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Awesome!

This is one of the coolest "summer blockbusters" ever. I remember it was the first movie where I felt like the marketing was shoving it down my throat. When I finally saw it on video I was blown away.

Director Paul Verhoeven... he tried catching this movie's magic again with crappier actors and a bad script, and that movie was Starship Troopers.

sorry, but that's a terrible "arnie".

It's such a terrible Arnie it progresses into some kind of beatnik slam poetry by the middle.

EDIT: Nevermind, it actually does. Those drums in the background... Brilliant!

I thought he did recapture some of the magic with Starship Troopers. On first viewing it might seem like a shallow, 90210-in-space action movie. Watch it again with more attention and it's a wonderfully arch, grand guignol comment on how war makes fascists of us all. It was not quite Total Recall in terms of classic movie-making, but it was on the level of Robocop in terms of social comment contained within brainless, R-rated, sci-fi action.

Funny how small that screen looks now that we have these huge HD displays. I remember thinking how cool that would be, at the time.

Sweet

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