I agree... now. I was underwhelmed the first time I saw it, but was then shocked when it was getting 4/4 star reviews. I think I was too young/ignorant (sorry, millennials) to get what the underlying messages behind the film. I guess at that time I was mainly thinking of order pure action with it a side of nudity, and I couldn't think of overall themes. I don't know if Starship Troopers was ahead of its time, but I'm thinking it is.
Oh yeah. It's always so weird when people talk about it as if it isn't satire. I've read reviews talking about it being super pro-military and being like a fascist fantasy film and um.....is it that subtle? I never thought it was.
I worked in the SFX department on the movie, and a couple of months before it was released, Paul Verhoeven screened a rough cut for the cast and crew. His pre-MPAA cut was even crazier, the violent scenes were more slapstick and went on for even longer. Like I remember the scene where the two guys get set on fire went on for half a minute, with the stuntmen running around screaming and burning. The MPAA imposed cuts actually helped the movie, made the humor a little subtler and less explicitly satirical.
Thanks for sharing this with us Alex. Very cool to hear about that cut. Btw, you should be very proud to be a part of this film. I consider it a classic. Brilliant satire! Thanks for your work on this movie!!
The sfx really do hold up, in a way that even the star wars prequels don't. I saw the 2008 starship troopers sequel, and the effects from 1997 are better than they had in 2008. I'm sure the budget wasn't as big, but you guys did a great job.
I don't know how anyone could take the film seriously with lines like "You alright son?" and "Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today!" while the camera shows a good look of him missing his legs. fantastic movie
I was always more focused on the incompetency of high command. they just tossed a bunch of people on bug planet with zero intel and no armor or air support.
Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, and lived through the German occupation of Holland during World War Two. Lots of Dutch people collaborated with the Germans, and Verhoeven based a lot of the movie on what he experienced as a child, especially the propaganda.
One of the best War Satires ever made,and maybe one of the Slickest Parodies on American Imperialism In the past 20 years. I remember watching it as a Young Kid and thinking it was an Underrated Bug Flick,growing up and watching it again years later and looking at it deeper made it an even better Experience. If this film gets remade,I doubt it would have the Balls to make fun of America like Paul Veorhoven.
@@buttface1202 a parody would mean it’s a comedy and not really commenting on anything. It’s a satire and while satire may poke fun at society it doesn’t really mean it’s a parody or even a comedy. It’s like trying to claim Dawn of the Dead is a parody for being a satire on consumerism or They Live. It doesn’t really fit.
Yeah, I never understood why people managed to understand Robocop yet completely missed the point with Starship Trooper. Were audiences smarter in the 80's?
I remember being in the military saying “Would you like to know more?” after answering a stupid question. Starship Troopers 2 is also a guilty pleasure movie.
I watched this movie ALL the time as a kid and even had the action figures they sold at the time with it lol & For Years back then I never picked up on the Troopers bein Nazis I just thought it was a fun Bug vs Space marine movie but NOW its clear as day lmaooo
@@Peasham Absolutely. You have people walkin' around thinking, "This is like if Nazism was introduced with an American theme." Like, somebody should tell them that The Nazis copied a Majourity of their Themes from The American "POV".. and how they deal with "Others".
It's unfortunate the book is wrapped up in all this and the author has a german-sounding last name...good grief. Verhoeven didn't even read the thing and people just assume the two are exactly alike.
Great point by Martin. In the world of sci-fi action, usually, war is presented as somewhat fun, characters dying off screen, etc. Starship Troopers went "Saving Private Ryan" in it's depiction of war.
The brilliance of this film is that, once you pick up on the subtext, it’s a great satire of fascism and militarism. But even apart from that, it’s just a really fun sci for/action flick.
@@codafett I think they wanted to conquer what the Bugs had and used the meteor to spark off the war. Giving their people a “justified” reason for wiping them out.
It was such a fun movie to see in a theater. I saw it at a midnight showing in a packed house, it’s still one of the best movie experiences I’ve ever had.
My son is 21 years old and he's a dick. He bullies his college classmates. He's bullying this one girl who just lost her mom to an illness who she was very very close too. She has been going through depression since she was a kid and my son made her drink sewage water and while they were at a college party he dressed up as her mom and started to imitate her death in front of her and while everyone was laughing. I asked him why he was the way he was and he said it was because he wants to date older women but society and people online says he can't. He says people hate on it and if people online can be assholes then he can be one too. Apparently he knows this 28 year old who works with him and they are close. He overheard her saying she wants to go on a date with him. My son wants to go out with her but he says "I can't go out with her because literally everyone online says a 20 year old can't date older people. It's their fault I can't be with her or date her so I'm going to make that bitch's life a living hell! It's not different then what those people are doing. If they say I can't date her and then I can be a dick all I want to!" It's clear that peoples words online has hurt him and I feel sorry if he wants to date older women he can. Me and his father have taught him what to look out for and to watch for red flags but what can I do?
I consider the entire movie to be a propaganda film, only made to increase enlistment. Like a film within a film. Created and funded by the Federal Network, it takes true life war occurrences and cranks them up to 10 with VERY pushy beliefs. The bugs are killing machines, incapable of emotion (unless it's fear, of course.) This explains the ads throughout, the narration, and why every single piece of dialogue is cheesy. None of our three main characters die, things strangely work out for them, and they all end up together (triumphant and happy) at the end. Not to mention the "all-American" cast from South America. I know the director kind of meant it as such, but I discover more every time I watch it. Kind of brilliant.
yeah that's how i see it too. i mean the whole thing basically ends with a call to enlist so that you too can be a hero like the characters you've just seen. i don't even think there are any bugs, they're just another tool of propaganda. a made up "other".
A quick note: This film was quite popular at the cinema outside the US. We got the satire. Saw this at an afternoon matinee in Oz with hundreds of Uni students. We loved it!
I wish more directors nowadays took a page or two from Verhoeven's book when it comes to subtly hiding and masking themes and not be so on the nose. His movies can just work as straight action movies and only on additional viewings you start noticing a lot of the satire.
I watched this movie when it came out, thought it was stupid. Then I saw it again in 2004 after the "war on terror" had begun and realized it was genius.
I’ve actually met people who legit thought this was a PRO fascist film, not understanding Verhoeven’s satire. For me this film accomplished what Mars Attacks failed (you like it, more power to ya).
from what i've heard the source material is very much pro fascist. which is why verhoeven took the satirical approach and basically mocked the whole thing.
Can’t thank my uncle enough for watching this with me when I was younger. I loved the pacing, cgi mixed with practical affects, characters are easy to invest in and the lore itself. I’m not the biggest fans of reboots and truthfully don’t feel they could capture the same experience but my life would be complete if they rebooted this.
This right here is one of my all-time favorite movies. Used to watch it all the time as a kid. And it only improved over time as I began to have a more mature understanding of the themes. It's a beautiful movie. Stoked for the review!
