You might get upset with Verhoeven as a fan of the book, but keep in mind no matter that if Verhoeven didn't make it someone else would have... and it still wouldn't have been like the book.
Just be glad the director who did make it had the ability to make an entertaining and satirical action movie with an underlying message and artistic, social and political substance rather than just a straight, run of the mill shoot em up.
the Special FX still hold up very well today ... Paul Verhoven had a genius in him that can make Sci-Fi action fun, yet with a small comedic element which i love (i.e. Robocop, Total Recall)
To be honest i prefer the movie Mobile infantry to the original book versions , this version seems more realistic
1. I wouldn't reckon earth could afford to equip Millions of soldiers with the marauder suits or what ever they are called
2. Since a only a couple of those arachnids could take on more than an 8 man section and with no armor support . The tactic of throwing thousands of men at the bugs seems pretty reasonable :D
How the hell did an asteroid come that far that fast? I mean, do the bugs shoot wormhole plasma or something?
The adaptation from book to movie was horrible though... so I suspect it had something to do with the script and storyboard guys messing them up like usual.
@thegreattotemaster Which would be suspect at best as a theory. You'll notice in the context of the film that the federation made it very difficult for the civilian to become a citizen. And even then recruiting was targeted based upon score. The novel doesn't even include a meteor strike and has more to do with the central question of citizen vs civilian.
And while I've never read the novel the Starship Troopers movie is based on, I still class the SST novel and the SST films as two completely different things. Any theories I come up with are based entirely on the movie, within the context of the movie.
If this was the future, they should have MUCH better weapons than that lol. They should at least use incendiary rounds. Seriously, the M4 is probably MUCH better than the gun they use in the movie.
I love how it's totally impossible for the bugs to acttually be responsible for the meteor. Obviously the facsist earth government just used them as scapegoats.
@180791sanguinius It seems impossible for them to aim something as small as earth from another side of the galaxy. Even human technology couldn't do that. A popular fan theory is that it was a set up by the government, just like the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was a setup(some people think it doesn't make sense the whole buildings went down very cleanly with airplanes crashing to the sides).
Funny, the bug homeworld is on the other side of the galaxy. The bugs have no access to any real space travel. But somehow they are able to send a meteorite halfway across the galaxy and hit their very precise, very small target, Earth? Sounds like a government explanation to me.
If Verhoeven bothered to read the book, he'd know that the Federation would never make commercials like this, because they tried to dissuade people from joining the army.
It's a fun movie, what I hate is that no-one will ever make a TRUE Starship Troopers movie because this one. I don't even care about powered suits, I want to see the debates in the History and Moral Philosophy classes!
@jarvy251 Ya know, as much as I like this movie, you're right; its a cheesy ass fun film, but Starship Troopers it aint. I heard they're remaking it though, and that's one remake I'm not totally against.
...Although unlike you, its TOTALLY for the super awesome powered suits
That's what makes it a close adaptation, and not a textual adaptation. Verhoeven is - apparently- planning on making a remake of SS1, this time for real.
I'm loving the book, but part of the series HAS to do with mobile suits. You can't take that out. Starship Troopers is the source of inspiration for series like Mobile Suit Gundam.
Yeah the powered suits being absent sucked, but the real problem was that he portrayed the MI as the exact opposite of what it was. Instead of a highly trained and extremely skilled small cadre of professionals, they were disposable conscript to be fed into a meat grinder.
@jarvy251 True that. My favorite scene from the movie was when they were being trained. The book emphasizes so much on that, it dennotes the level of perfection in body and mind they achieve after training.
@jarvy251 Think of them as different works of art that delve into different areas to satire and to celebrate. Don't get upset about the movie just because it borrows the dressings of the book.
@jarvy251 It's like he took the core from the Starship Troopers book and then the army, monster action and propaganda rubbish from the Warhammer 40k universe. ಠ_ಠ
@jarvy251 This movie is a brilliant satire of American militarism and neoliberal globalization. It's its own thing. Movies have always taken books as starting points for something different, and we should judge/interpret them on their own merit. Films like The Shining and virtually all of Hitchcock's movies are very different from the books, but also way awesome. Much like Starship Troopers.
