26 years later and the destruction of the Rodger Young is still visually impressive. Also, Basil Poledouris with another absolute banger of a film score.
This movie is the ultimate satire, mocking war propaganda and fascism, Nazism, xenophobic, and the military. Paul Verhoven hated the novel that movie was based on, stating that it took itself way too serious, and that it was glorifying war and violence.
@@michaelburke750 Heinlein left readers to draw their own insights, hence the ongoing debate. I’m more strongly inclined to view it as satire, but hey, literature is nuance. Every reader finds something different between its lines.
Then what about Asimov who called it thinly veiled fascist propaganda?, or the many other authors and critics who saw the same thing?. Why did his wife try to get all mention of his name removed from the film as she stated it was antithetic and offensive to his original work?.
@@scottneil1187 As I wrote, 'Heinlein left readers to draw their own insights, hence the ongoing debate'. The (reasonable) conclusions drawn by Asimov and others are drawn from their own insights.
@@thewonkyembouchureYou don't understand, man! Heinlein should've been more comitted to being on the right side of History! It's not like being staunchly anti random stuff can take a totalitarian spin itself.
If you didn't already know the military recruiter portrayed by Robert David Hall who also portrayed the coroner on CSI is a real-life double leg amputee. The shot of him revealing that he has no legs was real. He was involved in a traffic accident that resulted having both his legs amputated. While on CSI he comfortably used prosthetic limbs while filming.
Soooooo many extras! The war scenes were filmed in the plains of Wyoming - had a good friend who got to experience being an extra. Went to see it a few times in the theater with him and it was a fun “where’s Waldo” experience, trying to spot him in the backgrounds.
this movie answers the question: "what if the nazis won ww2?" also too, props to the character design team for the wide variety of bugs. most alien movies jusy give us a single bodyform. (probably a budget issue.)
Like most movies made from books, as good as the movie was, you really need to read the book. In the book, it turns out that Johnny's Dad was not killed and joined the MI himself. His Dad actually ended up being assigned to his son's unit.
I've read the book: I actually prefer Verhoeven's Film more. Heinlein's Book is overly Pro-Military and this film does a good job to poke holes in the original premise of the book imho.
The character Michael Ironsides played is based on real life Marine Dan Daly, two time medal of honor recipient. Come on you son's of bitchs, do you want to live forever. Was what he used to lead the charge in the Battle of Bellaue wood.
Ironside, no S, he's not a boat. As for Daly, now that is the fightingest marine in the Corps a true badass. The machine gun capture was my fav of his moves. 3 grenades & 1 bullet traded for a destroyed gunners nest, a dead officer and 14 POWs 🎖🎖
Love this movie! I've managed to collect over 100 movies that have Michael Ironside...really love him! ❤ Too bad he doesn't make it to the end of about 95% of them. 😢 Thanks for sharing your reactions and thoughts on this one!!
Running joke we had in the Army. One recruit said "I reckon" and the next thing you know, we're all saying "reckon", and you can't argue with a reckon. Man says he reckons. Can't argue with a reckon. Lets go!
Theory: one of the reasons we all love Diz so much is that she's probably the most human and developed character in the entire film. She keeps most of her humanity all the way to her end. Carmen on the other hand is (deliberately) portrayed as less complex and like the final incarnations of Rico and Carl at the film's end more of 2-dimensional propaganda caricature, beautiful and attractive, but emotionally detached and completely dedicated to the service. I think beneath the surface there's a tragedy in that we see Rico become less and less human over the course of the film, until by the end he's literally parroting what others say, and he and the other mobile infantry are depicted very similarly to the bugs.
In case y'all haven't seen it, my favorite film with Denise Richards (and she has a big part) is 'Wild Things' 1998. Mom will love it. It has lots of stars in it.
