Legendary Sci-Fi Director's 129-Minute War-Action Masterpiece Is Being Cut From Netflix

When legendary director Paul Verhoeven's space action epic arrived in theaters 29 years ago, a lot of people didn’t get it . While the original 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein had a militaristic right-wing viewpoint, Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier sought to lampoon those themes when they adapted it for the screen in 1997. Unfortunately, a number of critics mistook the movie’s satire for sincerity. The Washington Post , for example, called the movie “Nazi to the core.” Over the years, Starship Troopers has been reevaluated as a sharp piece of commentary, not dissimilar to Verhoeven and Neumeier’s other…