Man they did it all wrong... They should have had a giant magnifying glass in space and focus the dual sun's light to burn Klendathu's surface to ashes. :P
I hear you. It's like a shotgun shell. Instead of a massive slug you have a buckshot spreading damage all over the place. And this is going to be even more fatal.
I had to watch this film because P.Verhoeven was its director. He made brilliant RoboCop, Totall Recall and Basic Instinct. And yes, Starship Troopers was great. Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer & Jake Busey did a great job. Critics gave many negative reviews to this movie but I think ST is one of the most underrated Sci-Fi films of the 90's (along with Strange Days, Alien 3, Them, Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, FutureSport, The Time Shifters, The Apocalypse, The Arrival, Mimic, Virus, Space Truckers)
@cm275 I would have loved to see the powered armor suits.
Dear God, please let someone make a faithful adaptation (preferably a miniseries), before I die. And let someone establish a timocratic republic someday. Amen.
If they'd had the executions they did in ST3 then I could have known that this was a "anit-War" pic. But they made it such fun that it was very hard to get.
thats future news and I BET they know a asteroid was moving towards rio de janero but the world goverment was like: ahh let the bugs destroy a town so we can say we need to go to war cause we have been attacked first! WAIT A MINUTE sounds like a inside job and it remember me of something! ahh jeah like 70% of wars start like that :)
@XXGDUBSXX sounds like pearl harbor, but i bet you think we were caught COMPLETELY OFF GUARD about the only foreign attack on US soil for over 200 years.
@SuperKenshin69 conspiracy? wtf is wrong with you buddy? its not a conspiracy its a realy genius plan I would do it the same way like the did it in this movie. as long you dont call me conspiracy terrorist everything is okay :P
They're doing their part, are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world! Service guarentees citizenship? And getting ripped to shreds by mutant alien insects? Fuck you news narrator.
everyone knows that when you fight zombies, giant bugs, dinos, whatsoever that comes to you to rip you apart in close quarters you dont issue soldiers the assault rifles but the SHOTGUNS (or heavy weaponry like flame thrower and such).
transformers is gay. avatar looks faker because the creatures are more fleshy and colorful, so you can see the imperfections better. the sharp, plasticky cgi of the time blends in with insect characteristics so its less noticebale. that said, the animaiton, scale, and lighting are fantastic, looks damn realistic. but starship troopers used tons of real life extras, sets, and some animatronics. i suppose that puts avatar at a disadvantage since all theirs was cgi. beats star wars
@Aloradelyda ooooh, you are one of those smart viewers right? One of the critical ones! Yeah yeah, I can tell you are smart by seeing flaws in logic in a satirical action movie which is about people fighting huge bugs.
People underestimate Verhoeven and his satire. I would call him an expert on fascism, and this his his take on and reaction to the book. I think it is a masterpiece.
@frambosidica to call it "his take on [...] the book" would be stretching it, since he hated the book and didn't even read it through. He had an idea similar on the surface to the book, and someone figured out that they could ride on Heinlein's reputation.
It's not a bad film though (as action films go), it's just not Starship Troopers in any way, shape or form.
@Alkanen It's a parody and lampshading of just how fascist the book is, really. And yes, the book is VERY fascist. It's about as "Humanity, FUCK YEAH!!" As it gets.
@vp21ct The book is indeed pro-military. I think that Verhoeven made a smart move with this film: instead of understating the right-wing undertones of the book he instead decided to overstate them, effectively parodying them.
The movie was more or less a satire of the book... Verhoeven (who also directed RoboCop, another satire whose message went over the heads of quite a few) didn't like the book at all. Read up!
