I don’t read The Onion’s AV Club very often, but they’ve got some pretty good material. Their list of the underrated movies of the last decade is spot on. Here’s their assessment of Starship Troopers:
Among the most subversive and widely misunderstood studio films ever produced, Paul Verhoeven’s anti-fascist satire was falsely interpreted as an endorsement of a fascist utopia that sends pea-brained young recruits on a dire, meaningless offensive against giant space bugs.
A few choice selections: Spartan, The Rules Of Attraction, Vanilla Sky, American Psycho, The Ninth Gate, Bringing Out the Dead, Crash, Kundun, The Frighteners.
Apparently this coincides with a new AV Club feature called The Underrated List. It’s where I learned that Elijah Woods is very, very gay.
Yeah, I loved Starship Troopers, it was brilliant. It captured the spirit of Heinlein’s (unintentional) benevolent fascism extremely well while poking fun at it at the same time
By the way, don’t bother picking up Starship Troopers II. It’s nothing like the first one.
I would add Gattaca to that list.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who thought ‘Starship Troopers’ and ‘Ninth Gate’ were good movies.
‘Equinox’ is probably the most underrated movie I can think of, although perhaps it is slightly more than a decade old.
We really need to open up the floor to a “most OVERrated” list.
I’ll have to check this out….