Klendathu Drop - Starship Troopers

[BarniK2]

So much cliches

That's why I love this film

[taterfarmer12]

No armor or air? WTF is this shit?

[SinDawg030]

@taterfarmer12 Failure on a truly epic scale, thats what!

[Darastrixx]

Say what you like about the film, but you can't argue with those damn fine special effects!

[Daps741]

Why did they land on the darkside of the planet? Lol

[CuervoBlack06]

I see they went with the old clusterfuck routine. I've seen this maneuver many times in arena football, but never in combat.

[ViLLaPiNoZ]

All you need is To arm your solders with raid! Spray and sticky traps... It'll get er done

[ViLLaPiNoZ]

The lady who said "let's get outta here" had her brain sucked out lol that sucks

[Hauntedman1]

Hmmm always one guy who plays lets be a hero and gets mutilated....

[User5973]

heard they were remking this! I think it's too soon...this movie wasn't perfect but it got the job done - fills that need for a hardcore scifi flick

[ihyperstripe]

so much for remember your training, air support, or better body armour...oh hey your navy sucks to

[andrewames247]

@ihyperstripe Yeah...there is no REAL concept of "tactics" in this movie, especially in the Klendathu drop scene; it's a one-sided slaughter.

[emp0rizzle]

@andrewames247 well most lay people think war is just one side killing the other side.

[Itachi21x]

the imperial guards in a nutshell

[LeftoverJedi]

@Itachi21x I think they do better than these poor bastards, lol.

[Itachi21x]

@LeftoverJedi

true that :)

[IgnisFatuusIX]

3:28 Leeerroooyyyyy Jennnkiiinnnnssssss.

[gregtestagent]

I told my younger brother that this is what it's like when you graduate college and try to make it out in the real world.

[Khirzask]

I've watched this scene literally hundreds of times, and it still gives me chills every time.

[Shadx27]

In the book, the mobile infantry had battle suits that put power rangers to shame. In the movie, they have pee shooters that can't kill a bug alone....

[custardaghost]

2.34 - I don't think the word the Captain used was " goddamn"

[jspinac1]

5:13 The Mobile Infantry are screwed now!

[lihkan]

Starship Troopers: We can build mighty space cruisers, but we cant build flamethrower tank so our infantry wont be massacred. And what happened to the air support? And space support? And what about nukes? And no, that scene with knife actually didnt explain anything about nukes. But yes, its epic scene=D

[cadman2300]

This is what's known in the military as Spray-and-Pray tactics.

It's when dumb soldiers decide to simply spay their gun fire in every direction and hope that they hit something, rather than actually aim and save themselves lots of ammunition.

The reason these idiots use such tactics is explained by the lack of a firing range at the camp they trained at. Some actual target practice would have saved them a LOT of trouble. They can't even hold an assault rifle properly. 

[jordanjoepetts]

One of the greatest CULT classics of all time!

[420bluntsmokerxXx]

I don't know which is worse, the book or the movie.

[yeyo1990]

Damn, I just noticed that the captain was also the hot astronaut from Armageddon.

[Enumclaw]

This is what happens when you put Leroy Jenkins in charge of a planetary invasion.

[LeftoverJedi]

@Enumclaw Goddammit Leroy! D:<

[tyler1868mok]

love how they all charge in and then after 5 mins they run back screaming :)

[nvet1953]

One female bug.....2000 offspring.....one female human....2 to 6 babies....who wins? You do the math.....thank God for nukes...

[Brenomarlen]

lutem: portuguese

[sidewaysfcs0718]

according to the that picture the klendathu system is on the other side of the fucking galaxy, so it would take them atleast 50000 years to send a rock to earth....

>.<

[stshill1]

@sidewaysfcs0718 stop stating scientific facts and watch the goddamn movie. this is one of the best cheesy flicks ive seen. it doesnt have to make sense to be fun.

[Dinocrap1101]

@sidewaysfcs0718 it went through a wormhole...

[Dinocrap1101]

@sidewaysfcs0718 like the fact that the ship dodged it on it's way to earth

[henry7696]

@sidewaysfcs0718 That's the point. Though it's not clear in the film, it's somewhat implied in the book that the meteor attack was a false flag attack on earth by it's own government, in order to gain support for the war.

[Newie69MK]

You'd think they'd be packing harder hitting bullets in their guns... Should've packed .50 cal armor piercing incendiaries rather than just regular anti-personnel rounds...or wait, just nuke the planet from orbit...but then we wouldn't have a fun, action packed movie.

