# Starship Troopers **URL:** **By** Eric Gomez, Paul Meany, Landry Ayres, Natalie Dowzicky **Published:** December 9, 2020 --- Paul Meany \& Eric Gomez join the show to discuss how Starship Troopers failed as a satire. ## Summary: Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs is truly the best way to describe Starship Troopers. This was the third movie in a trio directed by Paul Verhoeven throughout the late 80s and 90s. When the movie was first released in 1997, it received mixed reviews because a large portion of the audience did not conclude that the movie was satirical.