My question is what was a guy in the military playing in a high school game? In the book, how the Mobile Infantry got down to the planet was much different. When the movie came out, I and my brother wondered how they were going to show that. Actually, it was Government Service, not just military. They test you and are assigned what you will be best suited. Here is a movie for you to watch. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
It's been so long since I sat down and watched this movie...seeing 'Father Gabriel' from T.W.D. is tripping me out!😳😄 Great reaction, thank you both!😊💚
Also should be said that any tattoo artist worth anything would never tattoo a drunk person. Alcohol thins the blood, if nothing else. Practical concern.
In the book, the arachnid war is a minor element, Small numbers of àtroopers drop directly from space into battle (no landing ships, just power armor), and most people gain citizenship without ever being in the military. I'm sure there's a lot more I could say, but it's been 20 years, and I don't remember perfectly.
Many people think the book was pro-authoritarian/fascist, but if you read the book it ends on a very pessimistic and dire note for the earth government. You just have to read between the lines. Spoilers below. . . . . . . . . . . . Rico (Juan Rico- he’s originally Filipino) becomes a colonel in quick succession. He’s promoted so fast because people in charge keep dying. He ends up commanding his own father alongside other older men, and IIRC teenagers from his old community. Meaning Earth is in the “drafting old men and children” phase of losing a war. Rico is just still hopeful that they can win, so the book doesn’t outright say they’re losing and people assume it’s pro the Earth Federal Government
You wonder how, when this was released, so many folks couldn't figure out it was a satire? I mean, Verhoeven put Doogie Howser in a Gestapo uniform - LOL
One reason it did not perform as well as it could have in the box office is that it is so drastically different from the book that die-hard fans of the book didn't go see the movie
Love this movie but never botherd with the sequals any way the actress of Dizzy is dina Meyer and she has a bad habit of having her characters get killed off in some things that I have seen her in any way. She is one of my favorite actresess. Good reaction guys and glad you did this one as well.
May I suggest a "premiere" reaction...whereas you can interact with the chat in real time when a reaction has its premiere showing....perhaps first a poll on the yt community tab as too when might be a good time to post....for yourselves and for subscriber turnout! As always thanks for the great reactions!
Paul Verhoeven (director), Basil Poleduris (composer), a group of veteran actors, led by Michael Ironside, and no less a group of young, promising actors (some became stars, others - just familiar names), and Heinlein's great novel at the base above all - more than enough prerequisites for the film to become the classic it is today!!(friendly advice - never watch the two insanely weak sequels! trying unsuccessfully to forget them!..)
I love the book and the film even though they are so different from each other. The book was on my suggested reading list when I was up for promotion to sergeant in the US Army. The film strays pretty far from the book. the book is more a look at a great military leader in an impossible war. The film is satire of military propaganda films. Fantastic! Also, if you guys would ever want a military veteran to come and react with you guys or provide some context and commentary, I think that would be fun! I was in the army infantry for 10 years, including one deployment to the middle east. Love your guys channel and reactions! Jen reminds me a lot of my own mother.
I say they should have nuked Klendathu from orbit, it's the only way to be sure! Satire is strong with this one, everyone looks like a top model, dictatorship is fun and so is war! Also, Basilis Pouledoris' score is amazing. I really enjoyed the many movie references in your comments.
If you enjoyed the film and want to continue seeing some good sequels there were two good CGI sequels Starship troopers Invasion, and Starship troopers traitor of mars" Casper van diem reprises his role its great
I must say I really don't get it when people watch some movie from the 90's and marvel at how good the CGI is as if it's a movie that was filmed before they knew how to use a computer. 25 years ago is not a very long time, historically speaking, and even if computers are more powerful now, they still had the best imaging computers in the world when they made movies like this, and the best artists doing the work. They've been using digital animation in movies since the early 70's, so they certainly knew what they were doing by the late 90's.
33:28 Yeah, they kind of forget the fact that Carmen would probably be in shock and bleeding out at this point. This movie is good, but there are some glaring flaws. Great satire, though.
