heavy weapon like those, those two likely killed as many bugs as most of the rest of the dudes with rifles put together, the outpost would've been overrun before pickup arrived, without them manning the cannons.
imagine if they killed their own officers like in Vietnam, they wouldnt be there in the first place and would have lived a happy peaceful life most likely. The over the top violence is pretty funny in this movie though.@@BrandonL337
I was lucky to watch that movie in the big screen. The non-stop action and the groundbreaking effects in that time turned poor acting and an ill-written story into a hit in my country.
What i loved about this scene is how you could tell the troops were getting better at killing the bugs (compared to the first encounter) but they were still getting overwhelmed due to the sheer numbers of them. Fucking love this film!
I think something was said about them getting better ammo after that 1st encounter. Klandathu was regular or armor piercing bullets but after that they switched to explosive rounds. Something like that
Part of the point of this movie is that the human tactics are utterly stupid. It’s all just infantry with small arms fire. There are no tanks. Air bombardment happens once in the entire movie. There are no combined arms tactics which have been known since at least World War 2 if not earlier. Remember the movie is a satire. Everybody here is an idiot.
@@Xantaryep, it’s just supposed to be a parody of a war propaganda film, it’s more heroic to seduce your population if the infantry are the ones slaughtering bugs vs constant drone strikes or orbital bombardment
@@Graymenn Well, the popular theory is that it wasn't the Bugs that whacked Buenos Aires. Since launching an asteroid across the galaxy and hitting anything is an insanely ridiculous notion. The more popular theory is that it was just a random asteroid strike or even a false-flag attack by Earth to start a war.
Definitely. Amazing CGI for being such an old movie, except for the transport ship. They need to make a new movie with upgraded CGI, because now it will so easy to do it.
@@drakZes I can wait a few years. soon we can scan the book, and see the movie an AI made from the book. We will be free to watch which ever story we would like. (holodecks are too much to hope for yet, though)
Something that even most realistic war movies don't portray is that death is not pretty. She didn't died saying something cool and closed her eyes like a princess. She died scared while begging Rico not to leave her, her eyes looking into nothing, desperately trying to breath.
@@Igarappappa it bothers me a lot. Because they clearly had medics the first time on P. Plus the tech they fixed him with most likely was hand held as well. Should have brought her on the boat and immediately stabilized her.
I love making fun of him up to this point though. "Carmen, you gotta let me hit it. Please. The only other woman I know is the captain and she's old like twenty five or something."
He still had professional courtesy. After all, his beef was with Rico, not the Roughnecks. No sense in punishing everyone just because of a single man.
I’ve never thought about it that way but you are saying the “sand bugs” control the oil? That’s a hot take my friend but you are entitled to your opinion.
You see the first guy get decapitated by flying bug and think "wow that guy was unlucky" but then it happens again and you realise "oh, that's a thing that they do"
@333puggles333 Blizzard almost did with StarCraft: Ghost, however it never materialized. Granted, this was back when Blizzard wasn't subsumed by Activision.
Y'know, for all his boistering earlier in the story, Zander really earns his stripes here. He lands with Carmen in the middle of a bug swarm to save maybe 2 dozen people and just immediately jumps into action to cover their retreat. He's literally the last on board and helps fly them out, not to mention staying by Johnny's side for Diz's passing. Pretty badass for the smarmy pretty boy he's portrayed as in the first half of the film.
@@shivalah honestly Carmen is the true villain of the story. What does she even do, but sit in a chair and get shanked at the end. Dizzy deserved better
MCU films initially stood up, then from probably around 2017 CGI across all films, not just MCU just suddenly got rubbery, it had more detail but the physics seemed off. Look at Iron Man 1 where he is in a warzone or fighting Iron Monger, the impacts feel real and movements were natural, then compare it to Infinity War or Endgame@TheGOAT-hj6sl
Gotta give Zander props for stepping up to cover the retreat, and even more at the end when he stared death in the face and spat in it. His death scene still fucks me up cause of his face 🤣
Incredible how Helldivers captured this moment. The slow, overwhelming numbers of bugs making their way through. The eventual collapse of the extraction point and the ship finally making its way down, starting the countdown till departure. To top it all off the aftermath as they fly off and leave, big and small bugs infesting the area
Yeah of course you guys have your fancy shmancy stratagems. We didn't have those silly little gimmicks back in my day sonny. You ever have to only use your primary and support weapon. 😊
Can we all just appreciate a few things here. The visual effects are INCREDIBLE The soundtrack is absolutely amazing And this movie is one of the best out there
Everytime I think I have seen everything in the movie, a new detail pops up. I always thought Ace followed Rico when Diz got impaled, but you actually see him LEAVING the ship as Rico yells in terror and begins shooting at the bug.
