The TH-cam channel CinemaSins dings that line and follows with one of their funniest bluntest comments.. “REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING AND YOU WILL MAKE IT BACK ALIVE!!” *Ding* “No Ya Won’t!” The tone and cadence in the way they said it makes me laugh everytime
@@black10872 failing that, they could have at least been issued with something a little more potent than whatever ammunition they had - hell, BBs would have been more effective!
@@warmonger12z well, the invasion was clearly rushed, driven by a sense of urgency to retaliate and pure arrogance on the Federation’s part. Keep in mind, all through the training, Rico and the rest of his squad were being trained to fight other humans, not Arachnids. The Federation seemed to just assume that because they had starships and guns, taking out the Arachnids would be a cakewalk. They didn’t even take into account the sheer punishment a single basic Arachnid warrior could take before dying, let alone thousands of those things swarming you. The fact that they were routed off the planet less than fifteen minutes after landing speaks volumes about how unprepared they were.
@@V1nce_man true. But that information didn’t seem to be passed along to the general infantry, as they just fired at the Arachnid’s general mass until they died.
I always liked how the bugs are better organized, use tactics and have specialized units meanwhile the humans fight like bugs, endless hordes of disposable and faceless grunts that all do the same thing
Plus the humans were the evil Invaders while the Others just wanted to be for themselves. I bet trump already planned to invade mars with Elon musk rockets 😅
Fun fact: Starship Troopers holds the world record for highest number of blank rounds fired for a movie production ever, with the cast having fired over 300,000 blanks over the course of filming. This record will never be topped as this was one of the last movies made before CGI muzzle flashes became a thing.
I seem to remember Black Hawk Down going through a ton of blank ammunition, so much so that the Moroccan government grew concerned at how much was being brought into the country
I wonder if that explains why in the brain bug scene Denise Richards showed unusual gun safety in the brain bug scene. Maneuvering above and around Rico while moving and shooting. Blanks are dangerous and need to be respected, so it makes sense you would see the actors doing that just out of basic decency than just authenticity.
i just love the parts where some arachnids will toss a trooper to the rest of the swarm like 'heres boys, dinners served' , clearly arachnids understand the concept of sharing food/biomass
I believe the lore is there a hive mind controlled by a queen on their home planet and when they colonize other planets warriors get dropped first by asteroids and they asexually reproduce enough until they can control the planet and dig tunnels then another asteroid lands with a brain bug that acts as a transmitter for the queen
Yeah I know I've the making of the movie because I have all of them on DVD except for traitor on Mars. the director was basically charging at the actors with like a part of the bug hilarious.
@@s3dchr People still cared about visual effects back then. Now they just outsource everything to Indian CGI farms and if it looks like a game cutscene it's considered 'good enough'.
@@s3dchr because this is back when studios and publishers needed things to have a certain level of quality to be successful within their means. Now, the investor money alone can make something viable.
You Aussies can keep that insane creature. Promise you my whole house and about 5 acres on each side would be burned to the ground if I saw one of those.
Middle school me hopped up on StarCraft, loving every minute of this in theaters. Late 30s me hopped up on Helldivers 2, returning to this glorious classic.
this film was ahead of its time in the special effects department, the Arachnids still look pretty good and actually look well blended into the live action shots for the most part, the only things that look dated are the shadows cast by the bugs, and the actors whenever they are shown shooting at the bugs which you can clearly see they aren't even aiming at the correct spot where the bug is, these things have definitely improved today with modern CGI rendering.
@@Ellianu aliens didn't have any cgi shots. Everything was practical and shots of the ships in space were models filmed in front of matte paintings and rear projection screens, the shots of the dropship were minitures and all the aliens were guys in suits. Starship Troopers uses an extensive amount of cgi or visual effects as they call them, over 500 shots to be exact. Phil tippit worked on and helped supervise the visual effects in the film he also designed the arachnids and supervised the practical effects as well. Over 10 effects companies were tasked with working on all the cgi shots and nearly half of the films 100 million dollar budget went to the cgi shots alone. It was practically unheard of at the time, it was a milestone in visual effects at the time and starship troopers paved the way for visual effects in films now, so show the film some respect.
I was 13. Legit had to walk a couple miles to watch it since I knew my mom wouldn't approve. Scared her shitless I was gone for so long. Still don't know how they let a 13 year old in to see it without parental supervision but it was a different time too.
What this scene does right where a ton of others fail is the "first reaction" aspect. Movies today hire those who know nothing about the project, to get a more genuine "what is this???" reaction out of the actor or voice actor. The dude's "I don't know..." reaction was perfect as the character and audience felt immersed in that given situation. What can you do? It took 5 guys to down one bug, and there are hundreds if not thousands closing the distance. He and everyone felt overwhelmed and scared.
The movie implies command already knew a brain bug existed. This mission was an intentional failure to bait the bugs into accidently revealing their command by a higher intelligence. Beating the bugs was never the goal. They claim bugs send meteors across the galaxy and attack earth. Even if they shot their meteors at light speed (which they don't), it would take upwards of 1,000,000 or more years to reach earth.
Helldivers got it easier with orbital bombardment. 6 guns at full auto just to take down one beast. No terminid is that durable except chargers and up.
I always laugh at the flippant Commander. Ok, they said it would be "random and light" but there is clearly dozens of blue rockets flying all around your very tightly knit formation. Uhh-- ya maybe might wanna get out of there FASTER?