This movie is the perfect mix of physical effects and CGI. I wish the Star Wars sequels we're made in 1997 or 98 with this era ILM effects and Harrison Ford circa Air Force One!
I’m proud to say I saw this film at the cinema back in ‘97. Loved it from the first viewing! Anybody who is a true Verhoeven fan, knew what to expect with this. And the dude delivered a violent and entertaining satire!
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but I think the movie got a lot of appreciation as soon as it went to home video. In any case, glad the majority of people give it its due now.
Just opening this review and they explained it beautifully. Growing up watching Robocop and Total Recall and this movie definitely side by side is very similar in tone. I actually loved Starship Troopers. The sequels not so much but the 1st was a gem for me. That Casper guy disappeared after this movie it seemed.
@P P if not for his age he would’ve made a good Leon Kennedy for a Resident Evil movie. I like him just for that role in Starship Troopers. I think he came back for all of the sequels even the animated one. He just had minor roles.
As much as we love Casper in the movie, he wasn’t exactly chosen because he’s a good actor (same with Denise Richards). Part of Casper’s charm in the movie is that he’s exactly like an overly earnest, awkward propaganda actor, so it helps sell the role how it’s meant to be received. Don’t get me wrong. He’s a charming dude and apparently a sweetheart in real life, but, having seen him act in shows like Monk, he’s got a VERY limited range. So it was hard for him to get any roles since he was perceived as not being all that good. But it seems he’s more than happy that the movie had a resurgence. He even cameo’d in the Honest Trailer in character, so he’s doing just fine getting work!
I never watched the sequels... they felt like such a cash grab and would kill all the love I had for the original. Kinda like how the recent star wars sequels have killed my love for the franchise.
@@fodicky4 I can still stomach the prequels and the originals. Especially The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and the Revenge of the Sith. But yeah the sequels are horrendous. I watched the Starship Troopers sequels I think because I just found them online or found them for cheap. They are so removed from the original that it doesn’t ruin it too badly for me.
Growing up, this was always one of my dad's favorite movies. Both as an action film and a satire. I only saw parts of it as a kid, but now watching it as an adult it feels as though it was so ahead of its time. A definite cult classic
Absolutely LOVE this movie. The satire is so biting and revealing that anybody, whether knowing or not, can be succumbed to propaganda. Also, check out Kyle Kallgren's dissertation of the film AND book on Brow's Held High. Puts the film and director in a much brighter light that it deserves.👍👍👍
It's one of the best adaptations, not for being true to the source but because Paul Verhoeven is Anti-War and really hated the book's very Pro-Military message that he portrayed it accurately showing how awful the book's world really is. Especially because as a young child Paul was traumatized because of his family being stop and interrogated by a army group, hence not liking the book's worship of a Military culture society where they run everything. Is a much needed piece of media especially in how many pieces of media glorify military culture and dominance not showing how it actually comes close to a totalitarian society with the whole "Only registered soldiers should be allowed to vote".
PAUL NEVER READ THE BOOK. Holy crap everyone assumes he read the book. Everyone in the comments is full of sh*t this is amazing. He read THE FIRST FIVE PAGES, DUDE. THAT'S IT. Paul says this himself in an interview. He threw out the book immediately. The book is not about fascism. Military service in the book doesn't even mean combat. Because of the tech the people in the book have 99% of the military are non combatants and most everyone serves so most everyone is allowed to vote, in fact more people are allowed to when compared to the past because the military employs everyone. it's...you know, screw it. DT has really disappointed me with this mis-leading click bait vid....ugh
@@guthax30 I read the book. Paul Verhoeven may not have finished the book, but he got everything he needed from it to make a perfect film adaptation that subverted the source material.
@@bigdaddychacha Agreed, dude. But people don't grok that sh-t. All they hear is "german last name" (Heinlein) and "Nazi" and suddenly a bunch of people who never read the thing are likening it to mein kamph. It's ridiculous! And just because an actor and a director who made a movie you liked disliked the book doesn't delegitimize the book. Personally: i agree! it's a terribly written book, one of Heinlein's worst, but it's not a treatise on fascism it's a treatise on the nature of war and nuclear energy. edit: and "didn't finish it" is an understatement. He didn't read it. He read the beginning part with the attack on the "skinnies", got disgusted with the violence ironically enough (the hypocritical gore-obsessed bastard he is) and then threw the thing over his shoulder. Illiteracy does not make for a "perfect subversion of the source material". He basically ripped off Aliens and made a shlocky B movie then slapped on a title from a once-popular book. There's as much biting social commentary in this film as there is in "Bill and Ted". It isn't thoughtful high art it's a director who didn't give a crap about the source material.
@@guthax30 I’ve never heard anyone suggest that Robert A. Heinlein was a Nazi just because he has a German surname; if they were saying that, then I would disagree with them. I have heard a lot of people call him a fascist, and there’s plenty of room for debate on that point. Nazis were fascists, but not all fascists were Nazis, of course. I will confess, “Starship Troopers” is the only Heinlein I’ve read, I haven’t read any of his other books, even the other famous ones. Even if he, himself, only read 5 pages, it’s clear that whoever wrote/adapted most of the movie had read the whole book. Entire scenes and dialogue exchanges, even in the 3rd act, were basically transplanted from the page. The part I remember being glad they left out was the endless pages later in the book dedicated to the minutiae of promotion and rank within the military government and the Mobile Infrantry and the Fleet. To say that P.V. didn’t finish the book may be understating it, but equally to say that he only read five pages and then just totally made up everything else and only kept the name is wildly overstating it. I would say that 85% or more of the movie pretty much came from the book.
I watched it for the first time in the late 90s and as a pre-teen it went completely over my head. I didn't like it. I revisited it during my early college years and said to myself, "Oh, now I get it!" I love it. Big fan of Verhoeven, but not so big that I like Showgirls.
