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@williamsmith5340

9 ай бұрын

Awesome movie

@xl081

9 ай бұрын

What happened to yalls channel yall stop TWD which was understandable never watched House of the Dragons and etc. Yall just watch strange animes and Old movies now. What happened? Now if you don't watch StarWars, that one anime/one piece and Old movies your channels videos get skipped everyone doesn't watch those...(i havent watched yalls channel in Months)🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@Mr.E_Bodhako

9 ай бұрын

have you seen Robocop 1987 as well?

@The_Dawnwarden

9 ай бұрын

2 additional live action movies and then at least 2 animated from what I hear (haven't watch the animated). Totally different than the book though.

@raysanguin4943

9 ай бұрын

There are 2Sequels Starship Troopers 2 has pretty much nothing to do with the First beside the Same universe and is more murder mystery Style which is a Complete different vibe Part 3 actually brings Rico back which is nice and in many aspekts reminds of a slightly worse First Part but to be fair its also No longer a novelty at that point.

That scene of the bugs swarming the outpost holds up so well 25+ years later.

@JonathanJJZ

9 ай бұрын

the best part of that scene is the 7 or 8 minutes of silence until the music kicks in as the liutenant sees the horde and realizes they're doomed

@prescarmona5152

9 ай бұрын

Totally agree bro

@banonKING

9 ай бұрын

The CGI they created for that sequence was legendary. I would like to know more...

@probablysomeguy4806

9 ай бұрын

That scene probably inspired the Zerg swarm

@racelmapeso1253

9 ай бұрын

ITS ONE OF THE MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN THE MOVIE PLUS THE MAIN THEME MAKES IT A 100X MORE EPIC

It's crazy how pretty much every death in the movie is brutal yet Dizzy's still hits extra hard. She was a legit badass and you hated seeing her go.

@frankgesuele6298

8 ай бұрын

The movie is brutal as is war.

@ViewsByTaz

8 ай бұрын

Dizz hit hard even as a 7 year old 😂

@poppers7317

8 ай бұрын

She shouldn't have taken the time to celebrate her awesome throw.

@ViewsByTaz

8 ай бұрын

@@poppers7317 this is so true! Who the hell celebrates a kill in war / mid-battle Fuck it, she asked to die

@RebelTvShka

7 ай бұрын

​@@ViewsByTazplenty of people do. This movie glosses over the reality of war.

It's funny you mentioned Firefly. Firefly actually used the leftover Starship Trooper armor for the Alliance soldiers

@scotthewitt258

5 ай бұрын

Yes. Painted purple. Thus the nickname for Alliance troops.

@danlyday7248

4 ай бұрын

Nice never knew that.

@alucard624

4 ай бұрын

So did Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.

@andrewnyberg5726

4 ай бұрын

Came to the comments to say this! Beat me to it!

@Sude3220

4 ай бұрын

@@alucard624I was wondering if anyone else noticed that lol

johnny: i love you carmen: (doesn't say it back) and anthony took that personally 😄

@Cyge240sx

4 ай бұрын

That’s a standard dude response girl treats your boy like shit we hate you like you did it to us

2:22 "The cameraman always lives" *Cameraman is brutally murdered 5 seconds later.*

@ROMVS

3 ай бұрын

was about to say then looked into comments for this lol

Most actors hate being typecasted but Casper Van Dien (Rico) really embraced the role after meeting actual enlisted men at a comicon. He says in an interview that a marine came up to him and said he and his squad got the tattoo Rico got (Death from above) to bond and the marine said he credits Casper/Rico as helping his unit bond and to get through basic training. Afterwards he fully embraced the character to the point that people EVEN TODAY he says he still gets people when he's pumping gas someone will yell out "RICO, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!" To which he still responds "yes sir!" He also had a cameo as Rico in the Hillary Duff movie with Casper so apparently those two movies are in the same universe.

@DeRockMedia

9 ай бұрын

I remember seeing him on Screen Junkies many years back as a guest... he seemed down to earth and a nice guy

@emillyyelen5169

9 ай бұрын

Its typecast...

@peterang6912

8 ай бұрын

He even do the voiceovers in the animated movies

@stevesheroan4131

8 ай бұрын

@@emillyyelen5169It’s also “it’s”.

@PavewayJDAM

8 ай бұрын

Casper did a series of Vietnam movies. Plus of course the sequels to ST.

I saw this in theaters opening night and the theater legitimately exploded in applause during the credits... The only movie I've ever been to that actually got a standing applause

@thepsion5

3 ай бұрын

Which is amazing considering how if you think about it, the humans are basically the bad guys operating under a fascist government.

"We'll try administrative punishment" "...Desk duty?" Honestly, worse than lashes.

Fun movie trivia fact, Eric Bruskotter (Breckinridge, helmet guy) and Tami Adrian-George (Djana'D, who shot him) first met during the shooting of this movie and ended up getting married. "Dad, how did you and mommy meet?" "Well, she blamed me for things always going wrong and then shot me in the head. I really would be dumb if I didn't ask her out after that."

Anytime someone around me gets wounded if my brother was around we'd look at each other and scream MEDIC!!!! 😂. Childhood classic !!

The scene where she breaks up with him and all the guys walk away without a work is honestly super touching. They sense the vibe and give him privacy

This movie goes way harder than any movie has a right to. And it works. It holds up to this day with some stunning visual effects. The models for the ships are stunning, the CG, everything. And the raw satire of the whole story is just brilliant. It's well acted... just an absolute classic movie. And yeah, it does NOT hold back at all.

CGI still better than 99% of movies 20+ years later…

@silverblade357

9 ай бұрын

Because the CGI was only used to enhance actual actors, props, set-dressings, and effects. The CGI is more convincing because there is something real under it that the actors are interacting with.

