In other words, I think it’s either screamingly obvious what the political message of the film is, or you’re not really the sort of person who would be particularly fussed about the political message in the first place.

Overthinking It are sporadically awesome. I first came across them last year when they made a video of ‘“40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 minutes”:http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/12/10/40-inspirational-speeches-in-2-minutes/’ and have read the blog on and off since then – does exactly what it says on the tin and subjects pop culture to more scrutiny than it arguably deserves. Their Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger stands out in my mind particularly, for instance, as does the comparison between Hogwarts and Xavier’s School for Gifted Children. Oh, and the analysis of the use of deus ex machina in Doctor Who is good, too…

I remember going to see Troopers when it came out, with a bunch of colleagues from the GW store—all of them completely missed the point, whereas I thought the film was fairly obvious. I guess maybe the critics were sort of right, many people did miss the satire.

Overthinking it is wrong on one point though—Warhammer is influenced by both Dredd and the original Heinlein, and the film is definitely influenced by WH40K, there was talk in the legal department of seeing if they could take it anywhere, but then it was pointed out that they’d never got permission for any of the stuff they were ‘inspired’ by anyway.

My heart bleeds.

Doesn’t work out so great for their enemies, though…