5:06 PM on 05.01.2007
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Fronz
It's freakin' awesome when you see a movie that's awesome, and then somehow, the sequel is even more saucesome than the original. Yeah. That's not what we have here this week. Starship Troopers wasn't that great of a movie to begin with, and chances are good that the sequel we're watching tonight won't be any better than the original. Perhaps the right amount of action can distract us from how terrible it is? We'll find out. Tonight, just like every other Tuesday night, we're taking a leap of faith at 10 P.M. eastern standard time. Here's how you can join us.
First download Ventrilo, then gank the login info here in our forum. Install Ventrilo, make an account, grab some food, login, and you'll see about thirty or forty of us talking in various audio chat rooms. Just wander around until someone helps you with your audio settings, and then at 10 P.M. we'll reaveal the movie's secret location, so try to get there a little early.
If you've got any extra questions, feel free to ask them here in the comments.
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Yes, that's exactly how it goes down.
For example: Towards the beginning the professor speaks of the downfall of democracy and how they instituted something far less "Refined" than how we would see it in this day and age.
Further more, it demonstrates how the government stepped in to make decisions for its citizens. Like in the shower scene when Rico first gets into boot, one of the women explained her reason for joining was to make it easier to get a license to have children.
Hell, even how the television programs are entirely propaganda-based. The scene with the children stomping on the insects with the woman cheering gleefully.
It's almost as though they reverted to a sort of 1950's America mindset, but at the same time mixed it with a logically "equal" sense in terms of gender. IE: Seemingly complete gender equality with female marines showering/fighting along side male marines. Even more surprising was the way the genders regarded each other, no gawking at the nudity or discrimination, but they treated them just like another person.
While the latter part of my point seems to betray the 1950's "Perfection" mindset, the aspect of government punishing the aberrations in society reminds me a enforced ideal of squelching immorality/oddities to make a perfect society.
What is to take from all of this? That I completely over-thought that film.
You do realize that the movie was based on a book written in the 50's, right?
Its a shame. The first one really wasn't that bad.
BUTT! (yes but with double T)
this movie has certain scenes... that all guys WANT to watch... and its pretty dam hot if u asked me from a shitty movie...
can dtoid movie night be like my fight club and happen twice a week. i love movie night, but my tuesdays as of late have been filled with spending time with the lady friend. and since dtoid doesn't sleep in the same bed as me {read: this is me declining any offers} i keep missing it.
I'm sure it would be too hard to pull all you guys away from the real work twice a week, and really too hard to organize one day a month be different, i'll just hope that next tuesday she has to work. {man i'm going to get in trouble just for thinking that.}
you guys are brave!!
Actually L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology. Don't drag Heinlein's name through that shit. He actually wrote stuff that doesn't suck.
I quite liked the first starship troopers, but heard about the sheer suck that was the sequel, so I avoided. There are plenty of films I haven't seen that are actually y'know, good, so I'd rather watch them. I like how dtoid movie night has morphed in such a way so it's acceptable for the movie to be a sequel to a film a game was based on, though. Diversity is strength!
we ended with at least half the people we started with, and the movie didn't even finish.
Possibly Matchstick Men?
A Gnome named Gnorme
Snakes on a Plane
Battlefield Earth
The Blair Witch Project
Star Wars: Episode I
Basically ANY Cheech and Chong Film
Judge Dredd
Any of the latest dated Jaws films (the first one was good)
Mars Attacks
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
Dungeons and Dragons
Spice World
Titanic (3 hours to sink a fucking boat!)
Beetlejuice
Lord I could make this list longer, but I have to get ready for work =p.
The sequel? Not so much.