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I always loved how they showed a single warrior bug being shot by the entire squad and still taking a hell of a lot of punishment before going down, only for hundreds more to just come around the corner, did a really good job of showing how unprepared they were to assault the planet and that they didn't really know how to deal with arachnids yet, like aiming for the nerve stem etc.
@@EthanThomson Pretty much EVERYONE you see in the Klendathu drop is completely green, since the United Citizen Federation is a military that doesn't have anyone to fight. The only man in Rico's drop ship who might have any experience at all is the very first person you see killed, amusingly because as the only experienced man he's the only one who stands his ground to the first Arachnid they encounter. The rest of the invasion force is likely the same. You see the difference later with the Roughnecks, who are veterans and mow down Arachnids seemingly by placing their shots better instead of trying to just hose them with bullets.
Someone from another clip had pointed out the use of music, and how it stops completely once they charge over the first hill, as if all the indoctrination, patriotism, pride, training, and humanity leaves them when battle starts.
"when that first bullet passes over your head... politics and noble ideas go right out the window. The only thing that matters is the soldier next to you and getting back home alive." - Black Hawk Down (reinterpreted).
Verhoeven is truly a genius. Somehow he managed to make this scene so epic, when it’s a satire with stereotypical soldiers going to some random planet just to fight some random bugs.
@@terrylong8894 Not necessarily an anti war message, just a satire of the military. Verhoeven knows how to make satires that look cool and are “subtle” enough to look like a simple action film, when usually there are a lot of readings in his movies aside of the action itself. For example Robocop is an action film, but clearly has elements of a satire of corporations, and a critique of how far humans are willing to go with technology disregarding ethical aspects. All of that also including a dramatic story of resurrection and regaining a lost humanity.
0:14 - "This is the captain speaking, all personnel prepare for drop, we are at D-minus three and counting." 3:14 - dropships landing on Klendathu Small details in film editing. 👍🏾
i think the music here pretty much shows how wars affect people. You get all hyped up heading into war then the momen they landed it, the music stopped immediately. Reality hits you very quick
Yeah the hubris in countless real world wars is mind boggling. People think they are going to get an easy victory in three weeks and it becomes a four year brutal war.
Mostly because the opponent is overestimated that they blew up all their ammo in the first weeks. Then Zelenskyj ask for more ammo since he has already spent it on fighting the fear of the enemy. We call it attrition.
I feel like this scene is comparable to the first scene in Saving Private Ryan in a lot of ways. I think the filmmakers were really trying to make this like a sci-fi D-Day, and it really succeeds. You see all the human reactions to being in the horrors of combat for the first time. Courage, shock, fear, panic. For some their training and instincts kick in and they handle it all. For others it doesn’t and they can’t take it.
The best scene of how to not do a orbital landing, no orbital bombardement, ship all too close of each other, not armored unit(tank or walker)..but still awesome
I actually loved this movie. I loved when they made movies like this. Where it had a quirky theme. The entire thing was suppose to feel like one big boot camp video and it did. It was gimmicky and quirky. And fun to watch. Atleast I thought so.
two great theories I love 1) the Fed destroyed Buenos Aries to justify an invasion after the Mormon colonist massacre didn't whip up enough hatred. The bugs would have needed to launch a meteorite so many millions of years ago for it to hit Earth today, with impossible accuracy. 2) The plan was to reduce the human population, and justify a war footing economy. They attack Klendathu knowing it'll be a massacre. The fact you need citizenship to have a baby proves they have overpopulation, even despite colonizing other worlds.
@@IgarappappaYeah you’re right they are incompetent but he isn’t wrong in that they wouldn’t use this as some sort of propaganda to invoke anger in the populace to keep the war going.
want to know why I hate bugs? when you look at a bug up close, you don't see any cuteness or any fur, all you see is a freak of nature, and that's why Starship Troopers is a constant reminder that real life bugs are nothing but a bunch of scary, poisonous, bothersome, good for nothing monsters.
What a great scene with a great subtle satire. This whole mission was a colossal failure. From the rushed and shaky preparation, to the firm believe they were gonna squish cockroaches in the kitchen to the absolute believe that the air assault and bombardment is safe and these are just "shiny fireworks". What resulted was a total and colossal loss but at the very least a good content for the propaganda machine of the Earth Government. After all - humanity started this war with their unwarranted invasion of the bug's solar system. This is not war, this is an invasion orchestrated by totalitarianism government.
My child me always thought this was starcraft live action movie and it's still fun for me regardless its not starcraft. Gotta love the first movie, while the 2nd one gives me horror.
These soldiers don’t really look all that disciplined. Sure they look cool but that’s about it. One soldier charges alone forward and another retreats while seeing blood the first time. But this movie is the best regardless.
I wish they'd make an online game that'd have whole bunch of players load up in shuttles, piloted by other players, into a planet to fight the bugs (or any other enemies) and make it an all-world live event like this.
I saw this in theaters. We were there to see mk2, but the theater did 2 movies for the price of one, I was like 8 when I saw this movie and I couldn't stop thinking about it for years, god I should not have seen this movie then lol
There was also a good RTS that came out last year Starship Troopers Terran Command and a co-op game Starship Troopers Extermination, but Helldivers seems to be the most popular of the lot.
Well there's also an older FPS in which you play as a Marauder trooper that's pretty good. You wouldn't believe how many NPCs that game can spawn and keep active at the same time without messing up the performance.
5:24 Considering how hard was to kill the first bug (countless bullets and it just kept attacking), I’d shit my pants if I saw all those bugs coming all of a sudden. What a great way to establish how menacing the bugs are, and how unprepared the humans were to face them. I love this film.
@brummyuk They didn’t exactly knew what they were up against for a while as they just pinned and asteroid incident on bugs minding their own business. Oh well, it’s how they solve their problems.
