Although, it would be sort of awesome if they got Winona Ryder to play the mom. She isn't doing much, is she?
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Sophia Brooks - Sep 12, 2012 9:48:23 am PDT #22488 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Tom Scola - Sep 12, 2012 9:52:11 am PDT #22489 of 30000
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From what I understand, the producers of Starship Troopers thought they were making a serious movie, but Verhoeven decided it was a satire. I don't know how many of the actors were in on the joke. NPH probably was.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 12, 2012 10:04:10 am PDT #22490 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Starship Troopers wasn't quite as blatant as Robocop about being a satire, but it definitely had a similar vibe.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 12, 2012 10:16:03 am PDT #22491 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't know how many of the actors were in on the joke. NPH probably was.
Yeah, I have trouble believing he might have failed to notice that he was playing Doogie Hitler at the time it was happening.
Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien, on the other hand...
Frankenbuddha - Sep 12, 2012 10:20:32 am PDT #22492 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Slate is doing Sneakers week in honor the movie's 20th anniversary. [link]
Thanks for posting that, by the way, Kalshane. I am loving the discussion goin on (and Stephen Tobolowsky's reminiscing about the shoot). That is one of my favorite underrated movies.
Tom Scola - Sep 12, 2012 10:21:59 am PDT #22493 of 30000
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Verhoeven seems to enjoy fucking around with his actors.
Gris - Sep 12, 2012 10:43:43 am PDT #22494 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I definitely thought Starship Troopers (the movie) was satire. It wasn't very good but it was definitely satire.
The book...no, I don't think so. Not mostly, anyway. But unlike some of Heinlein's later books, there are places where I think Heinlein knows he's stretching. Basically, I don't think he was 100% nutso when he wrote that one, just getting there. Kind of like Ayn Rand with We the Living, which is actually a pretty straightforward anti-Russian-style-communism book, with a much more reasonable and moderate take on pro-capitalism/libertarianism than she eventually worked up to.
Tom Scola - Sep 13, 2012 5:18:22 pm PDT #22495 of 30000
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DavidS - Sep 13, 2012 6:09:42 pm PDT #22496 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Double fuck!
Fucking Lasseter.
Same thing happened with Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch).
Selick shouldn't have left Laika.
DavidS - Sep 15, 2012 11:53:53 am PDT #22497 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From an AVClub question about movie marathons. This sounds pretty great:
Every year since 2004, a friend of ours hosts The Kegger Of The Rings, a back-to-back marathon of all three Peter Jackson LOTR films—full, uncut versions, so about 12 hours total—with beer and themed food provided. (I don’t think she’s ever made lembas bread, but she makes a mean rabbit stew.) These days, she and her husband live in a two-story townhome, so they show the films on both floors, with the upstairs as the MST3K chat-along room, and the downstairs set aside for Shut Up And Watch The Movie Dammit types.