@aclerok This movie was no reaction to Heinlein's novel, according to "American Cinematographer" magazine the novel was optioned well into the pre-production of this film which had the working title "Bug Hunt on Outpost Nine": most of the writting team reportedly were unaware of the novel at the time, and according to the DVD commentary, Paul Verhoeven never finished reading the novel claiming he read through the first few chapters and became both "bored and depressed"
@alpha8147 Uh, thanks, un-sourced wikipedia passage! I'm sorry, but it is clearly a satire of the book. I'm not saying that makes it good, but that's what it is. "Starship Troopers - A SciFi Anti-War Parable on DVD" is a decent article about it.
there is also the CGI animated series that revealed the Bugs where in the Sol Starsystem on pluto and the meteros where actualy being fired at earth from inside the solor system, the suits covered it up hoping nuking Big K would solve their problems, they also knew about the Bugs before the war started.
"Yesterday I dropped troopers into a combat zone, now they're all dead! I'm Fleet!" "I'm retarded!" "We're retarded too!" "We need people who throw our men in the meat grinder, we need you!" "Me? Really?" "No." "Over 9000? No problem! Start training today!"
You might get upset with Verhoeven as a fan of the book, but keep in mind no matter that if Verhoeven didn't make it someone else would have... and it still wouldn't have been like the book.
Just be glad the director who did make it had the ability to make an entertaining and satirical action movie with an underlying message and artistic, social and political substance rather than just a straight, run of the mill shoot em up.
Joshwa86 2 weeks ago 2
This isn't the actual Starship Troopers movie, is it?
WolfieboyMachi 4 weeks ago
@WolfieboyMachi
Of course it is, why wouldn't it be`? :/
robotwo 3 weeks ago
This country is a perfect utopia, it could only exist IF we got attacked by aliens, and countries united. Or if Hitler won
AirborneNik 1 month ago
I trust the invasion is going well?
GIApocalypse 1 month ago
the Special FX still hold up very well today ... Paul Verhoven had a genius in him that can make Sci-Fi action fun, yet with a small comedic element which i love (i.e. Robocop, Total Recall)
disengagejam 1 month ago
why would the camera man just stand one meter away and film when a man is being eaten alive?
Makrillol 1 month ago
@Makrillol Because he thought it was freaking awesome, I guess?
RevanRA 1 month ago
I love this movie
karch76 2 months ago
So cheesey.
Tikut0 2 months ago
@Tikut0 It's supposed to be cheesy.
Slipknot808 1 month ago
i'm a usa army veteran...i did my part too! :) lol
sweetguy410 2 months ago
14 people aren't doing their part
EduardoTVideos 2 months ago 7
Starship trooper way of government should be given a shot
OrdoMallius 3 months ago
this reminds me of a military add from like the 1940s lol
OMNIenforcer15 4 months ago
:D
RootbrianRocksAgain 4 months ago
Thumbs up if you would punch that child!
gmcclelland1992 4 months ago
@gmcclelland1992 I would punch any child for any reason.
But I'm just cool like that.
bcouce 3 months ago
@bcouce Come on, not all children, just annoying ones like that kid, anakin skywalker, Macaulay Culkin.....and the list goes on to 2136!
gmcclelland1992 3 months ago
@gmcclelland1992 Justin Bieber?
bcouce 3 months ago
@bcouce Of course!
gmcclelland1992 3 months ago
We're here to get the job done ;)
garrettsdaisy 4 months ago
Gotta love how it shows brutal footage of soldiers being killed on an advert that is trying to get people to enlist
tehMuffinMan100 5 months ago
@tehMuffinMan100== I think that it was a live news report, not part of the recruitment ad.
vigo894 4 months ago
Chogath?
CrinGeT 5 months ago
WHY DIDNT WE JUST USE BUG SPRAY
majorevangelism 5 months ago
@guitarhamster102 Fact is often more badass than fiction.
Badgaldinger 5 months ago
To be honest i prefer the movie Mobile infantry to the original book versions , this version seems more realistic
1. I wouldn't reckon earth could afford to equip Millions of soldiers with the marauder suits or what ever they are called
2. Since a only a couple of those arachnids could take on more than an 8 man section and with no armor support . The tactic of throwing thousands of men at the bugs seems pretty reasonable :D
connorm172 5 months ago
Kapitan Bomba rozpierdoliłby tych wszystkich kosmitów w pojedynkę.
szalonyron 5 months ago
I've wondered for a while:
How the hell did an asteroid come that far that fast? I mean, do the bugs shoot wormhole plasma or something?