@@TempestGhost The bugs very much launched that asteroid, but it was because humans had already started colonizing the bug planets, mostly to get away from the Federation. It shouldn't be surprising, given that one of the themes seems to be that the Bugs and Federation act in basically the same way: they're both brutal central authorities that use hordes of expendable soldiers to fight wars that stem more from incompetence than actual need. If both sides wanted to, the human psychics and brain bugs could probably negotiate and end the blatantly wasteful war, but the humans definitely don't want to do that, and the bugs probably aren't any better, whatever their actual reasons.
I really feel sorry for all the people that did not see this on the big screen, it was mind blowing, especially where the landing craft left the ships with the music blaring.
there should be a day in cinemas where they show these old movies, any old movie tbh. when this came out, i was 1 y.o. i really would like to see this on an imax screen
I saw it in the theater opening night. Theater was packed. And I experienced the whole “people don’t get that this is satire of old propaganda reels” thing as I’d find myself one of the only ones laughing at some scenes out of the entire audience.
1) CGI aged so good its better than lots of crappy movies done today 2) Attention to detail is mind bogging. The sound on Klendathu is rarefect. It looks and sound alien. 3) Practical effects are amazing and merge well with CGI
@@dereksookdeo1720 This has nothing to do with "practical" or CGI models. It has EVERYTHING to do with the amount of work a studio allows on a specific scene.
Yes, the attention to detail was amazing... like when they opened the dropship doors, and we see that the opening/closing mechanism are these two flimsy cables -- old-school style, lol.
Just like the rest of the movie its commentary on "duty", human element is so far removed that they don't see themselves as a person anymore just a camera that needs to point at horrid shit.
It's fine if you're the hero. Not so much if you're the cannon fodder. Sadly, you don't get to find out which role has been chosen for you until your guts are all over the floor and you can see what you had for breakfast.
@@TheNullie Well I'd say a bigger inspiration came from the discordians and other weird counterculture stuff from the 60s till 80s :P . Chaos is like almost directly inspired by how they were going about things :P . I'd say there was not just one big inspiration, but once you start reading about what they were up to? Yeah... then suddenly a lot of the Chaos lore makes sense, even the stuff from the early 40k and Fantasy battle years :P .
@@sanictheheadhug3936Most of the time they were practical models, not CGI. Roger Young was about a 20 feet long "miniature" shot in a controlled environment on blue/green/black screen. CGI was used for creating plasma, engine glow, and jet plumes. Even explosions were not truly CGI. They were a real explosion, but digitally composed into the shot.
I have a theory that his death was no coincidence. Considering how we know that the Bugs are more intelligent and capable of strategy than the feral creatures they appear to be, it is possible that the officer was intentionally targeted at the start of the ground battle to throw the rest of the Mobile Infantry forces under his command into chaos with their leadership decapitated… literally. Instead of chasing after other troopers after it first cut down the officer like other Bugs would, the Arachnid Warrior kept savaging away at him to ensure that he was dead.
@@huydang5955 or your just reading too much into it. He was in front so he got killed first. And being a movie they wanted to show how tough and deadly the bugs are and how supremely over confident the humans are.
@@icer1249 there were a lot of troopers in the front, yet he was the first to die. As we saw in the Battle of Whiskey Outpost, the Bugs laid a trap for the Marauders by luring them to the outpost, then taking out their radio man along the way after having damaged the outpost’s radio unit, so that they wouldn’t be able to immediately call for help. They intentionally focused their effort on the radioman before the fighting started.
This looks better than half the shit made today. I miss the late 90s and early 00s. They made smart use of CGI in that time. Now entire movies are churned out on computers. And you can tell.
Yeah fr and this movie has a lot of near-seamless transitions from practical effects to cgi. There’s a couple scenes it’s noticeable but for 1997 they’re damn impressive
The best part of this whole sequence is that when you stop and think about how this battle played out, it shows how intelligent the bugs we're and this is actually why the Federation realizes that the bugs have a ruling class that is frightening good at controller the warrior breeds. It plays out like this. The Federation is goaded into an assault on Klendathu after the bugs hit Bueno's Ares with an asteroid (this was proven canon and the terrible fan theory of it being a false flag is bs) The Federation hits Klendathu with its full force, the bulk of the Federal Fleet and the MI are there Bug plasma is sporadic and slow, almost unaimed, confirming Fed Intels presumptions The Fleet goes into low orbit into a tight formation for the drop, gravity in low orbit is strong disallowing maneuvering and proceeds to drop the majority of the MI on the surface The MI hits the ground and starts expanding from the landing zone, contact with the bugs is light, they either smoke them or the bugs pull back the MI starts getting aggressive and rush forward The MI are now scattered with uncleared rear areas, the vast majority of troops are just rushing forward in the face of minimal to no opposition Bug plasma is suddenly moving very fast, in great numbers, and clearly aimed. It begins to utterly shred the tightly packed fleet The MI runs into a mass of arachnids, their rear areas are now filled with emerging bug tunnels, the landing zones are under direct attack the MI cannot form a cohesive force to stand and fight against a sudden ocean of bugs A general retreat is called, MI forces scramble to get back to their drop sites, some of which are gone as the bugs have over run them, thousands of men are cut off in groups of 100 or less The fleet is desperately trying to dodge fire will staying station for pickup causing even more destruction At the end of the Klendathu invasion, the core of the MI including its veteran officers is shattered, the fleet is near ruined, the entire battle was one massive trap. Then per the game Terran Ascendency which is canon to the film universe, the bugs immediately launch a massive offensive into Federation space, taking human worlds as their small MI garrisons try to hold off the swarms to evacuate civilians, the MI and Fleet cant respond to 90% of these bug invasions because they just dont have the forces now. The bugs have near free reign to assault the Federation and wipe out all human life on planets they invade.
"(this was proven canon and the terrible fan theory of it being a false flag is bs)" I'm not saying you're lying, but I need some clarification here. The bugs have NO technology. Yeah, they can naturally fly, have a command structure, have some biological weapons, etc., but how the FUCK did they launch a rock across the galaxy in the space of like 3 days? It's simply not possible. Even if the rock was moving at light speed (which is impossible for an object with mass), it would take thousands of years to reach Earth. This is some stupid bullshit right here.
