https://vo.rs/tags/starship-troopers/Latest from the Starship Troopers desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/starship-troopers-the-satire-everyone-took-straight/<p>The reception of <em>Starship Troopers</em> in 1997 is one of the great critical misfires of the decade, a case study in an entire industry watching a film denounce fascism and concluding that the film was fascist. Paul Verhoeven made a two-hour recruitment advertisement for a militarised society, complete with beautiful young soldiers, thrilling bug-slaughter and mock news broadcasts urging citizens to do their part, and he made it so slick and so seductive that the joke sailed clean over the heads of most reviewers, who called it stupid, jingoistic and morally bankrupt. They were describing the surface Verhoeven built on purpose, and mistaking it for the film.</p>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000