The Special Effects director for this film, Phil Tippett, is a titan in his field, just don't let him direct anything Starship Troopers or you get Hero of the Federation.
It's because they gave the artists and animators a huge (compared to now) time frame to accomplish the effects. compared to now where studios basically force their artists to churn out material as fast as possible. I believe the crew had almost two years to develop the effects for the movie, and the patience and effort definitely shows. Same for Lord of the Rings. I wish this philosophy was still in effect, now the goal seems to be the lowest bar they can get away with and still sell tickets.
I can't help but notice they shot that nuke down the hole without checking where all the other soldiers that were ordered to fan out were. "Collateral's my favourite kinda damage!"
Forreal! I had the CGI adaptation of this as a child growing up and I KNEW I had seen a live-action version at some point. But it was once, by accident cause I was like 5. I always would picture both the Arachnids and the Zerg when thinking about either. A SC movie should just be this movie with different skins.
No idea how a movie as rewatchable as this tanked in the box office. I used to rewatch this so many times when i was a kid . Everytime it played on TV, i always ended up finishing the movie. It's just so entertaining and well paced.
I can kind of explain why: Starship Troopers is basically a childlike idea, which makes sense given that the book it is based on was a young adult novel, meant to be written for students who were graduating high school. Being that it is a plot about humans fights giant bugs, apparently, the kids would sneak into the movie after buying tickets for Mr. Bean. This movie was not easy to market, especially with people and reviewers misunderstanding the message of the film. The film was, apparently, supposed to “satirize fascism”, but it still made all of it look cool. There is a discussion of whether or not the novel promoted fascism (it didn’t; I read that book once a year), and whether or not this was a well made parody of that idea. It is a well made movie, if we ignore all of that nonsense, as far as I’m concerned. Both the novel and movie went onto inspire an insane amount of science fiction. Halo, Helldivers and Warhammer to name a few. This movie’s failure ultimately comes down to poor marketing, and maybe just coming out at the wrong place at the wrong time. As far as I’m concerned, though, its light failure has lead to it becoming a cult classic with fans praising it to this day. Sure, we never got a high quality sequel, but maybe this just works better as a one off story, as opposed to being a series.
if they wanted to make the tanker bugs actually realistic they shouldve made the one blowing up into a MASSIVE explosion...given that their abdomen was filled with napalm , all we get is a grenade blast?😅
@@SGB1977 the point was that the film director is an idiot. Seriously. He said that he wanted to make a parody of the book... that he have never read. In the book humans had basically iron men suits and they flew above the ground at very high distance from each other.
@@SGB1977 it’s kinda the irony of the situation, basically the bugs are the ones using strategy while the Federation uses swarm tactics you’d typically see the aliens use in other movies It’s a reverse alien stereotype since humans are the invaders this time
@@SGB1977 More like the inefficiency of a fascist government. The main hero and his friends enlist to fight the bugs at the beginning but are trained to fight humans. Their equipment is shoddy and not very good, and their tactics are almost non-existent because the government was too arrogant to properly prepare for a war against an enemy they knew almost nothing about. To say nothing of how it’s implied that the attack on Earth was likely a false flag attack to justify war against the bugs
I have to say, this is a more efficient strategy than when they first invaded Klendathu. Bomb the main swarm, then send infantry to mop up the survivors which can be a few of them so troopers won’t have to be overwhelmed and then find any intact bug holes with more hiding in them and nuke it to get at the remainders.
That’s the point. This attack was better prepared. However the end of the movie has a scene nearly identical to the first scene of Klendathu with young new recruits, showing how in the cycle of war the humans will never learn. It’s also hinted at in the way that all the teachers and elders on earth are maimed from their military service. It’s brilliant the way they include so much subtle subtext of how awful this fascist, propaganda-filled military regime really is, where as first glance it looks like an awesome action movie.
@@lolllama1504 How exactly are the humans awful? First of all the bugs attacked first, the theory that the meteor that hit buenos aires is just a fan theory lmao. Secondly , the bugs also colonized other planets as well hence why they are on multiple different planets. Ur sounding very unintelligent.