@HistoricalFidelity

8 ай бұрын

One of the CGI artists that worked on the 2022 4K HDR Remaster of Starship Troopers said that the original special effects people did such a great job and put so much detail into the CGI models that all they had to do was upscale the pixel count and run anti-aliasing passes on the result instead of reconstructing the model from the ground up.

@Yora21

8 ай бұрын

@@silverblade357 Jurasic Park also still looks pretty good. The thing with these older movies is that they knew they had to invest a lot of time and money into every shot, and they had to plan out every CGI shot they wanted to do exactly long in advance. The problem with bad CGI in movies almost always comes because directors and producers think the CGI people can just quickly slap something together with no prior notice while still making changes weeks before release. More advanced hardware and software of course makes things a lot easier for the animators. But the main ingredient to make really good looking shots has always been and still is a lot of time to polish things up. You just can't rush these things and expect them to look good.

@silverblade357

8 ай бұрын

@@Yora21 Yeah, CGI makes things quicker and easier for the alleged visionaries, but can be viciously more expensive. Adjusting for inflation, it would cost roughly $120M to make Jurassic Park today. For comparison Jurassic World cost anywhere from $150M to $200M. Hell, the original Terminator cost only $8M in 1984. Just rendering the robot scenes in CGI could cost more than that. Filmmakers really need to consider using the old techniques first with CGI as a compliment to improve the illusion.

@JPerry-jw9ik

8 ай бұрын

Fact check true!!

This movie was actually really deep. At first you think evil is an alien race hell bent on destruction of humanity. But then you come to find the real evil was Carmen all along.

@mercb3ast

9 ай бұрын

And then Dougie Howser MD shows up in a full leather Hugo Boss SS trench coat.

@scottthompson9720

8 ай бұрын

:"D BRILLIANT yeah the stereotypical entitled cheating female that chooses a career and her BOSS or someone at work over a real partner Disgustingly accurate comparison ;)

@DIEGOSHAY

8 ай бұрын

Well it was the humans in general.

@s3p4kner

8 ай бұрын

lol

@matthewkreps3352

8 ай бұрын

Think about physics. Objects in space travel on a path unless something affects it. Carmen and Zander nudged the asteroid on a new path when they hit it. The real question is if the bugs even sent the asteroid at all!

Starship Troopers is the movie equivalent of a Dunning-Kruger effect. You can enjoy the low-brow fun gory sci-fi stuff, but if you're a little smarter, you think the movie is stupid, BUT THEN, when you really analyze the ideas in the movie, you realize that it's genius!

@quietfang1

4 ай бұрын

Yup anti war movie .

@TzunSu

4 ай бұрын

Eh, kind of. The director was a moron who read the first 20 pages and tossed it down saying that it was fascist trash, and that he was going to make a parody of it, without realizing that the book in and of itself is a parody of fascism.

@anonymouse1593

4 ай бұрын

No, no it was not.

@natedagreat19

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@anonymouse1593not genius or not an anti war movie?… cause it’s both. The style of the movie as a propaganda piece (as well as the characters who wholeheartedly believe in their government system) illustrates how their super-nationalistic, fascist gov is a top-down system. It’s a good sell: “you must EARN the right to vote.” … “service guarantees citizenship”. But then you see the hierarchical structure of the bugs and you see how they’re exactly the same. The single mindedness of the UCF war machine lead by a central intelligence. is effectively the same as arachnid drones lead by a central brain bug. The meta commentary being that the military IRL isn’t any different from the movie. The Roughnecks are brainwashed into thinking that they’re making a difference when in reality they’re just meat for the Brass to throw around.

@anonymouse1593

4 ай бұрын

@@natedagreat19 my comment was to the person who claimed the book was “anti fascist”. It was not.

To this day, this is one of my most favorite movies; also there was originally a kiss scene with Carmen and Zander, but this caused early test audiences further hate towards her character more, so they cut it out.

@jellalfernandes1309

7 ай бұрын

Good decision

The battle scenes are phenomenal, both for the realistic and clever special effects and for the humor.

@dabegmister

9 ай бұрын

There is a sequel I have not seen it others have said it's bad I'm still going to find it and watch it one day

@darkzer0670

9 ай бұрын

There's several sequels, the 2nd one is sadly the best one though 😬

@ssjcookie5498

9 ай бұрын

Wasn't there an animated series or movie?

@m00rc4t

9 ай бұрын

​@@ssjcookie5498There was n animated series. I remember liking it a lot at the time but I have no idea if it holds up.

@andrewcarter9649

9 ай бұрын

@@m00rc4tStory wise it holds up but it's late 90's cg animation on a tv show budget.

This movie was SO ahead of it's time, it was really the flagship of scifi in it's own time. Best effects of the day, stellar cast, and despite being scifi captures the brutality of combat. I traumatized myself as a child watching this all the time.

@michaelsangster2354

8 ай бұрын

If you ever read the book, you will be so disappointed with the movie that you will never watch it again.

@DenverStarkey

8 ай бұрын

@@michaelsangster2354 only if you really agreed with the author's vision of what a "good" government system should be. the author got very dogmatic and preachy with his political beleifs , while the movie made jokes about them and made the federation come off as a not entirely good totalitarian regime (which it wasnt). i like both the book and the movie for what they are. that said this movie got panned by critics and consumers back in the day. but then that is why you call it a "cult following". today the love of this movie has gone more mainstream and less "cult".

@DenverStarkey

8 ай бұрын

oh and no it wasn't really "ahead". much of what this movie was applauded for was taken and influenced by Robocop. particually with all the tv/ad seggments and the over the top graphic violence.

@painlord2k

8 ай бұрын

The original book in the 50s inspired Gundam and similar anime.

