Entertainment

“Starship Troopers” was misunderstood

Entertainment / December 1, 2022

From its director on down.

From Wiki:

 

However, as development progressed, many aspects would be changed or removed, in part because of financial reasons, but also Verhoeven’s influence.[49][17] Verhoeven tried to read the novel but “stopped after two chapters because it was so boring … it is really quite a bad book … it’s a very right-wing book.”[44][13][17] He had Neumeier summarize the narrative for him, and found it militaristic, fascistic, and overly supportive of armed conflict, which clashed with Verhoeven’s childhood experiences in German-occupied Netherlands during World War II.[b] Verhoeven determined that he could use the basic plot to satirize and undermine the book’s themes by deconstructing the concepts of totalitarianism, fascism, and militarism, saying “All the way through I wanted the audience to be asking, ‘Are these people crazy?

 

Starship Troopers was released on November 7, 1997, to negative reviews from critics who perceived the film as promoting fascism, including accusations against Verhoeven and Neumeier of being Nazis, as well as criticism over its violence and performances. The reviews and poor word-of-mouth led to box office grosses dropping week on week until it left theaters, earning $121 million and becoming only the 34th highest-grossing film of the year. Starship Troopers’ performance was blamed, in part, on competition from a high number of successful or anticipated science fiction and genre films released that year, and its satirical and violent content failure to connect with mainstream audiences. Verhoeven believed audience misconceptions about the film were the result of poor marketing that presented Starship Troopers as an action film instead of a satire.
Since its release, Starship Troopers has been critically re-evaluated and is now considered a cult classic, one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, and a prescient satire of fascism and authoritarian governance that has grown in relevancy.

 

Critically re-evaluated????

 

I have seen the film many times and in my opinion Director Paul Verhoeven has his head up his ass. Along with every left-leaning journalist and film critic since its release in 1997. 

 

Because apparently, gender, racial equality, one-world government, and meritocracy are fascist.

 

The Content creator The ArchCasts explains it all much better than I do.