Well, it is Halloween. Might as well traumatize your mom with this 90s movie that every teenager I knew waited for it to come on HBO or SuperChannel so we could see some of the naughtier scenes. 1997, man. Pre-American Pie, but everything is still pretty raunchy. It just involves mostly adults rather than teenagers. There was an erotic thriller out almost every week it felt like and Friday Nights in Canada were "Friday Nights Without Borders." This was Denise Richards' time, I guess. Wild Things, this, and the infamous role as Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough. I couldn't say that last one with a straight face. I couldn't at the time either, but I wasn't complaining!
Well i read the book and seen the movie and i think Paul Verhoven mistaken Fascism for military Stratocracy or libertarian Utopia because the book is very different from the movie. Because there is voting system in the Federation but only ex soldiers, police, or other emergency and military service men and women can vote. That is because stratocracy is a system where only the responsible people can vote and get into politics and state things. Meritocracy or the people who truly deserve to lead or choose another one to lead. Fascism is "guild socialism" or corporatocracy. The Fascist state basically is a big business corporation where only the wealthy and powerful can lead and the state is not interested in its citizens they use them basically as printers for money and states wealth. Basically Cyberpunk 2077 that game is very definition of fascist dystopia and their form of "socialism" or syndicalism as someone would call it. Many people just mistakes fascism for nazism or military juntas or military stratocracy. Nazism is "national socialism". Military juntas is "Military Oligarchy". Military stratocracy is basically a "Soldier's Republic". And do not mistake fascism for nazism either because these ideologies are very different from each other. National socialism is basically normal socialism but there is strong emphasis on national identity and patriotism and that is very different from normal socialism. Normal socialism or "Marxism" advocates for class equality in all nations and hates these principles of national identity and patriotism. We label national socialism as Hitler's idelogy but it is very different from its core components. Hitler's nazism is very unique sort of idelogy. Because even before Hitler there was national socialism. In my country {that is Czechoslovakia} we had a national socialist party in power before the second world war. And we were a democratic republic and the national socialist were in coalition with conservatives. Our president was a national socialist and the prime minister was conservative christian nationalist. Thank you for reading this comment and i am very sorry if there are grammar errors i am not a native to english language. And i hope i wrote an interesting comment. Thank you for reaction video. Cheers from {former Czechoslovakia} Czech Republic.
I have respect for the marines but there's much better Sci fi literature than this, it has many science flaws. They should be reading Dune. Great video as always guys
But Dune isn't pro war propaganda full of anti-commie nonsense to fill their heads with jingoistic nonsense. Can't have them actually thinking for themselves.
You're wrong when you say 2 & 3 lost the point of being a satire of a fascist society. While 2 is a bad movie it keeps the message that the Federation is a self destructive fascist empire, and 3 openly paints the Federation as being the outright villains of the conflict, who use wartime deaths to fake political stunts and give them an excuse to murder peaceful protesters. It also has a message about weaponized religion and how destructive zealots can be in service of their faith. It's a shame the third movie had such a low budget because I will honestly hold it up as being a good movie with cheap effects. It's well worth checking out, and serves as a direct sequel to this one. As for the animated movies, they also kept the satirical nature of the first movie, in the second animated one not only is the Federation losing the war badly, but they're also internally falling apart with dissidents openly opposing the war. The plot even revolves around the Federation plotting to kill the dissidents using the arachnids as tools. All in all, Starship Troopers is one of the very few series where none of the sequels lost the plot about what the first was.
Verhoeven didn't 'get bored', he hated the pro-fascist message in the book as he grew up during WW2 and saw that crap firsthand. The film did indeed flop at the box office but I can assure you everyone I know absolutely loved it and we watched it constantly and yes, we got the satire, you'd have to be pretty dumb not to. You don't see films as gory as this nowadays?, utter nonsense, watch Terrifier 2, makes this look like a Disney cartoon.