[Dinocrap1101]

@Newie69MK in the third one they nuked a planet to kill one giant bug that had integrated itself with said planet

[Jaysoemotionless]

"Rember your training, and you will get sliced and diced by a humer sized bug"

[NoobSnoopy]

@NarudakiMadsenKoh

More like entire round from 7 troopers to take out one bug... considering the fact that bugs outnumber federation army like 10000 for each trooper they are pretty fucked up.

[Spystreak]

"remember your training and you will make it back alive" looks like most of them forgot their training

[acer3573]

4:08 The FLAK is killer bug farts!!

[acer3573]

Using FMJ bullets against a horde of homicidal bugs...smart, real smart.

[masacreman2012]

I want to pass that war

[1234567643]

why do they even need troopers cant they just nuke the whole planet

[bublacok]

@1234567643

Because their are valuble things that the humans want to get to.

[1234567643]

you want some, heres some

[viciousclan]

Now why didn't the idiot director of those crappy live action Resident Evil movies take notes from this movie on how tactical personel can be easily done away with by a creature(s) of which they have no training against. Those zombies SUCKED!!! I'd watch this movie more than once. But, the RE movies, ONLY ONCE and NEVER EVER AGAIN!

[sumerian88]

Terrans trying to Zerg rush... *facepalm*

[swatlord101]

all troops prepare for drop we are at d minus and counting get your Sh!t on the drop ships

[slapking12]

If they would have played Pokemon they would have known bugs are weak against fire !!!

[Doowoo]

@slapking12 Silly... thats why they nuke them!

[LeftoverJedi]

@slapking12 Ok, that does it! From now on, gameboys and copies of Poke'mon standard issue for all troopers!  >:0

[microcz]

i want something like empire (rome/mediewal) totalwar but with starship troopers :)))

[doom2sgt]

this reminds me like how many goddamned marines it takes to kill a zerg....

[docterfantazmo]

Thinking about it, HOW did Rico survive this?

[Nagittchi]

What a stupidass cameraman.

[K1ngmaker]

Remember your training which involved playing laser tag and shooting at stationary dummy targets!

[weldonwin]

@K1ngmaker And having the drill Saergent beat the shit out of you, don't forget

[xekiest]

Funny how the co was the first one to die

[4theemperor]

@KILLitWITHfire100 Ah..so I see :P

[4theemperor]

Nice movie but the Federation military sucks ass. Why do they sent hordes of infantry on the surface without any vehicles? And why their training sucks too, they just ran out like an unorganised bunch of rednecks without even aiming down the sights while firing.

[jaylex666]

5:46 - He did NOT remember his training

[Haloguydev]

Well, They should have had: Air Support, Heavy Weapons, Artillery, More Air Support, bigger guns, less retards who constantly should "WE'RE GONNA DIE!" and more people who have more than half a brain. Plus more military planning.

[EinundzwanzigPanzer]

@Haloguydev The book has exactly that, you should read it :-) Although there are hardly in action in it, but it's interesting none the less, and way more realistic.

[Anubis2445]

the actress who played the captain on the ship also played the sergent in the 2nd movie

your minds are now fucked...?

[Anubis2445]

5:37

shujumi had a little too much crack before the assault

[WeskerLogan]

underrated Sci-Fi Classic.

[Saberspark]

MY LIFE FOR THE SWARM!

[KILLRAIN42]

"Remember your training and you will make it back alive!"

"Sir, does that include the part where we were told that our odds of survival are 1000 to 1?"

"...You're over thinking it!"

Also, was anyone else bothered by the fact that one guy using the shotgun attachment was more effective than a firing line of multiple troopers?

[weldonwin]

@KILLRAIN42 More effective at very close range, IE at ranges you REALLY don't want to be at when a bug charges you

[KILLRAIN42]

@weldonwin I know, but still, I would think that they would at least design weapons that are at least as effective when there is an entire fire team shooting at a single target as one man with the attachment. Especially since all the attachement does is fire six rounds from the clip in the weapon instead of one at a time.

[weldonwin]

@KILLRAIN42 Remember, MI training and battle doctrine had all been about fighting other humans, likely in brushfire wars and counter insurgancy operations against reletively small forces of rebels. This is a battle for which they were totally untrained and unequipped.

The 5.56 caliber rounds that their Morrita rifles fire are likely devestating against soft, squishy humans, but to a bug, its like a bee-sting.