Ace, Hopkins, Rico, one unnamed soldier and Rico's hated rival ran to it, showing that ALL OF THEM where brothers in arms no matter what happened bevor it. Zander earned Rico's respect that very moment and day.
More than 20 years since I watched this move when I was a kid, and this part 3:40 with the epic score and all never fails to give me the chills. Such an underrated and misunderstood scifi classic, with state of the art CGI and practical effects.
"Come on you sons-of-bitches, do you wanna live forever?!" is actually a quote from the US Marine Corps legend, Daniel Daly! He said it before charging the Germans during World War 1, in the Battle of Bellau Wood!
@@davidwagstaff47 I have never seen, heard nor found any evidence that Dan Daly was a fascist. I'm not sure why you would lie about something like that?
To thins day I don't exactly know the specific meaning behind this phrase. Is it "do not be a coward", or "do some heroic shit that will immortalize you"?
@@DarthBiomech It's don't be a coward. A really bad ass but tongue in cheek way of saying, let's get in the war guys. (before taking on a deadly fight where you're sure to die)
Michael Ironside is a straight badass in every movie he is in. I first saw him in "Top Gun" as a kid and then a few years later in "Total Recall" He always stuck with me over the years. Even when he played a character that you didnt't like he still brought the character to life.
Yes!! That's Basil Poledouris - the man was an absolutely legendary composer! He created the scores for Conan The Barbarian (and Destroyer), Hunt for the Red October, Robocop, Red Dawn, Quigley Down Under and so many more! But my favorites are definitely Starship Troopers and the Conan films. Epic music for epic stories!
so good. and the effects hold up. I really appreciated the gritty, bleak aesthetic they used in this movie, vs the shiny, vibrant look that dominates most CGI today
i'm an 20-years-old, almost fully grown man, i have a nice girlfriend, i'm not afraid of darkness, i like horror movies and FPS games. There is nothing much i am afraid of. BUT THIS MOVIE.... it gives me chills down my spine. In positive and negative way at the same time. And i love it! great movie
I thought the first fight at Klendathu was the best. You follow the troops through training and they are super confident and they get to their first fight underestimating the enemy and it was pretty epic
@@holostrothat’s still really stupid. No matter how stupid the government, artillery shells will always be cheaper to produce than training and equipping new soldiers.
Technically, the Mobile Infantry wouldn't even be fighting on foot: they'd be using flight-capable power armor with an entire suite of weaponry, up to and including low-power nukes. That's the book, though; the director of this movie, I'm pretty sure, never even read the book, he just had someone do it for him and give the cliff notes, on top of the fact that Starship Troopers is a commonly misunderstood story. Instead of it explaining a truly liberal society based on merit, the director made it a tongue-in-cheek satire on fascism, which is the polar opposite of the book.
@@LabTech41the director did read the book, but stopped midway because he really disliked it. The movie was at first supposed to something completely different anyway, but had the label of starship troopers slapped on it midway through writing. The director understood the book as potraying a govermental system based on violence and force as functional and even good, and he really disliked that notion due to it being somewhat similarity to nazi germany, which invaded and occupied his country during ww2. So, he made the movie a satire.
Not sure if pulling the broken off arm that impaled her was the right move. I feel it might have helped her live a little longer letting it sit. Yet, the panic of the moment made it a realistic decision.
You are correct sir. Never remove an embedded object unless your are trained medical professional in an appropriate facility. Splinters are fine though.
