He has been quoted in the New York Volkischer Beobachter as saying 'Thumbs up!'įortunately, back here in grumpy reality, all that was blown to dust, crushed bone and ash back in Year 12, a very bad year for the Thousand-Year Reich and a very good year for the rest of us.īut you couldn't tell that from 'Starship Troopers.' In this universe, he has already seen 'Starship Troopers' 14 times. Of course the great Fuehrer has gone to Valhalla, but it's possible that in a home in some mountain fastness, some shiny facsimile of Holy Berchtesgaden, the 97-year-old Heinrich Himmler still dodders about, drooling and filling his Depends with waste, and on the odd clear day when his mind doesn't buzz with Alzheimer's he remembers with pride the greatness he helped create. It hails from what would be Year 64 of the Thousand-Year Reich, a sanitized utopia of heroic, sexless young folk grandly aware of their role as defenders of the known reality and descended from the Nazi pioneer generation of the 1930s and '40s. It comes directly out of the Nazi imagination, and is set in the Nazi universe. It's spiritually Nazi, psychologically Nazi. I don't mean to suggest that it's political propaganda in the literal sense or that it advocates Nazism. And in some profoundly disturbing way, it's Nazi to the core. It's an epic of bug blasting, a movie whose script appears to have been the instructions on a can of Raid. The movie recounts the adventures of a platoon of Mobile Infantry sometime in the next century as it does battle with a race of arachnid nasties on the far planet of Klendathu. I thought the Nazis lost the war.īut here's the exceedingly strange new movie 'Starship Troopers' commandeering 22 million American dollars in its first weekend and certain to make gobs more, while secretly whispering, 'Sieg Heil!'

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