@fakecubed

8 ай бұрын

@@DenverStarkey It's a utopia, no matter how much the idiot director tried to dress it up in Nazi imagery. It's a multicultural society, with equal rights between races and sexes, there's a free press with dissenting views given a full hearing, there's accountability for failed leadership in government, civilians can't vote but they can apparently have a great life living in huge mansions and can afford to send their kids on vacations across the galaxy without a hint of suffering from any oppression. There's propaganda, sure, but no more than we have in real life in the most "democratic" of countries today. Everyone knows exactly what they need to do to gain citizenship if they want it, there's nothing hidden, and ultimately the people who choose it are, all of them, quite happy with their choice. Think about the footage from the war zone on Klendathu that got broadcast to everyone, showing the horrors of the war in gruesome detail and compare that to how military conflicts are portrayed on our own cable news, all cleaned up and censored with our soldiers being shown as heroic without showing them getting blown up by IEDs and getting PTSD. The film does make it seem like only military service is a path to citizenship but that's an invention of the movie. Any sort of service is a pathway to citizenship in the book, and nobody, no matter what their capabilities or disabilities, is denied an opportunity to find some way to serve and earn their right to vote.

So a cameo that some people didn’t get but some did: the blind biology teacher is Rue McClanahan. This is the same actress who played Blanche Devereaux in the TV series Golden Girls. There’s an other piece of the trivia that the actors agreed to do the shower scene, but on one condition: the director shows up to the shoot as naked as they would be. The rest is history.

@Blutteufel

2 ай бұрын

I guess that they forgot he's European...

In the novel Johnny was a young Filipino man named Juan "Johnny" Rico. The mobile infantry used flying power armour and heavy ordnance (nukes were among the standard armaments). The bugs were also technological, using built in laser weapons and had ships, and there was a 3rd alien race, the "Skinnies", which were more neutral in the larger conflict. In the human society civilians had the most personal freedom while citizens got to vote and hold office.

@scotthewitt258

5 ай бұрын

Ah, yes. I still wanna learn the Skinnie for "This is a thirty second bomb! 30! 29! 28! 27!..."

@professorpantherhardraad3921

4 ай бұрын

Watch "Roughnecks Chronicles" it's a more fleshed out version of the universe

@thewatcher3429

4 ай бұрын

There was also the TTRPG and the miniatures series that had them as a playable faction along with a few other races.

@pontiacGXPfan

3 ай бұрын

So they do grow em big and dumb

Whoever did the visuals on the Space Bugs is an FX hero because they still hold up today

@MikeS-ur2ql

9 ай бұрын

Phil Tippett's Tippett Studio & Sony Picture Imageworks with help from outside studios such as ILM.

@Itstwofourteen

9 ай бұрын

Tippett is a legend in the industry, for sure.

@jh5131

8 ай бұрын

Agreed 💯 they are still great over 25 years later it's crazy

@fakecubed

8 ай бұрын

They were probably storyboarded before filming, did some previz, and then the effects people just went to work and completed it to spec without ten thousand (100,000) notes from the studio execs afterwards forcing them to all be changed at the last minute and rushed out days before release like modern movies. Modern movies don't even storyboarded. They don't even have a script before they start filming. They write as they go, try to get a lot of coverage, and then manufacture the movie in editing and reshoots. That's why modern special effects look like a muddled mess and I can do better on my home computer with free software.

Sniffs the air..... "Someone is reacting to Starship Troopers..... I must go" ❤

@rumuelnathanael8043

4 ай бұрын

What are you? Bug? 😂

Zander is every man's worst nightmare realized

@Lost_n_Found_1

4 ай бұрын

That is, until you meet the fascist liberals of 2024 and beyond...

@leewinters8245

4 ай бұрын

He did get his brains sucked out at the end.

@davelosket2474

4 ай бұрын

What, losing the hot girl while a giant mass of flesh sucked out his very essence?

@AtlasBlizzard

3 ай бұрын

One of the worst cinematic deaths for sure.

Fun fact, in the book Jonny's dad survived and joined the Mi. there was a brief but heart touching moment between them as Jonny's dad was assigned to his old squad as he is being shipped off to officer school

Carmen nudged that asteroid and killed Johnny's parents. Finally someone sees her true evil.

@Matej_Sojka

9 ай бұрын

Even if she did not change the trajectory of the asteroid, she did change the trajectory of the ship and it ended up destroying it´s comm equipment in the evasion maneuver. If it was on original course they could have called Earth ahead of time and destroy the asteroid before it hit Earth. So she is responsible for the enemy asteroid attack being successful.

@steven95N

9 ай бұрын

That's one of the unspoken things in this film that makes it great. How could the bugs possibly knock asteroids off their course? People did it. It was a false flag. No 9/11 conspiracy bs, a legitimate false flag. It's exactly like the burning of the Reichstag during Hitler's rise to power. How could the bugs do it? Why would the bugs do it?

@joeblankenship377

9 ай бұрын

I hate Carmen as much as the next Starship Troopers viewer, but I'll say one thing in her defense--dude got a 35 on his math final. She shoulda dropped him right then.

@mattschliemann9683

9 ай бұрын

If they stayed on the original trajectory they might not even had seen the asteroid is how I've always looked at it.

@Matej_Sojka

9 ай бұрын

@@mattschliemann9683 They were on outer system patrol, searching the area for anything to train the rookies in how to use the ship. So asteroid nearby would have been noticed for navigation if nothing else and once trajectory is projected the alarm would be raised just as it did once they evaded the rock. Asteroid big enough to have it´s own gravity that is not on the known trajectory is not something our current day systems would ignore, futuristic systems of space faring ship would take notice.

Ace is the bestfriend we all need! Love him, always appreciate how humbled he gets.

@gabagool_and_psychiatry4856

9 ай бұрын

"nah i was squad leader and i blew it. im just here to kill bugs." what a character arc.

@HeatRaver

9 ай бұрын

"You still got me to kick around" ☺ That's a real buddy there.

