I'm watching Starship Trooper and it's super cool. (lemmygrad.ml)

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I wish I could join the army. Imagine being a cute 168cm hooman fighting alongside the communist bug bretheren. At night we'd snuggle in a bug pile, say "don't let the bed humans bite you", laugh about it and then snooze happily. But nooo, I have to live under capitalism and observe the passage of time until I'm homeless and jobless. :(((((((

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[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

It does have a good ending, where

spoiler

The jaded deserter who fragged his commanding officer, who despite being an effective soldier has been spitting on the Federation the whole movie, dies holding off bugs so a transport ship can escape... and then his actual death montages straight into a recruitment ad by the Federation praising him as a hero and retconning his literal last words from "Murderers don't get to go home" to "Don't cry for me, my glory lives forever!"