood our history and national design, and the book is a long argument for a corrective change to our system. Our representative republic was never meant to have universal voting by every retarded clown that wants to be ruled.
A while back, I watched a review of Starship Troopers on YouTube, by some skeletal english faggot. I always overestimate my ability to tolerate these soylent grinned and their constant mixing of left-wing activism with impotent, infantile sarcasm, so I could only put up with it for a short while. The bit I watched was entirely just about the Heinlein book and the bit about their society being stable and conservative for some 500 years. The feckless bassoon couldn't comprehend a world in which there was no more progress, no more destruction of society for no other reason than sheer radicalism, that everything would settle into a society shaped to serve those that serve IT and the parasites would be left behind, forced to feed on the scraps. Never even got to the movie, but Verhoeven was explicit about painting America as Nazi Germany so fuck him, too.
All of Verhoeven's movies, from his very first short he did as a teenager, can be summed up as "Mean Nahtsees Do Thing". RoboCop is Mean Nahtsees Take Detroit, Starship Troopers is Mean Nahtsees Take Showers...
The only country I recall from ST was Argentina, where Rico was from.
Which is on what continent?
Check.
Mate.
The most telling change is the knife training scene. In the book, one recruit asks why they are learning knife fighting when they have tactical nukes, and the instructor explains the importance of being capable of responding appropriately no matter the level of violence required - a folly we see today with female police officers who are incapable of challenging a criminal physically and so have no tools between "ask for cooperation" and "shoot him."
In the movie the instructor instead stabs the recruit in the hand for wanting to understand why the training was important, because Verhoeven is a troglodyte.
It's a shame because Robocop was really a classic (and the dystopian future-Detroit of the 80s is idyllic compared to the reality) but if it was remade today all the gang members and drug dealers would be gudboi dindunuffins
The gangs will all be huwite
Would he be evil because ACAB or good because he shot Jan 6 Magaterrorists?
And that's why the book should be taught in schools. Heinlein was prescient, and actually understood our history and national design, and the book is a long argument for a corrective change to our system. Our representative republic was never meant to have universal voting by every retarded clown that wants to be ruled.