Oh, that move totally killed here. If they brought her into the ship with it still inside her, they could still stabilize her but once they removed it her fate was sealed
Remember though, she got stabbed a total of 4 times with those giant claws and only one stayed imbedded so that's 3 other massive holes in her chest cavity
She was honestly dead no matter what they did, with how enormous that arm was embedded into her body, it at the very least punctured a lung, ruptured organs and would likely have died from shock
well, there's the starship troopers extermination game that launched (i think) early acces a year before helldivers2 did. I think it's something like that, but i don't know if it's good or not
Honestly this isn't far off in Suicide Mission and above difficulty, I specifically renember multiple times in terminid control where I barely make it as the last person alive with no reinforcements to extraction as hundreds of bugs are swarming me and bile titans try to skewer me
I was 8 when this movie came out. I remember renting it from Blockbuster and this was this first scene to make me feel true impending doom. The second I saw that swarm of bugs outside the fort. God damn, I love this movie!
remember the recruitment officer? "mobile infantry made me the man i am today!" that is, half the man he was, considering the robotic hand and whatnot. i doubt the leg prostheses would allow for 100% combat effectiveness, he would probably be unfit for military service at that point, and in the society depicted, no good at all; he has nothing left to live for. but like other commenters said, he's probably in immense pain, and probably going to have PLS and chronic pain for the rest of his life.
Wouldnt have safed her. She was punctured through the heart earlier. Getting that out was irrelevant at that point. ALso her lungs where finished already. Rico survived as all he took was shit through his leg and then was safed MOST LIKELY by Razak himself who then wanted the rest of the Apache's into the Roughnecks (aka Ace, Dizz and Rico)
Mostly because the CG shots of the bugs show them at a reasonable distance so you can't make out any imperfections. When they show close-up shots of the bugs it's a real puppet.
Because the inadequacies of CGI in that time actually complemented the insectoids. They made them look glossy and alien...which is exactly what you'd want.
I remember as a kid-teen (tween?) I was at my brothers, fell a sleep on their couch and woke up to this and them sleeping. No idea the context, (I woke up 1/4 way through) but, I legit just sat up, and watched the entire film. Didn’t try to change it knowing how, I don’t know why I felt compelled at the time to finish this movie.
Props and salute to the two guys on the mg - tower. Holding their position to the very end!
always felt bad for those guys
I was devestated when they didnt make it.
Only to have maybe the most painful death imaginable... Damn shame
heavy weapon like those, those two likely killed as many bugs as most of the rest of the dudes with rifles put together, the outpost would've been overrun before pickup arrived, without them manning the cannons.
imagine if they killed their own officers like in Vietnam, they wouldnt be there in the first place and would have lived a happy peaceful life most likely. The over the top violence is pretty funny in this movie though.@@BrandonL337
our helldiver ancestors never forget
-_-
this monsters must pay for attack our way of life
FOR DEMOCRACY !
FOR LIBERTY!
Oorah!
The CGI holds up so well especially given how old it is
Seriously, accounting for when it was made this is some of the best CGI ever created
For real
Late 90s was the golden age of CGI and practical effects being used together.
I was lucky to watch that movie in the big screen. The non-stop action and the groundbreaking effects in that time turned poor acting and an ill-written story into a hit in my country.
Most CGI today is shrouded in darkness, the scenes are so dark.
I dont understand why don' tmore movies like this . Bright realistic CGI.
Tower soldiers were the mvps held their ground till the end of the
no, Rico's hair was the real MVP
the end of the what? THE END OF THE WHAT?
@@sir_stridethe
This comment was apparently written by one of the tower soldiers who wanted to make sure their names were remembered, which were....argghhhh
They wanted the extra xp
What i loved about this scene is how you could tell the troops were getting better at killing the bugs (compared to the first encounter) but they were still getting overwhelmed due to the sheer numbers of them. Fucking love this film!
I think something was said about them getting better ammo after that 1st encounter. Klandathu was regular or armor piercing bullets but after that they switched to explosive rounds. Something like that
Part of the point of this movie is that the human tactics are utterly stupid. It’s all just infantry with small arms fire. There are no tanks. Air bombardment happens once in the entire movie. There are no combined arms tactics which have been known since at least World War 2 if not earlier.
Remember the movie is a satire. Everybody here is an idiot.
@@Xantaryep, it’s just supposed to be a parody of a war propaganda film, it’s more heroic to seduce your population if the infantry are the ones slaughtering bugs vs constant drone strikes or orbital bombardment
@@landanross2966 And now we should take a moment to think back, about the agreement the military made Hollywood to agree to, regarding movies.
