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sweetloukillbot

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6. I actually loved the movie as a parody

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 10:47 PM

Dec 2014

The basic plot is the same as the book, but the movie holds Heinlein's ideals of government up and shows how fucked up they are, whitewashing the cast into an Aryan rally decked out in SS uniforms (Neal Patrick Harris as a Hitler Youth? There's no way Verhoeven was serious in that casting!)

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