Movies: Starship Troopers 3 and When Nietzsche Wept

[amedia]

We watched Starship Troopers 3 just before the hurricane, and When Nietzsche Wept partly before and partly after. (We actually unlocked a classroom and watched it using the projector, since we had no power at home.)

I can say two good things about Starship Troopers 3: it had Jolene Blalock, whom I enjoy watching, and it didn't suck nearly as bad as Starship Troopers 2. #2 was execrable; #3 was just crappy.

When Nietzsche Wept was excellent; it had a good handle on Nietzsche's philosophy and I was surprised to realize that Nietzsche was played by Armand Assante, who I thought was just a mini-series hunk. He was very, very good, and so was Ben Cross, who played Dr. Josef Breuer, an historical character who was a friend of Sigmund Freud and a contemporary of Nietzsche. It's based on a novel that imagines that Breuer treated Nietzsche with a kind of primitive psychotherapy, and was deeply affected by the process. I found the movie genuinely engaging and touching.

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[amedia.livejournal.com]

Starship Troopers 2 and 3 both went directly to video. #2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367093/) was SO AWFUL. I kept looking at the time readout on the DVD player and wishing it would move faster. Even Richard Burgi from Sentinel couldn't save it.

[oddsbobs.livejournal.com]

I suppose I shouldn't even watch it for the LOLs. (I enjoyed the first movie. I've read the book now, though, and would probably only pick up the differences between the two.)