@@lovejoydk838 The what now?
Dizzy's death is the hook of the movie. Up until then it's been almost a comedy. Now you're emotionally invested in seeing them complete the mission.
pls i was emotionally invested as soon as those damn bugs whacked us
@@Graymenn sorry Mr. Poopy Pants I didn't know you were so sensitive
@@nobodynothing00000 my main man its a joke.... "goddamn bugs whacked us johnny"
@@Graymenn Well, the popular theory is that it wasn't the Bugs that whacked Buenos Aires. Since launching an asteroid across the galaxy and hitting anything is an insanely ridiculous notion.
The more popular theory is that it was just a random asteroid strike or even a false-flag attack by Earth to start a war.
@@Graymenn its how u can tell who has and hasnt actually seen the movie...
Oh the memories as a teenager watching this every night before I’d go to sleep. Good times
fr it was the perfect movie for us teenage boys everything about it.
And we all get nightmares. Good times
I'm doing exactly that rn
After such inexplicable crap, you hardly want to sleep like these mutants....
I think we all agree this is THE scene of starship troopers
This, and the Klendathu drop.
And the first drop, epic
Definitely. Amazing CGI for being such an old movie, except for the transport ship. They need to make a new movie with upgraded CGI, because now it will so easy to do it.
@@drakZes It'll look worse if they did it now. CGI has gone backwards
@@drakZes I can wait a few years. soon we can scan the book, and see the movie an AI made from the book. We will be free to watch which ever story we would like.
(holodecks are too much to hope for yet, though)
The fact that he smiles after that officer just gets rekt is gold
Only Ace gets overwhelmed by the absurdity of what just happened. Rico's reaction is a bit more serious because he downed the bug 😅
He got creamed by the bug
Think the point is soldiers care about killing, not saving lives. They don't care who dies, just as long as they can kill
shows how much he actually cares about that guys health and safety🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A reminder that people have different stress responses.
Something that even most realistic war movies don't portray is that death is not pretty.
She didn't died saying something cool and closed her eyes like a princess. She died scared while begging Rico not to leave her, her eyes looking into nothing, desperately trying to breath.
Women dying unimaginably gruesome and painful deaths in front line combat--proudly brought to you by democrats!
Actually she died because he was a dumbass who ripped out the large serrated leg out of her torso.
Rico killed her.
@@dashawnbonnett5847 Yeah. That was all him. They clearly don't teach First Aid in the Mobile Infantry.
@@Igarappappa it bothers me a lot. Because they clearly had medics the first time on P. Plus the tech they fixed him with most likely was hand held as well. Should have brought her on the boat and immediately stabilized her.
It is the best documentary on the flora and fauna of Australia that has ever been made.
Oh, you exaggerate. This hardly ever happens in Australia.
@@agalah408 man atleast twice a year
This wasn't an australian documentary. Too many people survived.
@agalah408 that's because the news never gets out
Pfft, you call those giant arachnids? The babies are like twice the size down here in Australia😂
Gotta respect Zander for getting out of the dropship with a rifle to help the evac! Guy was kinda a douche but he was heroic at the end of the day.
I love making fun of him up to this point though. "Carmen, you gotta let me hit it. Please. The only other woman I know is the captain and she's old like twenty five or something."
He still had professional courtesy. After all, his beef was with Rico, not the Roughnecks. No sense in punishing everyone just because of a single man.
Then got strawed by Mother Bug in the end
Zander did nothing wrong this whole movie, kinda a douche but clutch when it mattered, he never cheated on nobody.
They were all doing their part.
The bugs should've just handed over their oil peacefully.
You mean stopped wishing death on Earth
I think you mean their gas and minerals
You mean stop being noticed by humanity?
Yeah.. wishing death on us doesn't seem to work out for any aliens.
I’ve never thought about it that way but you are saying the “sand bugs” control the oil? That’s a hot take my friend but you are entitled to your opinion.
Movie still looks AMAZING today. For it's age, even more so. Freakin STACKIN bugs man
Voodoo magic man'
oh wrong movie sorry
@@bruceli9094 Want some candy?