It’s crazy, but if you watch it again focusing on him, it’s almost like he was dedicated to his craft. Like, he was home free, but he turned around and ran back in to capture ricos heroic stand. It’s like he was totally willing to die to make good propaganda.
I loved how the bug whipped around and tore him a new one as it were saying “get that damn camera outta my face!” 😂 guess bugs don’t like paparazzi like behavior anymore than humans do
Why is no one talking about the bug artillery? Capable of not only seeing enemy spaceships from the surface of the planet but can calculate their speeds and flight paths. They then time their long-ranged, slow moving projectiles perfectly to fly among the fleet, possible accounting for prevailing winds and the rotation of Klendathu, and taking out some ships and dropships. They did all of that without the aid of satellites and computers. I'm just noticing this after all these years. Damn, these bugs are smart!
Those artillery bugs had futures. They had dreams. Bob wanted to become an engineer. Tracy wanted to go for her doctorate. When the humans arrived, they gave up those dreams to defend their homes. They did so, knowing that their sacrifice meant their children may have a brighter, more peaceful future.
Remember, there's a Brain bug, the one who "eats" humans brains and knowledge, he knows all about you just wrote. He just simply pass the orders for the attack and defense
Well they did literally hit Buenos Aires with a space rock launched all the way from Klendathu. The Arachnids are an advanced space faring race. Bug sympathizers insist that the Buenos Aires attack was a false flag to be casus belli for the war. So you're telling me a race that has transport bugs the size of a small moon, that has landed on and colonized dozens if not hundreds of systems, has plasma bugs that can hit transports in planetary orbit, and brain bugs that literally posses psionic powers can't crash one rock into another rock? Sure. They can do planetary landings all millenia but crashing a rock into Buenos Aires is beyond their abilities. Get real.
@@mistylover7398 classic extra who fell over during filming, probably was gonna hide to the side but got told by crew to run back on (least that's what I suspect) 😂
I love how the whole movie to this point portrays the fleet and the MI to be unstoppable, and makes you feel thisll be a cake walk, and within 30 seconds that feeling is gone
I noticed this, but you're the first person to highlight it. I think it definitely is meant to illustrate "shit about to get real", that this isn't just some pretend game you can yell your way through on behalf of the Federation. No more fun and music etc.
That moment when you realise that you probably shouldn't have volunteered to join an army whose military strategists thought that clumping all the spaceships together so that they make a huge target and crash into each other when the SHTF was a good idea.
A nice detail, though, in both the book and the movie, was that this problem was not ignored but instead caused the Sky Marshal to step down and be replaced.
Folks have been upscaling these 4k movies to 60fps and the results are amazing. I just re-watched Starship Troopers at that video resolution and it's like a whole new movie.
For sure, I had a friend I was showing this film to and I was so offended when she started cackling. There are definitely black comedy elements to this (it is Verhoeven after all)
This movie is satirical. You're not meant to take it seriously. Unfortunately, a lot of critics did take it serious. They didn't pick up on the satire and just saw it as a dumb, cheesy, and fascist giant alien bug movie.
@@SlasherIncorporated Yeah, I didn't like it when I first saw it. (I'm a Marine, too.) But, in everyone's defense who 'didn't get it', the movie was marketed as just a Fun, War is Sexy romp, with no hint of satire. . .AND it was based on a book that was written without meaning to be ironic, AND which is on the Commandant's (of the USMC) Reading List.
I was there that day. I don't like talking about it. No human eyes should see the things I saw that day. R.I.P to all of the dedicated soldiers who fought and died on that hell hole of a planet. It wasn't even a fight,....it was a slaughter. I wake up everyday thankful to still be here when so many didn't make it back. Mobile Infantry 4 life baby!
Mente habierta y criterio hamplio hay posibilidades tal vez podría ser quisaz PERO Una chancla era suficiente para acabar con todos esos bichos y algo de RAID mata vichos ok
Dude this film is from 97 most of you didn't even born in that time and you guys are complaining about the cgi in this movie..you guys don't have any idea how much this movie terrified us back in the day
Given the rush jobs on half the crap studios give us not to mention the terrible scripts the film is a masterpiece compared to films of the last two years.
"boy! I wish i was a helldiver! That would be sick!" *me being instantly enlisted as a SEAF grunt, experiencing this on my first hour on the bug front:*
“We are going in with the first wave… means for bugs for us to kill. You smash the entire area. You kill anything that has more than two legs. Do you get me?!”
I was home schooled for 2 years in the late 90s. My mom took me to see this movie as a "field trip" thinking it was like Star Wars or Star Trek. Props to her for letting me see the entire movie.
The complete lack of strategy and general incompetence in this scene feels deliberate. Starship Troopers is a film about how naive soldiers die in stupid wars, because the army/government they serve doesn't care whether they live or die. The absurd, senseless, chaotic slaughter definitely helps build that narrative.
@@forrestdorman4870 The film deviated from the source material - that was definitely deliberate. Heinlein dialled the fascist propaganda up to 11 in the book - Verhoeven used scenes like this to undercut that. The fascist undertones are still there - you only have to look at the uniforms worn by "military intelligence" to see that - but we also see soldiers fed through the meat grinder, which calls Heinlein's maniacal glorification of the military into question. Yes, it's different from the book - and it's a change for the better. God knows a more faithful adaptation would be a much more sinister film.