Fantastic scene that totally captures the antiwar themes of the movie in a really subtle way. If you don't see the way the bugs are suffering and the viciousness and hate that warfare brings out in the troopers, you are totally missing the scene
After reading the book i wanna see a legit remake with the bugs as pseudo arachnids that have human like intelligence weilding plasma guns and laser swords into battle. They have interstellar ships and technology that is as advance or more than humans. Their brain bug have cybernetic implants and computer chips in them. Their warrior class of bugs have no fear and do not retreat and throw themselves at the troopers dying by the thousands unless they know they can not win a battle. In the books the roughnecks say the warrior expend themselves" they way we expend ammuntion". I love the starship troopers movie but it can legit get a serious reboot and do well if they implement more of the book elements.
@@cristianestrada5381gonna have to agree with american flag here. I am sick of seeing yet another intelligent alien that are supposed to dunk humanity with their advanced technology somehow got dunked by a human because of 'humanity will to fight' bs. i just wanted another movie like Aliens. Or Starship Trooper.
Hearing the sounds of pain made by the Arachnids in this movie reminded me of the same sounds made by the giant spiders in the movie Eight Legged Freaks now that was funny.
Loved this movie. My Dad took me to see it when I was a kid and the biggest surprise is he went to his closet after the film and pulled down a Star Troopers Board game from the 1970's. The game was awesome!
You're lucky. My parents wouldn't let me watch it in theaters even though I was 16 at the time. Ended up buying the damn movie at my local blockbuster one year later. I remember riding my bike all the way into town to get that VHS tape. 😂
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This is just satirizing WW2 human wave tactics. The original book from the 1960s have each soldier as strong as Iron Man armed with mini-nukes. That book started the trend of having powered suits in Sci-fi. Pretty cool book, but have... problematic politics.
@@eletriky6715 I never noticed this but like- is the Federation the aggressor in the conflict? Cause I don’t understand are the bugs in the right or wrong? Do they ACTIVELY invade planets to expand their empire? Or are they merely invading other planets in defense of the humans who are trying to eradicate them?
@@eletriky6715 But are the bugs in the right or wrong? Cause they invade planets too. Not really for domination but for survival- it’s a hive. So what I wanna know is it right for them to invade other planets?
The problem is that their rifles fire an ammunition calibre suitable for other humans; not giant alien killing machines. There's a reason zoos and wildlife reserves have rifles designed to taking down rhinos and elephants with one shot.
Those calibers penetrated and damaged about as much as they could hope for. Overall it won't matter if each soldier doesn't have nuclear or poison bullets. Think total energy output, penetration per animal. For example, if you and I were to shoot an elephant and I had a magazine of 15 7.62 full auto and you had 3 rounds of 50 bmg, both of us will take down that elephant in under 10 seconds except I will have more followup shots if I miss. Our bullet carrying capacity will max out at 30 lbs for a long trek and so we will be able to kill about 50 elephants each including missed shots. But if 300 elephants came at us, it won't matter the caliber. We need more bullets and powder than a human can carry. In that case, drone/robots can carry tons of munitions per craft or nukes/chem.
@@baloog8 Not true. An elephant's hide is 1-2 inches thick and their bones are also quite dense. Your fifteen 7.62mm bullets are unlikely to do enough damage to bring it down before it ends you. Elephants have been known to survive headshots from rifles of 5.56 or 7.62 because the rounds simply don't have enough power to penetrate through their hide and skull. A single .50 however would do enough damage to either incapacitate or kill it. This is why in ancient times, the way to defeat elephants wasn't to try and kill them outright but to hit them with enough arrows or spears to madden them with wounds. None of these wounds were likely to be mortal or even enough to make them bleed out, but the elephant would run away from battle; often trampling its own side in the process.
Truth is they probably were some casualties as a result..movie doesnt show anything but from what it does show that wouldnt have surprised me. After all that's why they wear body armour&helmets - bugs dont fire guns.
It takes 5 of them 30 seconds to shoot one of em to the point it still isn't dead. Seems like they shoulda just invested in more of those bombers. Watched this so many times as a kid 😁
I loved this movie even if it was so illogical. With today technology they should do a remale based on the books, with the bugs as an advanced race and human soldiers with their super hi tech suits.
there's so much attention to detail. when they're fighting the bug at 1:13 you can see they shoot off one of it's front legs, then once they shoot off it's back leg on the same side the bug collapses and begins writhing around and then ends up upside down. then even in the close up model of the bug it's consistent- you can see the front leg has been shot off.
