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Starship Troopers - re:View
Mike and Jay of RedLetterMedia discuss Starship Troopers, covering its legacy, why people like or dislike it, and its reading as sci-fi action satire versus the Heinlein book.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as a good analysis of the film's satire and layers when Starship Troopers or Heinlein come up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- RedLetterMedia
- Topic
- starship troopers film analysis
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I think there's more depth to the film than you might be giving it credit for. There's a lot of goofy heavy-handedness on the surface, but there are some layers underneath, in the writing and the arcs of the characters The guys at Red Letter …
dmreedy on Hacker News · 2018-11
In The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the WaterbedThe book (one of my favourites) is a little diffrent. There the perspective is that of the mobile infantist. The classic hero arc but in a fashist world. Like in the movie, there is no enlightenment or revolution though, just the story of a regular …
progre on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Notes on Nationalism (1945)
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