The Arachnids look elaborately realistic and frightening in the first film. But in the second and third films, they look like a cartoon, animated by a first-grade student.
@@bricology there are five films in total. The fourth and fifth are debatable if they are canon to the second and third films, but they are connected to the first film. There is also a TV show, which isn’t canon.
@@Tristan-wg9ye Yea but Dax's last stand is cool so I literally dont care. The second movie is a rip off of "The Thing" for no reason xD Starship Troopers 3 has the exo armor from the books but that's the only good thing about it.
Klemdathu tv: "And that's all we have time for, this week, insectoids. Be sure to tune in next week, when we visit the Chop Shop. Alien invaders from Earth drop in for some uninvited shenanigans, but oyr boys turned them into BBQ bits.... Fun for the whole Colony!"
@@Shogundoxie1414 both of those settings have so much better tactics than this. Both of them would be pressing the artillery button like it out of style.
Saw this with my dad in the theaters when I was in 7th grade. When that newsanchor was torn in half in the beginning of the movie, I knew this movie would stick with me for the rest of my life. Crazy how well this film holds up almost 30 years later.
Oh, please. This looks on-par with many movies made today, or worse depending on the scene. When did it become the "cool" thing to shit on modern movies by claiming older ones look better? You people need to hop off the bandwagon and quit with the nonsense.
I remember watching this as a kid on VHS. It was a favorite! And when I played Halo: CE thanks to my auntie who had an Xbox I would always say “this is just like Starship Troopers!” and then the Flood happened. A good childhood memory of mine.
The irony in this movie is that humans were the bad guys. The bugs were only defending themselves. It was humanities government that diverted the asteroid to take out Buenas Aires to give them an excuse to wipe out their species. It was a false flag by the fascist human government, to start a war to wipe out the bugs. Did nobody else see this interpretation despite all the propaganda?
This scene gets funnier every time I watch it. Like, the only thing this movie needs is a prequel that bridges the gap from "Idiocracy" to how this society begins.
@@daneoman1000but the scale is not so big. Aliens had a dozen troopers and one ship, but ST has a thousands soldiers, hundreds of dropships and spaceships and millions of bugs
If you guys want this kind of immersion beyond the 4 player Helldivers 2 offering, check out Starship Troopers: Extermination. It's 16 player platoon style chaotic bliss with the full backing of TriStar Pictures behind it, so you're getting the music, the memorable "Would you like to know more?" style of propaganda, and the 90's over-the-top "guns blazing" style of bug warfare.
Well like they said in the movie they really underestimated the bugs so they got whooped But then again they don’t use any of support thought out the other invasions 😅 guess the military uses all its funds to buy fuel for all the ships
They went in expecting this to be an easy fight and probably believed a ton of foot soldiers was more than enough, and unfortunately for them they found out the hard way it was the exact opposite
My favorite is the absolute genius who ran out in front where he blocked the other troopers' lines of fire. Then he called attention to himself and was surprised when it went belly-up on him.
@@danielcohen99 Starship troopers movies is a fun kind of stupid. Troopers made the Russians look like geniuses in ww2 at least the latter used actual combined armes with artillery, tanks, and air support. Russians really had no choice they were underequipped and waited until their relocated factories could finally make equipment and the lend lease from the Allies kept them in the fight.
lmfao I love the subtle jab at found footage, when the guy gets picked up and chopped the cameraman just stands there filming and getting different angles
"REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING AND YOU WILL MAKE IT BACK ALIVE!"
*first one to get killed* 🤣😂🤣😂
That is a funny shit
The TH-cam channel CinemaSins dings that line and follows with one of their funniest bluntest comments.. “REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING AND YOU WILL MAKE IT BACK ALIVE!!” *Ding* “No Ya Won’t!” The tone and cadence in the way they said it makes me laugh everytime
Obviously, he did not remember his training.
@@samking9293 I fkn love your comment
They really should’ve brought their a game if they wanted to go toe to toe with the beast on his home planet. The poor bastards never stood a chance.
I love that their entire battle strategy was, land, spread out, kill anything that isn’t human. That’s it.
An orbital bombardment would've been nice.... BEFORE someone decided to land ground forces!
@@black10872 failing that, they could have at least been issued with something a little more potent than whatever ammunition they had - hell, BBs would have been more effective!
@@warmonger12z well, the invasion was clearly rushed, driven by a sense of urgency to retaliate and pure arrogance on the Federation’s part. Keep in mind, all through the training, Rico and the rest of his squad were being trained to fight other humans, not Arachnids. The Federation seemed to just assume that because they had starships and guns, taking out the Arachnids would be a cakewalk. They didn’t even take into account the sheer punishment a single basic Arachnid warrior could take before dying, let alone thousands of those things swarming you. The fact that they were routed off the planet less than fifteen minutes after landing speaks volumes about how unprepared they were.
@@hisdudeness8328
They did discover a peak point of the bugs though. Shooting them in the eyes kills them faster.
@@V1nce_man true. But that information didn’t seem to be passed along to the general infantry, as they just fired at the Arachnid’s general mass until they died.
These bugs are truly terrifying creatures. They were even able to kill a camera man.
Haha way underrated comment😂
@@canttouchme5118 So underrated.
@@tightmf just tell my parents about it on my report card.
Could have used millions of small drones with target recognition and shaped charges for a fraction of the price and cost in life.