I get that the sound of machine gun fire is more satisfying to an action audience, but you'd think by the time they'd mastered interstellar travel, they'd also have a handle on energy weapons. It's a fun film, but you kinda have to turn your brain off for certain parts of it.
to be fair, projectile weapons are very efficient, easy to repair and are able to penetrate a lot of stuff with the right caliber. Why using energy weapons, in Star Trek or Stargate they fuck up so many times against enemies, its hillerious. Just another SciFi trope that makes no sense
@@MyBrainGlows Almost everything in SciFi makes no sense. And this is not Stargate or StarTrek. And not every Movie needs to be lame Ass Star Trek or Star Gate.
Damn what’s horrifying is hearing the Arachnids screaming to their death, but whats even more horrifying is knowing there could be creatures like this out in the universe or worse
Sending bombers to clear the path was the first and only correct tactic ever done in this move... You would think that a nation with space ships would have a ground viacle or at least an APC for support -but nope.
Just noticed that the ground is not burnt after the fire bombing. Only the bugs. A completly overpowered RPG. If you use that in combat, it will get you and your buddies killed. Way to dangerous. One mistake and your platoon is gone. It takes them more than half a minute between noticing the giant bug and actually opening fire on it. You can't make that shit up. Why does he need to clime on the bugs back? Is it because his shield it harder to penetrate? There tactics are so dumb. In other words: The movie is brilliant.
I love how the main protagonist basically borrowed a sabotage strategy from halo and used it against a giant beetle But the only thing I hate about this series is that the humans didn’t use a single unit of armour
This is because the movie was made to poke fun at the human wave tactics. The one that was remotely true to the book was the 3d movie, all soldier have power armour. And if by armour you mean vehicle then the beetle like the one he killed in the video is actually an artillery unit, one of these beetle can wreck havoc and destroy multiple aircraft at once as long they're allowed to shoot and the aircraft are in their range of fire. The human doesn't have any air supremacy unless they can deploy jet fighter, and even then they're still succeptible to being hit by beetle artillery.
@@andrewmcdonald7435 Yeah....about that, the arachnid have plasma bug bug to counter that, these type of bugs serve as both ground to air and ground to ground combat, they're the big artillery bug I mentioned in the comment above. Essentially, these bug is the insect version of an ICBM, the range of where they can shoot their plasma sphere are so big that they can even shoot from ground to outer ozone layer as anti-air defense mechanism against any large scale invasion from the human as well, so most of the attempt to transport heavy armours over to their home planet ended up being a failure.
Generals be like: Let's use only infantry with small calibre fire arms. Screw armoured vehicles, close air support, body armour, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, mortars, incendiary and explosive rounds. Humanity has been fighting wars and hunting large animals for like a million years but let's not use all that experience and know-how.
Still a gripping film even after 27 years. Oh, and who thinks the CGI is surprisingly good for such an old film, Jurassic Park came out 4 years earlier.
Looking back at Starship Troopers its so stupid that we think we have a chance against these bugs who are far deadlier , stronger and organized when the inferior ones in our planet we cant even put a dent to their population
Population dynamics would be different between species of giant creatures vs species of tiny creatures. So I can see how giant inverterbrates would be more vulnerable to extinction compared to their tinier counterparts.
Oddly enough the CGI and Effects still hold up today. That's really impressive tbh.
cgi? who said thats cgi
@@woswasdenni1914 you're right, they went to the bug infested planets and made the movie right there.
In 1997 as-well!
The Special Effects director for this film, Phil Tippett, is a titan in his field, just don't let him direct anything Starship Troopers or you get Hero of the Federation.
It's because they gave the artists and animators a huge (compared to now) time frame to accomplish the effects. compared to now where studios basically force their artists to churn out material as fast as possible. I believe the crew had almost two years to develop the effects for the movie, and the patience and effort definitely shows. Same for Lord of the Rings. I wish this philosophy was still in effect, now the goal seems to be the lowest bar they can get away with and still sell tickets.
Starship Troopers : TANKEEERR!!!!!
Helldivers 2 : *CHARGEEEERR!!!!!*
Those are Thermobaric or Incendiary bombs.
Trooped is way better
@@zachdinga6496dude their both different starship troopers and helldivers are not the same
I can't help but notice they shot that nuke down the hole without checking where all the other soldiers that were ordered to fan out were. "Collateral's my favourite kinda damage!"
