January 27, 2012

A quick thought

Starship Troopers is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 13 when it came out, I bought a ticket to “Mad City” and sneaked into a showing.

Anyway, I was thinking it over yesterday and I had an idea, and it might explain why I and almost every guy my age loves this movie.

Starship Troopers causes an extremely intense cognitive dissonance in adolescent males: it presents the absolutely terrifying prospect of how if you join the military you might literally be ripped apart by a savage, remorseless enemy, but the upside is guaranteed daily co-ed showers.