@@whatever3132 Really? The United Citizens Federation is responsible for the actions of disparate minority groups acting without orders and guidance? Mormon extremists breaking Federal quarantine and settling in the AQZ is an assault on the arachnids by humanity as a whole? Humanity as a whole provoked the arachnids into launching a KKV due to the actions of a sect of religious extremist who broke the law of their own nation? I too blame all individuals of certain ethnic groups for the actions of their subsets.
@@whatever3132 Actually, if you remember the dialog related to that, the Federation actually tried to warn the Mormans to not go, and they went anyway. It's entirely possible that the Mormans did a scan of the planet, which didn't reveal any bugs, since in the same sequence the narrator states that "Too late, they realized that Dantana was chosen by other colonists: Arachnids". So I'd argue that the AQZ as we see it in the news blurbs, has a buffer to it, and Dantana was just past that buffer, but without confirmation, the Mormans had no way to know what was on the planet at all... until the bugs poured out of the woodworks and slaughtered everyone to a man/woman (well, except one family that you rescue in SSTTA). Now, that all said... the Bugs are still the aggressor here. The Mormans getting slaughtered to that extent is a massive over-reaction, and then of course the bugs firing a rock at us is another major over-reaction. Even IRL, ants and Bees do not act this way. If an something that isn't supposed to be there shows up, they usually try to warn the intruder away, but if the intruder persists, then they go on the attack. So one has to wonder... did the bugs even attempt to warn the Mormans? Or did they, as the OP said about Klendathu... lure them into a trap.
@@Tank50us Considering that the Bugs are shown to be a hivemind that sees humanity and individuality as disgusting diseases that deserve to be wiped from existence, and humanity here is a jingoistic fascist regime that has also been itching to expand its borders, conflict was inevitable one way or another. They both ultimately wanted a fight.
Has guns, walks in lines really only allowing first line to fire unobstructed, rush into melee range love how inept the military is shown in this universe, it adds to the funny satire
Forget that, they have AIR superiority. This would be like people with knives Vs. The air force. They finally got wise in the second act and started doing bombing runs, but I've seen better and more fearsome fighting in Viet Nam than this crap.
I think it's a mixture of inexperienced troops (they literally never see/fight a bug until they are deployed) - fear of actually arriving in the first attack wave, and seeing the sheer number and size of the average bug, alongside there are actually no other threats for the Mobile Infantry and the Navy to face. The entire military aside from Intelligence is pretty inexperienced, even up to the highest rank as we see the Sky Marshal immediately resign after the first attack, only when replaced by a competent leader who tells the forces to listen to Intelligence, do they learn how to fight their enemy.
They were inexperienced. Because they never had to fight such an enemy , damn, as far as we know they only had to deal with minor colonial insurrections. So their whole army was more like a massive police force than anything. Plus many of the troops were shamed or pressed into service, and while it guarantees citizenship it does not guarantee good morale. And as for air superiority - plasma bug barrage likely scattered most of their smaller crafts.
Watching this as a kid was amazing Watching it as an adult you realise the tones and politics of it. The special effects for 1997 were out of this world for the time and still look incredible.
Watching it as an adult you realize Verhoven, for all living in post ww2 Europe as a child, his best attempt at making a fascist government to lampoon is putting Doogie howser in a black coat. He is such a clown, but at least we got this film out of him.
Watching as a kid was traumatizing....along with Robocop....first time gore was this visceral to me, at least given past scenes....the worst thing I'd seen at that point was Halloween or Poltergeist's mirror scene (which is goofy nowadays due to effects)
Although at the time a lot of adults (including Roger Ebert, of all people) didn't understand this was a satire - plenty of folks took it as a 100% serious pro-fascist film.
This scene is still a jaw dropper. Holy Jesus, lord almighty, do the effects still hold up. The detailed models, combined with composites of real explosions, mixed in with CG elements looks so nice. The way the music fades as soon as shit goes down the wrong way, letting you experience the terror unfiltered. The music by Basil Poledouris ... Sweet mother of Christ, klendathu drop is a kickass song.
0:14 Few movies don’t take themselves too seriously plot/script wise, while at the same time they take themselves seriously af as a film. This scene, the shots, the craftsmanship, the music, it’s all just perfect filmmaking.
Man, Starship Troopers had a really good opportunity with world building. Interstellar bugs that act like ants, spreading its colony from one planet to the next. EDIT: What I said above is my head canon only.
@@iannordin5250i thought they used to invade human colonies and tyat the first war with bugs ended with the humans kicking them in the "quarantine" area. This new war started because the bugs "lunched" an asteroid on earth. But to be far that was clearly a bullshit to start the war. How the heck the bugs lunched an asteroid.
@@iannordin5250 They are actually hostile. Plus, the third movie kinda screws that point, the God Bug outright says the Bug's Idea of 'Peace' is when they are all that dominates the galaxy. The Federation may be fascist, but the Arachnids are a vicious and hostile alien race, doesn't matter who it is.
I actually never noticed until recently that at 6:26, you can see Shizumi’s arms and legs flailing, meaning that he was still alive for a few more moments there. For years I thought he was already dead by before then. Damn.
Between 1987 and 1997 Paul Verhoeven made these five films in a row: “Robo-Cop,” “Total Recall,” “Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls,” and “Starship Troopers.” This weird Dutchman basically owned American culture for more than a decade.
Man seeing this early footage of Helldivers fight for Super Earth really makes you realize how far we have come in the last 27 years. Thank liberty for Democracy.
In the book the sky marshal who came up with this plan went down with mobile infantry and held the line so his soldiers could evacuate he died getting them off
Since back when it came out till even now I give credit to the Camera Man and his dedication to getting the footage. Man is out here with NO WEAPONS just a camera with a bright light and balls of steel even after his reporter is cut in half and is told to move by Rico (7:24 - 7:48). This CM turned around and actually ran back TOWARDS the bug (killing a man) to get the shot (8:04 - 8:15) . I'm sure he believed that being the CM no harm would come to him but at least his death was a swift and painless(?) one. Either way major props to the man I Salute You for your service.