I cant help but notice they just "nuked" the surface of the planet then sent a couple of platoons to walk around in the radiation
@@jonant8317 because it wasn't "nuked" they used napalm
I mean you're talking about a military force that holds live-fire exercises in the middle of their base's compound.
What gets me is their leaning into their shots, getting closer and closer to a melle based, weapon resistant series of targets!!
Regardless, imagine a man portable weapon with THAT much power 😂
Watching this movie, then going to play StarCraft.
What a great time to be a kid.
Forreal! I had the CGI adaptation of this as a child growing up and I KNEW I had seen a live-action version at some point. But it was once, by accident cause I was like 5. I always would picture both the Arachnids and the Zerg when thinking about either. A SC movie should just be this movie with different skins.
They were both based on the book. The guy who wrote Starcraft told me
Only to be infuriated by the unending demand for "additional pylons!"
No idea how a movie as rewatchable as this tanked in the box office. I used to rewatch this so many times when i was a kid . Everytime it played on TV, i always ended up finishing the movie. It's just so entertaining and well paced.
It's a special movie and even now rewatching it it's still got that blockbuster feel👌
I can kind of explain why:
Starship Troopers is basically a childlike idea, which makes sense given that the book it is based on was a young adult novel, meant to be written for students who were graduating high school. Being that it is a plot about humans fights giant bugs, apparently, the kids would sneak into the movie after buying tickets for Mr. Bean. This movie was not easy to market, especially with people and reviewers misunderstanding the message of the film. The film was, apparently, supposed to “satirize fascism”, but it still made all of it look cool. There is a discussion of whether or not the novel promoted fascism (it didn’t; I read that book once a year), and whether or not this was a well made parody of that idea. It is a well made movie, if we ignore all of that nonsense, as far as I’m concerned. Both the novel and movie went onto inspire an insane amount of science fiction. Halo, Helldivers and Warhammer to name a few. This movie’s failure ultimately comes down to poor marketing, and maybe just coming out at the wrong place at the wrong time. As far as I’m concerned, though, its light failure has lead to it becoming a cult classic with fans praising it to this day. Sure, we never got a high quality sequel, but maybe this just works better as a one off story, as opposed to being a series.
I love how these 'troopers' are in a circle and have other 'troopers' in their line of fire.
Well if you notice they are doing control fire bursts rather than full auto but it is still bad choreographed scene lol
How dare you use logic
Come on this is the future, the bullet has A.I to avoid friendly fire 😁
@ that is deactivated while bullet is in training field
It's the kind of thing you'd expect to practice in training, but they never even look at a picture of bugs in BMT
That little spark that it does to ignite it before spraying the stuff is a cool touch
Incendiary bombs or thermo baric bombs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_device
if they wanted to make the tanker bugs actually realistic they shouldve made the one blowing up into a MASSIVE explosion...given that their abdomen was filled with napalm , all we get is a grenade blast?😅
The CGI in this film is still good.
This is Wagner vs Ukranian army)))))
@@DJAKONDATM
...but reversed.
@@stefank3461 I can't even catch who is who without you two having any flags
@@youtubeuser_custom_1 true 😀
No its not. Its absolutely terrible. Facepalm level of terrible.
Use the Dead Space strategy.
“Cut off the limbs!”
This is Wagner vs Ukranian army)))))
@@DJAKONDATM but reverse
Still 86% combat effectivenes.
Warrior bugs do have one weakness, you have to shoot their nerve stem.
Or the Alien strategy.
"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Then again, the bugs are subterranean...
I never understood why we had to commit ground troops. Clearly we had superior tech. So many Troopers wasted!
That's the point of the film.
@@DomWeasel the point was the wastefulness of war?
@@SGB1977 the point was that the film director is an idiot. Seriously. He said that he wanted to make a parody of the book... that he have never read.
In the book humans had basically iron men suits and they flew above the ground at very high distance from each other.
@@SGB1977 it’s kinda the irony of the situation, basically the bugs are the ones using strategy while the Federation uses swarm tactics you’d typically see the aliens use in other movies
It’s a reverse alien stereotype since humans are the invaders this time
@@SGB1977 More like the inefficiency of a fascist government. The main hero and his friends enlist to fight the bugs at the beginning but are trained to fight humans. Their equipment is shoddy and not very good, and their tactics are almost non-existent because the government was too arrogant to properly prepare for a war against an enemy they knew almost nothing about. To say nothing of how it’s implied that the attack on Earth was likely a false flag attack to justify war against the bugs
Gotta say the CGI for this movie was pretty good
Bonjour, I' m french and I need your hello. What means CGI? Thanx for your support.