@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers

9 ай бұрын

And he plays a mean violin thingy

@justinmccarty3886

9 ай бұрын

But he's the one that calls in the brain bug. meaning its he who actually alerts the Federation to its location and enables its capture. @@gabagool_and_psychiatry4856

@ZyklonBeast12

9 ай бұрын

​@@HeatRaverOf course you are. EVERYONE deserves a friend like me! 🫡

Back in the day so many people took this movie at face value when in fact it is a satire about militarism, authoritarianism, and hyper-media. It's good to see younger generations picking up on what the movie was really about at first watch.

@LMarti13

8 ай бұрын

reading these other replies makes me wonder if it was just "back in the day" 🤦‍♂

@mickypinestraw7866

7 ай бұрын

The book by Robert A Heinlein that this movie is very loosely based on is completely different and on the recommended reading list at Quantico. It's well worth reading if you're into that sort of thing.

@markwilson7013

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, its like advanced future version of the American dream until you realise they are living in a fascist state. Probably why they set it in South America rather than the U.S. so it didn't seem like a political attack and was more stomachable.

@craigsosebee6335

7 ай бұрын

The really funny thing is that they tried to make a satire out of it but the message resonated with the human spirit far too much to be simply negated. These days they want to discount putting your allegiance towards a thing bigger than yourself; earning your place and your rights. They want to satire it because they want people to consider themselves the center of everything, because individuals are much easier to control. But not as easy to control as a group of individuals.

@names_are_useless

7 ай бұрын

@@craigsosebee6335 Paul Verhoeven (Director of the film, who also lived during Nazi Occupation of The Netherlands in WW2) was clear that the Starship Troopers movie is a satire of the Nazi Propaganda Film "Triumph of the Will". In the end, our main characters end up brainwashed fighting for a war that (likely) will never end. A Dictatorship can't survive without an enemy (best of all: it's an inhuman enemy that, the movie establishes in a quick shot, lives on the other side of the galaxy ... bugs sending meteors from 1 side of the galaxy to the other? something DEFINITELY doesn't add up). They are victims of a Global Fascist State they had no reasonable means to escape, caught in a whole media propaganda machine they've been fed since small children. Everything about this colorful gung-ho sci-fi epic on the surface is truly, at the center of it all, a completely dystopian nightmare.

"When I say 'Ender's Game', i mean the book, NOT the movie" That just made my day. Thank you.

One of my all time favourite childhood movies. So underrated.

@orangewarm1

9 ай бұрын

Childhood? Who let you watch this?

@jackbrooking4754

9 ай бұрын

@@orangewarm1 my parents.

@leegriffiths8910

9 ай бұрын

Same, loved this and watched many times as a kid

@ragdaj

9 ай бұрын

​@@orangewarm1it was ok back then

If you're wondering, the reason for the war was hinted at in one of the news reels where the Mormon fundamentalists established a colony in bug territory. They were then wiped out and the war went from there. Great reaction though and definitely some insights about Carmen not seen elsewhere. Also when Carmen dumps Johnny and Ace comforts him about how they always want to be friends after? That was just after Johnny had friend-zoned Dizz so he has his low points too😁😁

@geralddserna

7 ай бұрын

Johnny never led Dizz along she always new Johnny was in love with Carmen she just didn't care , Fate put her in his bed and Fate took it all away.

@garmisra7841

5 ай бұрын

Buenos Aires was a false flag!

@CD-zd6zr

4 ай бұрын

This. It's so blink and you miss it. I love that subtle detail.

@outrlmts1879

4 ай бұрын

“Fate put her in his bed”, how about try “the state” put her in his bed. Notice how Rico never even considers Dizzy until his commanding officer basically tells him to get in there and screw her. The best example of this is when the marines are all showering together, guys and girls, earlier in the film. We might be aroused cuz they’re all fit and good looking, but none of them are. They have completely surrendered themselves to the state and are proud tools of nationalism and violence. The movie is supposed to be a warning against fascism. It’s a masterpiece

@zerofox2030

4 ай бұрын

The reason for the war was the asteroid attack. The mormon fundamentalists were warned not to go into the quarantined bug territory.

the space funeral gets me every time, what a beautiful way to rest

Starship Troopers started out as a book, and had the mobile infantry wearing "powered armour" which was described in terms that make it seem much more like a small mech suit than the kind of thing people think of when hearing that phrase in modern sci-fi stories. It pretty much invented the idea of mechs, and in the late 1980s, there was a 6-episode anime OVA series which had the characters in mechs rather than the more modern military style shown in this movie. The movie also got an animated sequel cartoon series (with many returning characters from the movie, but all of them voiced by different actors than the ones from the live action version), in which they did the half-measure of upgrading them to use power armour of a more modern sci-fi style where it's form-fitting armour that enhances your strength rather than a full on mech. Then they retconned all that and made a live action Starship Troopers 2 with a whole new cast (new characters, not new actors playing the same people) then brought Rico back for Starship Troopers 3. Basically the order of how big an impact the different Starship Troopers stories have had on modern fiction is: 1. The book practically invented the concept of mech combat and inspired the creation of numerous tabletop wargame franchises, sci-fi novel series, TV shows and movies, as well as having major impact on dystopian storytelling themes and methods of exploring such worlds, which has an ongoing impact in fiction across all types of media to this day. 2. The first live action movie had a major impact on how war-themed movies and sci-fi stories were told going forward, but mostly by reinforcing the lessons the books had already provided and adding its own spin on a few things which hadn't managed to transition from written stories into other formats previously. 3. Nothing else made even the slightest dent in the collective consciousness of humanity.

This film is an adaptation of a novel that was written in 1959, as an allegory for the militaristic political society seen in America after World War II. It heavily influenced the Forever War, Ender's Game and countless other science fiction stories.

@dahobdahob

9 ай бұрын

Indeed. If you like Ender's Game, you should definitely give Starship Troopers a read. This is missing a lot of stuff from the books and recontextualizes a lot of stuff to work as a movie. Another book that covers a similar topic is Armor by Steakley.