@@Rob-yv9og that would make a great movie ......lol
I always liked how the bugs are better organized, use tactics and have specialized units meanwhile the humans fight like bugs, endless hordes of disposable and faceless grunts that all do the same thing
😊😊😊 their govt is the most brutal fascist govt ever portrayed on the silver screen. So no surprise
oh my god they definitely did that deliberately
Plus the humans were the evil Invaders while the Others just wanted to be for themselves. I bet trump already planned to invade mars with Elon musk rockets 😅
@@FrankDeleon-fe8cuwhat? Their leaders are voted in and resign when failing at their job. It's the exact opposite of fascism.
@adrenjones9301 are we watching the same movie? False Intel, and can only become a citizen if you join the military
Fun fact: Starship Troopers holds the world record for highest number of blank rounds fired for a movie production ever, with the cast having fired over 300,000 blanks over the course of filming. This record will never be topped as this was one of the last movies made before CGI muzzle flashes became a thing.
I seem to remember Black Hawk Down going through a ton of blank ammunition, so much so that the Moroccan government grew concerned at how much was being brought into the country
love the fact! starship troopers is such a cult classic
I wonder if that explains why in the brain bug scene Denise Richards showed unusual gun safety in the brain bug scene. Maneuvering above and around Rico while moving and shooting. Blanks are dangerous and need to be respected, so it makes sense you would see the actors doing that just out of basic decency than just authenticity.
i just love the parts where some arachnids will toss a trooper to the rest of the swarm like 'heres boys, dinners served' , clearly arachnids understand the concept of sharing food/biomass
I believe the lore is there a hive mind controlled by a queen on their home planet and when they colonize other planets warriors get dropped first by asteroids and they asexually reproduce enough until they can control the planet and dig tunnels then another asteroid lands with a brain bug that acts as a transmitter for the queen
That and working together as a team then again I'd definitely expect insects to be able to do that even better than people
@@alexconn7473Ants do it very well, they are great team players.
I love how he runs out there by himself for no reason and immediately gets killed 😂
Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!
The warrior bug props and CG effects are still amazing!
Yeah I know I've the making of the movie because I have all of them on DVD except for traitor on Mars. the director was basically charging at the actors with like a part of the bug hilarious.
How the FUCK is that 1997??
@@s3dchr Imagination & intelligence🧠
@@s3dchr People still cared about visual effects back then. Now they just outsource everything to Indian CGI farms and if it looks like a game cutscene it's considered 'good enough'.
@@s3dchr because this is back when studios and publishers needed things to have a certain level of quality to be successful within their means. Now, the investor money alone can make something viable.
That is one hell of a dedicated cameraman.
Service guarantees citizenship!
He had more guts than those useless, so-called "troopers."
It was for followers.
@@user-cz7wp4jz6n You know, I could get behind a Starship Troopers remake, where this cameraman's last words are "like and subscriiiiiiibe!"
Let us not forget the service of the reporter; the mobile infantry are fleeing for their lives, but he decides to report from behind a rock.🤦🏾♂️
This movie was spectacular fun. Oscar worthy visual effects, and one hell of a ferocious race.
No air support, no heavy weapons, no flamers, no grenades, no tanks. Oh, wait, they have 2 rocket launchers and 1 cameraman.
You will not believe but that's on purpose.
At the very end if the movie they finally figure it out with at least grenade launchers lol
Lol
That fact always bugged me.... Such modern technology but they going on them just with simple rifles
@@grantavakjan9488 That's intentional. Earth government used human casualties as propaganda tool to recruit even more people in this movie.
Just another day in Australia going into the garage to face a rouge Huntsman Spider.
Klendathu Drop : The emu war.
You Aussies can keep that insane creature. Promise you my whole house and about 5 acres on each side would be burned to the ground if I saw one of those.
Yes, rouge huntsmen, the reddest of spiders.
Huntsmans are good spiders. Keep them around, they usually just mind their business
Live and let live it is. Cheers!@@rougeegamer98
Thanks to all the geniuses pointing out that Starship Troopers is unrealistic
You mean it's _not_ a documentary!?!?!?
Yeah, wait… what? This ain’t legit, dawg?
You have been deemed hazardous to the Federation. Sentence … death! All channels at 6pm tonight
Would you like to know more?
@@Alamandorious We have Rus Z(erg) charging now.
4:00 I love how the humans arrived as loud as possible to announce their presence, just to successfully sneak up on the bugs just seconds later.
Middle school me hopped up on StarCraft, loving every minute of this in theaters. Late 30s me hopped up on Helldivers 2, returning to this glorious classic.
Wholesome
Terran Command is better than both.
You were never a SC player to begin with.
I used to upset my nerdy friend whenever I asked if he was gonna play "World of Starcraft" this weekend 😂
@@AVM26brother thats like a completely different game compared to helldivers
Remember watching this in the cinemas back in 1997...incredible !
I was 10 years old😹😹😹
I was 9 years old. My older brother brought me and my sister to our first movie theater 😂
As a fellow HELLDIVER i can tell you Spreading freedom across the galaxy is just what we do..
Salute to you....fellow helldiver
Fenrir III is getting scrubbed every inch. My brothers and sisters and I are making plenty sure of it!
