Directed by Leni Riefenstahl I feel like I'm doing an act of service when I call this film boring, which it is. But it's important, very important, and it's influential. It's a fascinating historical document and certainly a spectacle, but it's also just so boring. It's a propaganda film, of course, about Adolf Hitler and … Continue reading Triumph of the Will (1935)
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven Starship Troopers only borrowed the name from the science-fiction book written by Edward Neumeier after similarities between that book and the screenplay, originally titled Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine. Director Paul Verhoeven couldn't read more than a few chapters of the Neumeier book, saying it made him "bored and depressed." Verhoeven later explained … Continue reading Starship Troopers (1997)