@williamvigil2481

9 ай бұрын

The book is "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein.

@user-gt2uf8cq9y

9 ай бұрын

Sci-fi fascist parody is the genre.

@timhonigs6859

9 ай бұрын

Heinlein has written a number of great books. I put him up there with Card, and Azimov. Citizen of the Galaxy, and Starship Troopers are my two faves. (And 99% of the time, the books are far better than the movies)

@Nemophilist850

9 ай бұрын

@@user-gt2uf8cq9y The attempted genre of the movie, maybe. The book was sincere in it's portrayal.

“He gets it!!!” *laughing maniacally about the whole Carmen thing*

@DeathB4

8 ай бұрын

Everybody hates Carmen

The book "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein is worth a read too. Varies greatly from this movie.

@davelosket2474

4 ай бұрын

Just know that it's a love letter to fascism written by a guy who probably liked to masturbate while reading weapon and other military tech manuals.

9:41 “The Multiverse of Midness” that was hilarious! 😂😂😂💀

I've watched a lot of channels react to this movie, but I have never seen anyone blame Carmen for the death of Rico's parents, like she's the Joker to Johnny's Batman. In the '89 version, of course, which I still think was a crap decision. Anyway, Anthony's hate for Carmen made this whole video hilarious, and I kind of wish she was the evil mastermind he makes her out to be. I'm glad the love triangle was really a very small part of this movie. Everything else they said about it is all Verhoeven's style, just like Robocop. Love it. Too bad there's nobody left who really has such a unique style anymore. Movies used to be so unique and stylish, but now they all seem the same. Also, Starship Troopers is a legendary sci-fi novel from 1959.

@HrSpaekHugger

9 ай бұрын

and it is also a 3d animated series. animation is not good but it is still funn to watch.

@Kainlarsen

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, Carmen was a thot. :D Dizzy was best girl.

@Subjectivity13

9 ай бұрын

@OrCaSonOfAll I've seen a couple animated movies. One of them had a martial artist who actually kicked a bug, just before they killed him, of course. It was kind of dumb. Don't think I've seen an animated series, though.

@eolsunder

9 ай бұрын

another good sci fi book which is similar to starship troopers is Armor, 1984 book which is really great also.

@MikeS-ur2ql

9 ай бұрын

She could be viewed as responsible for the inability to communicate the bug asteroid was coming to hit. Shes the one that rerouted the course causing them to hit it & knock out the communication tower.

Never forget that Rico's drill sergeant is the guy that voices Mr. Krabbs.

@alucard624

4 ай бұрын

Clancy Brown. What a legend. Best voice for Lex Luthor too.

@oliverm3589

4 ай бұрын

Such a lad. Also great in The Shawshank Redemption. Both also made more fun by seeing the contrast with Mr. Krabbs.

One of my all time favourite movies. The klandathu drop and music was so awesome.

40:23 Mark! "Brutal"? Yes! Now you're ready for, "Mars Attacks!" 😊 😂 😅

"Starship Troopers" is based on a book by Robert Heinlein, published in 1959. So "Ender's Game" was likely referring to the earlier story in his Ender series. Card, the author of Ender's Game, did not cite Heinlein as an influence, but did mention Asimov's "Foundation" as an inspiration.

@thomasmount3530

8 ай бұрын

The Robert Heinlein book is pro-war. The director of this movie made an epic twist by sending the book up completely.

@SG-js2qn

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasmount3530 Heinlein was a weird dude, if I accurately recall the plot of "Time Enough For Love."

@RecklessFables

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasmount3530 That has always been an interesting debate. Is the book easily categorized or is the unreliable narrator a function of his society? It's been a while since I read it and while I know the person who introduced me to it was

@galadballcrusher8182

8 ай бұрын

​@@SG-js2qnmy favorite still remains Glory Road, wish someone made a faithful adaptation

@kensummers7757

8 ай бұрын

@@galadballcrusher8182 Yep, First book that ever raised the question "What happens to the hero AFTER" Changed my 15 year old outlook!

"I kinda like this guy." That's Clancy Brown. He was The Kurgin in Highlander. I think it's funny that their teacher Ratchek was Michael Ironsides who was in Highlander 2. Clancy Brown was in Buckaroo Banzai and even appeared in an episode or two of Lost. Most famously he voices Mr Krabs from Spongebob. "The enemy cannot flip a krabby patty if you disable his hand! MEDIC!!"

@RetroGamingSweden

8 ай бұрын

And he also place the most beloved character of them all in Detroit: Become Human. But for me.. He will always be the badass guard in The Shawshank Redemption.

@SlashGriever

8 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!! I knew i recognized his voice! Was driving me crazy. Mr Crabs! Duh!

@surfeit5910

8 ай бұрын

Well, his most iconic role was as Captain Hadley in Shawshank Redemption. If you don't recognize him instantly from that role, then you didn't really watch 90's movies!

@Guardian582

8 ай бұрын

for me he will always be the viking Hakon, and his descendent 'Wolf' from Gargoyles

The totally in sync laughing at 28:52 had me dying! haha 🤣

Went to high school with this guy, couldn't believe it when an old school buddy just happened to mention to me that this guy was the star of a movie. . . Never would have imagined it. . . Good on you Van Dien.

Funny story about the shower scene. Filming it was an understandably awkward prospect for all involved, so they eventually agreed to do it with a bare minimum of crew, basically just a camera man, sound guy, and the director, and everyone, cast and crew, all stripped off so everybody was on equal footing as much as they could be.

@JoshSweetvale

8 ай бұрын

The poimt of the exercise, beyond tittilation, was also to show how little the Earthlings cared about sex anymore. The more important thing was earning their citizenship.

@grantharriman284

8 ай бұрын

@@JoshSweetvale Yes, but the actors filming it are still humans from our reality at out time with all the hang-ups that come along with that.

