This looks potentially promising, but I hate to get my hopes up.
3 thoughts on “Starship Troopers”
I’m not getting my hopes up. I’ve not seen Blomkamp’s entire ouvre, but District 9 and Elysium I have seen and both were screechy bits of Marxist propaganda. Browsing through his credits on IMDB, the Marxist worldview seems part of everything he writes. As Blomkamp will, one presumes, also be writing the script for the notional Starship Troopers project, I would both brace myself and not be a first-nighter.
About the only unalloyed good thing Blomkamp seems to have done is employ Carly Pope in several of his projects.
“Many good points made in the book with few disagreements.”
In Robert Heinlein’s book only veterans had “citizenship” were allowed to vote; wonder how that would work in today’s America? He in the novel theorized that the collapse of the western democracies was fueled partly by extending the franchise to nearly everyone. He (through the teacher Dubois) said that the willingness to risk one’s life (for the survival/wellbeing of the state) by volunteering for military service (no draft) was the demarcation that made one worthy of citizenship.
I’m not getting my hopes up. I’ve not seen Blomkamp’s entire ouvre, but District 9 and Elysium I have seen and both were screechy bits of Marxist propaganda. Browsing through his credits on IMDB, the Marxist worldview seems part of everything he writes. As Blomkamp will, one presumes, also be writing the script for the notional Starship Troopers project, I would both brace myself and not be a first-nighter.
About the only unalloyed good thing Blomkamp seems to have done is employ Carly Pope in several of his projects.
I read the book and watched the movie from 1997?. Many good points made in the book with few disagreements. Cringe doesn’t cover the movie.
“Many good points made in the book with few disagreements.”
In Robert Heinlein’s book only veterans had “citizenship” were allowed to vote; wonder how that would work in today’s America? He in the novel theorized that the collapse of the western democracies was fueled partly by extending the franchise to nearly everyone. He (through the teacher Dubois) said that the willingness to risk one’s life (for the survival/wellbeing of the state) by volunteering for military service (no draft) was the demarcation that made one worthy of citizenship.