BTW, Omegaman, lissener should’ve been set off by commas.
(You’d be surprised what else sets off lissener, but that’s another story.) 
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I hope you don’t really hate a group of people **lissener ** especially ones who don’t care for war. I think you’ll find many men who have fought in wars think they are often unnescescary and cause countless lives to be wasted .
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I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.)
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Hee. Hey, I *been * to Hippy Hollow, so I can say whatever I want to. Man.
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Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”?
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.)
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You didn’t like Starship Troopers ? A wonderful film I though in the trus spirit of hollywood, a little leanings towards those filthy nazis but one has to have an enemy to focus ones attentions on to make a film of that sort . You keep helping me out though Sampiro your words of wisdom are always welcome some of these other idiots aren’t to fit be door stops if you know what I mean. Not so much the ones who crack wise . I enjoy comedy of every kind . Even when it involves me.
The film Starship Troopers seemed, to me, to miss the complete point of the novel on which it was based.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.)
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You know, there was something else I wanted to add that I forgot just now but does’nt really relate to this thread I hope the mods will forgive the slight hijack. I consider you , Sir , to be a man of the highest caliber and are one of the big reasons I fought so hard to retain the right to post here. What you have done in the past and what knowledge I have gleaned from your posts is some of the most profound I have ever learned in my life . I would be reticent in my duty as a fellow man not to let you know this. Keep up the good work my friend, if I may have the honor of adressing you as such.
When I was but a brat, living on base, the base theater had movies for 15 cents, and they changed the lineup every day (I think *Ben Hur * was on for three days…). They got every military-themed movie (natch) and every remotely “sci-fi” type flick. And it was the very heaven, what could have been better? I was too young to sense the possibility, so distant in time yet inching ever closer, the joy of my desiring.
A sci-fi war movie, with tits. Never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”?
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A slang term referring to the deep, prominent dimples that sometimes form in the cellulite of a morbidly obese woman’s thighs.
[QUOTE=Omegaman]
I hope you don’t really hate a group of people **lissener ** especially ones who don’t care for war. I think you’ll find many men who have fought in wars think they are often unnescescary and cause countless lives to be wasted . I’m no hippie and I believe violence has it’s place but hate really doesn’t have any place in our world. It’s for the weak of will. I’ll just leave it at that .
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See what I mean?
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I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.)
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Starship Troopers is one of the greatest “peace” movies ever made: it’s entire agenda is to PALATR who think war is cool. It’s a satire on how insane and ridiculous fascism and war are.
Palatr?
[QUOTE=Rusalka]
Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”?
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Also a poster on The Straight Dope Message Board. Pretty cool dude.
[QUOTE=Miller]
Palatr?
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Point And Laugh At The Retards
It’s a charming little expression, isn’t it?
And for what it’s worth, I think that while lissener is right about the agenda, the execution was horrifically bad as well as a bullshit “fuck you” to the very people who provide that jackass of a director’s living. If he’s not donating every dime he’s ever made from entertainment to charity, I hope his karmic bill comes due while I’m still around to enjoy it.
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The film Starship Troopers seemed, to me, to miss the complete point of the novel on which it was based.
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What I found particularly charming about the movie was that a single bug could kill 20 humans, they outnumbered humans by like 20-1 and could shit spores that would knock comets out of their orbit and cause them to crash into the Earth, and yet the humans defeated them with a handheld nuclear weapon. They should’ve had power armor.
Yeah, where was that planet, anyway? Hidden between Mars and Jupiter, 'cause, otherwise, Uncle Alberts light-speed thingy is kinda bring-down, you know?
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Yeah, where was that planet, anyway? Hidden between Mars and Jupiter, 'cause, otherwise, Uncle Alberts light-speed thingy is kinda bring-down, you know?
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Well, I don’t remember Heinlein actually ever giving an explanation in the book. I’m pretty sure it was superluminal, but I don’t think there was an explanation.
Yeah, well, its a stinky quibble, since so much sci-fi that I fervently admire depends on Uncle Albert being “wrong”.
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See what I mean?
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No, I guess I don’t and I’m not so sure I’d really care to ,but fire away .
I hope this isn’t going to get the thread off track though . I think thats pretty much against the rules here.
Rules? Hell, we ain’t got rules, at most, we have guidelines, however ruthlessly enforced.
I am glad that a thread about hating hippies turned into a discussion of Paul Verhoeven ruining one of the great works of Science Fascism on film.