@TheJadedSkeptic

7 ай бұрын

@@JoshSweetvale It was actually to demonstrate there was actually, ironically, more equality between the sexes and irreverence to old social taboos in that future authoritarian/fascist dystopian society of starship trooper

@Trippmecha

7 ай бұрын

It's still funny that the director was naked too.

@grantharriman284

7 ай бұрын

@@Trippmecha Frankly, I respect it. He didn't ask anybody to do anything he wouldn't do himself along with them, admittedly with the significant difference of which way the camera is pointed.

"Fking kill Xander and take 10 more lashes" Word LOL 🤣🤣🤣

5:59 when you said "Zoom, Zoom Zoom..." My first thought was of the classic Mazda commercial.

Zim is one of the best characters in this movie! He is a great sergeant, respects his troops, but doesn't wanna hide behind a desk. So when he is told the only way, he is getting to see any action is to demote himself, that's exactly what he does, and then he goes on to capture the Brain Bug. Zim was the real MVP!

The drill instructor Zim is played by Clancy Brown who is famous for many rolls, but is probably best known for being the voice of Mr. Krabs on Sponge Bob.

@FlamesofJagger

9 ай бұрын

Also Lex Luthor in the DC animated universe and the Kurgan in Highlander

@jesusguillen209

9 ай бұрын

Can't believe they missed it lol😅

@GirthUnitz

9 ай бұрын

And more recently even.. Governor Ryder Azadi in Ahsoka 😁 'Where' s Sabine? ' granted, he had a beard in this one..

@kmill5009

9 ай бұрын

To me, he’ll always be Captain Hadley from The Shawshank Redemption.

@bluebird3281

9 ай бұрын

and one of the juvenile detention thugs in ''Bad Boys"

Legitimately one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time! Love seeing people's first reaction to it! 😁

This movie is so wild, it's definitely one of my favourites It's so cool that at the 1 hours mark the full brutality of this war is shown on full blast their "armour" doesn't do a single thing lmao

13:36 Mark! That's the "DOOL" guy! The two women are famous for "Seinfeld" as fans can tell you. Each one's character was in an episode dealing with breast humor. The older one annoyed Elaine because she didn't bras! As a hint, Elaine gave her one, and she wore it as a top under suit jacket! The girl was in a cleavage episode in which George was too obvious about admiring it! Her father caught him at it and yelled, "She's only fifteen!" That shocked George! 😂😅

I love this movie, and it still holds up so well. The effects on this are still better than a lot of movies being released now.

I love that you guys reacted to this movie because you both have the best sense of humor 😄

One of the best film I watched in my youth. It make me more hyped when playing starcraft

I watched this movie as a kid and was always a huge fan of it! Finding out later on when I was a little older that one of my other favorite franchises, Warhammer 40,000, was based heavily on the book Starship Troopers was great!

One of the best movies from the late 90’s. It still holds up to this day

Seeing this as a kid in the 90's, I always saw the bugs as the villains. But as an adult, I understand the true villain was Carmen lol Also anything that actor is in, the drill sergeant, I always expect him to finish off his sentences with "arghargharghargh" 😂

Man I was born 93 and once this movie came out in vhs I never stopped watching it, it was this and Independence Day I would watch it 4 times a day each

I remember this watching as a teenager, that shit was wild. The effects made it feel so real. I mean even now in 23 it looks more than just okay. Love this movie! Thanks for your reaction

I get why Johnny didn't say "I love you" back. The first woman he said "I love you" to broke up and destroyed him. Of course he'd be hesitant to say it again. He's protecting himself (or trying to) from the possibility of another emotional hurt.

@bigdream_dreambig

9 ай бұрын

No, we see that Johnny _never_ loved Diz. He cared for her as a childhood friend, teammate, and "brother" in arms, and he took her as a lover after being encouraged to embrace what was right in front of him when tomorrow they might all die, but he never loved her the way she loved him.

The scene of the Roger Young breaking up and the VFX of burning up in orbit STILL holds up.

39:07 Mark! Kudos to you for knowing about "decks"! Yes, it is a naval and marine term. In a big enough aircraft, there are decks too, but I've yet to hear flyers say it. 🤔

This movie is so interesting because it is one of those movies where the director actively disliked the source material, so he produced an entertaining satire of it.

@scotthewitt258

5 ай бұрын

Or there is another take for people who grew up reading Heinlein besides "entertaining".....

One of my favorite movies! This, Robocop, and Total Recall are from the same director

One thing I love about these (hopefully) obvious satires and dark things, is how much energy is thrown into the delivery of lines by soldiers. All of Rico's soldiery lines; iconic. Reminds me of dialogue from WH40K Space Marines, which I can just sit down and listen to for hours because of how well the delivery is done.

39:03 Yes. Marines are amphibious military similar to their land based Army counterparts so their jargon tends to mingle with Navy terms. And Mobile Infantry are often billeted in Fleet ships for extended periods between warzones just like classic Marines or Warhammer 40k Imperial Guardsmen.

45:35 I love RedLetterMedia's interpretation of this scene, as they observe that Rico's just completely gone. His brainwash is now 100% complete. It's not a happy ending at all

I am happy to say I saw this movie in the theatres, and while the movie, critically, wasn't necessarily the best, at that time, in 97 I thought it was an amazing spectacle, seeing all that action on the big screen. The cgi was incredible for that time and even holds up for todays time, again, 1997. Great reaction guys! On another note, I hope you guys are planning to react to a number of horror movies for this halloween, Im a huge horror movie fan, and Im really looking forward to watching just a bunch of horror reactions, I think you guys would have a lot of fun!

@zairac2564

9 ай бұрын

the critics really missed the satire and were too afraid to address the obvious Not-Z (you get it) uniforms.

The producers actually liked Brenda Strong {the captain of the Roger Young} so much, she actually played a different character in the second movie.

