Not saying it's a problem, just saying it's a problem if you're specifically looking for movies "with leftist talking points" and you watch Starship Troopers, because there are no leftists talking points, only ironic fascist talking points.
This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing.
David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
An absolutely valid critique of Starship Troopers; while it does a superb job of ripping apart fascist/militaristic ideology, it ultimately offers no positive alternative or solution.
It's not wholly an issue with Starship Troopers, but mostly how the audience that saw Starship Troopers was conditioned by decades of Hollywood war movies to expect to see heroes on screen and expect to root for them because literally every Hollywood war movie is about cheering on the soldiers on screen. Again, I think Starship Troopers is a great film, but the vast majority of people who went to see it could have used some kind of primer to interrupt those Hollywood-set expectations that led so many to miss the point.
Not saying it's a problem, just saying it's a problem if you're specifically looking for movies "with leftist talking points" and you watch Starship Troopers, because there are no leftists talking points, only ironic fascist talking points.
An absolutely valid critique of Starship Troopers; while it does a superb job of ripping apart fascist/militaristic ideology, it ultimately offers no positive alternative or solution.
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It's not wholly an issue with Starship Troopers, but mostly how the audience that saw Starship Troopers was conditioned by decades of Hollywood war movies to expect to see heroes on screen and expect to root for them because literally every Hollywood war movie is about cheering on the soldiers on screen. Again, I think Starship Troopers is a great film, but the vast majority of people who went to see it could have used some kind of primer to interrupt those Hollywood-set expectations that led so many to miss the point.