There is apparently going to be a Helldivers movie, which is kind of funny because Helldivers is Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS with the serial numbers filed off
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There is apparently going to be a Helldivers movie, which is kind of funny because Helldivers is Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS with the serial numbers filed off
https://www.polygon.com/news/508080/helldivers-movie-arrowhead-games-involvement
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Maybe this time audiences will get it? It's not like people have gotten dumber since 1997 or anything
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@jalefkowit what happened in 97? i assumed america was just always this dumb.
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@dysfun That was the year Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS came out, and the entire audience and nearly all critics failed to grasp what Verhoeven was getting at.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/this-week-in-genre-history-starship-troopers
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@dysfun (I saw it in the theater by myself on a whim, came out saying "that's brilliant!", and then ran headlong into literally everyone I knew thinking I was an idiot for thinking that)
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@jalefkowit it was too subtle. how are people supposed to associate storm troopers with fascism?
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to gaytabase last edited by [email protected]
@dysfun After they capture the brain bug, Doogie Howser in a long black trenchcoat exults "IT'S AFRAID!!!" as a sea of chiseled Aryans cheer.
And nobody got it!