The adaptation from book to movie was horrible though... so I suspect it had something to do with the script and storyboard guys messing them up like usual.
danschaoticmind 5 months ago
@danschaoticmind
OR - and I know how crazy this sounds - perhaps the meteor was launched by the Federation itself, in order to justify the invasion of Klendathu...?
(and before you ask, I am NOT one of those "9/11 was an inside job" nutcases, I just think this idea within the context of the film is interesting...)
thegreattotemaster 5 months ago
@thegreattotemaster Which would be suspect at best as a theory. You'll notice in the context of the film that the federation made it very difficult for the civilian to become a citizen. And even then recruiting was targeted based upon score. The novel doesn't even include a meteor strike and has more to do with the central question of citizen vs civilian.
danschaoticmind 5 months ago
@danschaoticmind
Aha. Yes. It's only a theory.
And while I've never read the novel the Starship Troopers movie is based on, I still class the SST novel and the SST films as two completely different things. Any theories I come up with are based entirely on the movie, within the context of the movie.
thegreattotemaster 5 months ago
@thegreattotemaster= You may be right.
vigo894 4 months ago
If this was the future, they should have MUCH better weapons than that lol. They should at least use incendiary rounds. Seriously, the M4 is probably MUCH better than the gun they use in the movie.
guitarhamster102 6 months ago
12 people don´t doing there part
DerAnanasKing 6 months ago
I'm doing my part: Die, ripped apart by bugs fighting for an uncaring government. Who wouldn't want that...
Rykanable 7 months ago
@Rykanable id still do it, someone has to
ChromeTone1 7 months ago
I love how it's totally impossible for the bugs to acttually be responsible for the meteor. Obviously the facsist earth government just used them as scapegoats.
Sparkle071409 7 months ago
@Sparkle071409 Well they could always use one of the plasma bugs to propel that meteor.
180791sanguinius 6 months ago
@180791sanguinius It seems impossible for them to aim something as small as earth from another side of the galaxy. Even human technology couldn't do that. A popular fan theory is that it was a set up by the government, just like the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was a setup(some people think it doesn't make sense the whole buildings went down very cleanly with airplanes crashing to the sides).
kkksskkk 6 months ago
@kkksskkk Dunno, in the book the Bugs attacked first, though.
180791sanguinius 6 months ago
@180791sanguinius Yeah, but the movie couldn't be further from the book if it were on the sun.
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@180791sanguinius Yeah, but the movie couldn't be further from the book if it were on the sun.
hunterkiller232134 5 months ago
wish this wer real :(
SUKmyBBC101 8 months ago
Funny, the bug homeworld is on the other side of the galaxy. The bugs have no access to any real space travel. But somehow they are able to send a meteorite halfway across the galaxy and hit their very precise, very small target, Earth? Sounds like a government explanation to me.
dyne313 8 months ago
@dyne313 I can read Cracked too ;)
xTheLostProphetx 8 months ago
this movie was fuckin awesome!
Koolcat527 8 months ago
Man i wish our world was like this xD I wanna go to klendathu and kill some fucking bugs! Im doing my part to hehehe xD
RaizenToguro 8 months ago
lol @0:58 wtf, thats not where our solar system is, we are on orion's arm
GloomFate 8 months ago
@GloomFate that meteor was going pretty fast, it must have knocked the earth away from the sun.
bobobo878 6 months ago
This is what the world would look like if the Nazis won...just less minorities.
MrBranagain 8 months ago
This is what the world would look like if the Nazis won.
MrBranagain 8 months ago
Why was sequel never made?This was great movie especially in its time
Mariose123 8 months ago
@Mariose123 There was... It was HORRIBLE
TheMostSlyFox 8 months ago
@TheMostSlyFox ah ye i remember them now :( maybe a new movie should come out,ofc better then sequels
Mariose123 8 months ago
@TheMostSlyFox I repressed it. Juuust like the Matrix and Highlander sequels. ^^
YorkJonhson 8 months ago
@Mariose123 There was and a third movie, they are TERRIBLE, do NOT watch.
