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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers
Feature Film |2:09:25 |R |
STARSHIP TROOPERS charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side-by-side in the ultimate intergalactic...
© 1997 TriStar Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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tentwentyfour
Posted about 15 hours ago
1 of 1 person found this review helpful
Rating starRating starRating starRating starRating star Fantastic Film!!
Absolutely deserving of a dozen run on sentences with no attempt at formatting mushed together into a completely unreadable jumble of words that no one will take the time to read!
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johnnynod
Posted about 1 month ago
31 of 32 people found this review helpful
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I do have a lingering gripe about this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's novel in that the characters presented in this otherwise ultraviolent spectacle(and that's a good thing) have been re-tooled to conform to a pretty-face cast. Case in point? Johnny Rico, in the book, was actually a filipino named JUAN Rico, while Dizzy Flores was gender-switched to allow for a romantic triangle straight out of "90210". That being said, the film otherwise works when you consider that director Paul Verhoeven referenced German propaganda films to provide the overall ambience of his vision, so in that sense, the casting of people like Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, and Patrick Muldoon actually works in the film's favor. We, as the audience watching what amounts to a full-on recruitment film, are being convinced to join up and fight the bug war. In this respect, the film definitely rocks. All that unforgiving guns-and-gore action is a definite plus, too, and a welcome reminder that for all the shiny toys of war, the battlefields themselves present the one true reality: war is hell. Definitely recommended.
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waldo_ii
Posted 2 days ago
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Rating starRating starRating starRating starRating star I cringed throughout.
I could tell right off the bat that I wouldn't like the movie very much. I read the book, so I suppose I had high expectations, but also expected to therefore be disappointed. I wasn't expecting anything like this. After watching the opening scene, my first thought was "Dear lord, what did they do to my beloved novel?" The awful acting, the expressions, the way they handled their guns like suger-pumped second graders, it was brutal to watch. I could go on an endless rant about the weapons and the soldier's behavior, but I will do you all a service and spare you. But hey, at least they weren't all yelling "Geeet soomme!!," eh? The rest of the movie doesn't improve much. Occasionally there was a spot of good acting amidst the cesspool of over-dramatic and corny characters and lines. Occasionally. Cesspool. These words sum it up. The book hardly follows the storyline of the novel. You can, however, clearly tell that the director/producer tried hard to stay true, and it would be impossible to stay true with only two hours. Important sections were thankfully left in (lashes, old friend coming into play later on (I say no more risking spoilers)), although they were innaccurate in themselves. It is easy to see what the director was trying to do, and I will say that he did a fair job trying to stick to the book. It is difficult to write this section without releasing spoilers (Such is the reason why my paragraph poorly composed, if you have read the book you will understand it better), so I'll go on. The effects were actually usually pretty bearable, very nice for the late 90s. Props were pretty cheesy (the guns particularly. They added a M16/SA80-style carry handle, but no sights. What is up with that? I like the bullpup action though.) overall, a lot of them look like you could find them at the toy section at Wal Mart.

This movie is nowhere near as good as Robert A. Heinlein's novel. You can not compare the greatness and grandeur of the book to this abomination of a film. I know peope always say that the book is better than the film, go read the book, yadda yadda, and you never do because you are lazy and scared by thicker novels with smaller text. Actually read this one. Screw Lord of the Rings, read Starship Troopers. Do it. Now.

Go!
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trowward
Posted 5 days ago
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Rating starRating starRating starRating starRating star Dissappointed
First of all, why are they wearing armor if it doesn't even protect them from their own bullets. In the book, every MI wore a Mauarder powered suit with added armor, heavier weapons, and they used smarter tactics. Each Man was an army to himself, they were launched in pods from the ship, not in individual landing boats. This movie took all of the technological advances from the Nepeoleanic times and turned it back in to barbarism with guns. there are no tactics, no professional military movements, and No one can think at all. And you would have thought that after a battle or two they could give the ground troops something with a little more power if it continually takes that long to kill one bug every time. argh, no science!
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