Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "The Politics of Starship Troopers" video.

  1. I always wondered this about this movie. That whole war was a just war. But everyone was always saying "this movie is about fascism." That's like saying the US was fascist for fighting Germany and Japan.
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  2. He's even an immigrant to Hollywood. Before the Robocop all his films were Dutch.
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  3. Why didn't they just nuke the bug planet? Why waste lives fighting with small arms?
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  4.  @TheDutchGhost  Each battle I saw in the movie could have been handled with a nuke, without out loss of life.
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  5. No. The U.S., Britain, free France, and other countries before occupation, were not fascist. Democracies aren't fascist. Even the Soviet Union wasn't fascist, because they were communist. This is what I always found annoying about this movie. Militarism, especially when it's a defensive war, is not fascism. This is Verhoeven's worst movie. It's almost as bad as his first movie about two ugly prostitutes in Amsterdam "Wat Zien Ik".
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  6. Why didn't they just nuke the bug planet? Instead they pointlessly sent down infantry with guns to get killed. That's a really inefficient way to kill the bugs.
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  7. The Star Trek federation would have been a form of communism. But it was a post scarcity technological society. But Roddenberry's ideas were a bit absurd. Human nature isn't going to change. There will always be greed, envy, lust for power, etc. The writing is inconsistent regarding this, because you can't have interesting stories in a utopia.
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  8. nbp raptor Not categorically. Italians, Germans and Japanese like Americans, more so than dome of the nations we liberated, partly because the way the U.S. treated them after the war. France reacted to the war the way Cenk Uygur does to debates.
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  9. Dominic Romani Even if Verhoeven said that, he didn't believe it. He wouldn't have become a U.S. resident in the 80's, after living through Nazi occupied Netherlands.
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  10.  @Wallyworld30  I don't think so. His movies would have mostly been rated R, but the over the top violence didn't exist.
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  11. Robocop and Total Recall were much better movies. Perhaps because they weren't about a political ideology that Verhoeven didn't understand. Come on. The Netherlands has (or had) mandatory military service. That would make the Netherlands more fascistic than the Earth Federation.
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