@@rashadroberts2910 And to you freedom spreader
DEMOCRACY
FOR SUPER TERRA
this film was ahead of its time in the special effects department, the Arachnids still look pretty good and actually look well blended into the live action shots for the most part, the only things that look dated are the shadows cast by the bugs, and the actors whenever they are shown shooting at the bugs which you can clearly see they aren't even aiming at the correct spot where the bug is, these things have definitely improved today with modern CGI rendering.
Director said half the budget was special effects
damn good special effects
Still an enjoyable movie even today
The movie is great in its own way and fun to watch, but its effects look tacky compared to Aliens released 10 years prior.
@@Ellianu aliens didn't have any cgi shots. Everything was practical and shots of the ships in space were models filmed in front of matte paintings and rear projection screens, the shots of the dropship were minitures and all the aliens were guys in suits. Starship Troopers uses an extensive amount of cgi or visual effects as they call them, over 500 shots to be exact. Phil tippit worked on and helped supervise the visual effects in the film he also designed the arachnids and supervised the practical effects as well. Over 10 effects companies were tasked with working on all the cgi shots and nearly half of the films 100 million dollar budget went to the cgi shots alone. It was practically unheard of at the time, it was a milestone in visual effects at the time and starship troopers paved the way for visual effects in films now, so show the film some respect.
For the time this movie came out, I will say that the VFX look really good, better than what Disney's putting out.
Will the movie was made in 97 not that long ago
@@dakotah4866thats over a quarter of century. Don’t defend Disney bro they have dropped off hard.
Who's defending Disney I'm not
that's just not true lmao
😂😂
I was a 15 year old boy watching this in the cinema with his buddies. We loved sci fi, and war movies. A film has never gone harder for me!
I was 13. Legit had to walk a couple miles to watch it since I knew my mom wouldn't approve. Scared her shitless I was gone for so long. Still don't know how they let a 13 year old in to see it without parental supervision but it was a different time too.
What this scene does right where a ton of others fail is the "first reaction" aspect. Movies today hire those who know nothing about the project, to get a more genuine "what is this???" reaction out of the actor or voice actor. The dude's "I don't know..." reaction was perfect as the character and audience felt immersed in that given situation. What can you do? It took 5 guys to down one bug, and there are hundreds if not thousands closing the distance. He and everyone felt overwhelmed and scared.
You know the situation is scary as hell when a cameraman dies.
Only on earth the camera man is safe :(
Happened in Spaceballs too. Ha!
Now imagine watching live at home and you been considering joining Mobile infantry and now your starting to reconsider
I always loved how they didn't bomb the planet back to the bug amoeba pool with nukes.
"Fleet does the flying. M.I. does the dying."
The movie implies command already knew a brain bug existed.
This mission was an intentional failure to bait the bugs into accidently revealing their command by a higher intelligence.
Beating the bugs was never the goal.
They claim bugs send meteors across the galaxy and attack earth.
Even if they shot their meteors at light speed (which they don't), it would take upwards of 1,000,000 or more years to reach earth.
Helldivers got it easier with orbital bombardment. 6 guns at full auto just to take down one beast. No terminid is that durable except chargers and up.
I love how Carmen was not convinced about the blue lights
The blue light's are the bug's shooting up at them
Carmen was smart.
by random and light they mean the amount of what is essentially bug AA was light
Ayo new patch dropped.
Plasma bug buff! More shots, more aoe, triple damage. Ignore armor.
I always laugh at the flippant Commander. Ok, they said it would be "random and light" but there is clearly dozens of blue rockets flying all around your very tightly knit formation. Uhh-- ya maybe might wanna get out of there FASTER?
I grew up watching this movie and everytime i see clips from it its still rewarding
0:14 this is how I feel every morning when I wake up! 😂
You ain’t the only one😂😂
The cameraman cracks me up so damn much to just how oblivious he is to his surroundings 😂 Guess the cameraman can die LOL
It’s crazy, but if you watch it again focusing on him, it’s almost like he was dedicated to his craft. Like, he was home free, but he turned around and ran back in to capture ricos heroic stand. It’s like he was totally willing to die to make good propaganda.
Service guarantees citizenship!
Would you like to know more?
I loved how the bug whipped around and tore him a new one as it were saying “get that damn camera outta my face!” 😂 guess bugs don’t like paparazzi like behavior anymore than humans do
Why is no one talking about the bug artillery? Capable of not only seeing enemy spaceships from the surface of the planet but can calculate their speeds and flight paths. They then time their long-ranged, slow moving projectiles perfectly to fly among the fleet, possible accounting for prevailing winds and the rotation of Klendathu, and taking out some ships and dropships. They did all of that without the aid of satellites and computers.
I'm just noticing this after all these years. Damn, these bugs are smart!
Those artillery bugs had futures. They had dreams. Bob wanted to become an engineer. Tracy wanted to go for her doctorate.
When the humans arrived, they gave up those dreams to defend their homes. They did so, knowing that their sacrifice meant their children may have a brighter, more peaceful future.
Remember, there's a Brain bug, the one who "eats" humans brains and knowledge, he knows all about you just wrote. He just simply pass the orders for the attack and defense
@@Imdrunkontea C'mon you bugs! You wanna live forever?!