You see the first guy get decapitated by flying bug and think "wow that guy was unlucky" but then it happens again and you realise "oh, that's a thing that they do"
Yeah I saw that video too. The one where you took that quote from
@@carlosflores4179 Caught em in 4k
@@carlosflores4179 What quote?
@@arthurfisher1857 "Everything great about starship troopers"
Like farming comment
This movie always makes me want to play Starcraft again.
"Nuclear launch detected."
Get on Helldivers 2 man!
@@ojsilva1975helldivers is a better Starship Troopers game than the actual starship troopers game😂
Starcraft with Helldivers 2 gameplay would slap
@333puggles333 Blizzard almost did with StarCraft: Ghost, however it never materialized. Granted, this was back when Blizzard wasn't subsumed by Activision.
"Warm it all up! Everything you got! Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?!" Man, that is some serious motivation right there.
Based on a real quote "Come on you sons of bitches, do you wanna live forever?" from Dan Daly during the Battle of Belleau Wood
I always thought the Lieutenant said "Board it all up"
@@spinosaurusiii70272 Time Medal of Honor recipient. The changed the rules so he didn't get it a 3rd time
The 'Come on you apes...' line was straight out of the Heinlein novel.
Y'know, for all his boistering earlier in the story, Zander really earns his stripes here. He lands with Carmen in the middle of a bug swarm to save maybe 2 dozen people and just immediately jumps into action to cover their retreat. He's literally the last on board and helps fly them out, not to mention staying by Johnny's side for Diz's passing.
Pretty badass for the smarmy pretty boy he's portrayed as in the first half of the film.
Also, he’s completely covered in Sweat from running and gunning, while Carmen is completely dry, because she sat in the cool Cockpit.
@@shivalah honestly Carmen is the true villain of the story. What does she even do, but sit in a chair and get shanked at the end. Dizzy deserved better
Zander does nothing wrong and is a hero.
Kelly & Zach would disagree.
homeboys on the watch tower were the real MVP
Graphically this film stands up today
the practical effects for the bodies are top notch
Plot twist: this was recorded secretly on a world that has never been seen, and nothing here is CGI
the color correction style of the 90s movies help blend the early CGI too
MCU films initially stood up, then from probably around 2017 CGI across all films, not just MCU just suddenly got rubbery, it had more detail but the physics seemed off.
Look at Iron Man 1 where he is in a warzone or fighting Iron Monger, the impacts feel real and movements were natural, then compare it to Infinity War or Endgame@TheGOAT-hj6sl
This movie is essentially Starcraft without the Protoss
When Ace starts laughing after the hopper crashes into the general 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I always wondered where his character went right after the 1st movie
@@silent_hunter515According to the animated movies, he retired and owns a diner.
I guess it is either laugh or cry.
Ironic that Ace's father had a similar fate in another movie. 👽
Good
Gotta give Zander props for stepping up to cover the retreat, and even more at the end when he stared death in the face and spat in it. His death scene still fucks me up cause of his face 🤣
I was born in 93 and watched this movie when I was a literal child lol. To this DAY it's still one of my favorites!!
We’re the same age. My brother and I watched this constantly growing up. Certified classic.
For us 30 year olds it’s a literal childhood classic ❤️
Same same
Incredible how Helldivers captured this moment. The slow, overwhelming numbers of bugs making their way through. The eventual collapse of the extraction point and the ship finally making its way down, starting the countdown till departure. To top it all off the aftermath as they fly off and leave, big and small bugs infesting the area
That defense at the outpost is Trivial level for us experienced Helldivers For Freedom!!!!
Yeah of course you guys have your fancy shmancy stratagems. We didn't have those silly little gimmicks back in my day sonny. You ever have to only use your primary and support weapon. 😊
"Fire at will!"
Private named Will: 💀
LOL
No, one of the bugs was named Will.
“Which one is Will, sir?”
“Not sure, Private! Better shoot ‘em all just to be on the safe side!”
@@Alamandorious😒Whoops!
Kid named Finger
Can we all just appreciate a few things here.
The visual effects are INCREDIBLE
The soundtrack is absolutely amazing
And this movie is one of the best out there
Everytime I think I have seen everything in the movie, a new detail pops up.
