Reply #10: It's a satire. A slap in the face of militarism. [View All]

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It's a commentary on the "We're the best, and nobody's going to beat us" mentalityh that the USA is falling victim to now. This film was made 3 years before 9/11. Amazing how much it predicted.

The book was a polemic, and a paen to military life. Some see it as inocuous, I saw it as fascist and militaristic. An entire chapter is devoted to propping up agression as a noble way of life. It's POV is that it's good to get lashed...builds character.:eyes: The movie slapped the books face, by exposing it for the overwrought hero worship, and authoritarian advocacy that it was.

The problem people have with the movie is that it followed the book's narrative too closely, and when that ideology translates to film, the whole thing looks laughable, which is why they made it a satire. Most Heinlein fans hate the movie for that. Most of the film's dialogue was lifted right out of the book, so don't let anyone tell you that they "butchered" the book and ignored everything in it. The only things missing, were the mechanical armored suits, and the Arachnid's spaceships, and that Johnny isn't philipino. We've seen those types of armored suits already in Aliens with the dock loader, and Matrix Revolutions, with that mechanical machine gun with legs thing in the final battle for Zion.