• cdnwaffleiron@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Thought I saw something very sad the other morning, did I read that the idiots are planning on making a… “reboot” of the original… Sad days… Just leave it alone…

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    It’s amazing how many scenes aren’t really even changed from the book - the ideal of the military being required for citizenship is coming from Heinlein, basically everything in the film is in the book. The book just portrays it all as a good thing.

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      Starship Troopers 2 is the first and only movie I’ve ever walked out on, and only because I kept falling asleep watching it. To this day, I still haven’t watched the whole thing. Such an awful movie.

      I read a synopsis of the entire plot at some point and I remember the ending being super unsatisfying, which further discourages me from ever watching it.

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      3 days ago

      There is no Starship Troopers 2

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      I learned of 2, and 3, many years later, during my heavy stoner years.

      Now I’ll tell yah. Being high as shit is really dangerous, in that it can make you think that truly mid, or even bad, stuff is amazing/hilarious.

      Even the “high as fuck bump” couldn’t save these sequels, they were so bad and not memorable at all. Would not recommend

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        I watched the Tom cruise samurai movie absolutely ripped to the nips one time. Had a whole bunch of people other and put it on again because i thought it was great.

        Holy shit that was bad.

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    Is this going to be a remake of the Paul Verhoeven movie or a movie faithful to the book? I got the impression it was going to be the latter and it scares me. At this point in the US, such a movie would awfully seem like the kind of militaristic propaganda Trump would love for his expansionist Putinesque fantasies.

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      Helldivers II is very popular right now, and that game is basically a comedic over-the-top parody of Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book). If the studio has any sense about them, they’ll remake the film in the vein of Helldivers and not actual imperialist military propaganda like the book.

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        2 days ago

        Awww… you poor thing.

        I promise you that in the event where something like this were to happen, there will be plenty of places where you can hide so as to not trigger your irrational fear of others being happy.

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            Aww… another meltdown? It seems you’re really having a hard time conducting yourself like an adult here. If it helps relieve the pressure, no one typically ever expects bigots to act rational when the topic of how others live their lives is on the table.

            So go on and let it all out, big guy! Have that cry and feel better!