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
The Helldivers 2 devs won’t have much to do with the movie, apparently
Arrowhead Game Studios won’t have a huge say in the Helldivers movie says creative director Johan Pilestedt.
Polygon (www.polygon.com)
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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.
This Week in Genre History: Starship Troopers was a bugged-out critique of fascism
No matter how many times you watch Starship Troopers, you can never entirely make sense of it. So you just keep watching.
SYFY Official Site (www.syfy.com)
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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!
