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One Hour Photo rocked. Except that it was a bit too sick for my liking.
Starship Troopers was good for:
A) Sci-fi actiony gorey giant bug outer space shoot-em-up gorey action! One of the best movies of the sci-fi action gore genre I've ever seen, if not the best.
B) A sardonic, twisted, and hilariously funny sattirical take on warfare. Oh my god, when I first realized that Starship Troopers was a sattire, I couldn't stop laughing, because suddenly I could remember every over-the-top thing in that movie. Like, the commercial that says "Do your part!" and shows a bunch of little kids stomping cockroaches and the teacher cheering them on, or the one where there are these soldiers talking to a group of kids and they're all letting them hold these horribly powerful automatic weapons and stuff and it's like "Aw, isn't that cute?". Great sattire.
I saw some of Apocalypse Now, but it's always on at like eight o' clock at night on that classic movie channel and they have a zillion hours of commercials so I can't stay up late enough to watch it (long movie by itself).
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you should read the book Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.
i liked the movie, for its camp factor, but the book is witty, philosophical, and intelligent.
it's also an allegory for the Japanese and American struggle during the Pacific Theater in World War II.
brilliant.
'rico! you know what to do!'