Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Starship Troopers (1997)

Dizzy: My mother always told me

that violence doesn't solve anything.

Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders

of Hiroshima would have to say about that.

Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.

Rasczak: Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts

throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion,

that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking

at its worst; people who forget that always die. 

Civics lessons straight from the lips of militaristic psychopaths -- aka the way school was meant to be taught! Anyway I feel kinda weird celebrating this movie on a day of being happy about politics (fill in the blank here with the necessary arguments about Obama's embrace of drones and so forth), but what ya gonna do - today is its fifteenth anniversary. That's right - fifteen years! Add one more check to the "I am getting old" column. But instead of discussing the film's satirical take on propaganda and patriotism, I have a more important query...

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