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The Great Raemondo Mar 2021 10:19pm, 28 Mar 2021 7,529 posts	0 The Great Raemondo That Sam had never seen Starship Troopers. (he has only seen part of it now, and I'm not sure he likes it).
Dvorak Mar 2021 10:27pm, 28 Mar 2021 22,218 posts	0 Dvorak [I don't blame him. I saw it at the pictures and I was hiding behind the seat in front at points. By the end, I was rooting for the Bugs. (Which may even have been the idea.). Fair to say, a lot of the subtlety of the book went by the wayside. Have either (or both) of you ever seen "Zwartboek"?]
mr d Mar 2021 11:03pm, 28 Mar 2021 4,672 posts	0 mr d ["They sucked his brains out". It's a stupid film, with a terrible script and some bad acting, but I still like it.]
The Great Raemondo Mar 2021 12:10am, 29 Mar 2021 7,530 posts	0 The Great Raemondo [I'm fairly sure that was the idea, Dvorers]
rf_fozzy Mar 2021 12:27am, 29 Mar 2021 13,802 posts	0 rf_fozzy [Starship Troopers is supposed to be satirical of war and the hatred of the "other" and of the facisistic elements in the book - which I've actually never got round to reading]
mr d Mar 2021 1:02am, 29 Mar 2021 4,673 posts	0 mr d The book hasn't aged well. Verhoeven found it too boring to finish according to Wikipedia, which also says: "The film utilized fascist imagery throughout, including portraying the Terran Federation's personnel wearing uniforms strongly reminiscent of those worn by the SS, the Nazi paramilitary. Verhoeven stated in 1997 that the first scene of the film—an advertisement for the Mobile Infantry—was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935), specifically an outdoor rally for the Reichsarbeitsdienst. Other references to Nazism include the Albert Speer-style architecture and the propagandistic dialogue ("Violence is the supreme authority!"). According to Verhoeven, the references to Nazism reflected his own experience in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II."
Serendippily Mar 2021 8:43am, 29 Mar 2021 21,403 posts	0 Serendippily I’m not good on bugs or horror but I remember giggling through most of it
Eynsham Red Mar 2021 9:53am, 29 Mar 2021 7,409 posts	0 Eynsham Red Was Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber a Starship Trooper? Just asking for Sarah Brightman.
Diogenes Mar 2021 10:35am, 29 Mar 2021 58,788 posts	0 Diogenes Reginald Bosanquet's father, the cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, was the inventor of the googly. Izard means mountain goat. Nigel Farage is probably descended from Huguenot refugees. [You can tell I've been down a Google rabbit hole/ It's not what you know, it's Huguenot]
Nicholls595 Mar 2021 11:04am, 29 Mar 2021 24,297 posts	0 Nicholls595 He did invent the googly Dio, but it was known as a Bossie