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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 4466237" data-attributes="member: 149">No. While STtM had satirical elements most of the movie was really played pretty straight. Verhoeven is many things as a director, but subtle is not one of them and there's nothing satirical about most of the film.Airplane was an outright parody, but actually even in that film most of the plot and dialog was taken straight from an earlier film drama called "Zero Hour" (they actually bought the rights to the film so they could steal so much from it).To me at least the obnoxious thing about the stupidity of the Military forces in STtM was how lazy it was on the part of the film makers. They just didn't bother to put any thought into it.And what can you say about the movie adaptation of a book that pretty much created the concept of Powered Armor, where no powered armor shows up? I mean if you're going to CGI all the bugs, how much more difficult could it have been to CGI the armor?</blockquote>