From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 2:59:07 AM UTC-8, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:   
   > 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"!)   
      
   With pea pins, the Boy Scouts would be able to flatten the tires of enemy   
   vehicles.   
      
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