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Starship Troopers! or, the thread for Paul Verhoeven
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 21 Aug 2008, 21:40 ---Dude, radiation/radiotherapy is a totally legit way of curing/attempting to cure diseases. It's often used in cancer treatment today.
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Seriously.
Heinlein was a very intelligent and up-to-date individual, and a thorough-going skeptic who despised snake-oil salesmen. He was aware that radiation wouldn't cure the common cold and that it would kill you in uncontrolled, high doses (see Space Cadet, written at least a decade before Starship Troopers). When he wrote of radiation's therapeutic uses, he was speaking of the cutting edge of real medical research, not "Curie jug! It keeps your water warm and delivers healthful benefits while curing impotence!"
Nodaisho:
huh, forgot about that. I'm pretty sure that in Starship Troopers, though, he was talking about almost all diseases and defects being cured by radiation therapy, possibly applying it to the whole planet, it has been a couple years, so I am fuzzy on it. I just remember he was talking about a more wild planet, how the main character was wondering what it would be like to live there, thinking it would be less safe without all the diseases killed.
tomselleck69:
Alright so who else has seen Spetters?
It's a good'n
parm:
Fun fact!
I worked on the Starship Troopers FPS that came out a couple of years back. It was pretty bad, actually.
So, uh, sorry about that.
The second film was amazing, if you're completely hammered and forget it's a Starship Troopers film. YAY ZOMBIE MIND-CONTROL ALIENS.
Border Reiver:
Paul's movies can be good in a "turn your brain off, open the beer and sit back on the couch" kind of way. Robocop, Starship Troopers and Total Recall being the prime examples.
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