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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.