I'm firmly of the opinion that people absolutely understood what this movie was doing, and they absolutely hated it BECAUSE it struck a nerve. I love the movie, I even love the third one and the animated series, but I'm sorry, "Men in Black" is EVERYTHING "Starship Troopers" is against: it shows a young man entering an authoritative organization that revels in controlling the dumb masses, it blows up and kicks away aliens that are either depicted as annoying or murderous, disgusting killing machines (the villain is a bloody ALIEN BUG too), you've got J squashing regular cockroaches to piss off Edgar like the children being encouraged to squash bugs in the propaganda video, he even makes quips to taunt Edgar that aren't too dissimilar from Sugar Watkins hateful one-liners and it was also a film from the same year 1997, but it was a massive critical and box office hit unlike ST. Again, I love MIB, but it absolutely pleases the closeted xenophobic tendencies of a lot of Americans whereas ST shows them for how shallow and hateful they really are. Every old review that says "No, we hate it because it's a DUMB film! The characters are awful! It's all style and no substance" and crap are just coping, they're desperately trying to hide the real reason they hate the film. If it was just a dumb popcorn action film, it would've been a success, but people perceived the critical narrative and hated it. "Independence Day" is a bloody stupid and bloated film that favors effects over substance, but again, it's super patriotic, pro-"kill one-dimensional alien bastards" and it was a gigantic box office success. ST had a very good release date with no competition or bad marketing, it still didn't do well. Because again, people understood it, and those that aren't nationalists who unironically love the society of the movie, still hated feeling criticized or being reflective. They absolutely understood that the good looking, shallow protagonists are essentially what most "pure race" maniacs would love humanity to be like. They absolutely understood that the propaganda videos are spoofs of real war propaganda films from real life, and they absolutely got that the Federation is very sus with the claim that the Arachnids threw the asteroid that destroys Buenos Aires despite how little sense it makes, or the double speak-like contradictions of them being able to kick Bug ass but then suddenly being powerless and outnumbered when it's convenient to make the masses more hateful and xenophobic. They absolutely felt sorry to some extent for the Brain Bug being captured, learning that it's literally afraid (are the alien villains from MIB and Independence Day depicted like this in any fashion? Nope) and then seeing it being cruelly experimented on. ...And they preferred to lie to themselves about the movie being "dumb" or "bad" to avoid thinking, they were in big fat denial.
One thing that people seem to forget, is that European colonialism inspired Nazism. America is one of such many colonies. The concept of whiteness and white-superiority was invented by European colonies, such as the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Germans, British etc. The concept of whiteness and white racial superiority predates Nazism by hundreds of years. The United States government’s early “scientific” ideas about white superiority, eugenics in the early 20th century, & genocides of Native Americans directly inspired Hitler. Before Nazi-Germany, Germany’s genocides & experiments on Herero and Namaqua peoples within Germany’s colonies of West Africa, like Namibia, directly inspired Nazism as well. Such as the way they experimented on European Jewish women & ran their notorious concentration-camps. Even Europe’s historical anti-Semitism, was a societal problem across Europe, long before the invention of Nazism. The ant-African & anti-NativeAmerican attitudes of European-colonialism deeply inspired the Nazis. If anything the Nazis are “The First Order” from Star Wars, the OG Empire being European-Colonialism & Imperialism.
I adore this movie, movies today that try to have messages in them and fail should take notes from movies like Starship Troopers. The way it shows propoganda, is funny and clever. Another thing that I love about this movie, is the bugs. When those aliens kill you, they fucking kill you. Hell even if you survive, you won't leave entact or mental scarred(Mostly both). Its like the bugs played Fallout alot, and loved that feature where you chose which body part to shoot.
Pay attention this is basically the Archies in space. You can recognize all the characters from the Archie’s books. Archie is Johnny Rico, Carmen Ibanez is Veronica, Dizzy is Betty, Zander is Reggie Rico’s friend is jughead Dude shot in the head during training is moose They’re all there.
I love this movie, and this review makes me hope you do the sequels sometime in the future. The second one sucks, but the third was actually a lot better than I remembered when I watched it again, despite its relatively low budget. It also feels like the only one that realized what the first movie was going for.
I have watched this movie several times over the years just as recent as last week. I loved the gore of it, and it was pleasantly entertaining for someone like me who find insects creepy 😬
The only thing I can never tell is when Korey says something about how the people are behaving nowadays is whether he does say it from a neutral position looking at both sides, or if he doesn't realize he might be doing the same... But I digress. This movie is amazing, but it honestly took me a while to watch it when I was a kid. I was scared dead of the flipping giant bugs... And even after watching it it took me a while to see the point it was trying to raise.
Saw this movie in theaters when I was 7. My dad lied to my mom telling her he was taking me to a cartoon thinking I wouldn't know the difference. I fucking loved this movie when I first saw it. Didn't know it was a satire until WAY later when I was in middle school. Also fell in love with Dina Meyer after seeing this.
I loved this movie as a kid. I wasn’t old enough to really think about the messaging or the symbolism, just liked the Pew Pew and “the babes.” The 90s were nice.
I think that the critics missed the point because of Showgirls. That movie was considered to be the worst movie of 1995. The satire went over their heads as they thought he had lost his touch due to the remanence of it.
This was one of those weird movies my parents let me watch as a kid when it came out and it stuck with me from the first viewing! The book is very matter of fact and I enjoy the differences between the two. I remember trying to explain how it was satire to a friend in high school and they just thought I was weird for liking it. It is a masterpiece.
I know some people who went through basic training relatively recently and no, you are NOT supposed to put your hands on the recruits. Certainly not to the point of breaking their bones or throwing knives at them.
This is one of those movies that I hated when I first saw it, and then rewatched years later after people started insisting the movie was actually good and was just misunderstood...only to still hate it myself. Halloween III was another one.
Paul Verhoeven's career could stayed at its peak if he didn't make Showgirls and then this. He was going to make an epic with Arnold Schwarzenegger called Crusade after Basic Instinct, but it fell through
But it's mostly audience fault for not seeing satire and thinking he was pro all these things. Granted Showgirls was poorly handled satire, seems intent was still a criticism of a dirty industry. I mean girls reminiscing over dog food... struggling, called bitches, treated as lesser people and serving animalistic desires. 🤷🏽
A reaction vid I watched on this movie had one of the viewers mention Denise Richard's only acting face was a smile, and literally it's the truth. You can't not see it after hearing that. Pretty funny.
I initially hated this movie. I had read Heinlein’s novel several times and took it very, very seriously. I initially felt like this movie was ridiculing the military profession as a whole. I later understood that it was satire against cliche’ war films and military propaganda. Since then, I’ve made peace with the movie. It’s not one of my favorites, but I better understand what Verhoeven was trying to do.
I remember walking out of the theater with my friends after seeing this and I really enjoyed the satire but my only fear is that too many people wouldn't get that it was satire. The characters still look cool.
To answer the question of why the bugs attacked. It was clearly explained that Mormon extremist established a fort deep inside the Arachnid Zone, which was under quarantine. The bugs took it as an invasion and decided to attack not just the colonist, but the place where they originated from(Earth). This is movie awesome!, and I watch it every Nov. 7th, the anniversary of the premiere. Do yourself a favor and watch it with the actor/director commentary. You'll laugh and learn a lot at the same time.
I was like 10 years old when this movie came out and I loved it, I saw it like 3 times in the theater but I loved it for the action, watching it now I appreciate it a lot more now than I did back then
Proud to say that 15 year old me seeing this back in the day in theaters understood the satire and loved Starship Troopers from the first time I saw it. I was already hipper than most critics back then I guess. Lol
Loved this movie in ‘97 back in high school for all the wrong reasons, came to love and appreciate even more after 9/11 for the right reasons! Read the book about 5 years back, too. Glad to see y’all love and appreciate it, too!
