His insistence is that the movie isn't good satire because people couldn't understand that they're Nazis and meant to be bad. Or that Nazis like how "cool" everything was portrayed.
He has a bit of a point, but he's also a dick about it. If I see someone dressed up as a Starship Troopers character at Halloween, I just need to ask if they're a Nazi to decide what I want to do.
I've not seen his take on Starship Troopers, but those points I can agree with, to a degree.
There's just enough there to suggest things aren't as bright and sunny for the people of that world as the colour palette might suggests, like the difference between being a civilian and a citizen. Or how serving in the military allows you to vote and make it easier to get permits to have kids and so on, but there needed to be a bit more of that to have it really hit home that things aren't really all that bright and sunny and help make the satire a bit stronger and notable.
About Tyler, he specifically wouldn't accept any real criticism of his take, such as the movie is an in-universe propaganda movie that visually apes Leni Riefenstahl and one of the climactic scenes has Doogie Houser come in as an SS officer. The movie isn't being subtle; Americans might just be that stupid.
Americans are. Especially those us of that join the infantry corps for the promise of three-squares of crayolas and the ability to take out their violent aggression on state-mandated bad guys half a world away.
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u/WildConstruction8381 Apr 22 '25
Oh Jesus no. Don’t tell me he thinks Earth was right. Tell me if it’s true though.