Someone once asked me what is the difference between a civilian and a citizen.. well now I know.. a citizen has the courage to risk death in the name of getting good footage and make it their personal responsibility. RIP citizen cameraman
I saw a video, real life, where a SE asian woman in a headscarf selfie-cams an approaching flood/mudslide, the wave crests over the debris and sweeps her away and she keeps smiling, while panicking indonesians (?) scram past her
remember when you were a kid watching this film and wished there was a game that captured the spirit of the movie? well here we are 26 years later and we finally have a game that does it quite well with Starship Troopers Extermination! now in Early access on Steam!
yup , the game was amazing . although it quite have some problems but it really fun to play . now we can finally become troopers to fight bugs
$0.05 has been added to your Steam balance.
And I love that game man. Can't wait for War Map to be released. I hope is something like Heroes and Generals.
OMG YASSSS SLAY QUEEENN YAAAASSSS!!!!
We had a starship troopers fps game back in 2005.. was pretty awesome.. sad that it wont run on new systems coz the devs stopped support on it
I always loved how they showed a single warrior bug being shot by the entire squad and still taking a hell of a lot of punishment before going down, only for hundreds more to just come around the corner, did a really good job of showing how unprepared they were to assault the planet and that they didn't really know how to deal with arachnids yet, like aiming for the nerve stem etc.
but they did know how to kill them. its shown earlier in the movie to aim for the brain stem
Nerve Stem: Precise shot.
Combat: Not conducive for precise shooting.
Morons didn’t aim for the brain stem.
Honestly they needed guns with either more punch or instead of spraying more precise bursts
@@EthanThomson Pretty much EVERYONE you see in the Klendathu drop is completely green, since the United Citizen Federation is a military that doesn't have anyone to fight. The only man in Rico's drop ship who might have any experience at all is the very first person you see killed, amusingly because as the only experienced man he's the only one who stands his ground to the first Arachnid they encounter. The rest of the invasion force is likely the same.
You see the difference later with the Roughnecks, who are veterans and mow down Arachnids seemingly by placing their shots better instead of trying to just hose them with bullets.
It’s great that helldivers is bringing people back to this movie.
8:30 Sweet liberty my leg!
Someone from another clip had pointed out the use of music, and how it stops completely once they charge over the first hill, as if all the indoctrination, patriotism, pride, training, and humanity leaves them when battle starts.
"when that first bullet passes over your head... politics and noble ideas go right out the window. The only thing that matters is the soldier next to you and getting back home alive." - Black Hawk Down (reinterpreted).
This needs a sequel. A proper one with this level above of BASEDness
There is a sequel....and a third one, and then the animated movies
So yeah...
Theres 3 movies bro 😂
POV: Helldivers 2 just dropped and it's a banger.
Verhoeven is truly a genius. Somehow he managed to make this scene so epic, when it’s a satire with stereotypical soldiers going to some random planet just to fight some random bugs.
hahahahahahahahah! What do you mean this cool looking hyper violent action movie has a satirical anti-war message?
@@terrylong8894 Not necessarily an anti war message, just a satire of the military. Verhoeven knows how to make satires that look cool and are “subtle” enough to look like a simple action film, when usually there are a lot of readings in his movies aside of the action itself.
For example Robocop is an action film, but clearly has elements of a satire of corporations, and a critique of how far humans are willing to go with technology disregarding ethical aspects. All of that also including a dramatic story of resurrection and regaining a lost humanity.
8:12 He took the saying "camera man never dies" too far.
What an epic movie! Been playing Helldivers 2 and this is all I can think of
Hell Diver II :"To bring democracy throught out the galaxy"😅
8:45 still one of my favorite shotgun moments in movie history. This and the Terminator 2 shotty spin reload
how can you not love this movie?!
I remember watching this movie! Such a classic.
I'm just sad to see all these people talking about Helldivers 2 who clearly never played EDF
To save our Mother Earth from any alien attack…
@@thefrontline1 From vicious giant insects who have once again come back-
it look like playing starship troopers extermination on the highest difficulty
0:14 - "This is the captain speaking, all personnel prepare for drop, we are at D-minus three and counting."
3:14 - dropships landing on Klendathu
Small details in film editing. 👍🏾
i think the music here pretty much shows how wars affect people. You get all hyped up heading into war then the momen they landed it, the music stopped immediately. Reality hits you very quick
Sending men to the battlefield against 2 meters tall war machine bugs without any form of support, peak of military strategy right there
This movie is up there with the thing for movies that have aged the best
I am convinced this is what the SEAF units do after the helldivers did their thing in the area.
Just because they are vastly different from you doesn’t mean they’re stupid. The really stupid thing is thinking the bugs are stupid.
Yeah the hubris in countless real world wars is mind boggling. People think they are going to get an easy victory in three weeks and it becomes a four year brutal war.
Mostly because the opponent is overestimated that they blew up all their ammo in the first weeks.
Then Zelenskyj ask for more ammo since he has already spent it on fighting the fear of the enemy.
We call it attrition.
That cameraman went from CNN to Liveleak without flinching.😂
I feel like this scene is comparable to the first scene in Saving Private Ryan in a lot of ways. I think the filmmakers were really trying to make this like a sci-fi D-Day, and it really succeeds. You see all the human reactions to being in the horrors of combat for the first time. Courage, shock, fear, panic. For some their training and instincts kick in and they handle it all. For others it doesn’t and they can’t take it.
It still blows my mind how good the effects are in this movie.
Thankfully it was the same team that made Jurassic park. That's why it kicks so much ass
The best scene of how to not do a orbital landing, no orbital bombardement, ship all too close of each other, not armored unit(tank or walker)..but still awesome
I actually loved this movie. I loved when they made movies like this. Where it had a quirky theme. The entire thing was suppose to feel like one big boot camp video and it did. It was gimmicky and quirky. And fun to watch. Atleast I thought so.
Rico really cares about his Troopers. He tries saving all his friends that get attacked in front of him.