Props for this review. I absolutely loved this movie. It's a movie so of it's time and yet it holds up today. There is nothing like it. It is one of the best sci fi action movies ever made. It's up there with Aliens, Predator and T2: Judgement Day. It came out of nowhere too. It felt like my birthday when I first saw this movie. Loved it and still do. I remember them saying in an interview, the unisex shower scene at Basic Training, they were all so insecure about doing it, Paul Verhoeven took his clothes off and filmed naked. Lol Brilliant
I love that movie. That and The Killer are John Woo's masterpieces. Face-Off is a close second. Funny thing about watching 80s and 90s action flicks now is how cops are gunning down the baddies by the dozens without consequence. Like I was watching Hard to Kill with Segal and I was astounded how many times he broke the law and straight murdered people...but...it's okay because he's a family man and a cop. 😁
No matter how lethal or potentially apocalyptic an extraterrestrial species is portrayed as being, the most outright dangerous alien being featured in cinema, thus far, is still Superman. And, not by a little bit either. This isn’t to say the “bugs” aren’t badass and scary. It’s just there’s a much, much bigger shark out there.
Exactly. IRL there's no way the rest of the world would idly stand by while one country had a "super" man. His mere existence would have caused a never-ending world war, let alone the moment he crosses another country's sovereign airspace. "Truth, justice, and the American way"? That phrase says it all about what's wrong with the idea of Superman😳😏
@@EchoJ This is why I always say Superman is a much more interesting character than Batman. Look at the conversations that can be had just about the very concept of Superman, let alone his story and character.
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was a kid. I had no idea what mom dragged me to see because I wanted to see a cartoon movie at the time lol. But let me tell you, I LOVED this movie and the music anthem when they all charged the bugs and most of them were getting slaughtered lol. I still watch this til this day 🙌🏾
When the book came out there were plenty of fans who interpreted it as satire. Verhoven took liberties and made the satire more obvious and broad but it was not all that crazy despite the critics.
I'm not sure Heinlein meant for his work to be taken as a satire. Dude was really pro-militarism. I've read the book: Verhoven made the right move to satirize the book. Heinlein glorified military service and military men above everyone else in society that the government comes off as quite fascist. Verhoven experienced Nazi-occupied when living in The Netherlands. He saw the effects of fascism and what it could do to a country, and he saw the seeds of fascism being planted in America. Starship Troopers came out, what, 4 years before 9/11? This film was prophetic ... although, in a sense, Verhoven saw all this happening before during WW2.
A Filipino with a Spanish name, living in Argentina. Country borders aren't a thing in starship troopers. There's a one world military dictatorship government.
Never saw any of the sequels. They had the writer of the first film, Edward Neumier, for all of them, but it looked like they're missing that Verhoeven flare to them.
I can see the empire in SW as being a representation of the Nazis, but as far as starship troopers is concerned I mostly see American imperialism and certainly part of its military industrial complex. With Nazi imagery being used as a reminder of how similarly both system can operate.
This movie is an absolute masterpiece. Its perfectly satirical while still being a great scifi action flick with great horror elements.
Absolutely
Love this movie man the satire is top notch and the co ed showers
It’s also a satire of fascism 😏
I agree... now. I was underwhelmed the first time I saw it, but was then shocked when it was getting 4/4 star reviews. I think I was too young/ignorant (sorry, millennials) to get what the underlying messages behind the film. I guess at that time I was mainly thinking of order pure action with it a side of nudity, and I couldn't think of overall themes. I don't know if Starship Troopers was ahead of its time, but I'm thinking it is.
Oh yeah. It's always so weird when people talk about it as if it isn't satire. I've read reviews talking about it being super pro-military and being like a fascist fantasy film and um.....is it that subtle? I never thought it was.
I worked in the SFX department on the movie, and a couple of months before it was released, Paul Verhoeven screened a rough cut for the cast and crew. His pre-MPAA cut was even crazier, the violent scenes were more slapstick and went on for even longer. Like I remember the scene where the two guys get set on fire went on for half a minute, with the stuntmen running around screaming and burning. The MPAA imposed cuts actually helped the movie, made the humor a little subtler and less explicitly satirical.
Thanks for sharing this with us Alex. Very cool to hear about that cut.
Btw, you should be very proud to be a part of this film. I consider it a classic. Brilliant satire!
Thanks for your work on this movie!!
Yeah, that sounds like Verhoeven all right. 😂
Great job on the film, Alex. It still looks great to this day!
plus, those imposed cuts was what gave the movie an NC-17 rating at one point
So how eccentric was Verhoeven to work with, apart from the obvious lol?
The sfx really do hold up, in a way that even the star wars prequels don't. I saw the 2008 starship troopers sequel, and the effects from 1997 are better than they had in 2008. I'm sure the budget wasn't as big, but you guys did a great job.
I don't know how anyone could take the film seriously with lines like "You alright son?" and "Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today!" while the camera shows a good look of him missing his legs. fantastic movie
Lol i never noticed that last part
I was always more focused on the incompetency of high command. they just tossed a bunch of people on bug planet with zero intel and no armor or air support.
That scene is actually in the book. Apparently it's a tactic to discourage the faint hearted from signing up.
and an arm
@@tarmulane And in this film it was used to show how stupid (or brainwashed) someone would have to be to sign up for military service.
Starship Troopers is almost 25 years old and the visual effects on the giant bugs still hold up.
Most of the effects hold up well. And even the ones that don’t have a certain, charm, to them.
They just had legendary Adam savage on the corridor crew talking about the spicial effects on this movie, look it up
@@ragglock thanks, I will!
In 2008 when I was taking an animation class the teacher had us watch Starship Troopers as an instructional aid.
@@michaelsinger4638 you can thank the guys at Industrial Light-&-Magic (ILM) for those effects
Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, and lived through the German occupation of Holland during World War Two. Lots of Dutch people collaborated with the Germans, and Verhoeven based a lot of the movie on what he experienced as a child, especially the propaganda.
One of the most misunderstood movies ever made. Verhoeven's best alsongside Total Recall and Robocop.
And showgirls that was a parody right
@MountainViews90Now wouldn't that be a way to go?
Not only is it the director or Robocop, but also the writer of Robocop: Edward Neumier. It was a glorious reunion!
And the composer who did Conan the Barbarian.
No wonder the music is so great.
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Cool story lady
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Cool story lady
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Okay lady.
One of the best War Satires ever made,and maybe one of the Slickest Parodies on American Imperialism In the past 20 years.
I remember watching it as a Young Kid and thinking it was an Underrated Bug Flick,growing up and watching it again years later and looking at it deeper made it an even better Experience.
If this film gets remade,I doubt it would have the Balls to make fun of America like Paul Veorhoven.
It would be like the total recall remake.
Typical generic Hollywood project.
It’s not a parody tho, why do so many people use satire and parody in the same context.
