Don't Sell 'Em Short

don doggett · 13 Apr 2007, 02:01 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:01:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Don't Sell 'Em Short
In-Reply-To: <66024.18034.qm at web54401.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <265705.9986.qm at web32414.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- Nathan Spears <spearofsolomon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Witness dialogue like the following:
> 
> Rico: "You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug,
> aren't you?"

What can I say? That's actually one of my favorite
lines in the movie. That, and Nazi Doogie Howser
reading the brain bug's mind and saying "He's afraid!"
Love it or hate it, everything in the movie is done
the way it is on purpose.

> Who, even in Hollywood, could have green-lit that
> bit of cheese into a
> big budget movie without knowing exactly how campy
> it was?  Although as
> a joke on the audience, it gets very tiresome if no
> one else in the
> room is laughing.

I'm often my own best company when I watch Starship
Troopers. Fortunately, when I first saw it I was with
a like minded friend.

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