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AltaGuy · 07-03-2014, 01:57 PM

Just watched this movie because of this thread: enjoyed it immensely. At the base of it, you can't help but laugh at yourself watching a giant robot battle a giant alien monster. At least, that was how I felt.

Such a throwback to being a child: "If you take a giant <insert big thing here> and make it fight a giant <insert big thing here>, who would win?" Even the way the monsters resembled different animals made me laugh a little bit: "Here we have a hammerhead shark thing, here's a scorpion thing, oooh look: that thing runs like a gorilla."

But it wasn't subversive of the genre at all. Starship Troopers is among my favourite movies of all-time for the ingeniousness of having nazi humans battle bugs without conscience. You realize quickly on reflection that you should be cheering for the bugs. Only other movie I can think of off the top of my head that was as hilariously subversive was Three Kings, which got David O Russell ostracized from Hollywood for quite some time once people figured out what it was really about.

07-03-2014, 01:57 PM	#25
AltaGuy AltaGuy has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: At le pub... Exp:	Just watched this movie because of this thread: enjoyed it immensely. At the base of it, you can't help but laugh at yourself watching a giant robot battle a giant alien monster. At least, that was how I felt. Such a throwback to being a child: "If you take a giant <insert big thing here> and make it fight a giant <insert big thing here>, who would win?" Even the way the monsters resembled different animals made me laugh a little bit: "Here we have a hammerhead shark thing, here's a scorpion thing, oooh look: that thing runs like a gorilla." But it wasn't subversive of the genre at all. Starship Troopers is among my favourite movies of all-time for the ingeniousness of having nazi humans battle bugs without conscience. You realize quickly on reflection that you should be cheering for the bugs. Only other movie I can think of off the top of my head that was as hilariously subversive was Three Kings, which got David O Russell ostracized from Hollywood for quite some time once people figured out what it was really about.