@@413RadicalHoodCinema it Is a parody of wwII propaganda though so he isnt wrong, and you are
@@buttface1202 a parody would mean it’s a comedy and not really commenting on anything. It’s a satire and while satire may poke fun at society it doesn’t really mean it’s a parody or even a comedy. It’s like trying to claim Dawn of the Dead is a parody for being a satire on consumerism or They Live. It doesn’t really fit.
Yeah, I never understood why people managed to understand Robocop yet completely missed the point with Starship Trooper. Were audiences smarter in the 80's?
Maybe it’s just me, but Dina Myer as Dizzy was wayyyyy flamer than Denise Richard’s character. At least Rico realized that.
Mothereffin' A Kakes. Dina Meyer is the reason why I love her character as Dizzy. I love redheads in films.
It´s not just you, but I always thought Dizzy deserved better than Rico
How did this movie have almost 50% CGI and still look better than any today
Starship Troopers was a brilliant film then, and it's a brilliant film now. Truly a great movie.
It's tied with Gladiator as my favorite movie of all time
I remember being in the military saying “Would you like to know more?” after answering a stupid question. Starship Troopers 2 is also a guilty pleasure movie.
There’s a 2??? 🤣
@@jairo.romani there's 4 and a series
@@jairo.romani Curb your enthusiasm
@@el-kiote o my lord
@@jairo.romani there are a number of sequels. None of them are "good" but many people enjoy them anyway
I watched this movie ALL the time as a kid and even had the action figures they sold at the time with it lol & For Years back then I never picked up on the Troopers bein Nazis
I just thought it was a fun Bug vs Space marine movie but NOW its clear as day lmaooo
Not specifically Nazis, all stripes o' Fascists... including Nazis lol
@@Peasham Absolutely. You have people walkin' around thinking, "This is like if Nazism was introduced with an American theme." Like, somebody should tell them that The Nazis copied a Majourity of their Themes from The American "POV".. and how they deal with "Others".
@@DavidMyrmidon Pretty much.
The animated show didn't help.
It's unfortunate the book is wrapped up in all this and the author has a german-sounding last name...good grief. Verhoeven didn't even read the thing and people just assume the two are exactly alike.
Great point by Martin. In the world of sci-fi action, usually, war is presented as somewhat fun, characters dying off screen, etc. Starship Troopers went "Saving Private Ryan" in it's depiction of war.
The brilliance of this film is that, once you pick up on the subtext, it’s a great satire of fascism and militarism.
But even apart from that, it’s just a really fun sci for/action flick.
It's an even better satire of the American Military Industrial Complex.
@@names_are_useless Well yeah, it's a satire of all Fascism, including that of course.
It’s actually funny, because it hinted throughout the film that the humans provoked this fight with the Aliens. Even that attack on Buenos Aires.
I'm of the belief that the humans attacked themselves with the meteor. Because the Bugs quite simply don't seem to have that capability.
@@codafett I think they wanted to conquer what the Bugs had and used the meteor to spark off the war. Giving their people a “justified” reason for wiping them out.
Why bring up Buenos Aires in half Argentinian
The 4K release is actually one of my favorite 4K movies out there. It’s gorgeous! The detail is stunning.
It was such a fun movie to see in a theater. I saw it at a midnight showing in a packed house, it’s still one of the best movie experiences I’ve ever had.
We left the cinema, looked at each other & went back in to watch it again
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My son is 21 years old and he's a dick. He bullies his college classmates. He's bullying this one girl who just lost her mom to an illness who she was very very close too. She has been going through depression since she was a kid and my son made her drink sewage water and while they were at a college party he dressed up as her mom and started to imitate her death in front of her and while everyone was laughing. I asked him why he was the way he was and he said it was because he wants to date older women but society and people online says he can't. He says people hate on it and if people online can be assholes then he can be one too. Apparently he knows this 28 year old who works with him and they are close. He overheard her saying she wants to go on a date with him. My son wants to go out with her but he says "I can't go out with her because literally everyone online says a 20 year old can't date older people. It's their fault I can't be with her or date her so I'm going to make that bitch's life a living hell! It's not different then what those people are doing. If they say I can't date her and then I can be a dick all I want to!" It's clear that peoples words online has hurt him and I feel sorry if he wants to date older women he can. Me and his father have taught him what to look out for and to watch for red flags but what can I do?
I consider the entire movie to be a propaganda film, only made to increase enlistment. Like a film within a film. Created and funded by the Federal Network, it takes true life war occurrences and cranks them up to 10 with VERY pushy beliefs. The bugs are killing machines, incapable of emotion (unless it's fear, of course.) This explains the ads throughout, the narration, and why every single piece of dialogue is cheesy. None of our three main characters die, things strangely work out for them, and they all end up together (triumphant and happy) at the end. Not to mention the "all-American" cast from South America. I know the director kind of meant it as such, but I discover more every time I watch it. Kind of brilliant.
That's how I view it too. This is like watching Beverly Hills 90210 in a fascist alternate reality.
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Both outlets are pretty full of it.
yeah that's how i see it too. i mean the whole thing basically ends with a call to enlist so that you too can be a hero like the characters you've just seen.
i don't even think there are any bugs, they're just another tool of propaganda. a made up "other".
A quick note: This film was quite popular at the cinema outside the US. We got the satire. Saw this at an afternoon matinee in Oz with hundreds of Uni students. We loved it!
I think ive heard of that. I wonder why folk in the usa didn't get it
@@badassbillyb Americans have a hard time with irony
I wish more directors nowadays took a page or two from Verhoeven's book when it comes to subtly hiding and masking themes and not be so on the nose. His movies can just work as straight action movies and only on additional viewings you start noticing a lot of the satire.
I watched this movie when it came out, thought it was stupid. Then I saw it again in 2004 after the "war on terror" had begun and realized it was genius.
I’ve actually met people who legit thought this was a PRO fascist film, not understanding Verhoeven’s satire. For me this film accomplished what Mars Attacks failed (you like it, more power to ya).
Lemme guess, those people were Fascists?
@@Peasham Lol, worse Fellow liberal acquaintances who thought it was celebrating that insanity.
Are they the same people who think Rick Sanchez is a role model?
from what i've heard the source material is very much pro fascist. which is why verhoeven took the satirical approach and basically mocked the whole thing.
@A.F. Watcher88 why do you have the numbers 88 in your name????
Corey never ceases to amaze me at how well he segues into into his sponsorships for the videos lol.
Martin facepalms are priceless
Flawless victories with the sugues. 😆
Can’t thank my uncle enough for watching this with me when I was younger. I loved the pacing, cgi mixed with practical affects, characters are easy to invest in and the lore itself.
I’m not the biggest fans of reboots and truthfully don’t feel they could capture the same experience but my life would be complete if they rebooted this.
This right here is one of my all-time favorite movies. Used to watch it all the time as a kid. And it only improved over time as I began to have a more mature understanding of the themes. It's a beautiful movie. Stoked for the review!
I love how the soldier uniforms were repurposed for the first few episodes of Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy.
Starship Troopers is the first R-Rated movie I saw in theaters. I was like eight.