[KILLRAIN42]

"Remember your training and you will make it back alive!"

"Sir, does that include the part where we were told that our odds of survival are 1000 to 1?"

"...You're over thinking it!"

[ucsteve]

This is actual footage of the Naval Seals taking out Bug Laden.

[weldonwin]

@ucsteve You mean the part where they get horribly slaughtered and run like hell, taking horrific casualties?

[NYG5]

also, i wish this scene was a couple minutes longer. the bugs should have been coming out of holes around them and behind them, and the shock of that should have led to the big rout. they were routed too easily here, mostly because you can't see whats happening to the rest of the invasion forces

[NYG5]

you have to remember that these people haven't fought a war in hundreds of years since the planet was unified. practical knowledge of warfare was non-existent, plus they were fighting giant insects lol.

also, they could have wanted to fight this war with the most basic of weapons so that it would be as prolonged as possible. fascism doesn't work as well when theres no enemy to hate.

[Legionary101]

A) Big fancy ships parked so close to each other i can hear the other person on the other ship sneeze? Check.

B) Blame bugs for being smart and able to hit ships. Check

C) Throw away fighter and bomber support for infantry advance. Check

D) Equip soldiers with plastic armour, and guns that don't do jack? Check

E) Send waves upon waves of soldiers, check. You are not zap Brannigan this will not work. You can't out rush bugs.

F) Paper thin Morale, check.

G) Awesome battle nonetheless? Check.

[serbakovmarci]

Half Life 2 anybody?

[Starshiptrooper420]

Don't care how many people "like" this crap. despite being semi-decent Paul Verhoven when making this movie, somehow managed to take a filet mignon steak and turn it into a crappy McDonald's burger. Heinlein is rolling in his grave every time this plays.

[stealthyspider]

I say take off and nuke it from orbit..

:-) Cool vid

[4theemperor]

@stealthyspider Fuckin' A

[thelittlemind]

i always smirk at 4:56 lol idk why it just brings me joy to my heart

[weldonwin]

My favourite part 03:04 , hitting the ground, and storming out of the dropships, flares blasting out and charging out to look for something to kill.

[Timbrael]

Imperial Guard vs Tyranids :)

[Spiroyra]

@Timbrael W/o any armored support thats exactly what would happen to IG

[weldonwin]

@Spiroyra Thats what I thought was dumb about this. MI goes in without any armour, artilliery or transport support, only armed with standard issue rifles and the odd man portable rocket launcher, limited air support and what looks like no visible battle plan or objective beyond 'kill anything that moves'. Exactly what did they expect would happen when you throw a few hundred thousand troopers into a meat grinder with no support? It doesn't take Patton to figure this one out

[Starshiptrooper420]

@weldonwin it was never like that. the M.I originally had "ape suits" similar to the starcraft marine suit. they were then shot out of a cannon into the planet's atmosphere where then primary and secondary shots were deployed. the suits themselves were armed with H-bombs A-rockets machine gun and a flamer. the suits also had jump jets which allowed infantry unmatched mobility. in fact, heinlein even said one troop in armor could take on a whole battalion of tanks.

[weldonwin]

@Starshiptrooper420 That was in the original novel. I'm talking about the movie and the movie alone and the fact remains that they are effectively just throwing human waves into the meat grinder without any support. In the original novel MI may have been all conquering power amroured badasses, but here they are simply squishy humans in flack-jackets with assault rifles

[Starshiptrooper420]

@weldonwin Verhoven really butchered it didn't he?

[weldonwin]

@Starshiptrooper420 Thats a matter of oppinion and I consider the movie and the novel to be completely seperate from one another, same with the animated series and the table top RPG. I really don't think people should make direct comparisons between the novel and movies, but instead think of the movie as being inspired by the novel, rather than a direct adaptation of it.

I actually must admit that when I first saw the movie didn't know there was a novel

[Wildcat425B]

@weldonwin The novels alright but its more a political opinion novel disguised as science fiction than a normal science fiction novel. Its quite good though.

[soldierman1776]

ive seen this movie about 345 times but i cant help but shit my pants whenever i watch this scene

[Morphlett]

@soldierman1776

so you've pooped on yourself 345 times... sweet ;)

[soldierman1776]

@Morphlett :P

[idiotz87]

@Morphlett i memorise almost every single line frm this movie! haha

[o3941]

@Morphlett Not counting the time's he's watched this on youtube.

