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Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Been meaning to watch this for a while - missed it when it first came out - largely because of lousy reviews, but it actually deserved better.
How to describe it? Stupidly good looking, blue-eyed Aryans travelling to the ends of the galaxy to stomp out bugs. The sets, effects, bugs, spaceships, costumes, all first rate. The dialogue and plot is stilted and 2 dimensional, but is intended to be that way - it's a satire, after all -- and if you understand that you'll be laughing all the way through - at the call for a medic, at the good-natured butt-slapping in the Co-Ed showers, at the pun "Roger Young" - look for it, the complete unaffected aspect of the troops when roaming through wastelands of carnage and bodies, at the 1-limbed infantryman who welcomes Johnny Rico to the infantry with a "One day you'll be just like me", at the ever-younger recruits, at the eagerness to die for "the species", the suspiciously prescient propaganda of the state "Would you like to know more...?".
Not a great movie, but a very good one, and certainly well ahead of it's time.
Other films by Paul Verhoeven include Robocop and Total Recall.
Podcast: Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
- Hits: 1773
I found this an interesting listen:
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jTzhEVBsoyXZ3CzUqvpYx?si=Tx_UBXwNR2m_ClpT0ARSWw
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers
More "EXTREMES" podcasts: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8xzmzp/extremes-is-our-podcast-about-people-who-lived-through-wild-situations
Treats from the Calgary Easter Poodle
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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Everywhere the Easter Poodle Doodles, little hidden treats dotting the Calgary urban cityscape, some coming soooo close to the garbage, resting on top...For Easter Sunday there should be a little hunt for all the children, they can collect them and unwrap the chocolates...
Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales - Vernon Lee
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Books
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A pioneer in the genre of "Psychological" Ghost stories, whereupon allowance is made for both the narrator as well as uncanny origins. Floridly written, it takes a while for the mind to shape itself to the meander of her prose, but worth it, references to classical literature and art abound, Gothic tales evoking the ruins and landscapes of Italy.
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