Computer grafic image .
@@leandrobego154 thanx
It's a mix with cgi and animatronics like in Jurassic park
No way! I thought they were fighting real bug.
I have to say, this is a more efficient strategy than when they first invaded Klendathu. Bomb the main swarm, then send infantry to mop up the survivors which can be a few of them so troopers won’t have to be overwhelmed and then find any intact bug holes with more hiding in them and nuke it to get at the remainders.
That’s the point. This attack was better prepared. However the end of the movie has a scene nearly identical to the first scene of Klendathu with young new recruits, showing how in the cycle of war the humans will never learn. It’s also hinted at in the way that all the teachers and elders on earth are maimed from their military service.
It’s brilliant the way they include so much subtle subtext of how awful this fascist, propaganda-filled military regime really is, where as first glance it looks like an awesome action movie.
@@lolllama1504It's a damn shame they didn't like the powersuits from the book. That is truly mobile infantry.
@@lolllama1504 How exactly are the humans awful? First of all the bugs attacked first, the theory that the meteor that hit buenos aires is just a fan theory lmao. Secondly , the bugs also colonized other planets as well hence why they are on multiple different planets. Ur sounding very unintelligent.
@@desertdude8274 At least we get the power suits in the CGI sequels.
When you call the Eagle strike stratagem
Even the way Michael Ironsides says "Alright" is fucking badass.
I will never forget Sugar Watkins and his giant scope.
Its actually a Vampire type scope ypu see on stg-44s so its more likely a really large flashlight
Movie lesson: *Always go full auto when fighting bugs*
Indeed, that's why I used an MG42 to deal with my cat's flea problem.
And use a larger caliber.
Why not just bomb the hell out of them like in the beginning of this video
@@robertarvanitis8852 Yeah use 2 bore 34 mm slugs 3500 grains, lol.
@@TheRealZombieWizard Yes, 17,500 ft·lb of energy
Fantastic scene that totally captures the antiwar themes of the movie in a really subtle way. If you don't see the way the bugs are suffering and the viciousness and hate that warfare brings out in the troopers, you are totally missing the scene
What are ya, some kinda bug-lover?
No.
The only good bug is a DEAD BUG!
I remember watching this at 4 or so and realising it was not ‘serious’.
You goddamn species-traitor. You should get the rope, along with all the other traitors to the Federation.
How tf are the bugs suffering?
3:32 - SWEET LIBERTY! MY ARM!
After reading the book i wanna see a legit remake with the bugs as pseudo arachnids that have human like intelligence weilding plasma guns and laser swords into battle. They have interstellar ships and technology that is as advance or more than humans. Their brain bug have cybernetic implants and computer chips in them. Their warrior class of bugs have no fear and do not retreat and throw themselves at the troopers dying by the thousands unless they know they can not win a battle. In the books the roughnecks say the warrior expend themselves" they way we expend ammuntion". I love the starship troopers movie but it can legit get a serious reboot and do well if they implement more of the book elements.
Theres literally an OVA of it released during the 1980's.
Soooo… halo
@@lutherleblanc2237 smh. Just be quiet and sit in the corner.
How are the books?
@@cristianestrada5381gonna have to agree with american flag here. I am sick of seeing yet another intelligent alien that are supposed to dunk humanity with their advanced technology somehow got dunked by a human because of 'humanity will to fight' bs.
i just wanted another movie like Aliens. Or Starship Trooper.
Hearing the sounds of pain made by the Arachnids in this movie reminded me of the same sounds made by the giant spiders in the movie Eight Legged Freaks now that was funny.
This is Wagner vs Ukranian army)))))
Loved this movie. My Dad took me to see it when I was a kid
and the biggest surprise is he went to his closet after the film
and pulled down a Star Troopers Board game from the 1970's.
The game was awesome!
You're lucky. My parents wouldn't let me watch it in theaters even though I was 16 at the time. Ended up buying the damn movie at my local blockbuster one year later. I remember riding my bike all the way into town to get that VHS tape. 😂
Starship Troopers the audiobook 📚 !
