Re: Starship Troopers

Well then the list is EVEN MORE wrong!!! Because the movie doesn't deal with the end of the war AT ALL!!

I am sill not wrong here!

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Re: Starship Troopers

Invid wrote:

21. Black leather jackets are perfect for the field.

Yes, ask any SS officer.

Invid wrote:

29. Did I mention the only black guy who got more than one line died and the black lady got serious acid burn?

Isn't the Sky Marshall black?

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46. Apparently being good in math equates into being able to fly a ship recklessly.

Um, yes. Always. All math majors are also space pilots.

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fireproof78 wrote:
Invid wrote:

29. Did I mention the only black guy who got more than one line died and the black lady got serious acid burn?

Isn't the Sky Marshall black?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090729005515/starshiptroopers/images/thumb/f/fe/Vlcsnap-105257.png/185px-Vlcsnap-105257.png

That was a guy?

For those who don't know, the author of that list, Cronan Thompson, was a USENET poster who passed away in 1999 at age 19. In tribute, Robert Wolf named a character in the pilot of the TV series Andromeda after him, killing him off first because Cronan was always pointing out the black guy is the first to die.

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Invid wrote:

In the book, there's a conspiracy guy in boot camp who tells our hero that this is all BS, the guys who died in training didn't die, it's all an act, etc. We never find out that's NOT true, although the implication is that the guy was just an idiot. So, by bringing up the idea in the book, the reader is able to discount it. By NOT mentioning the idea in the movie, we have to consider the idea.

Um, which part of the book? Because that doesn't sound like my version. Sounds like "Space Cadet."

It has been twenty years, so it is possible. Is that the one where he builds his own spacesuit? smile

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Re: Starship Troopers

Invid wrote:
fireproof78 wrote:
Invid wrote:

29. Did I mention the only black guy who got more than one line died and the black lady got serious acid burn?

Isn't the Sky Marshall black?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090729005515/starshiptroopers/images/thumb/f/fe/Vlcsnap-105257.png/185px-Vlcsnap-105257.png

That was a guy?

For those who don't know, the author of that list, Cronan Thompson, was a USENET poster who passed away in 1999 at age 19. In tribute, Robert Wolf named a character in the pilot of the TV series Andromeda after him, killing him off first because Cronan was always pointing out the black guy is the first to die.

No. More to my point was that there was a black person and something bad didn't happen to them (that we know of wink )

That's a great tribute. SFDebris has a fun schtick about black guys dying in a TNG review:

http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t128.asp

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Re: Starship Troopers

I re-watched ST over the weekend, with this commentary. Who actually does that?

Anyway, I deduce that Trey's team was unaware of the intended tone while working on it; I mean, they all just treated it like bugs killing dude and vice-versa, right? At what level would you say anyone else on the project was aware of the intent? Was the irony all manufactured in the edit, or were (any of) the cast and crew consciously overkilling it?

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