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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'm not sure I would call it a satire. That would give it too much credit. I'm also pretty sure fascist doesn't mean what he thinks it does.
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If you contrast it with
RoboCop then yeah, his
Starship Troopers displays the same kind of bombastic satire. Of course, Verhoeven never read the novel. He found it boring after a couple of chapters and had his script writer summarize the story for him.