Classic science fiction from 1959. On West Point & USMC reading 📖 lists for years! War. Violence. Crime & punishment. Powered armor 3 years before Iron Man’ first appearance in Marvel Comics….
“Marriage is a young man’s DISASTER & an old man’s comfort.”
- Starship Troopers the book 1959
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Helldivers 2 brought me here 👍
So, they can now conquer another planet in another Solar system, but still using rifles with metal bullets as weapon 😅
This is just satirizing WW2 human wave tactics. The original book from the 1960s have each soldier as strong as Iron Man armed with mini-nukes. That book started the trend of having powered suits in Sci-fi. Pretty cool book, but have... problematic politics.
There fire bombs are amazing. They burn the bugs, but not the ground.
@@N0noy1989 Nothing problematic about Starship Troopers politics.
Solar system did you even watch the film they are on the other side of the galaxy?
This is Wagner vs Ukranian army)))))
90s and late 80s had the absolute BEST movies ever made....
1:32 If you listen close enough, you can hear the arachnid screaming for them to stop
Poor thing…
@@eletriky6715 the only good bug is a dead bug
@@eletriky6715
I never noticed this but like- is the Federation the aggressor in the conflict? Cause I don’t understand are the bugs in the right or wrong? Do they ACTIVELY invade planets to expand their empire? Or are they merely invading other planets in defense of the humans who are trying to eradicate them?
@@V1nce_man yes they are, they used the asteroid that destroyed Rico’s hometown as an excuse to go to war.
@@eletriky6715
But are the bugs in the right or wrong? Cause they invade planets too. Not really for domination but for survival- it’s a hive. So what I wanna know is it right for them to invade other planets?
I want to see the Doomguy fight those bug aliens.
did ya play the game the FPS one where ya a Marauder unit "not mechanized one" power armor. Well thats their doom guy
Lol he could clear this planet faster than all these retards.
@cod Either way, it would be AWESOME!
2:27
Looks like just right proper weapon for home defense.
You are here because of Helldivers 2, I know.
For Democracyyy!!! Oh Yeah!!! Jajaja
FOR DEMOCRACY
Don’t you ruin this for me! 🤨
I actually just enjoy the movie, I haven't played helldivers
I liked this movie before it was cool
Where is this air support when they got ambushed in Whiskey Outpost 🤣
The bugs had that place surrounded within minutes, air support is never that fast usually, let alone when invading a whole planet
It’s a futuristic army based on USSR. Being smart is not on the cards for a fascist federation.
@@CactusCowboyDan
>based on USSR
>Fascist
Pick one.
You know, a main battle rifle with an effective range of more than ten meters might have been a good idea.
The problem is that their rifles fire an ammunition calibre suitable for other humans; not giant alien killing machines.
There's a reason zoos and wildlife reserves have rifles designed to taking down rhinos and elephants with one shot.
Those calibers penetrated and damaged about as much as they could hope for. Overall it won't matter if each soldier doesn't have nuclear or poison bullets. Think total energy output, penetration per animal.
For example, if you and I were to shoot an elephant and I had a magazine of 15 7.62 full auto and you had 3 rounds of 50 bmg, both of us will take down that elephant in under 10 seconds except I will have more followup shots if I miss. Our bullet carrying capacity will max out at 30 lbs for a long trek and so we will be able to kill about 50 elephants each including missed shots.
But if 300 elephants came at us, it won't matter the caliber. We need more bullets and powder than a human can carry. In that case, drone/robots can carry tons of munitions per craft or nukes/chem.
@@baloog8
Not true. An elephant's hide is 1-2 inches thick and their bones are also quite dense. Your fifteen 7.62mm bullets are unlikely to do enough damage to bring it down before it ends you. Elephants have been known to survive headshots from rifles of 5.56 or 7.62 because the rounds simply don't have enough power to penetrate through their hide and skull.
A single .50 however would do enough damage to either incapacitate or kill it.
This is why in ancient times, the way to defeat elephants wasn't to try and kill them outright but to hit them with enough arrows or spears to madden them with wounds. None of these wounds were likely to be mortal or even enough to make them bleed out, but the elephant would run away from battle; often trampling its own side in the process.
@@baloog8only 50 cal can kill elephant with one shot.
@@protocetus499that, and anti tank calibre, but those aren't exactly sidearms.
