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Coupled with titles from the Federal Network that read “Why We Fight” and “Know Your Foe” and are direct references to the U.S. war propaganda films of Frank Capra, it should be understood that Verhoeven is warning the viewer how distinctly war can change any society.
Overlooked Movie Monday: Starship Troopers » Scene-Stealers 2010
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Verhoeven is European who already had a knee jerk reaction to American society as portrayed in Robocop.
» New ‘Starship Troopers’ movie, more fascism, same old nausea heinleinblog 2008
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Strangely, Verhoeven is authoring a biography on Jesus, which is due to be published in September.
RoboCop Remake Still Uncertain, But Screenwriter Ed Neumeier is Excited « FirstShowing.net 2008
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"I think Verhoeven is an underappreciated cinematic master, but the reasons for his lack of stature are partly of his own creation," writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir.
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"Verhoeven is perhaps something of a split personality: a man who cannot unlearn the headlong American way of making movies that he learned comparatively late in life (he was 48 when he came here) and a man who may also have an aging eye angled at his eventual place in cinema history," suggests Richard Schickel in Time.
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"Verhoeven is a master action director, and Black Book contains several breathtakingly expert sequences," notes Annie Frisbie at Zoom In Online.
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Verhoeven is never content with one commonality, so insults are not enough, and he actually breaks one private’s arm to prove a point.
Overlooked Movie Monday: Starship Troopers » Scene-Stealers 2010
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But other aspects, such as Verhoeven's and Stone's baroque sense of style, now seem wonderful.
Chicago Reader 2009
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“Our riders are already in good shape,” confirmed sports director Nico Verhoeven.
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“Halfway through, Rabobank director Nico Verhoeven told me that I had the best time split at that point,” Gesink said.
Robert Gesink extends his Tour of Oman lead with time trial win 2011
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