Still good after all these years
What's even more messed up is when you realise the Federation wanted the battle to be a failure to whip the population up even further.
two great theories I love
1) the Fed destroyed Buenos Aries to justify an invasion after the Mormon colonist massacre didn't whip up enough hatred. The bugs would have needed to launch a meteorite so many millions of years ago for it to hit Earth today, with impossible accuracy.
2) The plan was to reduce the human population, and justify a war footing economy. They attack Klendathu knowing it'll be a massacre. The fact you need citizenship to have a baby proves they have overpopulation, even despite colonizing other worlds.
And promoting the military service
No they really WERE just that incompetent.
@@IgarappappaYeah you’re right they are incompetent but he isn’t wrong in that they wouldn’t use this as some sort of propaganda to invoke anger in the populace to keep the war going.
@@SP00KYF0X69 They lost an entire city and millions of people. They didn't need more motivation.
want to know why I hate bugs? when you look at a bug up close, you don't see any cuteness or any fur, all you see is a freak of nature, and that's why Starship Troopers is a constant reminder that real life bugs are nothing but a bunch of scary, poisonous, bothersome, good for nothing monsters.
Love that the cameraman continues rolling even when he's in the danger zone lol
Nice to see some Helldivers 2 patriots over here. ¡Let's bring some Democracy to this tyrany! ¡Liberty does not deliver alone!
Basically how it felt goes against the bugs on helldiver's 2
What a great scene with a great subtle satire. This whole mission was a colossal failure. From the rushed and shaky preparation, to the firm believe they were gonna squish cockroaches in the kitchen to the absolute believe that the air assault and bombardment is safe and these are just "shiny fireworks". What resulted was a total and colossal loss but at the very least a good content for the propaganda machine of the Earth Government.
After all - humanity started this war with their unwarranted invasion of the bug's solar system.
This is not war, this is an invasion orchestrated by totalitarianism government.
The music is f**king inspiring. That gets you going grrrrrrrr lol
For the time this movie was released the graphics are actually pretty darn good
My child me always thought this was starcraft live action movie and it's still fun for me regardless its not starcraft.
Gotta love the first movie, while the 2nd one gives me horror.
I always wondered why this army was purely infantry. No support vehicles at all, of course in the books they were walking tanks in power armor.
Something about giving the equivalent of a private a personal shoulder nuke is utterly terrifying if you’ve ever been in the military lol
I did my part!
3:42 is so epic.
These soldiers don’t really look all that disciplined.
Sure they look cool but that’s about it.
One soldier charges alone forward and another retreats while seeing blood the first time.
But this movie is the best regardless.
I don't know why Starship Troopers didn't make money. I went to see it on its opening weekend and enjoyed it.
I'm here in a sea of Helldivers, but this movie got me into Starship troopers: Extermination
The LT's training couldn't keep him alive. lmao
Of all the movies i've watched, this is probably the first time i saw a camera man dies. 😂😂
This must've been so much fun to film
She was like ,lets get outta here, I want to get back on the ship.😂😂
WE ARE GOING IN with FIRST WAVE! Means more BHUGS for us to KEEL!
I wish they'd make an online game that'd have whole bunch of players load up in shuttles, piloted by other players, into a planet to fight the bugs (or any other enemies) and make it an all-world live event like this.
There is apparently, brand new! Look for ‘Starship Troopers: Extermination’
They forgot to call in their stratagems
Bro the planet had electronic interference 😂😂😂
@@sincereeastman6972 ion storms lol
Imagine if Hell Divers adds Klendathu 😮
It’s been in the game since day 1 they just don’t have a mission for it
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One of the childhood movies and now i have a chance to skin the bugs in Helldivers 2 !! 🎉🎉😂
I saw this in theaters. We were there to see mk2, but the theater did 2 movies for the price of one, I was like 8 when I saw this movie and I couldn't stop thinking about it for years, god I should not have seen this movie then lol
PELICULON QUE NO ME CANSO DE VER UNA Y OTRA VEZ. 😊😊
Rico is just this universe's version of Eren.
0:13 EPIC!!!!
who's here because helldivers 2 brought back a core memory?
Me :) very true
haha me too!
MANAGED DEMOCRACY!
Da min i played it i was like “Wait a minute ain’t no way”
Vietnam Flashback
Never did strategic incompetence look that good
If you’re gonna go out, go out in style
They are vastly undergunned.
I hate how correct that comment is, lol!
What a comment!!
@@SuperChuckRaneyIn 2024 we have more firepower.
I remember watching the Behind the scenes for this movie.
The amount of people they hired is STAGGERING
Hell of a movie
really !! how many people ?!
really !! how many people ?!
Don't leave us hanging. How many?
How
Many
PEOPLE
**would like to know more intensely**
After 26 years we finally get a good starship troopers game. It’s called Helldivers 2
FOR DEMOCRACY!!
There was also a good RTS that came out last year Starship Troopers Terran Command and a co-op game Starship Troopers Extermination, but Helldivers seems to be the most popular of the lot.
@@mrfunnyperson100 actually yeah those two are pretty good.
Well there's also an older FPS in which you play as a Marauder trooper that's pretty good. You wouldn't believe how many NPCs that game can spawn and keep active at the same time without messing up the performance.
is helldivers actually in the starship troopers universe or is it just intended to be incredibly similar? haven’t been able to play it yet
Who’s here after spreading Democracy for Super Earth??
“I’m doing my part!”
Me
I came from The automaton FRONTLINE... My butt hurts
"I would like to know more"
For Sweet Liberty !
5:24 Considering how hard was to kill the first bug (countless bullets and it just kept attacking), I’d shit my pants if I saw all those bugs coming all of a sudden.
What a great way to establish how menacing the bugs are, and how unprepared the humans were to face them. I love this film.
That’s what I thought too. That was WAY too much ammo to kill just one.
@@jestertheslacker Bugs are pretty hard to kill. You have to hit the nerve clusters otherwise they don't feel pain.
