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?

[berseker.livejournal.com]

Flogging?


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

[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.

[nerfracket.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

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

[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*

[(Anonymous)]

Thank god it's not me

[afrelleia.livejournal.com]

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

[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!)

[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. ;)

[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

[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

[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.