Finally a reddit post about Starship Troopers that didnt miss the message. For something so on the nose, you'd hope this wouldn't be so rare...
https://old.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/1b8qajw/erm_guys_are_we_the_baddies/
I can't be bothered to copy paste all the comments are smugjerking their media literacy
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....OH FRICK THAT'S A GOOD POINT
BUENOS ARYAN BROS.... ARE WE THE BADDIES?
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The citizenry is so stupid and violent that a random asteroid hits Earth and they respond by shooting bugs on the other side of the galaxy. It's not that subtle
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The director says in the commentary that the meteor really was an attack by the bugs. There's nothing in the film that contradicts this. The whole false-flag angle is made up nonsense on the same level of "actually the whole show is just a dream of a kid in the hospital".
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It's contradicted by being stupid. If your movie shows someone accused of committing robbery in Brazil, and the film clearly shows the audience that person was in Australia at the time, that person is obviously innocent in the context of the film, even if it only happened because the director is tardy and doesn't know how planes work
That does mean the director is a moron, though
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Starship troopers was a metaphor for 9/11. You would know that if you understood media
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I just want to kill bugs.
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Reminds me of that tragedy
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Starship troopers was a metaphor for 9/11
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It was, and 9/11 was actually an accident and not an intentional terrorist incident.
Y'all ain't ready for that conversation yet...
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Wouldn't that be the funniest conspiracy? Nobody could imagine that two plane would accidentally fly into the towers at the same time so they had to invent a whole terrorist plot to explain it away so people could accept it
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More like Verhoven didn't know or cared about the size of space. Shit you have a ship not fricking spotting a massive asteroid heading towards them until the last second.
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Nope. I say kill 'em all.
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The only good bug is a dead bug.
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