Albrtd3 8 months ago
@Albrtd3 I have it on Blu-ray. It was a gift. **vomits!**
nismobeach 8 months ago
If Verhoeven bothered to read the book, he'd know that the Federation would never make commercials like this, because they tried to dissuade people from joining the army.
It's a fun movie, what I hate is that no-one will ever make a TRUE Starship Troopers movie because this one. I don't even care about powered suits, I want to see the debates in the History and Moral Philosophy classes!
jarvy251 9 months ago 12
@jarvy251 The point of the movie is satire you know...
Also, the actual book is laughably bad considering how straight it plays everything.
I enjoy this movie, but I hate it's fans.
MiRyRE 4 months ago
@MiRyRE
Yes, it's a satire of a book he never read, that's why its so infuriatingly terrible.
And... how straight it plays everything? What? The book wasn't a satire.
jarvy251 4 months ago
@jarvy251 Why? Can't you just, like, read them debates from the book and see them in your head?
Tychoxi 4 months ago
@jarvy251 Same thing can be said about "We can Remember it for you Wholesale", better known as "Total Recall".
jackedsamurai772 3 months ago
@jarvy251 Ya know, as much as I like this movie, you're right; its a cheesy ass fun film, but Starship Troopers it aint. I heard they're remaking it though, and that's one remake I'm not totally against.
...Although unlike you, its TOTALLY for the super awesome powered suits
jeremycarrier 3 months ago
@jarvy251 They're remaking Starship Troopers, so who knows?
Flyinhawaiian89 2 months ago
@jarvy251
That's what makes it a close adaptation, and not a textual adaptation. Verhoeven is - apparently- planning on making a remake of SS1, this time for real.
I'm loving the book, but part of the series HAS to do with mobile suits. You can't take that out. Starship Troopers is the source of inspiration for series like Mobile Suit Gundam.
Persiana 1 month ago
@Persiana
Yeah the powered suits being absent sucked, but the real problem was that he portrayed the MI as the exact opposite of what it was. Instead of a highly trained and extremely skilled small cadre of professionals, they were disposable conscript to be fed into a meat grinder.
jarvy251 1 month ago
@jarvy251 True that. My favorite scene from the movie was when they were being trained. The book emphasizes so much on that, it dennotes the level of perfection in body and mind they achieve after training.
Persiana 1 month ago
@jarvy251 Think of them as different works of art that delve into different areas to satire and to celebrate. Don't get upset about the movie just because it borrows the dressings of the book.
MadPutz 1 month ago
@jarvy251 It's like he took the core from the Starship Troopers book and then the army, monster action and propaganda rubbish from the Warhammer 40k universe. ಠ_ಠ
Ulkreghz 1 month ago
@jarvy251 I wouldn't mind seeing a SST movie based on the book but if this movie didn't kill it the second and 3rd ones did.
IgnoreObjective 3 weeks ago
@jarvy251 This movie is a brilliant satire of American militarism and neoliberal globalization. It's its own thing. Movies have always taken books as starting points for something different, and we should judge/interpret them on their own merit. Films like The Shining and virtually all of Hitchcock's movies are very different from the books, but also way awesome. Much like Starship Troopers.
psax 6 days ago
God i love this movie. Boobies, guns, war, and aliens. Best movie of all time.
NinjaMoose234 9 months ago 88
@NinjaMoose234 Movie? i thought it was a documentary.
sonofagunM357 2 months ago
@NinjaMoose234 Yep! Boobies always come first.
knotightul 1 month ago
@NinjaMoose234 lol indeed
cardo182 1 month ago
Why do all of the Starship Troopers do not give citizenship to people? That is wrong!
ixtoothint 9 months ago
Man they did it all wrong... They should have had a giant magnifying glass in space and focus the dual sun's light to burn Klendathu's surface to ashes. :P
VariusMayhem 9 months ago
@SlyNicolai
I hear you. It's like a shotgun shell. Instead of a massive slug you have a buckshot spreading damage all over the place. And this is going to be even more fatal.
