Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: I don't think you know anything about the movie or Verhoeven.

[quote name="Vested Id"][quote name="Lizard_King"]The book was not intended as satire as it was squarely a product of the author's anti-commie phase, but the director didn't care what frowning Heinlein youth would say. Whether the movie works for you is another story, but the satire part is not in question. [/quote] I'm not arguing about whether it's a satire, it absolutely is. MM is asking about things that were intended to be taken satirically but ended up being taken as straight, which is the literal opposite of <em>Starship Trooper</em>'s reputation; it looks like and was marketed as a standard 90s effects-heavy action blockbuster. Despite the fact that there is hardly an unironic moment in the film you weren't necessarily expected to recognize that on first viewing, which is true of every Verhoven film I can think of with the possible exception of <em>Showgirls</em>. He's the male-cinema equivalent of Douglas Sirk.[/quote]