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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder 2008
Losing Verhoeven in all but name (Paul Verhoeven Presents) hurts this film badly in terms of directorial quality. The limited direct to DVD budget is also seriously felt. If you thought the CG of the original wasn’t great… oh boy. The acting is frequently bad / wooden. And yet? I still find myself leaning towards giving this film a passing grade on a simple pass-fail scale.
Edward Neumeier returning as screenwriter really caries the film. The satirical lampooning of the…
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Starship Troopers 1997
Director Paul Verhoeven‘s magnum opus Starship Troopers (1997) is an all timer of a sci fi political satire that pulls no punches. A loose adaptation of the Robert Heinlein novel of the same name the screenplay by Edward Neumeier (of Robocop (1987) fame) identifies the authoritarian overtones present in Heinlein’s work and spends over two hours mercilessly lampooning the ideology at the book’s core. The result is a film that is as subtle as a howitzer, and yet, somehow, nearly…
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The Lighthouse 2019
Desolation
Isolation
Doubt
Insanity
A few choice words which could be used to describe Robert Eggers’ sophomore outing “The Lighthouse”. Featuring a two man cast of Willem Dafoe (Thomas Wake) an aged lighthouse keeper saltier than a sperm whale’s pecker, and Robert Pattinson (Ephraim Winslow), his young freshly hired second the film sinks or swims on their performances, and both deliver spectacularly. As time passes at the Light Station it becomes increasingly apparent to the audience that neither Wake or…
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The Martian 2015
“The Martian” holds true to the cliches of its genre, set in place by similar space exploration disaster films that came before such as 1995’s “Apollo 13” while far from revolutionary they never feel as though they’re simply going through the motions either. Chaotic scrambles in the NASA control center to find jury-rigged solutions to major problems, amounting to “fix it with a garbage bag and duct tape” are par for the course here.
While I never felt bored per…
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