[SamLee74]

@soldierman1776 thats a whole year of your life shitting in your pants

[lordofyesteryear]

3 people a bug huggers.

[1RadicalDreamer]

KILL EM ALL!!!!!!

[eeg10]

Clearly, the terran player forgot to upgrade stim.

[darkspire91]

Couldn't they have just nuked the planet from orbit?

You know, go Extermanatus on them for all you 40k players.

[XxxSakura101]

This might be a silly question for any SST buff, but how come they didn't just blast the planet from orbit with nuclear weapons and bio-chemical warfare? It would seem a lot more attrition friendly to destroy the bug planets with heavy populations.

[jdreign]

@XxxSakura101

Basically because it would have derailed the plot, excellent question by the way

[harhan321]

@XxxSakura101 The movie is a satire. It's making fun of militarism.

[ltjohnson123]

The is the worst movie ever. Their undersupplied, tactically inept, army of dumbasses that retreats after one and a half minutes of conflict is the worst representation of ANY military ANYWHERE. They defy the top 5 principles of invading a territory without even stepping off of their "ship"

[Dsarker]

@ltjohnson123 It's not defiance if you have Commissars shooting you if you disobey.

[makerwidow]

gotta love that underslung shotgun

[NoobSnoopy]

Chaarge!

...

RETREAT!

[silenthunder85]

US Army Airborne Infantry is as close as it gets to this... loved this movie growing up and the first minute & a half of this vid ^^^ is pretty much the last 7 years of my life... nothing like sitting in a C-130 with full combat equipment on a night jump ready to jump into some weird-ass place to fuck some shit up :D & the guy at 0:30 reminds me of so many of my sergeants in the past haha

[Abricialio]

We need the M.I for Libya right now!

[silenthunder85]

@Abricialio hoping we go soon... i'd love to spend my summer bringing down a dictator

[jordododo]

wheres my bug spray WHERES MY BUGGSPRAY???

[woodyburns]

I think they wouldve done better had there been more than 8 people shooting at the bugs

[sajidakh]

@woodyburns hahahahaha

[thelittlemind]

@woodyburns well considering the LT said "more bugs for us to kill" he didnt say it to everyone he just said it to his people which were like 8 that were listening

[woodyburns]

@thelittlemind Maybe but You see about 50 guys behind em and they knew the mission and were obviously watching what was going on

[thelittlemind]

@woodyburns well if i see a LT making a speech before battle im going to tak e a quick nap

[jwalker477]

@woodyburns Yeah the first wave saw just how big the spiders were and said "oh crikey!" before running away.

[Hikarilover123]

5:38 He died a friggin badass.

[thatchelseaboy]

jonny rico is badass

[Mrster]

Hahahaha, what did Aliens teach us?

You never pull a Hudson. Dumbass.

[MrNoobslayer123]

pretty sure flame tanks would have been more effective than light infantry with machine guns but okay

[benroolz]

the whole movie, in essence, fails

who the hell thought that you can out gun an army of 3m tall bugs who have twice as many numbers with light infantry?

[svele88]

they lost the battle cause they ere retreating, more of them died during the retreat than holding a line. and rico was a dumbass saying "fall back"

[MADBLUETHANG]

this was the best one,as far as starship troopers goes

first movie=pure awesomeness

second movie = confusing as shit

third movie =religous propaganda

[downjl]

This is why you bombard them before you send in the infanty...and where the shit is all of the armor?? Seriously? No badass tanks and shit in the future? Just infantry? I'd like to see an arachnid put his faggy claws through 12 inches of steel. Bitches.

[joacopela95]

@downjl

well a tank wont do much use against masses of the bugs becouse it would easly get overwhelmed, but atleast they could have sent artillery or power armor of some sorts

[Krieger91]

@downjl They usually can't bombard them, they hide in their holes. But in the book they do have exo suits and tanks.

[Dsarker]

@Krieger91 No tanks. Just Exo suits.

But the bugs also have technology, not just biology. And in the book, the humans also have (in the end) some allies, the skinnies.

[agitomakashima]

For the people who rant about the Starship Troopers using such poor tactics and strategy (send in badly protected infantry instead of doing bombardment), that was one of the points made in the movie.

The human's felt themselves being superior to those "bugs" and this felt an infantry strike could get the job done. The soldiers, most of they fresh out of boot camp, also blindly believed they couldn't loose.