CALLING IN AN EAGLE!
Anyone else notice when the troopers were corralling the arachnids into a circle and no troopers were wounded or killed by friendly fire
Truth is they probably were some casualties as a result..movie doesnt show anything but from what it does show that wouldnt have surprised me. After all that's why they wear body armour&helmets - bugs dont fire guns.
Helldivers 2 brought this movie back to the surface
I love how the Klendathu drop was the epitome of incompetence, but this cleanup was much more sanely organized. Unexpected.
Roughneck unit under radzjack command are disciplined and merciless. Plus with new sky marshall bugs get slaughtered
Join the ranks of helldivers!
Amazing how well the cgi holds up.
Thanks! I spent all night in this, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
holy shit... epic. CGI still holds up
1:38 this part isn't even cg
It's an animatronic skulpt
"Smell that? smells like liberty"
02:34 Nostalgia Critic: "Mommy, buy me that."
Those explosions look so much better than Michael Bay's fireworks
It takes 5 of them 30 seconds to shoot one of em to the point it still isn't dead. Seems like they shoulda just invested in more of those bombers. Watched this so many times as a kid 😁
Sweet Liberty!
1997 and CGI is cleanest than any shitty marvel"s XD.
Paul Verhoven is amazing
I loved this movie even if it was so illogical. With today technology they should do a remale based on the books, with the bugs as an advanced race and human soldiers with their super hi tech suits.
My favorite movie of all time, “You smash the entire area, you kill anything that has more then two legs, you get me!!!”
"The planet is 99,9 % liberated"
When is was a kid, this film was brutal. Now, i watch it as a comedy lmao
It's like a similar to the STARCRAFT game cinematic the Terran and the colony of Zergs. "Ready to roll down" "Strap yourselves in boys"
there's so much attention to detail. when they're fighting the bug at 1:13 you can see they shoot off one of it's front legs, then once they shoot off it's back leg on the same side the bug collapses and begins writhing around and then ends up upside down. then even in the close up model of the bug it's consistent- you can see the front leg has been shot off.
Imagine Ace looking for Rico only to find him cutting a piece of an arachnid's charcoal leg for a snack. True Badass that dude lmfao
CGI holds up to this day without breaking a sweat. Wow
Action, Thrill, Adrenaline Rush, Enjoyed this film.
I get that the sound of machine gun fire is more satisfying to an action audience, but you'd think by the time they'd mastered interstellar travel, they'd also have a handle on energy weapons. It's a fun film, but you kinda have to turn your brain off for certain parts of it.
We currently don't equip soldiers with jet engine guns, yet we've mastered air travel.
to be fair, projectile weapons are very efficient, easy to repair and are able to penetrate a lot of stuff with the right caliber. Why using energy weapons, in Star Trek or Stargate they fuck up so many times against enemies, its hillerious. Just another SciFi trope that makes no sense
@@MyBrainGlows Almost everything in SciFi makes no sense. And this is not Stargate or StarTrek. And not every Movie needs to be lame Ass Star Trek or Star Gate.
Damn what’s horrifying is hearing the Arachnids screaming to their death, but whats even more horrifying is knowing there could be creatures like this out in the universe or worse
Theoretically, given the number of observable stars in the universe, the chances are infinitely possible.
0:38 speak of the devil it's ironside from splinter cell. love that actor btw my first and only childhood.
The EDF is using bombers:"Time to get serious!"
"Nuke em Rico"!!!
Am I only one who says this while playing an online squad game that involes some big explosions needed to win?
Graphics still really hold up
They are lucky that those bugs doesn't have acid blood.
0:04 CALLING IN AN EAGLE
Paul Verhoeven is a definition of LEGENDS Himself
Sending bombers to clear the path was the first and only correct tactic ever done in this move... You would think that a nation with space ships would have a ground viacle or at least an APC for support -but nope.
Bug hole.
South.
100 meters.
Helldivers!
Any time I throw something in the microwave I yell "Nuke em Rico!"
For Democracyyy!!!
Just noticed that the ground is not burnt after the fire bombing. Only the bugs.
A completly overpowered RPG. If you use that in combat, it will get you and your buddies killed. Way to dangerous. One mistake and your platoon is gone.
It takes them more than half a minute between noticing the giant bug and actually opening fire on it. You can't make that shit up.