I always thought Ace followed Rico when Diz got impaled, but you actually see him LEAVING the ship as Rico yells in terror and begins shooting at the bug.
Oh shit. Thanks for pointing that out. In the book, it actually was ace and Rico that went back for Diz
Ace, Hopkins, Rico, one unnamed soldier and Rico's hated rival ran to it, showing that ALL OF THEM where brothers in arms no matter what happened bevor it. Zander earned Rico's respect that very moment and day.
More than 20 years since I watched this move when I was a kid, and this part 3:40 with the epic score and all never fails to give me the chills. Such an underrated and misunderstood scifi classic, with state of the art CGI and practical effects.
Basil Poledouris. I bought the soundtrack, is amazing.
"Come on you sons-of-bitches, do you wanna live forever?!" is actually a quote from the US Marine Corps legend, Daniel Daly! He said it before charging the Germans during World War 1, in the Battle of Bellau Wood!
Yes, and he was a fascist too, thr film ridicules these fascists from military history
@@davidwagstaff47 I have never seen, heard nor found any evidence that Dan Daly was a fascist. I'm not sure why you would lie about something like that?
@@davidwagstaff47 Um, no he wasn't? I haven't found any evidence that Dan Daly was a fascist
To thins day I don't exactly know the specific meaning behind this phrase. Is it "do not be a coward", or "do some heroic shit that will immortalize you"?
@@DarthBiomech It's don't be a coward. A really bad ass but tongue in cheek way of saying, let's get in the war guys. (before taking on a deadly fight where you're sure to die)
Michael Ironside is a straight badass in every movie he is in. I first saw him in "Top Gun" as a kid and then a few years later in "Total Recall" He always stuck with me over the years. Even when he played a character that you didnt't like he still brought the character to life.
"Rico....you know what to do" quality scene, love Ironsides.
I love it when the music really kicks in!
Hands down…one of the best battle/theme songs for a movie
@@C_FAZAnd a really high standard to meet if you want to write and compose another great battle scene theme.
Yes!! That's Basil Poledouris - the man was an absolutely legendary composer! He created the scores for Conan The Barbarian (and Destroyer), Hunt for the Red October, Robocop, Red Dawn, Quigley Down Under and so many more! But my favorites are definitely Starship Troopers and the Conan films. Epic music for epic stories!
@@IronDragon-2143 starcraft : base iz under attack.
so good. and the effects hold up. I really appreciated the gritty, bleak aesthetic they used in this movie, vs the shiny, vibrant look that dominates most CGI today
Helldivers 2 in a nutshell:
Nerd
@@theaegypticgaming1461Loser
Lvl 7 and up!!!
@@theaegypticgaming1461 Loser
@@theaegypticgaming1461 Loser
"Here, make em count!" omg the sarcasm gets me everytime, I laugh and laugh and laugh...
i'm an 20-years-old, almost fully grown man, i have a nice girlfriend, i'm not afraid of darkness, i like horror movies and FPS games. There is nothing much i am afraid of.
BUT THIS MOVIE....
it gives me chills down my spine.
In positive and negative way at the same time.
And i love it!
great movie
Best science-fiction ground battle of all time !
I thought the first fight at Klendathu was the best. You follow the troops through training and they are super confident and they get to their first fight underestimating the enemy and it was pretty epic
RiP.... And respect the Homeguys on Tower 😢
2:12 the arachnid getting crushed by the support beam: hey Jerry did we kill all the humans ye- YO WHAT THE FU-
“You wanna live forever.” Is my go to quote for shoveling snow in the winters.
This movie traumatized me as a kid. Helldivers 2 has offered some severe catharsis that i didnt know i needed 😂
Of all the movies i have ever seen in my whole life, this is definitely one of them!
This scene really highlights composer Basil Poledouris' incredibly epic score for the film!
The CGI looks great
Rip the tower gunners😢
REST IN PARADISE
When you're dealing with a swarm like this, area weapons are the answer.
Yes you are correct sir
Verhoeven said that he was basing it on the classic movie Zulu
@@holostrothat’s still really stupid. No matter how stupid the government, artillery shells will always be cheaper to produce than training and equipping new soldiers.