Well they did literally hit Buenos Aires with a space rock launched all the way from Klendathu. The Arachnids are an advanced space faring race. Bug sympathizers insist that the Buenos Aires attack was a false flag to be casus belli for the war. So you're telling me a race that has transport bugs the size of a small moon, that has landed on and colonized dozens if not hundreds of systems, has plasma bugs that can hit transports in planetary orbit, and brain bugs that literally posses psionic powers can't crash one rock into another rock? Sure. They can do planetary landings all millenia but crashing a rock into Buenos Aires is beyond their abilities. Get real.
@@generationm2059 Amazing. 😂
7:46 shout out to the trooper that fell in the background
7:54 he then ran like hell to rejoin the group 😂
Always noticed him falling over, somehow didn't clock on its the same guy who runs in from the left 😂
Thanks for pointing it out. I love these little things in the background that are easily overlooked.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAA😂😂😂😂
@@24Puddersda hail waz he doing?? Didn't I see one where da bug wazn't really attacking and no where near him but flopped anyway.
@@mistylover7398 classic extra who fell over during filming, probably was gonna hide to the side but got told by crew to run back on (least that's what I suspect) 😂
6:04 - Oh... Liberty, his leg!
I love how the whole movie to this point portrays the fleet and the MI to be unstoppable, and makes you feel thisll be a cake walk, and within 30 seconds that feeling is gone
I never noticed that once they landed and get in position the music is just gone through the rest of the scene!
Great score leading up to carnage 👍🏽
I noticed this, but you're the first person to highlight it. I think it definitely is meant to illustrate "shit about to get real", that this isn't just some pretend game you can yell your way through on behalf of the Federation. No more fun and music etc.
Separates the romanticized view of war from the brutal reality.
@jr5762 Well said.
That moment when you realise that you probably shouldn't have volunteered to join an army whose military strategists thought that clumping all the spaceships together so that they make a huge target and crash into each other when the SHTF was a good idea.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time." ~High Command, probably.
It was a trap
Bugs with anti air, that notion offends me sir.
A nice detail, though, in both the book and the movie, was that this problem was not ignored but instead caused the Sky Marshal to step down and be replaced.
Glory to Super Earth for being smarter
For how old this film is, the effects are still brilliant.
Folks have been upscaling these 4k movies to 60fps and the results are amazing. I just re-watched Starship Troopers at that video resolution and it's like a whole new movie.
Man, this is way funnier than I realized when I saw it as a teenager
For sure, I had a friend I was showing this film to and I was so offended when she started cackling. There are definitely black comedy elements to this (it is Verhoeven after all)
This movie is satirical. You're not meant to take it seriously.
Unfortunately, a lot of critics did take it serious. They didn't pick up on the satire and just saw it as a dumb, cheesy, and fascist giant alien bug movie.
@@SlasherIncorporated
This and RoboCop are masterpieces of satirical sci fi.
@@SlasherIncorporated Yeah, I didn't like it when I first saw it. (I'm a Marine, too.)
But, in everyone's defense who 'didn't get it', the movie was marketed as just a Fun, War is Sexy romp, with no hint of satire. . .AND it was based on a book that was written without meaning to be ironic, AND which is on the Commandant's (of the USMC) Reading List.
I was there that day. I don't like talking about it. No human eyes should see the things I saw that day. R.I.P to all of the dedicated soldiers who fought and died on that hell hole of a planet. It wasn't even a fight,....it was a slaughter. I wake up everyday thankful to still be here when so many didn't make it back.
Mobile Infantry 4 life baby!
You mean CITIZENS that died😣
Mente habierta y criterio hamplio hay posibilidades tal vez podría ser quisaz PERO Una chancla era suficiente para acabar con todos esos bichos y algo de RAID mata vichos ok
More meat for the grinder 💀💀 😈 💀💀
Courage, duty, honor, a nobel sacrifice, when duty called,you paid the price. Thank you for your service citizen!
F
Dude this film is from 97 most of you didn't even born in that time and you guys are complaining about the cgi in this movie..you guys don't have any idea how much this movie terrified us back in the day
hell yeah! So many memories...
Given the rush jobs on half the crap studios give us not to mention the terrible scripts the film is a masterpiece compared to films of the last two years.
They like that fake ass marvel shit better
Yes, it was terrifying, as I was laughing so hard I could not catch my breath and feared I would pass out on the floor.
Son, I remember watching this film when it came out, like it was yesterday! This film made me the man I am today!!
"boy! I wish i was a helldiver! That would be sick!"
*me being instantly enlisted as a SEAF grunt, experiencing this on my first hour on the bug front:*
Glory to Super Earth for giving us more options that an assault rifle
The yellow and black stripes on their legs, made these things look even more menacing then I remember...
“We are going in with the first wave… means for bugs for us to kill.
You smash the entire area. You kill anything that has more than two legs.
Do you get me?!”
We get you, sir!
We get you, sir!
For the federation!
We get you sir!
We get you, sir!
whats comical is, the ships can hold maybe 20 troopers, but when it lands, there's like a 100 of them coming out from each lol
AHAHAHAHAH
Filmmaking camera tricks. 😹
Advanced clown car technology. 😂
@@Heifetzfani need 70 clowns, get in😂
@@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836 You bet! I'm doing my part!
Mobile Infantry: FALL BACK!
Helldivers: REQUESTING ORBITAL STRIKE!
Imperial Guard: FIX BAYONETS!
Imperial Guard: THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!!!!
Dwarves: ROCK AND STONE!
I was home schooled for 2 years in the late 90s. My mom took me to see this movie as a "field trip" thinking it was like Star Wars or Star Trek. Props to her for letting me see the entire movie.
