STARSHIP TROOPERS RiffTrax Live event

[xiphias]

So, we just got back from the rebroadcast to theaters of the simulcast of the live show of the RiffTrax folks riffing on STARSHIP TROOPERS. It was a good deal of fun. Lis pointed out that, disturbingly, THAT movie passes Bechdel, even though no summer action movie besides THE HEAT does THIS year.

The RiffTrax folks were broadcasting their own pre-movie slides, and, had we known that, we would have shown up earlier to see more of them. They had movie trivia and stuff, such as: "DID YOU KNOW: GLEE has ripped off three more Jonathan Coulton songs since you sat down in the theater?" and "STARSHIP TROOPERS is loosely based on a book by Robert Heinlein, making it the only science fiction movie ever not based on a Philip K Dick work."

Comments

[mbarr.livejournal.com]

I imagine because of the lead female marine, talking to the denise richards character?

Haven't seen it in years, but it was fun. (I think you had to take some of it w/ a grain of salt, as satire of propaganda..)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Actually because of Denise RIchards' character talking to the captain of the ship she's on. Carmen and Diz basically only talk about Johnny.

I think I would have appreciated the movie more if it didn't have the title "Starship Troopers." It apparently started out as a script called BUG HUNT AT OUTPOST NINE, which was a satire/parody of ALIENS. When they got the rights to STARSHIP TROOPERS, they decided to use a few names and other such elements from the book, partially because Verhoeven felt that Heinlein's book itself promoted the kind of attitudes that he wanted to attack. I'm not sure that it's even accurate to call the movie an adaptation of the book -- it's a separate, original work that uses elements of the earlier work in order to comment on it.

Had I known that going in, I think I would have enjoyed it more when I saw it in 1997.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

The bro-ification of Hollywood has been really sad. I thought the Star Trek reboot was the clearest place to see it. The fact that on an _absolute basis_ it was less diverse and had less agency for women than the 60s original, much less the various succeeding series, was just depressing as shit.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I was going to try to dispute that last piece of trivia, but realized that all the examples I thought of were actually fantasy.

[starrchilde.livejournal.com]

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