Technically, the Mobile Infantry wouldn't even be fighting on foot: they'd be using flight-capable power armor with an entire suite of weaponry, up to and including low-power nukes. That's the book, though; the director of this movie, I'm pretty sure, never even read the book, he just had someone do it for him and give the cliff notes, on top of the fact that Starship Troopers is a commonly misunderstood story. Instead of it explaining a truly liberal society based on merit, the director made it a tongue-in-cheek satire on fascism, which is the polar opposite of the book.
@@LabTech41the director did read the book, but stopped midway because he really disliked it. The movie was at first supposed to something completely different anyway, but had the label of starship troopers slapped on it midway through writing.
The director understood the book as potraying a govermental system based on violence and force as functional and even good, and he really disliked that notion due to it being somewhat similarity to nazi germany, which invaded and occupied his country during ww2.
So, he made the movie a satire.
God I love how ridiculously over the top this movie is.
Not sure if pulling the broken off arm that impaled her was the right move. I feel it might have helped her live a little longer letting it sit. Yet, the panic of the moment made it a realistic decision.
You are correct sir. Never remove an embedded object unless your are trained medical professional in an appropriate facility.
Splinters are fine though.
Oh, that move totally killed here. If they brought her into the ship with it still inside her, they could still stabilize her but once they removed it her fate was sealed
Remember though, she got stabbed a total of 4 times with those giant claws and only one stayed imbedded so that's 3 other massive holes in her chest cavity
@@anubian860 Yeah, she was toast either way
She was honestly dead no matter what they did, with how enormous that arm was embedded into her body, it at the very least punctured a lung, ruptured organs and would likely have died from shock
3:00 is absolutely INSANE for 1997 considering crowd sims werent even a thing yet.. what the frigggg
One of my favorite shots of the movie
This movie could come out next year and still be ahead of its time
Rico’s face when the big he shoots down kills the general 😂 priceless
Rico: "Woops"
Ace: Laughts in general being stupid
Razak: Doesnt even care XD
The music at 3:40, still the best crescendo
We need exactly this in helldivers 2! Mass hell divers fighting huge waves with only 1 life until rescue arrives..
well, there's the starship troopers extermination game that launched (i think) early acces a year before helldivers2 did. I think it's something like that, but i don't know if it's good or not
@@ninlog It is not good
Bruh, the hell with that. Fellow Helldivers are more dangerous than the bugs. One idiot with 380mm barrage and we are all dead.
Honestly this isn't far off in Suicide Mission and above difficulty, I specifically renember multiple times in terminid control where I barely make it as the last person alive with no reinforcements to extraction as hundreds of bugs are swarming me and bile titans try to skewer me
Kernow flag?
The way the music kicks into overdrive at 3:39 and everyone has that final stand against the bugs. The timing of the soundtrack was a masterpiece
I liked this battle scene so exciting
I was 8 when this movie came out. I remember renting it from Blockbuster and this was this first scene to make me feel true impending doom. The second I saw that swarm of bugs outside the fort. God damn, I love this movie!
We lost the ability to make movies this good.
3:39 this part gives me goosebumps every time
Dizzy death turns my stomach every time.
The CGI still holds up, Amazing.
A bunch of level 1 Helldivers.
"Rico! You know what to do."
"Yes sir."
_Aims his gun_
"No you idiot! I meant pull me back on to the ship!"
Bug :
They could've used some stratagems on all those bugs. For democracy!!!!
For Democracy.. lmao. 😂
For THE REPUBLIC!!
@@KillaCali5150
*Managed Democracy
Found this movie absurd when I watched it as a child. Now that I fight for Super Earth, this movie give me goosebumps 💪
Omg my childhood movie, such a nostalgic
Cgi from 1997... and its better then some movies with Bagger Budget from 2023....
I want a level in Helldivers that’s EXACTLY LIKE THIS. Just hold on as long as you can
terminid defense missions on high difficulty
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I was 21 years old in 1997 - I miss the 90s
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I can watch this movie like a hundred times
Paul verhoeven is brilliant director starship troopers, RoboCop,Total recall all timeless movies ❤
Simply one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever made.
“I’m doing my part”.
0:23 pov: ur playing helldivers 2 on a hard difficulty and 2000 bugs r coming out of a bug hole
The guns, music, and arachnids are f ing brilliant.
