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This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan watch the most subtle satire ever made \\u2014 Starship Troopers. What exactly is this movie skewering? We\\u2019re not sure. We thought we might have figured it out with the Nazi uniforms and Leni Riefenstahl shots and Aryan actors, but then we got distracted by the nudity and gore and decided not to think about it anymore.

Starship Troopers (1997)

d. Paul Verhoeven
w. Edward Neumeier\\xa0(screenplay) (as Ed Neumeier),\\xa0Robert A. Heinlein\\xa0(book)

Starring:
Casper Van Dien
Dina Meyer
Denise Richards
Neil Patrick Harris
Jake Busey
Seth Gilliam
Patrick Muldoon
Michael Ironside

In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant alien insects. Little is known about the Bugs except that they are intent on the eradication of all human life. But there was a time before the war... A Mobile Infantry travels to distant alien planets to take the war to the Bugs. They\\xa0are a ruthless enemy with only one mission: Survival of their species no matter what the cost...

Things discussed in the show:

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The Floor is Lava (Rutledge Wood,\\xa0Janine Hogan)

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat,\\xa0Madeleine Carroll,\\xa0Lucie Mannheim)

Rear Window\'s homosexual subtext

Caligula (Tinto Brass, Gore Vidal, Malcolm McDowell,\\xa0Peter O\'Toole,\\xa0Helen Mirren)

Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo,\\xa0Jonathan Majors,\\xa0Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Chadwick Boseman)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan,\\xa0Laurie Metcalf,\\xa0Tracy Letts)

Boyhood (Richard Linklater, Ellar Coltrane,\\xa0Patricia Arquette,\\xa0Ethan Hawke)

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almod\\xf3var, Antonio Banderas,\\xa0Asier Etxeandia,\\xa0Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pen\\xe9lope Cruz)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almod\\xf3var, Carmen Maura,\\xa0Antonio Banderas,\\xa0Julieta Serrano)

Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan,\\xa0Judd Apatow, John C. Reilly,\\xa0Jenna Fischer,\\xa0David Krumholtz)

Step Brothers (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell,\\xa0John C. Reilly,\\xa0Mary Steenburgen)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell,\\xa0John C. Reilly,\\xa0Sacha Baron Cohen)

Old School (Todd Phillips, Luke Wilson,\\xa0Vince Vaughn,\\xa0Will Ferrell)

Paul Verhoeven in nazi occupied Holland

Nazi propaganda in Leni Riefenstahl films including the Triumph of the Will

22 Push Ups Challenge - to raise\\xa0awareness\\xa0and donations to help prevent\\xa0veteran suicide

Unit 731 and Joseph Mengele - and how it\'s easy to commit atrocities be dehumanizing your enemy

Black Hawk Down as a military propaganda film (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett,\\xa0Ewan McGregor,\\xa0Tom Sizemore)

Mazzy Star fist fight

Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson,\\xa0Maya Rudolph,\\xa0Dax Shepard)