I'm sure that was a bit much for you at 8 years old. It is a cool movie though. It's one of those films that once you see it you'll never forget it.
How many nightmares did that fuel?
This movie is the perfect mix of physical effects and CGI. I wish the Star Wars sequels we're made in 1997 or 98 with this era ILM effects and Harrison Ford circa Air Force One!
I’m proud to say I saw this film at the cinema back in ‘97. Loved it from the first viewing!
Anybody who is a true Verhoeven fan, knew what to expect with this. And the dude delivered a violent and entertaining satire!
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but I think the movie got a lot of appreciation as soon as it went to home video. In any case, glad the majority of people give it its due now.
Just opening this review and they explained it beautifully. Growing up watching Robocop and Total Recall and this movie definitely side by side is very similar in tone. I actually loved Starship Troopers. The sequels not so much but the 1st was a gem for me. That Casper guy disappeared after this movie it seemed.
@P P if not for his age he would’ve made a good Leon Kennedy for a Resident Evil movie. I like him just for that role in Starship Troopers. I think he came back for all of the sequels even the animated one. He just had minor roles.
As much as we love Casper in the movie, he wasn’t exactly chosen because he’s a good actor (same with Denise Richards). Part of Casper’s charm in the movie is that he’s exactly like an overly earnest, awkward propaganda actor, so it helps sell the role how it’s meant to be received.
Don’t get me wrong. He’s a charming dude and apparently a sweetheart in real life, but, having seen him act in shows like Monk, he’s got a VERY limited range. So it was hard for him to get any roles since he was perceived as not being all that good. But it seems he’s more than happy that the movie had a resurgence. He even cameo’d in the Honest Trailer in character, so he’s doing just fine getting work!
@P P he came back for the 3rd one, it said the return of Rico, or something, lol.
I never watched the sequels... they felt like such a cash grab and would kill all the love I had for the original. Kinda like how the recent star wars sequels have killed my love for the franchise.
@@fodicky4 I can still stomach the prequels and the originals. Especially The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and the Revenge of the Sith. But yeah the sequels are horrendous. I watched the Starship Troopers sequels I think because I just found them online or found them for cheap. They are so removed from the original that it doesn’t ruin it too badly for me.
Dam, Mr Crabs wasn't kidding when he said his Navy days were rough.
Growing up, this was always one of my dad's favorite movies. Both as an action film and a satire. I only saw parts of it as a kid, but now watching it as an adult it feels as though it was so ahead of its time. A definite cult classic
More than a cult classic. A legend and classic.
Absolutely LOVE this movie. The satire is so biting and revealing that anybody, whether knowing or not, can be succumbed to propaganda. Also, check out Kyle Kallgren's dissertation of the film AND book on Brow's Held High. Puts the film and director in a much brighter light that it deserves.👍👍👍
It's one of the best adaptations, not for being true to the source but because Paul Verhoeven is Anti-War and really hated the book's very Pro-Military message that he portrayed it accurately showing how awful the book's world really is. Especially because as a young child Paul was traumatized because of his family being stop and interrogated by a army group, hence not liking the book's worship of a Military culture society where they run everything. Is a much needed piece of media especially in how many pieces of media glorify military culture and dominance not showing how it actually comes close to a totalitarian society with the whole "Only registered soldiers should be allowed to vote".
PAUL NEVER READ THE BOOK. Holy crap everyone assumes he read the book. Everyone in the comments is full of sh*t this is amazing. He read THE FIRST FIVE PAGES, DUDE. THAT'S IT. Paul says this himself in an interview. He threw out the book immediately. The book is not about fascism. Military service in the book doesn't even mean combat. Because of the tech the people in the book have 99% of the military are non combatants and most everyone serves so most everyone is allowed to vote, in fact more people are allowed to when compared to the past because the military employs everyone. it's...you know, screw it. DT has really disappointed me with this mis-leading click bait vid....ugh
Michael Ironside did read the book. He hated it as well.
@@guthax30 I read the book. Paul Verhoeven may not have finished the book, but he got everything he needed from it to make a perfect film adaptation that subverted the source material.
@@bigdaddychacha Agreed, dude. But people don't grok that sh-t. All they hear is "german last name" (Heinlein) and "Nazi" and suddenly a bunch of people who never read the thing are likening it to mein kamph. It's ridiculous! And just because an actor and a director who made a movie you liked disliked the book doesn't delegitimize the book. Personally: i agree! it's a terribly written book, one of Heinlein's worst, but it's not a treatise on fascism it's a treatise on the nature of war and nuclear energy.
edit: and "didn't finish it" is an understatement. He didn't read it. He read the beginning part with the attack on the "skinnies", got disgusted with the violence ironically enough (the hypocritical gore-obsessed bastard he is) and then threw the thing over his shoulder. Illiteracy does not make for a "perfect subversion of the source material". He basically ripped off Aliens and made a shlocky B movie then slapped on a title from a once-popular book. There's as much biting social commentary in this film as there is in "Bill and Ted". It isn't thoughtful high art it's a director who didn't give a crap about the source material.
@@guthax30 I’ve never heard anyone suggest that Robert A. Heinlein was a Nazi just because he has a German surname; if they were saying that, then I would disagree with them. I have heard a lot of people call him a fascist, and there’s plenty of room for debate on that point. Nazis were fascists, but not all fascists were Nazis, of course. I will confess, “Starship Troopers” is the only Heinlein I’ve read, I haven’t read any of his other books, even the other famous ones.
Even if he, himself, only read 5 pages, it’s clear that whoever wrote/adapted most of the movie had read the whole book. Entire scenes and dialogue exchanges, even in the 3rd act, were basically transplanted from the page. The part I remember being glad they left out was the endless pages later in the book dedicated to the minutiae of promotion and rank within the military government and the Mobile Infrantry and the Fleet. To say that P.V. didn’t finish the book may be understating it, but equally to say that he only read five pages and then just totally made up everything else and only kept the name is wildly overstating it. I would say that 85% or more of the movie pretty much came from the book.
I watched it for the first time in the late 90s and as a pre-teen it went completely over my head. I didn't like it. I revisited it during my early college years and said to myself, "Oh, now I get it!" I love it. Big fan of Verhoeven, but not so big that I like Showgirls.
37:22 medic!!!! We need to stitch him up lmaooooo
I'm firmly of the opinion that people absolutely understood what this movie was doing, and they absolutely hated it BECAUSE it struck a nerve.
I love the movie, I even love the third one and the animated series, but I'm sorry, "Men in Black" is EVERYTHING "Starship Troopers" is against: it shows a young man entering an authoritative organization that revels in controlling the dumb masses, it blows up and kicks away aliens that are either depicted as annoying or murderous, disgusting killing machines (the villain is a bloody ALIEN BUG too), you've got J squashing regular cockroaches to piss off Edgar like the children being encouraged to squash bugs in the propaganda video, he even makes quips to taunt Edgar that aren't too dissimilar from Sugar Watkins hateful one-liners and it was also a film from the same year 1997, but it was a massive critical and box office hit unlike ST.