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EverlastingEcho 9 months ago
YES I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE
DaKook14 9 months ago
Starship Troopers is Nazisam!
ixtoothint 10 months ago
@ixtoothint it's more of fascism
MetalGrim93 9 months ago
@MetalGrim93 How is it fascism?
ixtoothint 9 months ago
@ixtoothint Cuz in the book it is and fascist
MetalGrim93 9 months ago
@MetalGrim93 What does ''fascist'' mean?
ixtoothint 9 months ago
@ixtoothint Someone willing to do anything for the "State" or in Starship Troopers case "The Ferderation"
MetalGrim93 9 months ago
@MetalGrim93 I am so thankful that this society is not fascist.
ixtoothint 9 months ago
We're here to get the job done!
tobiasfangor25 10 months ago
How is it live when they're light years away from Earth.
Olamtir 10 months ago
@Olamtir
Probably some sort of subspace communication. Or they don't use radiowaves to transmit messages anymore.
RIOT690 10 months ago
I had to watch this film because P.Verhoeven was its director. He made brilliant RoboCop, Totall Recall and Basic Instinct. And yes, Starship Troopers was great. Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer & Jake Busey did a great job. Critics gave many negative reviews to this movie but I think ST is one of the most underrated Sci-Fi films of the 90's (along with Strange Days, Alien 3, Them, Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, FutureSport, The Time Shifters, The Apocalypse, The Arrival, Mimic, Virus, Space Truckers)
Magnolia296 10 months ago
Lame movie is lame.
The movie MI are the most inept fictional military ever, Heinlein's MI were the original basasses.
Three words are all you need to know: Personal. Nuclear. Weapons.
These guys have glorified M16s and terrible dialogue.
cm275 11 months ago
@cm275 I would have loved to see the powered armor suits.
Dear God, please let someone make a faithful adaptation (preferably a miniseries), before I die. And let someone establish a timocratic republic someday. Amen.
Halo4Lyf 11 months ago
10 freaking bugs watched this! We gotta nuke'em!
IJjung 11 months ago
excuse me sir i am no ape. I Wear pants and a shirt.
OrganicThumb420 1 year ago
@OrganicThumb420
so do apes :D
predatortheme 1 year ago
if an ape wears clothes then he should get full citizenship status and the right to bear arms and vote.
OrganicThumb420 1 year ago
@OrganicThumb420
well dont we already have some apes doing it?
predatortheme 1 year ago
oh ya i forgot about texas
OrganicThumb420 1 year ago
If they'd had the executions they did in ST3 then I could have known that this was a "anit-War" pic. But they made it such fun that it was very hard to get.
genenco1 1 year ago
This reminds me of Earth Defense Force 2017
MrFugums 1 year ago
good film
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yerrrgnarrr 1 year ago
I'm doing my part!
AnonIonCannon 1 year ago
'Join the mobile infantry, throw your life away in the most horrible way possible'.
That's what they are really trying to say. O_o
yethboth 1 year ago
freaking lol.
TheDeistAngle 1 year ago
i think RED FACTION needs to whoop some fedral ass LOL that would be epic
MrZeus141 1 year ago
Klendathu had WMDs.
orchidtender 1 year ago 2
@gammypetra but i like this movie....
wilky1189 1 year ago
I would like to know more!
Cortez94 1 year ago
@gammypetra STFU go help some aid ridden kid. cause i cant be f'd
legendlink64 1 year ago
@gammypetra
You, sir, are evidently not citizen material.
MrTeatime 1 year ago 7
@MrTeatime You, sir. Are clearly my new god.
MoltenPlastic 1 year ago
who is your new god i am looking for a new religion i would gladly pay to pray to youre new god. does he have pay pal.