Math are always real and cruel :)
I bet you these things are size of family cars
They were supposed to call in orbital strikes to even it out but the fleet left because of the plasma bugs shooting at them
You know there was gonna be a problem when it takes a whole squad to take down one of them lol
@brummyuk Well they finally do learn where to aim at to kill them quicker.
90% of them weren't even firing their weapons. No wonder they lost.
@@microsf121 fear
@brummyuk They didn’t exactly knew what they were up against for a while as they just pinned and asteroid incident on bugs minding their own business. Oh well, it’s how they solve their problems.
@@TempestGhost The bugs very much launched that asteroid, but it was because humans had already started colonizing the bug planets, mostly to get away from the Federation.
It shouldn't be surprising, given that one of the themes seems to be that the Bugs and Federation act in basically the same way: they're both brutal central authorities that use hordes of expendable soldiers to fight wars that stem more from incompetence than actual need. If both sides wanted to, the human psychics and brain bugs could probably negotiate and end the blatantly wasteful war, but the humans definitely don't want to do that, and the bugs probably aren't any better, whatever their actual reasons.
I really feel sorry for all the people that did not see this on the big screen, it was mind blowing, especially where the landing craft left the ships with the music blaring.
I remember as a kid with my mother, she loved these
there should be a day in cinemas where they show these old movies, any old movie tbh. when this came out, i was 1 y.o. i really would like to see this on an imax screen
@@kingwolf687 I was 7 and enjoyed it all ahahaha and I agree with you 💯%
I saw it in the theater opening night. Theater was packed. And I experienced the whole “people don’t get that this is satire of old propaganda reels” thing as I’d find myself one of the only ones laughing at some scenes out of the entire audience.
@kupis1408 That comes across as a really creepy friend 😂
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!
I’m I too late Sir ?
@@KevinNguyen-y3m They hang you for going off mission, it's only right to the Federation that you proceed with your execution for your incompetence.
A few minutes later.
RETREAT RETREAT. EVERYMAN FOR HIMSELF.
1) CGI aged so good its better than lots of crappy movies done today
2) Attention to detail is mind bogging. The sound on Klendathu is rarefect. It looks and sound alien.
3) Practical effects are amazing and merge well with CGI
The ships in space look amazing too.
Practical models will always be the best
@@dereksookdeo1720
This has nothing to do with "practical" or CGI models. It has EVERYTHING to do with the amount of work a studio allows on a specific scene.
Yes, the attention to detail was amazing... like when they opened the dropship doors, and we see that the opening/closing mechanism are these two flimsy cables -- old-school style, lol.
@@djbenje4019 You're right, super clean CGI in 98% of a single scene is way better. Like Spiderman or any Marvel movie. That's the way to do it lol.
The cameraman was the bravest guy on the planet.
he wanted to know more
He had one job and by god he was going to do it.
@@Swarm509 Dedication. You'd love to see it.
That's alright! We got plenty more volunteers!(Voice by Announcer)
Just like the rest of the movie its commentary on "duty", human element is so far removed that they don't see themselves as a person anymore just a camera that needs to point at horrid shit.
No film has ever nailed a drop sequence on this scale ever since. Timeless classic you can watch over and over
Fax makes me wish I was deployed but knowing there fate I guess not lik
It's fine if you're the hero. Not so much if you're the cannon fodder. Sadly, you don't get to find out which role has been chosen for you until your guts are all over the floor and you can see what you had for breakfast.
Edge of Tomorrow?
@@MrPhilknight1 That was epic also I love that movie! top shout phil
@@MrPhilknight1 was gonna say this.
That dropping scene always gives me goosebumps.
Still, Mimetics would get fucked by these bugs.
Kitten: WE'RE GONNA FIGHT AND WE'RE GONNA WIN!!!
Narrator: They did not win.
In Morgan Freeman's voice.
After playing Helldivers 2 I found myself here. For the Liberty !!
Spreading Democracy
Replace it with laser-pointers, and you have what your average Imperial Guardsman goes through on a regular basis.
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!
Starship troopers was also an inspiration on the WH40k universe
@@TheNullie Well I'd say a bigger inspiration came from the discordians and other weird counterculture stuff from the 60s till 80s :P . Chaos is like almost directly inspired by how they were going about things :P . I'd say there was not just one big inspiration, but once you start reading about what they were up to?
Yeah... then suddenly a lot of the Chaos lore makes sense, even the stuff from the early 40k and Fantasy battle years :P .
Add a few commissars too
SPESS MEHRENS!?
3:22 to this date that is still the smoothest CGI to Practical transition I’ve ever seen, and I love it so much
It wasn't CGI
@@HwangInhoBooNam The space ship really could fly?
@@sanictheheadhug3936Most of the time they were practical models, not CGI. Roger Young was about a 20 feet long "miniature" shot in a controlled environment on blue/green/black screen. CGI was used for creating plasma, engine glow, and jet plumes. Even explosions were not truly CGI. They were a real explosion, but digitally composed into the shot.
CGI enhanced practical effects
@@SergyMilitaryRankings honestly that’s how I think it should be
Props to that cameraman. He kept doing his duty even in the middle of a horde.
Ikr
Give him a Medal
A true journalist
@@jeffpadilla9891 who's not afraid of the truth and the battlefield.
He did his part.
"remember your training and you will make it back alive" says the first 1 in the unit to die
All training and planning rarely matters after first contact with the enemy. Especially when everything was based on bad intelligence.
most of the training was to fight human , not the bugs but yea
I have a theory that his death was no coincidence. Considering how we know that the Bugs are more intelligent and capable of strategy than the feral creatures they appear to be, it is possible that the officer was intentionally targeted at the start of the ground battle to throw the rest of the Mobile Infantry forces under his command into chaos with their leadership decapitated… literally.
Instead of chasing after other troopers after it first cut down the officer like other Bugs would, the Arachnid Warrior kept savaging away at him to ensure that he was dead.
@@huydang5955 or your just reading too much into it. He was in front so he got killed first. And being a movie they wanted to show how tough and deadly the bugs are and how supremely over confident the humans are.
