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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9216492" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>No, you've taken that secondhand quote out of context and you've got it backwards.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,987338,00.html" target="_blank">Schickel didn't really "get" the movie, and only tacked on that guess at the thesis toward the end of his review.</a> </p><p></p><p><em>"Pretty funny. But not always very funny. For Starship Troopers contains an unexplored premise. There are two classes in this futureworld: civilians, who have sacrificed voting privileges for material ease, and warriors, who earn the right to rule by their willingness to die for the state. In short, we're looking at a happily fascist world. <strong>Maybe that's the movie's final, deadpan joke. Maybe it's saying that war inevitably makes fascists of us all. Or--best guess--maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications."</strong></em></p><p></p><p>Verhoeven was condescending about the review and bemusingly confirms that yes, despite missing the point for most of it, Schickel came close at the end and did guess correctly with that aside. Verhoeven was laughing about how overall Schickel didn't pick up the obvious satire and finally settled on the absurd conclusion that Verhoeven and Neumeier were ignorant of rather than directly aiming for those scary implications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9216492, member: 7026594"] No, you've taken that secondhand quote out of context and you've got it backwards. [URL='https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,987338,00.html']Schickel didn't really "get" the movie, and only tacked on that guess at the thesis toward the end of his review.[/URL] [I]"Pretty funny. But not always very funny. For Starship Troopers contains an unexplored premise. There are two classes in this futureworld: civilians, who have sacrificed voting privileges for material ease, and warriors, who earn the right to rule by their willingness to die for the state. In short, we're looking at a happily fascist world. [B]Maybe that's the movie's final, deadpan joke. Maybe it's saying that war inevitably makes fascists of us all. Or--best guess--maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications."[/B][/I] Verhoeven was condescending about the review and bemusingly confirms that yes, despite missing the point for most of it, Schickel came close at the end and did guess correctly with that aside. Verhoeven was laughing about how overall Schickel didn't pick up the obvious satire and finally settled on the absurd conclusion that Verhoeven and Neumeier were ignorant of rather than directly aiming for those scary implications. [/QUOTE]
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