Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Caller: Starship Troopers is Actually a GOOD Movie!" video.

  1. Citizen Kane ... most over-rated movie ever.
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  2. If it was satire. most people do not really understand what it was satirizing.
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  3. I'm not a big fan of the Godfather movies, or gangster movies.
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  4. > Starship Troopers is a perfect movie Could not have said it better myself. The problem is that because it deals with existential threats and the military and the responsibility of citizens to defend their cultures, most people are scared of those ideas and resent them, but Heinlein was 100% right about his political views.
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  5. Starship Troopers is a great movie. It is amazing. Fast moving, human, good effects and not just effects, but a good story and a good message. It is one of my favorite science fiction movies of all time.
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  6. What is RL ?
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  7. Silverberg is great ... loved his books until he turned to all the fantasy stuff. Le Guin was also good, but less productive. Clarke, Asimov, Dick, Silverberg, Heinlein, Herbert ... read almost everything by then as a teenager.
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  8. The movie operates on a lot of different levels.
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  9. The book is not pro-fascist.
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  10. +Ematched What ideas do you think it promotes?
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  11. Can you define and give an example of what you mean when you say it was satirical, and what it was satirizing?
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  12. You people are clueless ... Robert Heinlein was a Democrat and even ran for office in California. He, like most thinking people, got disgusting with the corruption and stupidity of the Democratic establishment, even back then, way ahead of everyone who is just now starting to get it. He basically had nowhere to go politically in terms of parties and got disillusioned. The problem is not that the book was bad, just that it is outdated and overcome by history. It's hard to read and understand his viewpoint today. The movie is a good reinterpretation of the book. The idea is presented early on about how force is the absolute authority from with all political power is derived. If you think that Israel would exist if it did not have superior military force, or that the allies would not have won WWII if they did not have superior military force, you're crazy. The sad thing that is happening today is that the US, the arsenal of democracy - so called, is being owned and controlled by anti-democratic parts of the country that have gained power through economic corruption. It is a very dangerous time. To blithely say that Robert Heinlein thought war was great is just s stupid comment. Heinlein's point is that force is the decider, so that war is necessary if you want to protect your society, so you have to institutionalize the value of self-preservation in society so that society does not get weak and fall to barbarians from outside or rot from inside.
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