Starship Troopers
WHY does everyone love this movie so fucking much!? It's the most retarded sci fi movie I've ever seen. The characters are all generically bland (the animal-mind-physic being the ONLY possibly interesting person in the movie) and it just paints humans as massive dickholes.
Seriously, watch that movie again. Humanity declares war on a race of insectoid aliens because a comet came from THEIR region of space. Apparently a comet coming from there was enough to launch a full-on war campaign and basically attempt genocide.
I honestly get tired of 'popular' sci fi that features aliens. I love aliens, but if they're not the "we will destroy you!" kind of aliens, then these films all inevitably (when you look at them properly) paint humans as massive wankers.
I got off topic slightly...yes, Starship Troopers. To my eyes, there isn't a single redeemable thing about this movie. The fact that it even exists, let alone is so fucking revered, makes me actually angry.
On the 3 seperate occasions I was made to sit through it, I routinely wanted to punch generic space marine hero Number 845934....erm...I mean Rico, squarely in his fucking jaw, then boot him in the ribs a few times for good measure. And as for his boringly generic love interest who has no purpose other than to show up and mean the ginger ***** can't get him...I seriously wanted her to have an unscheduled appointment with a malfunctioning airlock while in the orbit of a supernova.
WHY does everyone love this movie so fucking much!? It's the most retarded sci fi movie I've ever seen. The characters are all generically bland (the animal-mind-physic being the ONLY possibly interesting person in the movie) and it just paints humans as massive dickholes.
Seriously, watch that movie again. Humanity declares war on a race of insectoid aliens because a comet came from THEIR region of space. Apparently a comet coming from there was enough to launch a full-on war campaign and basically attempt genocide.
I honestly get tired of 'popular' sci fi that features aliens. I love aliens, but if they're not the "we will destroy you!" kind of aliens, then these films all inevitably (when you look at them properly) paint humans as massive wankers.
I got off topic slightly...yes, Starship Troopers. To my eyes, there isn't a single redeemable thing about this movie. The fact that it even exists, let alone is so fucking revered, makes me actually angry.
On the 3 seperate occasions I was made to sit through it, I routinely wanted to punch generic space marine hero Number 845934....erm...I mean Rico, squarely in his fucking jaw, then boot him in the ribs a few times for good measure. And as for his boringly generic love interest who has no purpose other than to show up and mean the ginger ***** can't get him...I seriously wanted her to have an unscheduled appointment with a malfunctioning airlock while in the orbit of a supernova.