what is this person saying?
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:14 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
god damn bugs wacked us johnny
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
I want to watch starshipp troopers rn
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
it's some kinda smart bug
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Starship Troopers is pretty rad. So cheese but so A+ with its effects and fighting sequences.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
it's kinda perfect. in its way.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Starship Troopers is like 5th Element in that my wife will be excited to watch it and i'm fine w/ in theory (like i don't just dismiss it because it's "dumb") but i don't actually get any enjoyment out of seeing it.
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, February 17, 2012 1:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it looked like 'menstruation' to me
but thank you
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
my work today will not allow for more reveals, but i'll unleash the top 15 with a vengeance on monday. btw morbs voted and his #1 was indeed timecop.
― omar little, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Another I haven't seen. For some reason I just assumed I wouldn't like it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Timecock was the name of my third oh nevermind
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
wrt starship troopers
tried watching starship troopers once, got about 15 minutes in and turned it off, never went back
maybe I just don't get late stage verhoeven
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Hey OL,
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz9gvydsSA1r4ej6wo1_500.gif
From,
Everyone
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
otm; omar should run all film polls, maybe the world.
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ didn't help that I'd read the book first, which is much much better.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol ENBB, also: otm
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
poll is great for sure, my only complaint is the ilx quotes are so old and are all by tombot
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
E, you should try Starship Troopers. It absolutely fits the thread title, and is a lolfest imo.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
aMAAAAAAYzing gif enbb
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
I remember going with a buddy to see Starship Troopers the night it opened and just having the greatest freaking time. By the time it got to the flamethrower bug burning the dude's arm off I knew we were viewing a classic for the ages.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
also why is kill bill so high
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Starship Troopers is amazing--EVERYBODY gets a horrible end in that one. Also the lighting is so weird.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
people who don't love starship troopers...i don't allow them in my house.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
didn't help that I'd read the book first, which is much much better.
find it baffling that anyone could find Heinlein's painfully earnest fascism superior to Verhoeven's bitter satire
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
idk if the heinlein book is better really! i read it in middle school so who knows. all i remember is the main character getting stressed out about his math homework.
i take it the movie is about fascism while the books i just kind of fascist.
xp heh
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Casper Van Dien is like a walking lol forever and always
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
You guys who haven't seen it would it help to mention that RUE MCCLANAHAN is in this movie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUTfVgbsCE
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i knew i was remembering something from ilx past:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=50&threadid=140
things i like in the assault on precicnt 13: the kid with the icecream gets shot not saved (= i am sick but whatevah)
things i like in starship trooper: it is based on the premise that the entire human race = utterly dim but underwear-model gorgeous gay men, some of them by chance in girl's bodies
― mark s (mark s), Monday, November 4, 2002 7:34 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes but Mark, it is set in the FUTURE. Surely this is what we will evolve to?
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, November 4, 2002 7:35 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i am evolving into the brainbug
― mark s (mark s), Monday, November 4, 2002 7:46 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Starship Troopers book is like the movie minus the satire and plus real fascism.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
My teenage love of Heinlein is deeply embarrassing now. But I did grow out of it.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
You'd either grow out of it, or join a militia.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Man, watching Total Recall again right now. The grimaces Arnold manages are so incredible they look like make-up effects.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
With the book, you've got to write your own satire. The movie satirises fascism in the same way that Robocop satirises consumerism and corporations, ie, with a big cheesy LOL.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
and still people didn't get it
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Looked back at my ballot and omg I shouldnt have rushed it. I forgot Predator! WTF is wrong with me?
Watching T1 again and lol Sarah Connor was a dork. Arnie's punk clothes are an A+ look too.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
But the book wasn't meant as satire, so that's sort of cheating. That's like reading Rand as satire. Um, no.
Also, Verhoeven's 1980s version(s) of the future could still be convincingly futuristic, hair and all. I can totally imagine a future that looks like Recall and RoboCop. Can't imagine a future that looks like Showgirls, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 1:36 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
you can enjoy the fascism or laugh at it. thus, greatness.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
we have a present that looks like showgirls
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
I watched Terminator again maybe a month or so ago, and I was struck at what a straight to video sort of cult film it looks like - cheap effects, cheap reused effects - but it works.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
haha. sorry about duplicate post. Heinliein is overrated. Guy is kind of a dick.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
We need to find Omar a less demanding job.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
TR, actually (watching in real time now), features all sort of prescient tech stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
wwwaaaaayyyyy back when I was in junior high, I was into Avalon Hill's "bookcase games" with the tiny cardboard game pieces, hex grid boards, etc. One of my faves was this:
http://www.msu.edu/user/storto/sstsaler.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I HAVE PLAYED THAT
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
bugs mr rico millions of em
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 February 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
zilions
I admit that the 'recruiting commercial' at the end of ST is pretty funny. The rest of it gets bogged down because the characters do stupid things relative to the exact same scene in the book. Example: in the movie, Zim deliberately injures a recruit by throwing a knife into his hand. In the novel, he has a long discussion with recruits about the purpose of the military (as Heinlein saw it, IOW 'here's some more militarist propaganda for the reader').But Heinlein is a dick, the book isn't intended as satire (it was written as an argument against cutting back on nuclear testing), you have to pick your own way through it.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
btw morbs voted and his #1 was indeed timecop.
― omar little, Friday, February 17, 2012 1:27 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
DJP looks like you are a stone cold psychic about this list.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link