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New season (sans Roiland) is on Max.  It's good.  The spaghetti episode in particular is absolute top tier R&M if you ask me.

It got better after season 2. I still like the comics better but once I gave up trying to see what they'd keep and what they'd leave out, I just enjoyed the insanity of it. The guy playing Starr was perfect for the role.

Even more necro!

I tried to watch this many years ago and bounced off it because the differences from the comic were too distracting.  It recently showed up on Shudder for some reason and I gave it another try, knowing ahead of time that it's doing its own thing, and I'm liking it way more.  In some ways it's even more over the top than the comics, and that's a feat.

It wasn't a comparison of quality, it was a statement that satire in movies, including Starship Troopers isn't subtle. How you somehow pull out of your ass that people saying that the satire isn't very subtle are somehow also patting themselves on the back for getting the satire, I have no idea. Beyond that, you just seem like a miserable person to watch a movie with.

Are there some flat moments in Dr. Strangelove and Spinal Tap?  Sure, I guess, maybe a few.  Are there a few funny moments in Troopers?  Sure, I guess.... maybe that one.  Do I care that much?  No, not really.  I'm feeling a little stupid for responding to this this conversation especially since it's in a thread about another crappy movie.  But putting Troopers and those two movies in the same sentence just pissed me off.

I feel like all the defenders of Troopers feel some sense of pride that they got the joke but others thought it was For Reals! HA!  Is that fair?  Probably not.  Personally,  I feel like Troopers needs to be take out the shed more often because if you make a parody/absurdist movie WITH THE SAME NAME AS A NOVEL that is NOT absurdist and you don't dial it up enough so that people don't get the joke, you failed and you deserve to be told that repeatedly.  I remember thinking at the time, "you're a smug, pretentious asshole and your movie isn't funny or entertaining but, yeah, Denise Richards is hot, so good on you for that, I guess (but that's not the reason she's in the movie!!1! oh please, guys look at hot girls no matter the reason).

One of my high school D&D buddies gifted me BG3 out of the blue.  Have not played the previous BG games.  I'm excited to play it and also am a little scared to start because everything I've heard makes it sound like I'll be sinking a few hundred hours into it, so I'm trying to wring a little more fun out of Against the Storm before I put it aside and then probably never get back to it.   

The good news is you don't have to have played 1 and 2. There's 2 characters from those games that make cameos but they're barely in it really and all you're missing is the "oh cool, it's so and so!" moment when you meet them. There are a few references here and there to 1 and 2 but it's relatively easy to pick up from context. "Back in blahblah time X people did bad things in the city." type of stuff you might hear about or read in a book or something.

Or Fight Club.

Yeah, it's kind of sad that I always forget Fight Club in that list but it's pretty much the prime example of the satire being missed. That said, Fight Club is so well made it falls victim to its own success and the wrong sorts get enamored with it.

Starship Troopers wasn't either funny enough or absurd enough.  And the acting quality was ass.  So yeah, big difference.

Starship Troopers was nothing but absurdity from start to finish. I mean, sure, it's not Peter Sellers level of absurdity but very little is. I won't argue the other two points though it does have some extremely funny moments like the often pointed out scene of the guy who is missed most of his limbs proudly talking about how the Mobile Infantry made him the man is he is today.

I'm sure that for every three people who watch The Producers, one's takeaway is that Hitler was underappreciated as a dancer.

One of my high school D&D buddies gifted me BG3 out of the blue.  Have not played the previous BG games.  I'm excited to play it and also am a little scared to start because everything I've heard makes it sound like I'll be sinking a few hundred hours into it, so I'm trying to wring a little more fun out of Against the Storm before I put it aside and then probably never get back to it.   

I took my time, and I think I had 209 or so hours for one playthrough.  I don't see myself playing it again, I mean sure there will be things I missed, but damn 200 hours is MMO territory for me. I had not played BG since BG1 back in the 90s.

Up next Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2.  BG3 got my RPG juices flowing again.

I mean that's movie satire in general unless someone here wants to argue that Dr. Strangelove or Spinal Tap are subtle.

Starship Troopers wasn't either funny enough or absurd enough.  And the acting quality was ass.  So yeah, big difference.