@@icer1249 there were a lot of troopers in the front, yet he was the first to die.
As we saw in the Battle of Whiskey Outpost, the Bugs laid a trap for the Marauders by luring them to the outpost, then taking out their radio man along the way after having damaged the outpost’s radio unit, so that they wouldn’t be able to immediately call for help.
They intentionally focused their effort on the radioman before the fighting started.
This looks better than half the shit made today. I miss the late 90s and early 00s. They made smart use of CGI in that time. Now entire movies are churned out on computers. And you can tell.
Yeah fr and this movie has a lot of near-seamless transitions from practical effects to cgi. There’s a couple scenes it’s noticeable but for 1997 they’re damn impressive
@@Xpdiant the 100million+ dollar budget helped
Then the explosions looked natural, not like in half of the current films.
@@SneedRemembrancer In 1997 dollars too
It really is the epic music that sells this entire iconic scene!
What I love is that the music is so epic and heroic, and then when they land and start fighting, it's just silence, gun fire, and screaming.
Basil Poledouris composed all the movies's music. One dude!
The best part of this whole sequence is that when you stop and think about how this battle played out, it shows how intelligent the bugs we're and this is actually why the Federation realizes that the bugs have a ruling class that is frightening good at controller the warrior breeds. It plays out like this.
The Federation is goaded into an assault on Klendathu after the bugs hit Bueno's Ares with an asteroid (this was proven canon and the terrible fan theory of it being a false flag is bs)
The Federation hits Klendathu with its full force, the bulk of the Federal Fleet and the MI are there
Bug plasma is sporadic and slow, almost unaimed, confirming Fed Intels presumptions
The Fleet goes into low orbit into a tight formation for the drop, gravity in low orbit is strong disallowing maneuvering and proceeds to drop the majority of the MI on the surface
The MI hits the ground and starts expanding from the landing zone, contact with the bugs is light, they either smoke them or the bugs pull back the MI starts getting aggressive and rush forward
The MI are now scattered with uncleared rear areas, the vast majority of troops are just rushing forward in the face of minimal to no opposition
Bug plasma is suddenly moving very fast, in great numbers, and clearly aimed. It begins to utterly shred the tightly packed fleet
The MI runs into a mass of arachnids, their rear areas are now filled with emerging bug tunnels, the landing zones are under direct attack the MI cannot form a cohesive force to stand and fight against a sudden ocean of bugs
A general retreat is called, MI forces scramble to get back to their drop sites, some of which are gone as the bugs have over run them, thousands of men are cut off in groups of 100 or less
The fleet is desperately trying to dodge fire will staying station for pickup causing even more destruction
At the end of the Klendathu invasion, the core of the MI including its veteran officers is shattered, the fleet is near ruined, the entire battle was one massive trap. Then per the game Terran Ascendency which is canon to the film universe, the bugs immediately launch a massive offensive into Federation space, taking human worlds as their small MI garrisons try to hold off the swarms to evacuate civilians, the MI and Fleet cant respond to 90% of these bug invasions because they just dont have the forces now. The bugs have near free reign to assault the Federation and wipe out all human life on planets they invade.
"(this was proven canon and the terrible fan theory of it being a false flag is bs)"
I'm not saying you're lying, but I need some clarification here. The bugs have NO technology. Yeah, they can naturally fly, have a command structure, have some biological weapons, etc., but how the FUCK did they launch a rock across the galaxy in the space of like 3 days? It's simply not possible. Even if the rock was moving at light speed (which is impossible for an object with mass), it would take thousands of years to reach Earth.
This is some stupid bullshit right here.
@@whatever3132 Really? The United Citizens Federation is responsible for the actions of disparate minority groups acting without orders and guidance? Mormon extremists breaking Federal quarantine and settling in the AQZ is an assault on the arachnids by humanity as a whole?
Humanity as a whole provoked the arachnids into launching a KKV due to the actions of a sect of religious extremist who broke the law of their own nation?
I too blame all individuals of certain ethnic groups for the actions of their subsets.
@@whatever3132 "In effect, humanity provoked them." - Oh yeah? Well I'm from Buenos Aires and I say KILL 'EM ALL
@@whatever3132 Actually, if you remember the dialog related to that, the Federation actually tried to warn the Mormans to not go, and they went anyway. It's entirely possible that the Mormans did a scan of the planet, which didn't reveal any bugs, since in the same sequence the narrator states that "Too late, they realized that Dantana was chosen by other colonists: Arachnids". So I'd argue that the AQZ as we see it in the news blurbs, has a buffer to it, and Dantana was just past that buffer, but without confirmation, the Mormans had no way to know what was on the planet at all... until the bugs poured out of the woodworks and slaughtered everyone to a man/woman (well, except one family that you rescue in SSTTA).
Now, that all said... the Bugs are still the aggressor here. The Mormans getting slaughtered to that extent is a massive over-reaction, and then of course the bugs firing a rock at us is another major over-reaction. Even IRL, ants and Bees do not act this way. If an something that isn't supposed to be there shows up, they usually try to warn the intruder away, but if the intruder persists, then they go on the attack. So one has to wonder... did the bugs even attempt to warn the Mormans? Or did they, as the OP said about Klendathu... lure them into a trap.
@@Tank50us Considering that the Bugs are shown to be a hivemind that sees humanity and individuality as disgusting diseases that deserve to be wiped from existence, and humanity here is a jingoistic fascist regime that has also been itching to expand its borders, conflict was inevitable one way or another. They both ultimately wanted a fight.
I can't believe Helldivers 2 mouvie adaptation came out so quick fr
fr
Has guns, walks in lines really only allowing first line to fire unobstructed, rush into melee range
love how inept the military is shown in this universe, it adds to the funny satire
* happy krieg soldier noise *
Forget that, they have AIR superiority. This would be like people with knives Vs. The air force. They finally got wise in the second act and started doing bombing runs, but I've seen better and more fearsome fighting in Viet Nam than this crap.
