From: grschmidt@acm.org   
      
   On 4/03/2015 4:08 PM, Tim Bruening wrote:   
   > On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 4:44:06 AM UTC-8, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:   
   >> On 26/02/2015 5:42 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> grschmidt@acm.org says...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On 26/02/2015 7:12 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>> In article , rochrist   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> To be effective as parody, it needs to  be something at least slightly   
   above   
   >>>>>> 'absolutely idiotic'.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I've yet to see more than a couple of parodies that aren't "absolutely   
   >>>>> idiotic" - they're mostly purile, juvenile garbage.  :-\   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> But calling "The movie known as Starship Troopers" a parody is not   
   correct.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A dumb-bum closet leather freak's idea of a shoot-em-up movie with   
   >>>> Nazi's doing the shooting and insects taking the place of >>> target>, yes, but *not* a parody.   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, not a parody of the novel anyway, which Verhoeven allegedly threw   
   >>> at the wall a few pages in and wasn't even aware of when he was working   
   >>> out the concept for the movie.   
   >>>   
   >>> Parody of various old "war movies" on the other hand . . .   
   >>>   
   >>> It might have been a decent movie if he had called it something else,   
   >>> but as it is I want to believe that there is a special Hell in which   
   >>> Verhoeven spends eternity using his notion of strategy and tactics in a   
   >>> war against a competent enemy.   
   >>>   
   >> I might go with /failed/ parody of various old war movies, masking his   
   >> need to get some beefcake onto the screen for his fantasies...   
   >>   
   >> But, yes, oh yes, Verhoeven in hell, against a competent enemy, or even   
   >> an angry troop of Boy Scouts armed with pea-shooters!!   
   >   
   > Are the Boy Scouts firing pea-pins out of their pea-shooters?   
   >   
   No, you drongo, they are shooting *peas*.  (That's why they are called   
   "pea-shooters"!)   
      
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