@alekz8580

3 ай бұрын

Would have made for a fun gag to have her play a different character that dies in every movie

@scotthewitt258

3 ай бұрын

@@alekz8580 They really should have followed through. In "Marauder" she could have been one of Johnny's Marauder Troopers, and like overloaded the powerplant in her suit to break a Bug attack wave or something......

@germanher7528

3 ай бұрын

check her out in Seinfield as tthe freespirited bra-top lady

@brianvernon249

3 ай бұрын

And, was the nurse going to give princess Vespa her original nose back

6:10 Mark! Wow! Somebody else knows about "Xenon"! 🎉 😊 The blonde starlet of those movies was in "Days of Our Lives" as was the guy that you just saw playing that ball game! He played "Austin Reed" and she played "Belle Black"! 😊

I love this movie, saw it as a teen for the cheesey 90's gore and action, but growing up love it as basically a parody of itself.

@steven95N

9 ай бұрын

It's a parody of fascism.

@BlargSmarg

9 ай бұрын

@@steven95NIt actually is a parody of itself though too, as the movie is a parody of the book it is based on.

@charlize1253

9 ай бұрын

Director Paul Verhoeven also directed Robocop. He made this movie because so many people completely missed the satire in Robocop and rooted for the wrong things, so he responded by making the satire completely over the top in this movie.

@unknownsword9042

9 ай бұрын

Ah yes satire a book you never read, genius man.

@AudieHolland

8 ай бұрын

@@unknownsword9042He didn´t base his film on the book. It was originally titled ´Bug Hunt´ but when they had the chance to get the novel´s rights, they did it because it´s good for promoting the film in the USA.

In the Directors Commentary on the DVD, the writer and director said that they tested this movie all over the world and audiences EVERYWHERE - every country, every culture - hated Carmen and loved Dizzy. They thought Carmen should die and Johnny should get with Dizzy. Interesting uniformity of opinion!

@dustindude4995

9 ай бұрын

I hear some of those early screenings had Johnny crawling back to Carmen in the end. I can only imagine

@fipse

8 ай бұрын

I never really got the hate for Carmen. Going separate ways after HS is not something evil.

@Felix-ix7ic

8 ай бұрын

That's not interesting at all.

The satire was brilliant and a lot of people didn’t understand that part of the movie

@zerofox2030

4 ай бұрын

The satire doesn't work once you pay attention to the background of the movie.

24:40 - "Oh, it's like the queens. Oh, they''re shtting on you [them]." LMAO.

Starship Troopers still holds up today with a sweet blend of combat, practical effects and well made animations.

@Yora21

8 ай бұрын

Yes, but the over the top satire script also really carries a lot of weight.

The Sergeant breaking arms and throwing knives is Clancy Brown, the voice of Mr. Crabs in SpongeBob SquarePants.

"Neil Patrick Harris!" I almost choked on my sandwich.

I love their dynamic. Great video format.

In the book Rico dated Carmen but once the war started and over several years they drifted apart. Carl was killed in a bug attack. The bugs were a sentient hive mind with advanced technology, weapons, starships, etc. Also the Mobile Infantry uses powered armor, with great detailed descriptions of their use and design, in a book written in the late 50's.

@CxOrillion

8 ай бұрын

Also Flores was a dude, and not a romantic partner Johnny was a Filipino guy (Juan) and his dad survived the destruction of BA and joins the military. At the end of the book his dad is Johnny's sergeant. The book is a lot more speculative fiction, where the movie has basically all the same concepts but it's through the lens of propaganda and satire, since Verhoeven was a kid in nazi-occupied Netherlands and lived under the sorts nationalist boots you see in the book and movie.

@danielskinner5346

8 ай бұрын

@CxOrillion true, on most novel covers he's a white guy.

@elderblackdragon

3 ай бұрын

@@CxOrillion Verhoeven also absolutely despised Heinlein as an author and specifically wanted to direct this movie to twist the original material into the propaganda it is.

There was a spin off series for this called Roughnecks. It takes place during the campaigns through the bug planets. I actually highly recommend it to people, you get to learn alot more about the characters, and they have most of the actors from the movies doing the voices

@jjhh320

8 ай бұрын

"Is he crazy?" "We're fighting giant space bugs on Pluto. We're all crazy."

@Tomcatt817

8 ай бұрын

I thought the series was great.

@docgonzobordel

8 ай бұрын

But it has nothing to do with the anti-militaristic tone of the Verhoeven movie....

@about37ninjas

4 ай бұрын

​@docgonzobordel the movie is pretty bad at being anti-militaristic

@Lost_n_Found_1

4 ай бұрын

It needs a remake. That cgi is painful to look at sometimes, lol.

This is also based on a book and although the book is very different to the movie they are both great in their own right and it's worth the read, this movie is a classic underrated gem.

dont you wonder...after carmen stabed by the bugs he walking casually, seems alreafy healed🤣🤣🤣

"You want to live forever!?" Love this movie. Classic. And there are sequels, but I don't really recommend them. This first one is the pinnacle of the saga. But there was a CGI animated cartoon type of show called Roughnecks that was on Saturdays when I was a kid, and I liked that show.

@Matthias129

4 ай бұрын

Traitor of Mars was pretty good, I think. It even had the armor from the books, or at least similar to.

I was chuckling when you were predicting Johnny might die. His character is in a bunch of sequels that are both live action and animated. The animated ones were pretty good but the original is still the best.

@andrewwebb3248

9 ай бұрын

I loved the Roughnecks cartoon from the late 90s. Was showing the mechs & actual layered combat beyond just the rifled guns.

@mercb3ast

9 ай бұрын

Probably because the first movie is a social and political commentary on the dangers of fascism, set in a pretty poppy action movie. The sequels were just action movies, and they were lower budget.