Again, I love MIB, but it absolutely pleases the closeted xenophobic tendencies of a lot of Americans whereas ST shows them for how shallow and hateful they really are.
Every old review that says "No, we hate it because it's a DUMB film! The characters are awful! It's all style and no substance" and crap are just coping, they're desperately trying to hide the real reason they hate the film.
If it was just a dumb popcorn action film, it would've been a success, but people perceived the critical narrative and hated it.
"Independence Day" is a bloody stupid and bloated film that favors effects over substance, but again, it's super patriotic, pro-"kill one-dimensional alien bastards" and it was a gigantic box office success. ST had a very good release date with no competition or bad marketing, it still didn't do well. Because again, people understood it, and those that aren't nationalists who unironically love the society of the movie, still hated feeling criticized or being reflective.
They absolutely understood that the good looking, shallow protagonists are essentially what most "pure race" maniacs would love humanity to be like. They absolutely understood that the propaganda videos are spoofs of real war propaganda films from real life, and they absolutely got that the Federation is very sus with the claim that the Arachnids threw the asteroid that destroys Buenos Aires despite how little sense it makes, or the double speak-like contradictions of them being able to kick Bug ass but then suddenly being powerless and outnumbered when it's convenient to make the masses more hateful and xenophobic.
They absolutely felt sorry to some extent for the Brain Bug being captured, learning that it's literally afraid (are the alien villains from MIB and Independence Day depicted like this in any fashion? Nope) and then seeing it being cruelly experimented on.
...And they preferred to lie to themselves about the movie being "dumb" or "bad" to avoid thinking, they were in big fat denial.
Hell divers 2 sent me here
Mr Crabs is ruthless🤣🤣🤣
One thing that people seem to forget, is that European colonialism inspired Nazism. America is one of such many colonies. The concept of whiteness and white-superiority was invented by European colonies, such as the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Germans, British etc. The concept of whiteness and white racial superiority predates Nazism by hundreds of years. The United States government’s early “scientific” ideas about white superiority, eugenics in the early 20th century, & genocides of Native Americans directly inspired Hitler. Before Nazi-Germany, Germany’s genocides & experiments on Herero and Namaqua peoples within Germany’s colonies of West Africa, like Namibia, directly inspired Nazism as well. Such as the way they experimented on European Jewish women & ran their notorious concentration-camps. Even Europe’s historical anti-Semitism, was a societal problem across Europe, long before the invention of Nazism. The ant-African & anti-NativeAmerican attitudes of European-colonialism deeply inspired the Nazis. If anything the Nazis are “The First Order” from Star Wars, the OG Empire being European-Colonialism & Imperialism.
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I always get a kick out of people denying this is a critique of Fascism.
They always seem to end up being Fascists. Funny how that works.
Like clockwork. This movie is like a rorschach test for fascism.
I would chose Dina Meyer over Denise Richards any time.
"This is like CW without the talent."
So...CW Monday through Sunday.
I adore this movie, movies today that try to have messages in them and fail should take notes from movies like Starship Troopers. The way it shows propoganda, is funny and clever. Another thing that I love about this movie, is the bugs. When those aliens kill you, they fucking kill you. Hell even if you survive, you won't leave entact or mental scarred(Mostly both). Its like the bugs played Fallout alot, and loved that feature where you chose which body part to shoot.
Pay attention this is basically the Archies in space. You can recognize all the characters from the Archie’s books. Archie is Johnny Rico, Carmen Ibanez is Veronica,
Dizzy is Betty,
Zander is Reggie
Rico’s friend is jughead
Dude shot in the head during training is moose
They’re all there.
I love this movie, and this review makes me hope you do the sequels sometime in the future. The second one sucks, but the third was actually a lot better than I remembered when I watched it again, despite its relatively low budget. It also feels like the only one that realized what the first movie was going for.
This shit was crazy hell even remembering some of the scenes from this is even crazier, nasty, gross n just horrifying but still a truly classic.
This movie right HERE! Straight 🔥🔥🔥. Like a b movie matrix. Definitely doesn’t get its respect.
I have watched this movie several times over the years just as recent as last week. I loved the gore of it, and it was pleasantly entertaining for someone like me who find insects creepy 😬
The only thing I can never tell is when Korey says something about how the people are behaving nowadays is whether he does say it from a neutral position looking at both sides, or if he doesn't realize he might be doing the same... But I digress. This movie is amazing, but it honestly took me a while to watch it when I was a kid. I was scared dead of the flipping giant bugs... And even after watching it it took me a while to see the point it was trying to raise.
Saw this movie in theaters when I was 7. My dad lied to my mom telling her he was taking me to a cartoon thinking I wouldn't know the difference. I fucking loved this movie when I first saw it. Didn't know it was a satire until WAY later when I was in middle school. Also fell in love with Dina Meyer after seeing this.
I loved this movie as a kid. I wasn’t old enough to really think about the messaging or the symbolism, just liked the Pew Pew and “the babes.” The 90s were nice.
“The Enemy can’t push a button, if you disable its hand.” “MEDIC”
I think that the critics missed the point because of Showgirls. That movie was considered to be the worst movie of 1995. The satire went over their heads as they thought he had lost his touch due to the remanence of it.
This was one of those weird movies my parents let me watch as a kid when it came out and it stuck with me from the first viewing! The book is very matter of fact and I enjoy the differences between the two. I remember trying to explain how it was satire to a friend in high school and they just thought I was weird for liking it. It is a masterpiece.
I know some people who went through basic training relatively recently and no, you are NOT supposed to put your hands on the recruits. Certainly not to the point of breaking their bones or throwing knives at them.
This is one of those movies that I hated when I first saw it, and then rewatched years later after people started insisting the movie was actually good and was just misunderstood...only to still hate it myself. Halloween III was another one.
I was 8 when I saw this when my parents ordered it on Dish. I also remember the Rough Neck series based on the film, but more inspired by the book.
Paul Verhoeven's career could stayed at its peak if he didn't make Showgirls and then this. He was going to make an epic with Arnold Schwarzenegger called Crusade after Basic Instinct, but it fell through
But it's mostly audience fault for not seeing satire and thinking he was pro all these things. Granted Showgirls was poorly handled satire, seems intent was still a criticism of a dirty industry. I mean girls reminiscing over dog food... struggling, called bitches, treated as lesser people and serving animalistic desires. 🤷🏽
A reaction vid I watched on this movie had one of the viewers mention Denise Richard's only acting face was a smile, and literally it's the truth. You can't not see it after hearing that. Pretty funny.
I initially hated this movie. I had read Heinlein’s novel several times and took it very, very seriously. I initially felt like this movie was ridiculing the military profession as a whole. I later understood that it was satire against cliche’ war films and military propaganda. Since then, I’ve made peace with the movie. It’s not one of my favorites, but I better understand what Verhoeven was trying to do.