The complete lack of strategy and general incompetence in this scene feels deliberate. Starship Troopers is a film about how naive soldiers die in stupid wars, because the army/government they serve doesn't care whether they live or die. The absurd, senseless, chaotic slaughter definitely helps build that narrative.
I like how they just turn around and run instead of falling back while shooting 😂
I wish people would actually read the book. That is not what the source material is about.
@@forrestdorman4870 The film deviated from the source material - that was definitely deliberate. Heinlein dialled the fascist propaganda up to 11 in the book - Verhoeven used scenes like this to undercut that. The fascist undertones are still there - you only have to look at the uniforms worn by "military intelligence" to see that - but we also see soldiers fed through the meat grinder, which calls Heinlein's maniacal glorification of the military into question. Yes, it's different from the book - and it's a change for the better. God knows a more faithful adaptation would be a much more sinister film.
@@EyeMixMusic What are you even talking about? You've read the book as much as the director did, didn't you?
@@scorpixel1866 If you can point to anything I've misrepresented (from book or film), go right ahead?
The Arachnids look elaborately realistic and frightening in the first film. But in the second and third films, they look like a cartoon, animated by a first-grade student.
Budget drops
At least in the second one its masked by how dark the film is, literally, due to no sunlight, but yea the third film looks really cartoonish
Wait -- there were second and third films?!
@@bricology there are five films in total. The fourth and fifth are debatable if they are canon to the second and third films, but they are connected to the first film. There is also a TV show, which isn’t canon.
@@Tristan-wg9ye Yea but Dax's last stand is cool so I literally dont care.
The second movie is a rip off of "The Thing" for no reason xD
Starship Troopers 3 has the exo armor from the books but that's the only good thing about it.
Klemdathu tv:
"And that's all we have time for, this week, insectoids. Be sure to tune in next week, when we visit the Chop Shop. Alien invaders from Earth drop in for some uninvited shenanigans, but oyr boys turned them into BBQ bits.... Fun for the whole Colony!"
Giggity giggity
Giggity goo
Stick around.
Loved the rockets, the soundtrack, and the spirit conveyed in this scene. WELL done.
Starship Troopers is one of those guilty pleasure movies that I love to watch. It's just fun, and for a movie made in 1997, it's held up pretty well.
Crazy how well the effects hold up almost 20 years later.
almost?
Closer to 30.
I'm getting older. Maybe.
Imma show this to my kids and tell them it's the first Starcraft movie.
Nah, tell them it's the first Warhammer 40K movie
Gogogo! Diediedie! 💀💀🤕😰💀
@@guysky3873nope not poop sc2
@@Shogundoxie1414Astra Militarum vs. Tyranids.
@@Shogundoxie1414 both of those settings have so much better tactics than this.
Both of them would be pressing the artillery button like it out of style.
Its impressive how the movie makes a satire so ridiculous, that when reality shows up the music then stops. Brilliant just brilliant.
I saw this in the cinema in 1998. It was the most thrilling and memorable experience. I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks. Enough said.
Saw this with my dad in the theaters when I was in 7th grade. When that newsanchor was torn in half in the beginning of the movie, I knew this movie would stick with me for the rest of my life. Crazy how well this film holds up almost 30 years later.
Cameraman was committed to getting the perfect shot
They were planning for an exclusive interview with the enemy😂
. . . and they got it!
Still better than 99 % of movies in 2024
Yup. No woke in dis one!!😅
@@twcnz3570if the movie was made in 2024 the women that died in that hole would be the mc
@@twcnz3570 Bullshit. The training facility has unisex/gender-neutral showers and bathrooms. Doesn't get much more "woke" then that, right?
1997... Crazy to think this looks better than anything made today.
Sorry what 🤣
Oh, please. This looks on-par with many movies made today, or worse depending on the scene. When did it become the "cool" thing to shit on modern movies by claiming older ones look better? You people need to hop off the bandwagon and quit with the nonsense.
"Someone made a big goddam mistake....Break for high orbit!" I love this sequence so much. The music is so on point.
I remember watching this as a kid on VHS. It was a favorite! And when I played Halo: CE thanks to my auntie who had an Xbox I would always say “this is just like Starship Troopers!” and then the Flood happened. A good childhood memory of mine.
the bugs are the scariest and deadliest cgi bad guys ever. from the movement to their menacing resistance to bullets. an actual scary villain
The irony in this movie is that humans were the bad guys.
The bugs were only defending themselves. It was humanities government that diverted the asteroid to take out Buenas Aires to give them an excuse to wipe out their species. It was a false flag by the fascist human government, to start a war to wipe out the bugs.
Did nobody else see this interpretation despite all the propaganda?
I love this ultra realistic rendition of my Spaceforce training and initial classified conflict.
Dude literally had his leg practically cut in half and still kept shooting
If he had used a stim, he would had run away
He made General in like 10 years. Rico is a beast
I love how even the basic drone is a force to be reckoned with, either en masse or one on one. This movie did an amazing job making the bugs fierce.
You mean to tell me Starship Troopers is not a documentary? Inconceivable!
Oh, it's a documentary alright.
Amazing film. Every single scene is completely watchable.
Should be a ride for this at the amusement parks. The kids will love it!
When Helldiver 2 without Stratagem but 100 player co-op only wedpon mode
Now that actually sounds amazing
100 might be too much a 32 player match with no stratagems would be just as fun imo
Wow, we don’t even get out machine guns and auto cannons.