The consequences of this attitude are shown in this sequence.

[kpzk]

@agitomakashima

Amen.

Also, 3 people are bugsist sympathizers. :)

[Nightmare582]

3 people are civilians

[ThegreatBiss]

What happens if you have more then 2 legs though.....OH GOD *gets shot*

[feichen1997]

Lol at the guy rushing towards them

[AlexFoxUK]

I love this film. SO MUCH. I can see past its flaws. I don't get to this day why they opted for an infantry landing, when they could just bombard the shit out of the whole planet...

[DeadontheRunway]

i like how she says brace for high orbit but they like go down not up

[AlexFoxUK]

@DeadontheRunway the face she says 'brace' is indicative of expecting turbulence. I would think the idea is that they are dangerously close to entering the planets atmosphere and as such would 'graze' upon it. I agree it doesn't seem the right thing to say but there's more than a few things out of place in the film.

[DeadontheRunway]

@AlexFoxUK no I mean she says High Orbit and the got down

[MassAxeMurderer]

@DeadontheRunway they go down under the colliding ships and then go up

[DeadontheRunway]

@lockyuk2000 who would twin Federal Troopers or Imperial Guardsmen

[EikC]

4:15 -- "Nukem!"

Was I the only one expecting Duke Nukem to pop up and save the day?

[jacobbratz]

God I love those ship. O yes there is opens with the Impearl guard.

[Abricialio]

Why they didn't used tanks and shot the bugs with nuclear bombs to their ass on the ground!

[BClay74]

"WE ARE GOING IN WITH FIRST WAVE!

Leaves more bugs for us to kill....

YOU SMASH THE ENTIRE AREA! YOU KILL ANYTHING THAT HAS MORE THAN TWO LEGS! YOU GET ME!!??"

WE GET YOU SIR!

[ohlookitsthatguy123]

@BClay74 You nigger I said that first

[BClay74]

@ohlookitsthatguy123 Gratz on the racist terms. Let me guess? Your black and calling someone a 'nigger'.

Yea, stay classy dude.

[Martintheauthor]

@lockyuk2000 Sadly, these guys aren't nearly as awesome as Space Marines of the Imperium. It is good music though.

[redcurtis]

5:00 can someone explain to me what the FUCK these guys are shooting at? because it is not that bug XD.

6:15 and this is why blazeing your own trail is a no-no in the military.

[Martintheauthor]

@redcurtis 5:00 I wonder the same thing myself.

6:15 I think that's less blazing your own trail and more running in complete terror. Still, no reason NOT to stick with the rest of your squad.

[Bubo25]

What those birds are really lacking are electro-magnetic shields in order to protect them from the plasma and some heavy guns and rockets so they can take everything out from orbit. The troops and fighter bombers could then be sent in to sweep up.

[jchao4m]

Hehe, first assult always fail!

[TOFMDrone]

@jchao4m

i doubt the D-Day assault is a fail :p

[juve96]

Dina Meyer is soooo hot in this.

[KaitainCPS]

@juve96

You're not kidding. What the hell was Rico doing pining after Denise Richards when he had a much hotter chick right on his doorstep?

[Psccon]

@KaitainCPS

Denise Richards is way hotter and sexier and dangerous than the other posh bitch, Denise deserve lots more cock

[KaitainCPS]

@Psccon

Not in a million years.

[droidca9]

ever notice that in the dropships there is a Civil defense logo by the door?

[RoldanIncorporated]

This ladies and Gentlemen is why we need TANKS in Wars.

[RoldanIncorporated]

The Fighter pilots at 1:43 must be very happy that they were issued diapers before launched into combat.

[cr4yv3n]

the moustache guy is the best xD

[stubert311]

call the shot

[paldesic2009]

Best drop sequence ever, if anyone feels like helping a guy out just by simply subscribing then please inbox me and i'll point you in the right direction, he's working on like a space sci-fi similar to this just without the bugs

Also has an awesome Drop scene he made himself. Thanks.

[odstarmor557]

id take a shotgun with me along with a assault rifle (and some 50 tons of bug spray:D)

[NSALP121]

did anyone else get the national guard ad while watching this?

[NSALP121]

ZERG RUSH

[RoldanIncorporated]

@NSALP121 KEKEKEKEKEKE

[AeroSpaceBoy130]

Did anyone else think that the captain of the Rodger Young looks like Captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager?

[cornyy1994]

you kill anything that has more than 2 legs no shit