Nothing to do with fascism. The military took over and ended wars and Poverty. Rico's parents were not citizens. They had a very rich and healthy life. Democracy, communism, Socialism all failed. The American Republic. Don't remember what the book said about the USA, but if you look at it today, we're falling apart because of socialism and communism and stupidity. IMHO. Read the book. With an open mind. You look like someone that would play Euro games. before the movie was made. The Avalon Hill game company made a game based on the original book and approved by Mr. Heinlein. Used companies are still available out there on eBay.
26 years later and the destruction of the Rodger Young is still visually impressive.
Also, Basil Poledouris with another absolute banger of a film score.
This movie is the ultimate satire, mocking war propaganda and fascism, Nazism, xenophobic, and the military. Paul Verhoven hated the novel that movie was based on, stating that it took itself way too serious, and that it was glorifying war and violence.
The book was blatant satire, something Verhoven evidently doesn’t understand.
@@michaelburke750 Heinlein left readers to draw their own insights, hence the ongoing debate. I’m more strongly inclined to view it as satire, but hey, literature is nuance. Every reader finds something different between its lines.
Then what about Asimov who called it thinly veiled fascist propaganda?, or the many other authors and critics who saw the same thing?. Why did his wife try to get all mention of his name removed from the film as she stated it was antithetic and offensive to his original work?.
@@scottneil1187 As I wrote, 'Heinlein left readers to draw their own insights, hence the ongoing debate'. The (reasonable) conclusions drawn by Asimov and others are drawn from their own insights.
@@thewonkyembouchureYou don't understand, man! Heinlein should've been more comitted to being on the right side of History! It's not like being staunchly anti random stuff can take a totalitarian spin itself.
Props, you two know your actors and actresses...and off the top of your head. Impressive!
One that they seemed to miss and everyone else that I've seen react to this also seems to miss is Amy Smart 10:08
If you didn't already know the military recruiter portrayed by Robert David Hall who also portrayed the coroner on CSI is a real-life double leg amputee. The shot of him revealing that he has no legs was real. He was involved in a traffic accident that resulted having both his legs amputated. While on CSI he comfortably used prosthetic limbs while filming.
Oh wow, that was Hall? 😮
Soooooo many extras! The war scenes were filmed in the plains of Wyoming - had a good friend who got to experience being an extra. Went to see it a few times in the theater with him and it was a fun “where’s Waldo” experience, trying to spot him in the backgrounds.
So cool! 😊
this movie answers the question: "what if the nazis won ww2?"
also too, props to the character design team for the wide variety of bugs. most alien movies jusy give us a single bodyform. (probably a budget issue.)
Unisex showers and a black guy punishing a white guy with slashes?
Thanks for not cutting out key quotes :)) Your mom's cool! Lots of good observations.
Like most movies made from books, as good as the movie was, you really need to read the book. In the book, it turns out that Johnny's Dad was not killed and joined the MI himself. His Dad actually ended up being assigned to his son's unit.
I've read the book: I actually prefer Verhoeven's Film more. Heinlein's Book is overly Pro-Military and this film does a good job to poke holes in the original premise of the book imho.
I'm so amazed how you and your mom have created something so awesome. I actually save your latest video. To watch when things get tougher.
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The character Michael Ironsides played is based on real life Marine Dan Daly, two time medal of honor recipient. Come on you son's of bitchs, do you want to live forever. Was what he used to lead the charge in the Battle of Bellaue wood.
Ironside, no S, he's not a boat.
As for Daly, now that is the fightingest marine in the Corps a true badass. The machine gun capture was my fav of his moves. 3 grenades & 1 bullet traded for a destroyed gunners nest, a dead officer and 14 POWs
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"Oh god, it's a Busey!" LOL
This is so cute. I wish I could watch anything with my grandma today. Please, protect her.
Oh I didn't know that about the trainee and the one she shot, that's so sweet
Love this movie! I've managed to collect over 100 movies that have Michael Ironside...really love him! ❤ Too bad he doesn't make it to the end of about 95% of them. 😢 Thanks for sharing your reactions and thoughts on this one!!
