Rewatched Verhoeven's 1997 Starship Troopers film and I gotta say, it holds up. I was definitely annoyed then at the lack of power armor, but still. People have argued for decades if the book is pro-fascism or a satire played very straight, but the movie is unambiguous. 🧵 My take is that the book is also satire, but it was written in the 1950s when World War II was still fresh and there wasn't a lot of pushback on the idea that Nazis and Italy's National Fascist Party were indeed fucking bad.