@CxOrillion

8 ай бұрын

​​@@mercb3astthe second one is a decent B-movie sci Fi horror (but a bad sequel). 3 is godawful. The first animated movie was fun, but I really didn't like the second. The whole public approval rating thing was just weird and missed the mark for me

Absolutely loved your reaction, you guys are great, subbed.

31:33 the laugh😂

If Casey enjoyed reading Ender's Game, then she'll love reading the book that this movie was sourced from by Robert Heinlein. And when she's done with that, then she can read "The Forever War" by Haldeman, which is a critique of Starship Troopers.

@michaelsangster2354

8 ай бұрын

Can you explain why you think this way about the two books?

@Macbobob

8 ай бұрын

I have read forever war but didn't realise it was a response to starship troopers!

@Themaritimes99

8 ай бұрын

@Macbobob there's basically a sub-genre of Sci fi made up og responses, critiques and homages to Starship Troopers by authors who gre up reading it. In addition to 'Forever War' I would offer up 'Old Man's War' and 'Armor'.

I love the tiny little bit where the reporter mentions that the war might be caused by humans but immediately gets shushed by "let's kill them all". And the main heroes are proud cannon fodder that never gets to question or think about anything 😆.

Idk why i still like watching people's reactions to my favorite movie 👍

Some interesting facts. 1) the movie is based on the novel 2) while the movie isn’t close to the novel in many aspects the theme of a totalitarian united earth is present in both. 3) budget constraints was a cause to a lot of plot holes in the movie. 4) same director as robocop.

I really enjoyed this reaction to Romance Troopers. My cheeks were hurting quite a bit as you two and your editor were on fire. The gore is why any respectable parent would keep a child away from this. I'm pleased more movie fans are enjoying Verhoeven's unique cinematic style. Any sequels or remakes might try to imitate and feel exactly like that: an imitation. His name never comes up when discussions of directors occur until someone brings up one of his movies, then everyone just nods.

@TheFrmx

8 ай бұрын

lol, "respectable parent". Bro not sure what type of family you were raised in but Starship troopers is a movie for 5 year old's to enjoy just like robocop. Clearly you were born into a stuff upper class family

@terrylandess6072

8 ай бұрын

@@TheFrmx Wow. Who pulled your chain? Go on then - let your children grown up on torture porn - laterz.

Shoutout for Enders Game the book. Still one of my favorite books of all time. If you’ve never read it or have just seen the movie than I truly implore you to give it a read. It’s an amazing book.

@stuartwald2395

8 ай бұрын

To get multiple sides of a soldier's worldview, first read the book "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, then "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, and then "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.

Movie is not a faithful adaption of the source material because the director didn't bother reading more than a few pages and labeled it "boring". The society in the book is a harsh meritocracy where you get all rights but cannot vote or hold office unless you are a citizen. In order to become a citizen and get those two privileges you must volunteer for federal service. This does not necessarily mean military as only 2% of citizens got their citizenship through the military. Federal service tends to be backbreaking and dangerous regardless though. The idea is one must prove they are willing to suffer and sacrifice for the betterment of society before they get a say in how it is run. The novel is "hard sci-fi" and is more about politics and ideology than combat. Things like why do governments bother with conventional military's in the nuclear age and how's and why's of the use of force. Starship Troopers was an inspiration to many now popular sci-fi IP's including things like Halo, Gundam, BattleTech. Heinlein compares the morally-brightest example of a militarized society (the Terran Federation) to the worst example possible (the bugs) to draw out a number of principles about what he thinks makes a good military. Those principles include: If you want to participate as a citizen, you have to serve your country, up to and including being prepared to quite literally fight, even die, for the privilege. The protagonists constantly link their military service to their responsibility as citizens to the Terran Federation, while the bugs are largely mindless. An all-volunteer army that's well trained, well equipped, and knows the value of the individuals that serve in it trumps an army that treats its infantry like so many potatoes to be thrown at enemies, even if the latter greatly outnumbers the former. Since the Bugs' idea of troop management is "let 'em die like pigs, We Have Reserves", those "reserves" run out pretty soon... while the determination of Terran troops never runs out. Lastly, there are two aesops regarding sexism and racism. Johnny Rico is Juan Rico and his girlfriend Carmen is an officer and a pilot, trying to demonstrate an integrated service being the ideal. In comparison, the Bugs are portrayed as lacking in all diversity.

Fun fact, the drill instructor and guy that captures the brain bug is Mr krabs voice, and also the cpt jail guard in Shaw shank.

The director obviously made this as a satirical take on nationalism and militarism however in the expanded film universe and the book of course it's very much a clash of civilizations. Humanity and the Arachnids are interstellar civilizations that desire full control of the galaxy and are actively trying to destroy each other. The arachnids are not "victims"

@shootingreal5945

9 ай бұрын

Yeah..there are both no doubt expanding outward thus we get conflict bc neither wants to cede ground to the other.

@grantharriman284

9 ай бұрын

Stellaris player playing a devouring swarm civ. If I am not destroyed, you will be food.

@terrylandess6072

9 ай бұрын

Unresolved was a good observation as any fan of the work knows it eventually starts going downhill from here even as our technology increases.

@MrBeaach

9 ай бұрын

the movie and the game is not canon ,its a satire of the book.

@mercurioslevin1877

9 ай бұрын

Plus the arachnids are very different in the book, having a more biotech feel - warrior having mini bioplasma guns mounted on their forearm,/pincers and massive starship sized transport bugs that can travel from planet to planet.

This was too funny to watch. You two are like old lady's watching a soap. More worried about the relationships and gore than the story.. so sweet.

So I had a friend that had a friend he was with in biology when they had to dissect a rabbit. And according to my friend this dude not only dissected the rabbit with no gloves he then skinned it and stuck his fingers through the eyeholes of the skin draping the skin over his arm and chased people around the classroom singing little bunny fufu. Apparently this dude was a real special guy.

I couldn't stop laughing the whole time! You guys r so funny