The line "Do you apes want to live forever" was said by a Marine during World War I.
Running joke we had in the Army. One recruit said "I reckon" and the next thing you know, we're all saying "reckon", and you can't argue with a reckon. Man says he reckons. Can't argue with a reckon. Lets go!
Theory: one of the reasons we all love Diz so much is that she's probably the most human and developed character in the entire film. She keeps most of her humanity all the way to her end. Carmen on the other hand is (deliberately) portrayed as less complex and like the final incarnations of Rico and Carl at the film's end more of 2-dimensional propaganda caricature, beautiful and attractive, but emotionally detached and completely dedicated to the service. I think beneath the surface there's a tragedy in that we see Rico become less and less human over the course of the film, until by the end he's literally parroting what others say, and he and the other mobile infantry are depicted very similarly to the bugs.
In case y'all haven't seen it, my favorite film with Denise Richards (and she has a big part) is 'Wild Things' 1998. Mom will love it. It has lots of stars in it.
“Service guarantees citizenship” - a concept worth exploring here. Too many without a real stake in society are deciding the outcomes.
My question is what was a guy in the military playing in a high school game? In the book, how the Mobile Infantry got down to the planet was much different. When the movie came out, I and my brother wondered how they were going to show that. Actually, it was Government Service, not just military. They test you and are assigned what you will be best suited. Here is a movie for you to watch. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Buckaroo Banzai is one of the best movies ever!!!!!!!!!
It's been so long since I sat down and watched this movie...seeing 'Father Gabriel' from T.W.D. is tripping me out!😳😄
Great reaction, thank you both!😊💚
Also should be said that any tattoo artist worth anything would never tattoo a drunk person. Alcohol thins the blood, if nothing else. Practical concern.
Can't believe you got her to watch this... 😂
My parents would never make it past the first 10 minutes.
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This movie is AWESOME!
I just remembered the nickname we gave to this film.
Gone With The Kentucky Fried Movie 90210. 😂
Kentucky Fried Movie FTW!
You two know the entire cast, wow.
In the book, the arachnid war is a minor element, Small numbers of àtroopers drop directly from space into battle (no landing ships, just power armor), and most people gain citizenship without ever being in the military. I'm sure there's a lot more I could say, but it's been 20 years, and I don't remember perfectly.
Still, it's a fun movie when you accept it has nothing to do with the book
JenMom: You are absolutely right. Men and women were treated the same in this movie. Even in the showers! 😅😅
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
Give the book a read. It explains so much
Many people think the book was pro-authoritarian/fascist, but if you read the book it ends on a very pessimistic and dire note for the earth government. You just have to read between the lines.
Spoilers below.
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Rico (Juan Rico- he’s originally Filipino) becomes a colonel in quick succession. He’s promoted so fast because people in charge keep dying. He ends up commanding his own father alongside other older men, and IIRC teenagers from his old community. Meaning Earth is in the “drafting old men and children” phase of losing a war. Rico is just still hopeful that they can win, so the book doesn’t outright say they’re losing and people assume it’s pro the Earth Federal Government
You wonder how, when this was released, so many folks couldn't figure out it was a satire? I mean, Verhoeven put Doogie Howser in a Gestapo uniform - LOL
One reason it did not perform as well as it could have in the box office is that it is so drastically different from the book that die-hard fans of the book didn't go see the movie
Also the weak acting from significant parts of the main cast was revealed fairly early, and definitely did not help.
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Love this movie but never botherd with the sequals any way the actress of Dizzy is dina Meyer and she has a bad habit of having her characters get killed off in some things that I have seen her in any way. She is one of my favorite actresess. Good reaction guys and glad you did this one as well.
Probably one of the least censored reactions to ST, I've seen.