My friend works in pest control, and this is what I imagine he does.
Never understood why he wanted to die rather than get neat new legs and keep fighting.
Damn, you are right. It's not like they would walk for hours or spend time saving him. Rescue was there already!
Probably because he was in some intense pain. Maybe the bug that ate his legs had venom. Idk though that's just a theory.
@@NordicJarl27 A Game Theory!
Half body ripped, he would die long before they get him to the ship
remember the recruitment officer? "mobile infantry made me the man i am today!" that is, half the man he was, considering the robotic hand and whatnot.
i doubt the leg prostheses would allow for 100% combat effectiveness, he would probably be unfit for military service at that point, and in the society depicted, no good at all; he has nothing left to live for. but like other commenters said, he's probably in immense pain, and probably going to have PLS and chronic pain for the rest of his life.
Best Sci-Fi movie of all times!! Very glad that I saw it at movie theater back then.
3:41 "Have a taste of Liber-tea!"
"Fire at will!"
Will: "Not again.."
Helldive extraction be like
Zander understood the weak point and actually did his job in hitting it.
“Fire at will”
Everyone else. WHICH ONE IS WILL?
Kid named Will…
@@kgpspyguy Please. These horrible jokes are fuming. I am burning.
Will Smith?
@xyhmo wow lol
If this movie was produced by the Zucker Brothers, Will Smith got his cameo right there. 😂
What’s impressive is the graphics still holds good on a Harsh sunlight . Wondering what happened to the latest cgi tech
What the SEAF infantry are doing while they wait for the Helldivers to complete enough Liberation missions.
❤love this movie saw it when I graduated high school in 1997 I will always call 1997 the year of freedom
Lifesaver First aid advice, if you have a large foreign object in a wound, don't pull it out, it's plugging the hole.
Wouldnt have safed her. She was punctured through the heart earlier. Getting that out was irrelevant at that point. ALso her lungs where finished already. Rico survived as all he took was shit through his leg and then was safed MOST LIKELY by Razak himself who then wanted the rest of the Apache's into the Roughnecks (aka Ace, Dizz and Rico)
Why this cgi still looks better than 95% of movies today
Because it is made with dedication, time and some practical effects...
Mostly because the CG shots of the bugs show them at a reasonable distance so you can't make out any imperfections. When they show close-up shots of the bugs it's a real puppet.
Because this movie wasnt made under sweatshop conditions and their CG team weren't spread out between like half a dozen other movies at once
Because the inadequacies of CGI in that time actually complemented the insectoids. They made them look glossy and alien...which is exactly what you'd want.
Big movie productions are a gravy train; inflated prices on every level.
3:38 when you’re in helldivers and you called for the evacuation.
Southern border being overrun by Chinese immigrants
literally feels like teh music is the same lol
The cgi in this movie is insane.
Bring back "Oily sweaty faces" of the 80's and 90's.
Make oily faces again!!
When the destroyer has already left orbit and you're out of stratagems.
Mobile Infantry? where's their mortar platoon? Artillery?
They didn’t know bugs were on the planet, they were just investigating why their outpost went quiet
It's satire written and directed by a lefty
@@Thunderchild-gz4gc (explains why the movies failed)
this movie never gets old
me learning helldivers strategys while watching starship troopers
Or just play the starship troopers game 😂
Im impressed on how its still on Netflix
My 2 braincells when there are too many bugs on the screen :➡️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️
“All right mobile infantry hold what you got” morale booster activated
I'm seeing a lot of well deserved respect for the tower bros in the comments. MVPs of Outpost Whiskey.
They need to make a starship trooper 2 ASAP. I remember watching this movie as a kid. Absolutely loved it!!
They did and they were horrible lol.
@@johnroberts9014 I guess that’s why I never heard of it lol
I remember as a kid-teen (tween?) I was at my brothers, fell a sleep on their couch and woke up to this and them sleeping. No idea the context, (I woke up 1/4 way through) but, I legit just sat up, and watched the entire film. Didn’t try to change it knowing how, I don’t know why I felt compelled at the time to finish this movie.
did you like the film?
@@jusssstteeezzy yes, I don’t think I even went bathroom through the movie.
This movie will live forever!