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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 385642" data-attributes="member: 3887">Ok, so I missed the premier of Firefly {but I have it on tape, plus the original 2 hour version can be downloaded from some newgroup or other...}But, on the subject of Starship Troopers... I've read the book and I love the film. While the movie certainly isn't the book, it really is meant to seen in context of it; its more a highly stylized, ironized take on that novel, and Heinlien's work of that period in general. Consider it a parody of the original work.The films is a black comedy. An indictment and celebration of the fascist underpinnings of action-filled war movies. And I personally believe its also a swipe on the portrayal of youth/beauty culture in Hollywood films. Its not be accident that it sends what could be a Nazi-fied version of the 90210 cast into space to fight alien bugs. It has fewer obvious jokes because its that seemless {airless?} kind of comedy where the whole thing seems like a joke, but no one inside the film acknowledges it. The closest it comes are those wonderful WW2 era newsreel parodies.Besides, how can you not love a film that puts a psychic Doogie Howser in full SS drag?? As one of the heroes...</blockquote>