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AylaShannika 1 year ago
Well.....at least they got it on camera
GreyFox985 1 year ago
the book....
was better
ElvarK1 1 year ago
did he died?
eternalsunrising 1 year ago
thats future news and I BET they know a asteroid was moving towards rio de janero but the world goverment was like: ahh let the bugs destroy a town so we can say we need to go to war cause we have been attacked first! WAIT A MINUTE sounds like a inside job and it remember me of something! ahh jeah like 70% of wars start like that :)
beavisCS 1 year ago 35
@beavisCS it wasn't Ro de janeiro. It was Buenos Aires.
vancksdaniel 1 year ago
@vancksdaniel I haven´t been sure about that :) but you are right I checked it afterwards.
beavisCS 1 year ago
@beavisCS buenos aires but ok
ElvarK1 1 year ago
@beavisCS Yes and i've also heard that 70% of all statistics are made up so the person talking can make a point in there favor.
XXGDUBSXX 1 year ago
@XXGDUBSXX sounds like pearl harbor, but i bet you think we were caught COMPLETELY OFF GUARD about the only foreign attack on US soil for over 200 years.
Jarekx2007 1 year ago
@Jarekx2007 ???
XXGDUBSXX 1 year ago
@beavisCS Yeah, I think the movie implies that Earth knew about the meteor.
MoltenPlastic 1 year ago
@beavisCS I assume you're referring to Pearl Harbor, which was perpetrated by the Smurfs and funded by the Keebler Elves?
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beavisCS 11 months ago
@beavisCS
Just what we need, another conspiracy theorist
SuperKenshin69 10 months ago
@SuperKenshin69 conspiracy? wtf is wrong with you buddy? its not a conspiracy its a realy genius plan I would do it the same way like the did it in this movie. as long you dont call me conspiracy terrorist everything is okay :P
beavisCS 10 months ago
Replace bugs with Muslims and this vid becomes no different from a Fox News broadcast.
Except that Geraldo hasn't been owned yet.
onedeadcat 1 year ago 4
They're doing their part, are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world! Service guarentees citizenship? And getting ripped to shreds by mutant alien insects? Fuck you news narrator.
StoutProductions 1 year ago
this is so corny, i love it
13JunkYarDog13 1 year ago
1:38
Bug: Dominated, idiota. ;)
ComeOn2250 1 year ago
9 people are from what Cap Troops are calling "Big K", it's an ugly planet, a bug planet, a planet hostile to-WOHOAAHHAURRGHUHGRH
SierraPapaFoxtrot 1 year ago 3
oh boy a meteor from the big K will take MILLIONS OF YEARS to get to Planet Earth
20324758 1 year ago
ok first of all WTF?!?!?
everyone knows that when you fight zombies, giant bugs, dinos, whatsoever that comes to you to rip you apart in close quarters you dont issue soldiers the assault rifles but the SHOTGUNS (or heavy weaponry like flame thrower and such).
d1ngopwns 1 year ago
"I'm doing my part too" *smiles*
Goldernie 1 year ago
0:14 I'm doing my part, too! And what the hell?? Are they playing the U.S. Air Force song because that's what it sounds like.
StoutProductions 1 year ago
@jones13013
What do you think of Avatar or Transformers's CGI?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289
transformers is gay. avatar looks faker because the creatures are more fleshy and colorful, so you can see the imperfections better. the sharp, plasticky cgi of the time blends in with insect characteristics so its less noticebale. that said, the animaiton, scale, and lighting are fantastic, looks damn realistic. but starship troopers used tons of real life extras, sets, and some animatronics. i suppose that puts avatar at a disadvantage since all theirs was cgi. beats star wars
NYG5 1 year ago
Decent movie, great book. Klendthu vs. Pandora, which is a more exotic planet?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
explain to me why. it takes 6 soldiers to gun down 1 bug in this scene but only one guy to gun down an entire zerg rush at the end.
Aloradelyda 1 year ago
@Aloradelyda ooooh, you are one of those smart viewers right? One of the critical ones! Yeah yeah, I can tell you are smart by seeing flaws in logic in a satirical action movie which is about people fighting huge bugs.
I bet you own a lot of transformers too, amirite?
goodflo911 1 year ago
@goodflo911 and ontop of that, why didn't we see those flying dudes in any of the other movies
Aloradelyda 1 year ago
It's an ugly planet! A bug planet! A planet hostile to life as we know it!
wunksta 1 year ago
I'm doing my part... to legalize marijuana in California!!!!
