Paul Verhoeven's 'Starship Troopers' still fantastic fun

The sequels are just monstrously, tragically bad. I don’t think one can be any more disappointed in a sequel. Everything goes “right” and is novel in the original; everything goes wrong and is hackneyed in the sequels. Some of the casting in the ST:3 is just laughably atrocious: like the woman with almost indecipherable French accent (Cécile Breccia as Link). Weird thing about ST:3 was: the screenplay was by Edward Neumeier, the writer of the original ST, plus it had certain elements of the original Heinlein novel-- and it still bombed. (Perhaps because Neumeier himself was also the director?)

Yeah, guys, the director who made … is a secret Nazi sympathiser.

I wonder if, even with this crowd, you’ll still need a /s to make it unambiguous.

Be sure. Be very sure.

Please, don’t.

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