A woman with priorities.

[amanuensis1]

Am watching the film of Starship Troopers, which I added to the very top of my Netflix list the other day solely because I discovered that it contained flogging. :D

Comments

[christwise.livejournal.com]

Is it everything you hoped it would be and more?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

THEY CHEATED US OUT OF THREE LASHES.

[berseker.livejournal.com]

Flogging?


*googles it immediately out of, huh, academic interest*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's actually rather fun, too.

*dies over your icon*

[berseker.livejournal.com]

The summary looks crazy. Insects? EW! I´ll wait for you to finish and tell me if it worths it.

Meanwhile, check this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_L_Kymx9QqQ&feature=related)out. It´s from the movie Ondskan - the trailer is somewhere in youtube too.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you are a sweetheart, thank you! :D

[lady_songsmith]

Having read the book first, I found I was laughing too hard to actually enjoy that scene. The movie is... er... well, it has the same name as the book.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I never read the book--I understand the tone is completely serious in the book, isn't it? This is camp-serious, but I'm having a good time. ^_^

[nerfracket.livejournal.com]

Amy, what I love most about you is that you have your priorities right. ♥♥♥♥♥♥

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Darn tootin'! :D

[slashpervert.livejournal.com]

I completely understand. I personally credit the Westerns and pirate films on Saturday afternoon television during my childhood for leading to my interest (obsession) with bondage and flogging.

Oh, give me Captain Blood (http://www.errolflynn.net/Filmography/cb.htm) any day! Someday I have to write fan fic for that! Captain Blood (Errol Flynn) comforting his friend Jeremy after he is flogged... or the villain Levasseur (Basil Rathbone) abusing Captain Blood. Okay, distracted now.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

And I still haven't seen that, can you believe it?

[(Anonymous)]

An absolute must see then!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Dumb as a box of rocks, but very MSTiable. :) And Dina Meyer is infinitely more attractive and interesting than the inflatable Denise Richards.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Actually I thought Denise Richards was more attractive in that than anything else I've seen her in. I think it's the dark hair and vivid eyebrows.

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

*edited brain-typo* That SCENE. Not meme. *laughing* I don't even like the movie. XD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's yummy! The guy flinches so deliciously!

[maddiec24.livejournal.com]

The flogging was definitely the best part of the movie. My husband was watching it, and I did perk up at that part. *g*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I would have come running in from another room, if that had been the way I discovered it! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Thank god it's not me

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It is not just you! :D

[afrelleia.livejournal.com]

Casper Van Dien provided SO much fantasy material for SO many years! *drools* Well chosen!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

He flinches SO deliciously. :D

[josanpq.livejournal.com]

Lord Johnnie by Leslie White. I read it when I was 13 and the flogging scene in that is the bar by which I judge all flogging scenes. (drool!)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

O_O Okay, I gotta get me some of that. :D

[allika.livejournal.com]

Saw that movie when I was a young(er) girl and couldn't really figure out why I watched that scene over and over. Now, (in part, thanks to you, actually) I know. ;)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Glad to be of service! ^_^

[pyewackets-paws.livejournal.com]

Omgosh I watched that movie forever ago, and I totally forgot about that scene! How could I forget about the flogging?! MMMmmm... flinch.

Now you've got me thinking about all the movies I watched when I was younger, trying to remember if there were any hints of BDSM. roflmao

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid I knew perfectly well why I was fond of certain television shows, and of playing Pirates, and all that. I just had to be careful not to let anyone else know why! :D

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

The book is much better. [sigh]

Actually the movie's not bad, it's just not Starship Troopers. I wish they'd renamed all the characters and called it Bug Hunters or something; I'd have enjoyed it quite a lot in that case, with plenty of popcorn.

I strongly recommend that you read the book at some point. Then you'll realize why Heinlein's fans were outraged when the director in a making-of short referred to the book's "crypto-Fascist" society O_O and when he admitted that that one kind of bug shoots plasma-balls out its ass because he, the director, just "couldn't imagine bugs using technology." [facepalm] So, you're making a science fiction movie, why again...?

And the way they treated the Sergeant at the recruiting center, turning him into tasteless comic relief, is a crime.

The only part about the movie I preferred over the book was the way they equalized the gender thing a bit; all prurience aside, I liked that the girls played sports and showered with the guys, and that the characters treated it as no big deal. I really wish the world were like that.

Everything else was a hatchet-job of the book, though. :/

Angie

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I've never read the book, so, taking this as a piece all on its own, it feels like a shiver-inducing piece of "humans good, aliens bad" piece of propaganda--you can feel the darkness that it's hinting at all through. So on that level it was kinda fun.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. And that's what's really annoying about it -- it is a good movie. It's just not Starship Troopers. It's like reading the James Bond books and realizing that the folks who made the movies pretty much lifted the character names and the story titles and made everything else up. :P

Angie

PS -- and yeah, I know your icon is appropriate. [wry smile] Can't help it. ;)

[lysette123.livejournal.com]

Starship Troopers was the director of Showgirls trying to do Why We Fight, only failing on all cylinders, if you try to view it as straight.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I think it's good advice not to view it as straight. ^_^ And, no, that wasn't a sexuality joke.