May I suggest a "premiere" reaction...whereas you can interact with the chat in real time when a reaction has its premiere showing....perhaps first a poll on the yt community tab as too when might be a good time to post....for yourselves and for subscriber turnout!
As always thanks for the great reactions!
I was never into curly hair on girls until I saw this film with Dina Meyer. Now I notice there's just some girls that look better with curly hair.
Paul Verhoeven (director), Basil Poleduris (composer), a group of veteran actors, led by Michael Ironside, and no less a group of young, promising actors (some became stars, others - just familiar names), and Heinlein's great novel at the base above all - more than enough prerequisites for the film to become the classic it is today!!(friendly advice - never watch the two insanely weak sequels! trying unsuccessfully to forget them!..)
The CounterPoint lady stomping on the guy's foot kills me.
I love the book and the film even though they are so different from each other. The book was on my suggested reading list when I was up for promotion to sergeant in the US Army. The film strays pretty far from the book. the book is more a look at a great military leader in an impossible war. The film is satire of military propaganda films. Fantastic!
Also, if you guys would ever want a military veteran to come and react with you guys or provide some context and commentary, I think that would be fun! I was in the army infantry for 10 years, including one deployment to the middle east. Love your guys channel and reactions! Jen reminds me a lot of my own mother.
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I say they should have nuked Klendathu from orbit, it's the only way to be sure! Satire is strong with this one, everyone looks like a top model, dictatorship is fun and so is war! Also, Basilis Pouledoris' score is amazing.
I really enjoyed the many movie references in your comments.
Thanks for the How To Invade reference.
If you enjoyed the film and want to continue seeing some good sequels there were two good CGI sequels Starship troopers Invasion, and Starship troopers traitor of mars" Casper van diem reprises his role its great
I must say I really don't get it when people watch some movie from the 90's and marvel at how good the CGI is as if it's a movie that was filmed before they knew how to use a computer. 25 years ago is not a very long time, historically speaking, and even if computers are more powerful now, they still had the best imaging computers in the world when they made movies like this, and the best artists doing the work. They've been using digital animation in movies since the early 70's, so they certainly knew what they were doing by the late 90's.
33:28 Yeah, they kind of forget the fact that Carmen would probably be in shock and bleeding out at this point.
This movie is good, but there are some glaring flaws.
Great satire, though.
'Tis but a scratch!
@@Flix2Us Now, now... It's not nice to compare her to the Black Knight.
The Black Knight had a much wider range of facial expressions than Carmen. 🙂
18:36, military intelligence, two words that don't go together.
Speaking of big bugs, have you seen Eight Legged Freaks yet? I'd love to see your reaction to that one.
Just once I want to hear my mom call someone an ass hat. Even if it's me.
Young ppl from all around the 🌍 joining up, to watch this video
Well, it is Halloween. Might as well traumatize your mom with this 90s movie that every teenager I knew waited for it to come on HBO or SuperChannel so we could see some of the naughtier scenes. 1997, man. Pre-American Pie, but everything is still pretty raunchy. It just involves mostly adults rather than teenagers. There was an erotic thriller out almost every week it felt like and Friday Nights in Canada were "Friday Nights Without Borders." This was Denise Richards' time, I guess. Wild Things, this, and the infamous role as Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough. I couldn't say that last one with a straight face. I couldn't at the time either, but I wasn't complaining!
