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This film is completely misunderstood by haters (spoilers)

posted 9 years ago by ericzillazillo
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Seriously guys who say they hate the religious crap, that's the freaking point!

This film was an absolute scathing satire of religion. If you were of any intelligence you would instead hate it for being atheistic propaganda, instead of hating it for being overly religious.

I can't even begin to count the pokes it made at religion, from comparing the religious to bugs, to making the most religious character the most annoying, to converting the captain for to some bullsh** reason, to finally appropriating a national religion and proclaiming god to be a citizen...

I mean seriously, I'll understand if you thought the film was religious propaganda for the first half of the film, but really to the end it couldn't have been more obvious.

If you want to hate it, then hate it for the poor graphics, Blalock's horrendous lips, and the goofs.

The script is gold.

[–] cockroachcharlie 9 years ago

If it helps, I hate it because the religious satire was so damn blatant. Good satire is meant to be subtle, and frankly, I don't see how people missed this one. I'm a christian, but I have no objection to this movie poking serious fun at religion in general. I just wish it had pulled it off in a more quiet way.

"The bugs may have given us our best weapon ever." "God is a citizen." "He wants us to win." "IT'S THE WRONG GOD!" There is no real satire here. It's trying to be quiet, but then, like so many bad comedies, it feels the need to explain the joke and, therefor, ruin it.

[–] ericzillazillo 9 years ago

The movie was already so subtle that the satire just flew over people's heads without them noticing... and yet you want it to be even quieter. Can't please everybody.

I have to say, part of the blame rests on it being marketed as a sci-fi B-movie rather than the over the top commentary on religion in politics that it also is. (Really, I can't think of any other sci-fi movie to hit religion half as hard, this film was unique)

Neumeier clearly wrote this for a slightly different audience, if they had done the marketing right Marauder would have become a cult classic among secularists. What a waste.

[–] nyarlath 7 years ago

Good satire must be subtle, but only for the weak minded. The rest of us can take satire and parody full force and have a good time with it. Like a shot of whiskey vs near beer.

[–] Etherdave (162) 10 months ago

It was a poor film, hampered by a low budget, a meandering, poorly-developed storyline, and a poor cast. So it is easy to hate, especially if one is particularly nostalgic about the first film. Personally I feel Casper Van Dien did a good job reprising his role as Johnny Rico, and though Jolene Blalock is, perhaps unnecessarily distracting, her ending performance echoed the wide-eyed, silly, hyper-patriotic style of the conclusion of the first film.