Starship Troopers Commentary

Paul Verhoeven, the director of Starship Troopers, and Edward Neumeier, the screenwriter, talk about the political aspects of the movie. From the special edition DVD.

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• Starship
• Troopers
• Commentary
• Fascism
• Politics

[tubebunny7]

They don't care about the book and they don't have to either.

[Jmurdoch]

Starship Troopers is one of the most misunderstood movies of all time.

[SATwitch]

Verhoeven's commentaries are always amazing. His commentary track for Total Recall with Schwarzenegger is really interesting and unintentionally hilarious at times.

[DigitalAgeGrunt]

@jin12345678 I don't know, even the writers friends thought ROBOCOP was fascist!

[LgndryThndr]

@FalconTB

I think its funny everyone has noted you as spam but you're the only person who actually read the fucking book.

I guess it's true that liberals only read literature that tickles their fancy.

I'm off to read Kafka.

[LgndryThndr]

@lordblazer

You are making Heinlen roll in his grave.

[Maxheadroom1980]

Are american movie critics really this dumb? Or are they fascist and didn't like being ridiculed in a movie?

Really underrated and misunderstood movie. Ironically and unfortunately it's was also visionary, because the "security against terrorism" in the US is killing freedom and reinforcing fascism.

[jin12345678]

how did people read this as a straight-forward pro-fascist film...

[cinemasailor]

I remember, when the film first came out, reading the Time Magazine review Verhoeven mentions at the opening of this commentary. I absolutely could not believe the reviewer was so boneheaded as to see the film as pro-fascist. You could not misread the obvious more if you tried.

[bhelwerg1]

wish there was more of this commentary online...

[lordblazer]

wow man you didn't have to pwn him that hard. But yea this film and the book makes fun of fascism.