Honest Trailers Does Starship Troopers
Honest Trailers Does "Starship Troopers", and admittedly I was one of the legion who didn't quite caught on the intent of the 1997 film, thinking back then this was a "ill conceived thinly veiled blatant propaganda project" to justify "war", which has left me feeling embarrassed at my shallowness, and as well appreciative of what director Paul Verhoeven was trying to do, which not so ironically in this day and age of socials and media highway, the explanation of the film's intent would've been absolutely shoved down our cyber-throats already LOL
Never did partaken of subsequent "equals" too tho ...
"Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids.
Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job..." (Synopsis for Robert A. Heinlein’s novel / Kindle Edition on Amazon)
I can imagine the promos for this film NOW: including faux-recruitment promos and ads, viral websites to test your resolve to enlist and gauge your capability (all the while storing your personal information, of course), and maybe even a "counter-army" underground movement too = "Arachnid-sympathizers"! ... "Insectoids have feelings too!" ... PICK A SIDE (Sounds uber-familiar, no doubt utilised by other film-promos of course ... leave a comment in this post to help jog my memory, thanks!)





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