Well i read the book and seen the movie and i think Paul Verhoven mistaken Fascism for military Stratocracy or libertarian Utopia because the book is very different from the movie. Because there is voting system in the Federation but only ex soldiers, police, or other emergency and military service men and women can vote. That is because stratocracy is a system where only the responsible people can vote and get into politics and state things. Meritocracy or the people who truly deserve to lead or choose another one to lead. Fascism is "guild socialism" or corporatocracy. The Fascist state basically is a big business corporation where only the wealthy and powerful can lead and the state is not interested in its citizens they use them basically as printers for money and states wealth. Basically Cyberpunk 2077 that game is very definition of fascist dystopia and their form of "socialism" or syndicalism as someone would call it. Many people just mistakes fascism for nazism or military juntas or military stratocracy. Nazism is "national socialism". Military juntas is "Military Oligarchy". Military stratocracy is basically a "Soldier's Republic". And do not mistake fascism for nazism either because these ideologies are very different from each other. National socialism is basically normal socialism but there is strong emphasis on national identity and patriotism and that is very different from normal socialism. Normal socialism or "Marxism" advocates for class equality in all nations and hates these principles of national identity and patriotism. We label national socialism as Hitler's idelogy but it is very different from its core components. Hitler's nazism is very unique sort of idelogy. Because even before Hitler there was national socialism. In my country {that is Czechoslovakia} we had a national socialist party in power before the second world war. And we were a democratic republic and the national socialist were in coalition with conservatives. Our president was a national socialist and the prime minister was conservative christian nationalist.
Thank you for reading this comment and i am very sorry if there are grammar errors i am not a native to english language. And i hope i wrote an interesting comment. Thank you for reaction video. Cheers from {former Czechoslovakia} Czech Republic.
I have respect for the marines but there's much better Sci fi literature than this, it has many science flaws. They should be reading Dune. Great video as always guys
But Dune isn't pro war propaganda full of anti-commie nonsense to fill their heads with jingoistic nonsense. Can't have them actually thinking for themselves.
You're wrong when you say 2 & 3 lost the point of being a satire of a fascist society. While 2 is a bad movie it keeps the message that the Federation is a self destructive fascist empire, and 3 openly paints the Federation as being the outright villains of the conflict, who use wartime deaths to fake political stunts and give them an excuse to murder peaceful protesters. It also has a message about weaponized religion and how destructive zealots can be in service of their faith.
It's a shame the third movie had such a low budget because I will honestly hold it up as being a good movie with cheap effects. It's well worth checking out, and serves as a direct sequel to this one.
As for the animated movies, they also kept the satirical nature of the first movie, in the second animated one not only is the Federation losing the war badly, but they're also internally falling apart with dissidents openly opposing the war. The plot even revolves around the Federation plotting to kill the dissidents using the arachnids as tools. All in all, Starship Troopers is one of the very few series where none of the sequels lost the plot about what the first was.
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paul verhoeven didn't bother reading the book, he couldn't have cared less about 1950s anti-commie sci-fi haha. great movie though, wonderful satire.
always BUGGED me, when Rico fights that guy, he kinda kicks Ricos ass for most part. No way a flight guy does that to an infantry guy in this universe
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Verhoeven didn't 'get bored', he hated the pro-fascist message in the book as he grew up during WW2 and saw that crap firsthand. The film did indeed flop at the box office but I can assure you everyone I know absolutely loved it and we watched it constantly and yes, we got the satire, you'd have to be pretty dumb not to. You don't see films as gory as this nowadays?, utter nonsense, watch Terrifier 2, makes this look like a Disney cartoon.
In the movie all the politics are passed off as satire. Not in the book though. Heinlein was very much a fascist.
That actually took me 26 years to figure out that he is son Gary Busey, thanks for info. So obvious but no....
Good movie but an excellent book. Great example of fascism vs. communism.
It's never good when Mom thinks you're greasy :/
or an asshat, LOL
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You should have made it more clear to your mom that the humans are the bad guys in this movie
Nothing to do with fascism.
The military took over and ended wars and Poverty. Rico's parents were not citizens. They had a very rich and healthy life.
Democracy, communism, Socialism all failed.
The American Republic. Don't remember what the book said about the USA, but if you look at it today, we're falling apart because of socialism and communism and stupidity. IMHO.
Read the book. With an open mind.
You look like someone that would play Euro games. before the movie was made. The Avalon Hill game company made a game based on the original book and approved by Mr. Heinlein.
Used companies are still available out there on eBay.