Why does he need to clime on the bugs back? Is it because his shield it harder to penetrate?
There tactics are so dumb.
In other words: The movie is brilliant.
For your average movie goer this movies kicks ass , for anyone with military know how , it’s a nightmare lol
We need a new and good live action starship troopers movie.
This version works quite well as a satire of the book.
I will always love this movie but I’ll always laugh that infantry using ranged weapons advances towards essentially a melee enemy.
0:00 what a great use of tactical air power
I love how the main protagonist basically borrowed a sabotage strategy from halo and used it against a giant beetle
But the only thing I hate about this series is that the humans didn’t use a single unit of armour
This came out before Halo was a thing
This is because the movie was made to poke fun at the human wave tactics. The one that was remotely true to the book was the 3d movie, all soldier have power armour. And if by armour you mean vehicle then the beetle like the one he killed in the video is actually an artillery unit, one of these beetle can wreck havoc and destroy multiple aircraft at once as long they're allowed to shoot and the aircraft are in their range of fire. The human doesn't have any air supremacy unless they can deploy jet fighter, and even then they're still succeptible to being hit by beetle artillery.
@@taxevasionexpert8217 I was talking about tanks and APCs
@@andrewmcdonald7435 Yeah....about that, the arachnid have plasma bug bug to counter that, these type of bugs serve as both ground to air and ground to ground combat, they're the big artillery bug I mentioned in the comment above. Essentially, these bug is the insect version of an ICBM, the range of where they can shoot their plasma sphere are so big that they can even shoot from ground to outer ozone layer as anti-air defense mechanism against any large scale invasion from the human as well, so most of the attempt to transport heavy armours over to their home planet ended up being a failure.
@@taxevasionexpert8217 well that’s just a load of bullshit
I LOVE CARPET BOMBING and meeting new aliens.
i love that part. need to watch the movies again.
I remember this movie almost 30 years ago if not, when I was a kid
Movies just don't cover their actors in goo like this nowadays
Generals be like: Let's use only infantry with small calibre fire arms. Screw armoured vehicles, close air support, body armour, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, mortars, incendiary and explosive rounds. Humanity has been fighting wars and hunting large animals for like a million years but let's not use all that experience and know-how.
Love this film the game terrain command on PC is good too 👌👍
22 seconds in is the music score i want to hear in Helldivers 2 on a game update
Sony isn't going to let that happen.
@@geoffreylane5606 Sony used to own the starship troopers IP, so it's possible
From Doom to Halo to Dead Space to this
This is me everyday I go to work, except I use pesticides haha
And in that moment 4:47, Johnny Rico went from a Starship Trooper, to a Helldiver
New star ship troopers extermination brought me here 😊
Even as a kid I remembered thinking “why the hell didn’t they do this to start with?!” That and clearly recognizing some of aliens are dog whimpers
They should use this way to kill bugs instead of using infantry to prevent casualty
Excelente peli la vi en ese entonces. donde más la puedo volver a ver
Aliens were like "haha you missed noob" until they realized...
i always knew one of those soldier will reincarnate as a priest in a apocalytic world
1:43
When you finally sneak up on that Sniper. 😂
Still a gripping film even after 27 years. Oh, and who thinks the CGI is surprisingly good for such an old film, Jurassic Park came out 4 years earlier.
"Levy! With me!"
"No, I'm in A squad. I'm going with Rico."
"Shut up and follow me!"
poor Levy :(
Helldivers 2 💪🏼
SSTE
Its a wonder for me how they didn't get any friendly fire with them moving around their allies' field of fire
Now, that's what I call pest control on cosmic steroids, people! (Orkin should take note...😅)
good job Riko
1:26 the bug yells remember me
HELLDIVERS FOR DEMOCRACY
@ 4:31.... pause rught there.
That's got to be at least 26 ft, how did he not break his back when he landed right on his back?
He's Johnny Rico
EAGLE 1 DELIVERING PAYLOAD
Looking back at Starship Troopers its so stupid that we think we have a chance against these bugs who are far deadlier , stronger and organized when the inferior ones in our planet we cant even put a dent to their population
Oh we have a chance. It’s just the federation is a very incompetent military that starts a war so it can decrease the human overpopulation
Population dynamics would be different between species of giant creatures vs species of tiny creatures. So I can see how giant inverterbrates would be more vulnerable to extinction compared to their tinier counterparts.