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Blue Train posted:I thought he didn't finish it not that he didn't read it at all The movie was well into development before the studio realized they could tack the book on. He was asked to read it by the studio and to incorporate that into rewrites but he gave up a couple chapters in and just changed character names. I've read that The Iron Dream/Lord of the Swastika was the main inspiration for the film, but I'm not sure that that's just speculation.
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CaptainQuirk posted:The moment when Neil Patrick Harris turned gay: hw'as touching a giant vagina and he's like "no... this life is not for me..."
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I know vaginas have more eyes, but we're pretending here k
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Blue Train posted:I thought he didn't finish it not that he didn't read it at all Yeah he only read a few chapters before giving it up since he found the book to be both boring and depressing.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:The early Heinlein biographer and critic Alexei Panshin, in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, took note of a controversial theme: "The romantic situation in this story is a very interesting, very odd one: it is nothing less than a mutual sexual interest between an engineer of thirty and a girl of twelve ('adorable' is Heinlein's word for her), that culminates in marriage after some hop-scotching around in time to adjust their ages a bit."[3] The novel "worried and bothered" John W. Campbell, who said "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, than most people in the field can do with both hands. But Jesus, I wish that son of a gun would take that other hand out of his pocket."[4] Lmao, nigga got toasted.
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Dead Precedents posted:I'd watch the poo poo out of this everyone can agree that Clancy Browns owns.
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Clancy Brown was my favorite actor in both Starship Troopers and Shawshank Redemption.
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Stoic Commie posted:nph was in shawshank right? leader of the queens
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you mean the sisters? you didn't even watch it did you
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Stoic Commie posted:you mean the sisters? you didn't even watch it did you its been over a decade man
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since you watched it?
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yep just remember the guard crippled dude after Andy started doing they taxes and such
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oldpainless posted:Clancy Brown was my favorite actor in both Starship Troopers and Shawshank Redemption.
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More like Fartshit Poopers
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Korthal posted:More like Fartshit Poopers
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i unironically liked the book a lot and also unironically agree that not every idiot who turns 18 should get to vote automatically perhaps a system where only the landed gentry get to vote? just a thought
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Nog posted:i unironically liked the book a lot and also unironically agree that not every idiot who turns 18 should get to vote automatically hm yes maybe provide job creators extra votes for their employees maybe 3/5 for each one?
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 Would you like to know more? if you watch the movie you get to know more
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I like how it works as both a dumb over the top action movie, and as a fairly smart parody of fascist wartime propaganda. They just don't make action movies this awesome these days.
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Nog posted:i unironically liked the book a lot and also unironically agree that not every idiot who turns 18 should get to vote automatically Corporal Punishment is incredibly effective! It worked wonders on me!! *is a gigantic coward, lashes out constantly, can't handle complicated adult emotions.*
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Dick Fagballzson posted:I like how it works as both a dumb over the top action movie, and as a fairly smart parody of fascist wartime propaganda. They just don't make action movies this awesome these days. it's a great satire of military worship and blind patriotism too.
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etalian posted:it's a great satire of military worship and blind patriotism too. From what I understand, Paul Verhoeven read part of the book, found all of the fascist/militarist/jingoist stuff depressing, and tossed it aside and decided to make a parody of it.
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The Starship Trooper costumes and sets also got reused in Serenity as a cost cutting measure. Or maybe the Alliance in Firefly is just the galactic version of the Starship Troopers government, which expanded after wiping out the bugs in a genocidal military campaign.
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Dick Fagballzson posted:From what I understand, Paul Verhoeven read part of the book, found all of the fascist/militarist/jingoist stuff depressing, and tossed it aside and decided to make a parody of it. He can never be forgiven for leaving out the cool mech suits. Instead we got "starship" troopers wearing arena football uniforms.
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etalian posted:The Starship Trooper costumes and sets also got reused in Serenity as a cost cutting measure. Firefly is unironically about how the postbellum south was unfairly oppressed by the big mean north who were basically Nazis if you think about it for believing in things like industry and not enslaving people. Makes you think.
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Republican Vampire posted:Firefly is unironically about how the postbellum south was unfairly oppressed by the big mean north who were basically Nazis if you think about it for believing in things like industry and not enslaving people. And here I was thinking it was fiction
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Republican Vampire posted:Firefly is unironically about how the postbellum south was unfairly oppressed by the big mean north who were basically Nazis if you think about it for believing in things like industry and not enslaving people. The Alliance did nothing wrong
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Like Gul Dukat they will be vindicated by autists in the long run.
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What really gets me about this movie now is that it's pre 9/11 but it predicted the Bush years so well. I guess human folly is a historic constant and nothing has ever or will ever change.
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etalian posted:it's a great satire of military worship and blind patriotism too. is it really blind patriotism when giant bugs are trying to eat u i think its ok to be patriotic in that situation
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Republican Vampire posted:Firefly is unironically about how the postbellum south was unfairly oppressed by the big mean north who were basically Nazis if you think about it for believing in things like industry and not enslaving people. It's funny, because Whedon cites The Killer Angels as a strong influence, but if anything that's a book that's a serious backlash against this "Lost Cause" revisionism that Firefly instead portrays. Also a great book, strongly recommended.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:The early Heinlein biographer and critic Alexei Panshin, in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, took note of a controversial theme: "The romantic situation in this story is a very interesting, very odd one: it is nothing less than a mutual sexual interest between an engineer of thirty and a girl of twelve ('adorable' is Heinlein's word for her), that culminates in marriage after some hop-scotching around in time to adjust their ages a bit."[3] The novel "worried and bothered" John W. Campbell, who said "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, than most people in the field can do with both hands. But Jesus, I wish that son of a gun would take that other hand out of his pocket."[4] lmbo dude was a perv and a troll who would make his author insert defend, gently caress, anything. fascism, incest, pedophilia, rape.
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