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In a deeply misguided effort to save the reputation of Hancock, Yglesias compares it to Starship Troopers, which proves that he actually wants everyone to regard it as a horrendous waste of time and an embarrassment for all those involved. (Starship Troopers was the movie that made me wish that an alien bug race destroyed humanity, simply so that the movie would end and we could be put out of our misery.) I should say that I once wasted what seemed like an eternity driving from my Southside Virginia college to somewhere in the general Richmond area to go to the movies one night in my first semester away at school. The movie we saw at the end of our sojourn up, down and around Route 360 was the risible, horrible Starship Troopers. If Hancock is anything like that, run for the hills!
Filed under: film, miscellaneous
On its own terms, as a left-wing cynically anti-military misanthropic satire, Starship Troopers is brilliant. It is the product of a European nihilist sensibility, which of course makes it even more insulting to American Heinlein fans. I can well understand disagreeing with the politics and motivation of that movie, but it is very well done.
Well, maybe I was in a bad mood after spending three hours circumnavigating Richmond, but I remember it being pretty awful by any standard.
“Pretty awful” is being generous. If I ever found one of those genie-filled magic lamps, wish No. 1 would be the complete extirpation of this movie from human consciousness.