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The Starship Troopers remake will fail because
posted 5 months ago by The_Shadow_of_Intent 5 months ago by The_Shadow_of_Intent +91 / -1

1997 Denise Richards and Dina Meyer absolutely mog any actress working right now. I'd say both of them are at least 9s.

Clearly there are scores of other reasons any remake is doomed, but that's the most obvious one. In the age of DEI, superhumanly attractive women are extinct.

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– MassivePecorino 31 points 5 months ago +33 / -2

I mean, let me count the ways it will fail.

It will fail in the same way the original movie did, by not understanding the source material and understanding the actual message of the source material. (Yes, Starship Troopers has multiple levels of messaging, including a meta level making fun of itself.)

Starship Troopers, at it core, is a book where a guy who has looked his entire life at how cultures work proposes how a culture could work, if we started from a point where he extrapolated we would be when he wrote the book. Heinlein wrote the book in the 1950s, looking ahead to the 21st century, and realizing that the trend line of Western society was headed down.

The reboot movie will fail because Verhoeven, while being an idiot and Dutch and seeing Nazis in everything, could actually write satire.

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– Frogger69 7 points 5 months ago +7 / -0

The original movie didn't fail, come on you ape! It wasn't in line with Heihlein's message, but it was pretty dam entertaining.

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– akira2501 13 points 5 months ago +13 / -0

I read the book. It wouldn't have made a great movie. The ending alone is too detached and depressing where it leaves Rico. The movie did a really good job of turning that around and making it the propaganda element throughout. Then they gave it a cynical and detached but actually "heroic" ending. It was the right call.

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– Smith1980 5 points 5 months ago +5 / -0

I still love the book but liked the movie.

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– horstshort 3 points 5 months ago +3 / -0

I read the book. It wouldn't have made a great movie.

I disagree. Obviously you couldn't tell the story the same way it is being told in the book but the story itself and it's themes could most definitely make a great movie. Essentially it would just be a serious version of the movie we already have.

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– Kalamander85 7 points 5 months ago +7 / -0

The story boils down to Rico's observations during his military service. If they took that seriously, it has a good chance of doing well in the box office. Think along the veins of We Were Soldiers.

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– alucard13mmfmj 2 points 5 months ago +2 / -0

Yeah. Mr Krabs captured the brainbug.

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– covok48 2 points 5 months ago +2 / -0

The movie barely broke-even at the time. Not a fail, but it was considered really out of place in the 90s.

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