I remember walking out of the theater with my friends after seeing this and I really enjoyed the satire but my only fear is that too many people wouldn't get that it was satire. The characters still look cool.
To answer the question of why the bugs attacked. It was clearly explained that Mormon extremist established a fort deep inside the Arachnid Zone, which was under quarantine. The bugs took it as an invasion and decided to attack not just the colonist, but the place where they originated from(Earth). This is movie awesome!, and I watch it every Nov. 7th, the anniversary of the premiere. Do yourself a favor and watch it with the actor/director commentary. You'll laugh and learn a lot at the same time.
I was like 10 years old when this movie came out and I loved it, I saw it like 3 times in the theater but I loved it for the action, watching it now I appreciate it a lot more now than I did back then
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Lol like in Black Dynamite.
"WHO SAW THAT COMI...WHERE THAT CAME FROM?!?"
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Proud to say that 15 year old me seeing this back in the day in theaters understood the satire and loved Starship Troopers from the first time I saw it. I was already hipper than most critics back then I guess. Lol
Loved this movie in ‘97 back in high school for all the wrong reasons, came to love and appreciate even more after 9/11 for the right reasons! Read the book about 5 years back, too. Glad to see y’all love and appreciate it, too!
Got my physical copy,Pure nostalgic
classic.."Would you like to know more"?!?
Props for this review. I absolutely loved this movie. It's a movie so of it's time and yet it holds up today. There is nothing like it. It is one of the best sci fi action movies ever made. It's up there with Aliens, Predator and T2: Judgement Day. It came out of nowhere too. It felt like my birthday when I first saw this movie. Loved it and still do.
I remember them saying in an interview, the unisex shower scene at Basic Training, they were all so insecure about doing it, Paul Verhoeven took his clothes off and filmed naked. Lol Brilliant
I pity anyone who hasn't figured out what this movie is all about by the time Doogie Himmler shows up in his Hugo Boss the 23rd Nazi space coat.
That Starship Troopers review had me in stitches last week. Kudos to you brothaz!
7:00 can't control you guys not even during commercials 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This movie, Robocop, and Total Recall. Great movies with a great sense of humor and the right actors to pull it off. Wish there were more like 'em.
Hard Boiled would make for a great retro review.
I love that movie. That and The Killer are John Woo's masterpieces. Face-Off is a close second.
Funny thing about watching 80s and 90s action flicks now is how cops are gunning down the baddies by the dozens without consequence. Like I was watching Hard to Kill with Segal and I was astounded how many times he broke the law and straight murdered people...but...it's okay because he's a family man and a cop. 😁
That one is a hardcore shoot-em-up flick, the body count is ridiculous
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@@aharris82 One of the highest if I'm not mistaken. The opening alone beats out somemovies. Lol
love this movie as a kid still brings back good memories
37:18 fun fact, the lady who shot that guy in the head actually married him after the movie. This is where they met 😂
The I buy that for a dollar became iconic
No matter how lethal or potentially apocalyptic an extraterrestrial species is portrayed as being, the most outright dangerous alien being featured in cinema, thus far, is still Superman. And, not by a little bit either. This isn’t to say the “bugs” aren’t badass and scary. It’s just there’s a much, much bigger shark out there.
Lmao Lex was right the whole time!
Exactly. IRL there's no way the rest of the world would idly stand by while one country had a "super" man. His mere existence would have caused a never-ending world war, let alone the moment he crosses another country's sovereign airspace. "Truth, justice, and the American way"? That phrase says it all about what's wrong with the idea of Superman😳😏
@@EchoJ In a world with Superman there would either be no war or one war followed by a global empire.
@@EchoJ This is why I always say Superman is a much more interesting character than Batman. Look at the conversations that can be had just about the very concept of Superman, let alone his story and character.
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was a kid. I had no idea what mom dragged me to see because I wanted to see a cartoon movie at the time lol. But let me tell you, I LOVED this movie and the music anthem when they all charged the bugs and most of them were getting slaughtered lol. I still watch this til this day 🙌🏾
You're mom must be one awsome woman . I bet you had a great childhood .
When the book came out there were plenty of fans who interpreted it as satire. Verhoven took liberties and made the satire more obvious and broad but it was not all that crazy despite the critics.
I'm not sure Heinlein meant for his work to be taken as a satire. Dude was really pro-militarism. I've read the book: Verhoven made the right move to satirize the book. Heinlein glorified military service and military men above everyone else in society that the government comes off as quite fascist.
Verhoven experienced Nazi-occupied when living in The Netherlands. He saw the effects of fascism and what it could do to a country, and he saw the seeds of fascism being planted in America. Starship Troopers came out, what, 4 years before 9/11? This film was prophetic ... although, in a sense, Verhoven saw all this happening before during WW2.
And Johny Rico supposed to be a Filipino in the novel? Here they really aim for the ultimate aryan dude
An aryan from Buenos Aires... there was a time when a lot of wannabe aryans suddenly moved to Argentina
Mr crabs don't play even in human foam lol 🦀😁
*Adjust Glasses* "Did you know Johnny Rico was originally a Filipino in the book?" lolol
A Filipino with a Spanish name, living in Argentina. Country borders aren't a thing in starship troopers. There's a one world military dictatorship government.
44:35 "you're my sloppy seconds. Congratulations." 😂
Most Real Representation of the Astra Militarum from Warhammer 40k
Great movie. Made by a director who didn’t read the book and had it explained to him by someone who had read it but misunderstood it.
One of the best movies ever
How is this not a Bad Movie Roast?
It’s practically a big budget sci fi channel movie
Because it's a good movie
Always loved this movie. I remember I begged my brother in 97 to take me to see this.
The first movie will always be the best
The sequels are….. meh
Never saw any of the sequels. They had the writer of the first film, Edward Neumier, for all of them, but it looked like they're missing that Verhoeven flare to them.
There are no sequels. None.
This was funny especially when they were doing basic training getting messed up 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
I can see the empire in SW as being a representation of the Nazis, but as far as starship troopers is concerned I mostly see American imperialism and certainly part of its military industrial complex.
With Nazi imagery being used as a reminder of how similarly both system can operate.
Well that's just the thing, a military industrial complex is instrumental in Fascist societies. So, anywhere that has one, y'better watch out.
@@Peasham don't worry I know that I live in France , i see what they are doing in Africa ...
i remember Starship troopers as a kid and saw it maybe like 3 or 4 times as an adult its a cult classic for me
I have never been this early to a DT video before.
Dean Norris is younger than Casper Van Dien. Somehow, Dean Norris has found the way to appear 53 for the entirety of his adulthood.
Hell Divers ✊🏻
I loved this movie and watched it a lot. Hated that Dizzy died she was best girl.
One of the few movies I bought on DVD back in the day. It was always a cult classic amongst my friends.