BTW, Omegaman, lissener should’ve been set off by commas.
(You’d be surprised what else sets off lissener, but that’s another story.) 
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.)
Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”?
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.
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.
A slang term referring to the deep, prominent dimples that sometimes form in the cellulite of a morbidly obese woman’s thighs.
See what I mean?
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?
Also a poster on The Straight Dope Message Board. Pretty cool dude.
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.
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?
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”.
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.