I think it's a mixture of inexperienced troops (they literally never see/fight a bug until they are deployed) - fear of actually arriving in the first attack wave, and seeing the sheer number and size of the average bug, alongside there are actually no other threats for the Mobile Infantry and the Navy to face. The entire military aside from Intelligence is pretty inexperienced, even up to the highest rank as we see the Sky Marshal immediately resign after the first attack, only when replaced by a competent leader who tells the forces to listen to Intelligence, do they learn how to fight their enemy.
They were inexperienced. Because they never had to fight such an enemy , damn, as far as we know they only had to deal with minor colonial insurrections. So their whole army was more like a massive police force than anything.
Plus many of the troops were shamed or pressed into service, and while it guarantees citizenship it does not guarantee good morale.
And as for air superiority - plasma bug barrage likely scattered most of their smaller crafts.
@@appocalypsechild Its obvious on what he said, weirdo.
Watching this as a kid was amazing
Watching it as an adult you realise the tones and politics of it.
The special effects for 1997 were out of this world for the time and still look incredible.
Watching it as an adult you realize Verhoven, for all living in post ww2 Europe as a child, his best attempt at making a fascist government to lampoon is putting Doogie howser in a black coat. He is such a clown, but at least we got this film out of him.
I love this movie since I was 9 and to think even first Alien movie was in 1979 and still holds up to this day with it’s special effects
Watching as a kid was traumatizing....along with Robocop....first time gore was this visceral to me, at least given past scenes....the worst thing I'd seen at that point was Halloween or Poltergeist's mirror scene (which is goofy nowadays due to effects)
@@SunTzu176”DON’T YOU SEE HIS BLACK HUGO BOSS TRENCH COAT?! CLEARLY HE’S THE EVIL ONE!”
- Verhoven (probably)
Although at the time a lot of adults (including Roger Ebert, of all people) didn't understand this was a satire - plenty of folks took it as a 100% serious pro-fascist film.
This scene is still a jaw dropper. Holy Jesus, lord almighty, do the effects still hold up. The detailed models, combined with composites of real explosions, mixed in with CG elements looks so nice. The way the music fades as soon as shit goes down the wrong way, letting you experience the terror unfiltered. The music by Basil Poledouris ... Sweet mother of Christ, klendathu drop is a kickass song.
I fall asleep to the sound of Klendathu
Yeah even the Lord JC himself agrees with ya
Lost the Academy award for SFX to.....Titanic :p
@@UpcycleShoesKai quite a downer if you think about it.
@@banhammer3904 And Hunt for Red October, my favourite.
3:12 Considering how the battle finally turned out, those who died at that ship just when they almost managed to land safely, were the lucky ones.
The original Helldivers.
Playing helldivers 2 has made me want to rewatch this movie again
0:14 Few movies don’t take themselves too seriously plot/script wise, while at the same time they take themselves seriously af as a film. This scene, the shots, the craftsmanship, the music, it’s all just perfect filmmaking.
Man, Starship Troopers had a really good opportunity with world building. Interstellar bugs that act like ants, spreading its colony from one planet to the next.
EDIT: What I said above is my head canon only.
Nah, the point of the film (the film, at least) is that the bugs weren't actually invading anything and the entire war was pointless to begin with.
tell me do u like game like this ? try starship troopers extermination just release u n 15 more players fight against bugs
@@iannordin5250 They literally invade Human colony worlds.
@@iannordin5250i thought they used to invade human colonies and tyat the first war with bugs ended with the humans kicking them in the "quarantine" area. This new war started because the bugs "lunched" an asteroid on earth. But to be far that was clearly a bullshit to start the war. How the heck the bugs lunched an asteroid.
@@iannordin5250 They are actually hostile.
Plus, the third movie kinda screws that point, the God Bug outright says the Bug's Idea of 'Peace' is when they are all that dominates the galaxy.
The Federation may be fascist, but the Arachnids are a vicious and hostile alien race, doesn't matter who it is.
Whose here because of Starship Troopers Extermination and Helldivers 2?
I actually never noticed until recently that at 6:26, you can see Shizumi’s arms and legs flailing, meaning that he was still alive for a few more moments there.
For years I thought he was already dead by before then. Damn.
Apparently the UCF has never heard of an Orbital Bombardment.
Well there's one cameraman that actually died. Rest in peace ;c
First and last....😂
5:38: Everyone in helldivers
Did y'all arrive here after seeing Helldivers 2?
Between 1987 and 1997 Paul Verhoeven made these five films in a row:
“Robo-Cop,” “Total Recall,” “Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls,” and “Starship Troopers.”
This weird Dutchman basically owned American culture for more than a decade.
Your first 9minutes as a Imperial Guardsmen against Tyranids
and probably last
9 whole minutes? Against Tyranids? You are an optimist aren't you?
Word! See if you find gameplay video of the new Space Marines 2. The humans fight the Tyranids and those fücking things just keep coming!
Man seeing this early footage of Helldivers fight for Super Earth really makes you realize how far we have come in the last 27 years. Thank liberty for Democracy.
In the book the sky marshal who came up with this plan went down with mobile infantry and held the line so his soldiers could evacuate he died getting them off
Since back when it came out till even now I give credit to the Camera Man and his dedication to getting the footage. Man is out here with NO WEAPONS just a camera with a bright light and balls of steel even after his reporter is cut in half and is told to move by Rico (7:24 - 7:48). This CM turned around and actually ran back TOWARDS the bug (killing a man) to get the shot (8:04 - 8:15) . I'm sure he believed that being the CM no harm would come to him but at least his death was a swift and painless(?) one. Either way major props to the man I Salute You for your service.
Someone once asked me what is the difference between a civilian and a citizen.. well now I know.. a citizen has the courage to risk death in the name of getting good footage and make it their personal responsibility. RIP citizen cameraman
I saw a video, real life, where a SE asian woman in a headscarf selfie-cams an approaching flood/mudslide, the wave crests over the debris and sweeps her away and she keeps smiling, while panicking indonesians (?) scram past her
He believed in the myth that camera man never dies