Nightmonkey17 1 year ago
God, ugly actors !
kinofreakmaniak 1 year ago
@bagocross08 Ze bugs are smart, they launched it through a wormhole.
baelr0g 1 year ago
People underestimate Verhoeven and his satire. I would call him an expert on fascism, and this his his take on and reaction to the book. I think it is a masterpiece.
frambosidica 1 year ago 55
@frambosidica to call it "his take on [...] the book" would be stretching it, since he hated the book and didn't even read it through. He had an idea similar on the surface to the book, and someone figured out that they could ride on Heinlein's reputation.
It's not a bad film though (as action films go), it's just not Starship Troopers in any way, shape or form.
Alkanen 1 year ago
@Alkanen It's a parody and lampshading of just how fascist the book is, really. And yes, the book is VERY fascist. It's about as "Humanity, FUCK YEAH!!" As it gets.
vp21ct 1 year ago
@vp21ct The book is indeed pro-military. I think that Verhoeven made a smart move with this film: instead of understating the right-wing undertones of the book he instead decided to overstate them, effectively parodying them.
This movie is underrated.
MoltenPlastic 1 year ago
@frambosidica True. It's also plain sad that the two sequels (not by verhoeven, there was no need for a sequel) are just redundant action movies
lobyte 1 year ago
@frambosidica How exactly was Heinlein's proposed system in the book "fascism."
Mostly I was pissed that they left out the powered armor... Fuckers.
Halo4Lyf 11 months ago
@frambosidica
That'd be cool and all except the fuck face even admitted he didn't even finish the damn book before doing the movie.
Anontalkwarrior 11 months ago
@frambosidica the guy was amazing, the special effects were also really good for the time, even robocop 2 looks really good by todays standards.
BHMatrix 10 months ago
@frambosidica He didn't even finish it.
RJhasFLOW 9 months ago
The movie was more or less a satire of the book... Verhoeven (who also directed RoboCop, another satire whose message went over the heads of quite a few) didn't like the book at all. Read up!
aclerok 1 year ago
@aclerok This movie was no reaction to Heinlein's novel, according to "American Cinematographer" magazine the novel was optioned well into the pre-production of this film which had the working title "Bug Hunt on Outpost Nine": most of the writting team reportedly were unaware of the novel at the time, and according to the DVD commentary, Paul Verhoeven never finished reading the novel claiming he read through the first few chapters and became both "bored and depressed"
alpha8147 1 year ago
@alpha8147 Uh, thanks, un-sourced wikipedia passage! I'm sorry, but it is clearly a satire of the book. I'm not saying that makes it good, but that's what it is. "Starship Troopers - A SciFi Anti-War Parable on DVD" is a decent article about it.
aclerok 1 year ago
there is also the CGI animated series that revealed the Bugs where in the Sol Starsystem on pluto and the meteros where actualy being fired at earth from inside the solor system, the suits covered it up hoping nuking Big K would solve their problems, they also knew about the Bugs before the war started.
smeghead0 1 year ago
I'm doing my part!!!!! 3 days later I wound up in a hospital!!!!!
acecold3 1 year ago
perfect teeth, they must use pepsodent
Quex01 1 year ago
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"Yesterday I dropped troopers into a combat zone, now they're all dead! I'm Fleet!" "I'm retarded!" "We're retarded too!" "We need people who throw our men in the meat grinder, we need you!" "Me? Really?" "No." "Over 9000? No problem! Start training today!"
thelittlemind 1 year ago
probably my favorite movie
VideoRoom207 1 year ago
Im so using this in my english exam tomorrow. Love the troopers. I have to write about how the media forms opinions
Acetopy2 1 year ago
@jones13013 so true i cant even noticed the fx of this movie are from 90`s
left4deadian 1 year ago
im doing my part fresh meat for the grinder eh!
left4deadian 1 year ago
Hey... he just got eaten.
Oh, record it. It'll make nice propaganda later on.
Okay!
xiaogunman 1 year ago