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Compare army spots as had been broadcasted from the mid-90s to 2000, 2001, and compare them to the asthetic introduced and visualised by Leni Riefenstahl. It says so much, sicne the parrallels are so stunning. That the movie Starship Troopers was commercially not too succesful in north America (at least I read that), probably comes from that Verhoeven made heavy mockery of this visual symbolism and heroic transfiguration. for simple minds believing in such pictures and poses, the movie must have equalled a personal attack.
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The reason that movie didn't do well was because it was utter crap. They took a CLASSIC and fantastic science fiction book written by a great author, just read the description on the back of the book without actually READING the book, and they wrote the script from that.
Starship Troopers was one of my favorite sci-fi books when I was younger and to see the way they raped this imaginitive piece of literature astounded me. The story wasn't the same at all and they even changed the sex of one of the characters to fit in a naked shower scene to show some T & A.
It would have been nice if they actually took the time to.... maybe... READ the book before making the movie out of it. That should be a REQUIREMENT if you're going to make a movie out of a famous book !