Let’s hope that no Bio Titans show up
@@xxiSHTAr9000x re-supply drop on it’s back
@@NathanielNerquaye-Tetteh-uz2nfWith strategems, it would just be Battlefield.
Me and my squad when we drop into Hell Divers 2
This scene gets funnier every time I watch it.
Like, the only thing this movie needs is a prequel that bridges the gap from "Idiocracy" to how this society begins.
1:17 past all this years ... i am still in love with dizzy flores..... even with 61 now 😄
8:10 not even the camera man survived. Thats how you know you are in deep shit
This is just the best movie ever, from the production to the impeccable acting 😆
The special effects were top-notch then, and they still are now. Great movie.
Best combat drop scene in sci-fi movies history. Everything is just perfect.
Aliens has another good drop ship scene
@@daneoman1000but the scale is not so big. Aliens had a dozen troopers and one ship, but ST has a thousands soldiers, hundreds of dropships and spaceships and millions of bugs
The "Remember your training" shot was the best, together with the music increasing tension. Art, pure art
Taking 3 lvl 1 helldivers into super helldive be like.
I watches this movie a gazillion times, not sure why!! But it’s classic for sure
The movie is from the late 90's. And yet, it surpasses many current movies.
5:40 me in Helldivers as a rank 5 in super Helldive.
For Democracy
Always bring your Breaker, Guard Dog Rover, and Eagle 500 KG
Orbital laser napalm adn sentries
Laser cannon, personally. I’m saving up for the auto cannon, but it’s nothing to scoff at
Incendiary Breaker
After nearly 30 years, this scene still gives me goosebumps
Such a way underrated film! I was ten years old when it came out and I watch it at least once a year!
Still one of my favorite films to watch.
If you guys want this kind of immersion beyond the 4 player Helldivers 2 offering, check out Starship Troopers: Extermination. It's 16 player platoon style chaotic bliss with the full backing of TriStar Pictures behind it, so you're getting the music, the memorable "Would you like to know more?" style of propaganda, and the 90's over-the-top "guns blazing" style of bug warfare.
Outside of their shitty tactics. (lack there of) Best scene in the movie
They thought that bugs are weak.
Because in the future we don't use tanks anymore 😂
Or artillery, air support, grenades, orbital bombardment, missiles, or nuclear weapons.
@@lincolndunford6693 The bugs do all of this instead xD
Well like they said in the movie they really underestimated the bugs so they got whooped
But then again they don’t use any of support thought out the other invasions 😅 guess the military uses all its funds to buy fuel for all the ships
@@lincolndunford6693
Beat me to it
Not even a flamethrower or white phosphorus grenade among them
Of how about a M61A1 29mm Vulcan?
They went in expecting this to be an easy fight and probably believed a ton of foot soldiers was more than enough, and unfortunately for them they found out the hard way it was the exact opposite
I was 12 in 1997 and saw this with friends at the theater. Good times!
7:46 I like how it was all done in one take, you can tell by that guy falling at the back and then catching up later LOL
3:25 If Eagle one was ever shot down in enemy territory, this is how many Hell Divers that would respond to her distress call
Press F for the marine stumbling at 00:20
A satirical, comedic, anti war science fiction flick from the 90's that hasn't aged a day. Certifiable classic.
My favorite is the absolute genius who ran out in front where he blocked the other troopers' lines of fire. Then he called attention to himself and was surprised when it went belly-up on him.
I'll never forget seeing this movie in theaters at age 12. 😁
It was great to be alive in the 90s! What an era & the movies were pur gold
One of the extremely rare times human wave / meat wave tactics are deployed in a sci-fi movie.
Calling any of this 'tactics' seems extremely generous.
Well it is the tactic of throwing mass amount of meat at another mass amount of meat
@@Commanderziffwell it’s what Russia did in Ww2 and they won
@@danielcohen99 and losing nearly 20 million military personnel in the process.
@@danielcohen99 Starship troopers movies is a fun kind of stupid. Troopers made the Russians look like geniuses in ww2 at least the latter used actual combined armes with artillery, tanks, and air support. Russians really had no choice they were underequipped and waited until their relocated factories could finally make equipment and the lend lease from the Allies kept them in the fight.
I love that Verhooven inadvertently made one of the greatest action films of all time😂
Inadvertenly? Verhoeven is great at making action films, he made Robocop too.
@@Sphynra Yeah he was trying to make a satire of fascism but ended up making one of the all time great action movies😂
He made 3 Robocop, Total Recal, and Starship troopers
@@davidmurphy8364 It’s both a satire of fascism and one of the greatest action movies, those things are not mutually exclusive.
@@davidmurphy8364you're a Sargon fan, so failing to recognise fasc ism is what you've been programmed to do
7:45 Look at the trooper in the background. He got killed by an 'invisible' Bug.🤣
at 7:54 you can see him again running after the rest of the group he only fell to the ground
lmfao I love the subtle jab at found footage, when the guy gets picked up and chopped the cameraman just stands there filming and getting different angles
So this must be the first gen helldivers way before we gotten the cool gear
Just another day in Malevolon Creek.
Hell yeah brother
For democracy
@@planesofimagination2182 FOR SUPER EARTH! (survival not included).
Malevolon Creek is actually... automatons planet... YET.