"Service guarantees entrance to the Battle Royale!"
Hipster & The Nerd finally returns to the Rocketship Roulette with two excellent sci-fi dystopias, Starship Troopers and Battle Royale! Join Chris and Brian as they discuss the spectacular effects work, propaganda parody, and satirical takedown of fascism that make Starship Troopers yet another great work of RoboCop director, Paul Verhoeven. Then, stick around as they dive into the fantastic characters, excellent action, and brutal satire of the Japanese educational system that make Battle Royale one of the most influential movies of all time and a perfect final film for Kinji Fukasaku. Plus, there's a bunch of bizarre and overcomplicated lore stuff, so go ahead and give this episode a listen!
Note: The prior description was written before Callie Hanna's public coming out as a transgender woman and thus refers to her by her dead name. Though this is no longer in line with her gender identity, the description has been left as is for the purposes of historical preservation.