EARLY ACCESS: STARSHIP TROOPER
Added 2023-03-07 23:22:05 +0000 UTCComments
This movie reminds me of Babylon 5
Lonnie Vannatter
2025-01-08 06:44:36 +0000 UTCThis was so fun to rewatch after over a decade. Such a great movie. Perfect combination of your traditional war movie that goes from training to war and Scifi. I always hate so bad when someone gets impaled by an object in these movies and tries to remove it. Combat life saver 101 lol. If you want a movie filmed in a similar style that is great check out "District 9" from 2009.
Andrew Clifton
2023-03-27 18:11:43 +0000 UTCYou should watch Wing Commander one of my favorites
Lonnie Vannatter
2023-03-15 15:05:38 +0000 UTCI know I have recommended several films already but what’s one more… Krull would be a good sci-fi/ fantasy that has a cult following. When you get a chance I’d love to hear your opinion on why this movie didn’t go more mainstream or get a sequel.
John Dodo
2023-03-15 01:49:54 +0000 UTCAnyone remember the animated series they used to show in the Sci-Fi channel?
Lucas Roberts
2023-03-12 06:25:38 +0000 UTCDo not watch the sequels, I repeat do not lol. I think it ended up getting down to like Cinemax late night movies.
Dustin
2023-03-09 03:17:08 +0000 UTCObviously Star Trek. But Stargate SG1 is my favorite
Lenear Boyd
2023-03-08 18:12:01 +0000 UTCSince you are a fan of the sci-fi genre one question for you. Star Trek or Star Wars?
John Dodo
2023-03-08 18:08:16 +0000 UTCRight I forgot that it started out as its own thing but the studio decided to change it.
Ashley
2023-03-08 17:48:21 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite sci-fi’s. Great story and an awesome soundtrack. Verhovens movies are great, and they are all very bloody.
Guy from the 80's
2023-03-08 13:25:17 +0000 UTCI believe the rifles are Mini-14s and Ithica shotguns dropped together into a custom-made outer shell. I think Rico said it himself, "I wanted to Win". He was treating that exercise like a high-school sportsball game, not a dangerous combat exercise. In the book Rico is sentenced to 'administrative punishment' for a helmet-related issue, only it doesn't cause any casualties and it's his own helmet. During an exercise with simulated nukes he decided to 'un-mask' and lift sensor-goggles on his power-armor helmet and have a look around through the clear visor. He thought this was no trouble because it was all simulated, i.e. he didn't treat it seriously. If an actual nuke had gone off and he lifted his goggles the armor would've protected the rest of his body but he would've cooked his eyeballs. The political aspirant in the book also walked down washout row, only in the book it was offered as an option instead of a courts-martial after an incident during an exercise where they punched a drill instructor (without being invited to for training purposes). And yes, the optics are very interesting, and probably intentional.
Molly McAllister
2023-03-08 11:48:34 +0000 UTCPicking up my habit of doing running commentary on these reviews as I watch them, okay. The guy at the front of admissions for 'Federal Service', he is there for very specific reasons. In the movie he's there so Verhoven can say 'The Military sucks, booooooo military service." But he's there in the book as well. In the book he doesn't have any prosthetics when he's processing papers at the front desk he's just there as Mr. Stumpy being 'the man mobile infantry made him' to show the kids what they're in for and weed out those lacking conviction. The movie pretty much equates Federal Service with Military Service but in the book it's more broad than that. You take a stint of Federal Service to become a 'Citizen' and gain the right to vote and to hold public office, but federal service in the book can be Anything and if you're really determined they'll find something you Can do based on your aptitudes. It can be anything from general civil service to the military service the book and movie revolve around. In-universe those who seek Citizenship in the hopes of starting a political career often pick military service because it looks more impressive than washing bedpans in a nursing home, for those kinds of people Mr. Stumpy is there as a big sign in neon saying, "You sure about this bro?" Also in the book the Mobile Infantry get power-armor with nuclear weapons and jet-packs.
Molly McAllister
2023-03-08 11:11:07 +0000 UTCWhether the original book's governing system was technically fascist or not is up for debate, but Verhoven did find enough parallels with his own experience growing-up during WWII to find it offensive. The original screenplay was nothing at all related to the book, but had enough tropes in-common that the studio heads thought it'd just be easier to buy the movie rights to the book and adjust the script accordingly than to go forward with the movie as-is and risk getting sued. Any way you slice it though the end result was absolutely Glorious. >xD
Molly McAllister
2023-03-08 10:13:19 +0000 UTCWhat you're missing from that opening bit is that it's a matching game, 'No Match'. The card being flipped is not his guess of the hidden card, the card being flipped is his choice to match the other card we get to see but that he doesn't.
Molly McAllister
2023-03-08 10:10:02 +0000 UTClove this movie when i was a kid this and the crow were my go to movie to watch over and over. fun fact if they armor look familiar they used it on firefly for the alliance they had lots left over. there are 3 movies there not worth watching there like the last air bender bad there was a cartoon as well its ok
monkeyman
2023-03-08 04:20:57 +0000 UTCLoosely based on an old Robert Heinlein book. Heinlein fans typically don't like the movie because it isn't an accurate adaptation. Some people say the movie is cheesy good fun. They are wrong. It is an excellent sci-fi movie with some young actors maybe not quite ready for prime time. The internet was brand new in 1997. I loved the would you like to know more internet stylings. Oh, people love to claim the whole thing was satire. The war advertisements were definite shout outs to the war advertisements from WW2. Verhoeven created a great sci-fi movie with effects that hold up pretty good today.
TigerMyth
2023-03-08 01:50:48 +0000 UTCWritten by the Godfather's of SciFi, Robert Heinlein. Always thought this movie was cheesy. But i am here to watch you watch it, and hear your thoughts.
James Sipler
2023-03-08 01:35:18 +0000 UTCThis movie is a satire of the book it is based on which is a story of a fascist utopia. The writer was tasked with adapting the book into a film and he hated it so much that he wrote this screenplay.
Ashley
2023-03-08 00:49:16 +0000 UTCOh man! I remember seeing this one in the theaters
Stephen ODaniel
2023-03-08 00:39:58 +0000 UTCOh shit, we're going Verhoven.
Nick Chevalier
2023-03-07 23:58:03 +0000 UTCWOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
Jake Martin
2023-03-07 23:28:03 +0000 UTCBRUHH lessssgoooo!!!
Slimsycentaur37
2023-03-07 23:27:42 +0000 UTCThis is a wild one lol.
Drewcliff82
2023-03-07 23:25:49 +0000 UTC
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