Mentions (6)
"Who cares what Paul Verhoeven 'meant' with Starship Troopers? The guy made Total Recall, which, as far as I can tell, is about how having your mind wiped will either help you save the world and/or trap you in a coma forever. After that, he made Basic Instinct, which is about how Sharon Stone has a v"
"Verhoeven is one such a europoor turned Hollywood director. I think the big difference is that he had the intelligence (dare I say courage) to structure it around a straight, conventional story. Robocop and Starship Troopers, for instance, are very sincere, basic Hollywood movies structurely. But it"
"I think like he's a good and talented director. I like that he walks the line between satirising the subject and Also being the exact thing that he is mocking. I also think starship troopers is better than robocop and I like how it starts as a generic 80s sci-fi film then turns really gory and bleak"
"It has EVERYTHING you could want from war propaganda made for millennials. It's like Paul Verhoeven's wet dream. - Catchy EDM music - Camera filters - Minimalist graphic design (those are the individual Hornet squadrons' logos) - Badass footage of blowing the shit out of (hopefully) ISIS members - s"
"I think like he's a good and talented director. I like that he walks the line between satirising the subject and Also being the exact thing that he is mocking."
"Paul Verhoeven's Elle - I really did enjoy this film even though I think it had a lot of shortcomings. I really related to Elle and even though she was very unsympathetic"