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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

putdown of the source material.

Did we read a different book or did the adaptation also eat the onion like all the fascists referencing the film?

Starship Troopers won the Hugo Award

wait...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Definitely not. Verhoeven (the director) is a WW 2 survivor (he was living in the occupied Netherlands as a child) and he very obviously satirizes the fascism of the book. See also: RoboCop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So does the book.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't disagree, but it's a lot more subtle in the book. Basically, the book just presents the society as it is and lets you draw your own conclusions, while the movie lays on the satire pretty thick.