Starship Troopers | Full Length Reaction!
Added 2024-05-07 17:21:38 +0000 UTCHI EVERYONE ❤️ SORRY FOR THE DELAYED POSTING (cause of that, we get two drops today 🥰) BUUUUUUT this movie was not what I was expecting at ALL - it had the same vibe as Robo-Cop and now I know why LOL this movie is a mix of campy, extremely gory, with a lot of cliché moments (on the surface...) but there is more to it and definitely sends a pretty clear message by the end LOL
This was not what I was expecting from this film and as upbeat and a fun watch as it is, it's kinda sad the more you think about the details 😭 EITHER WAY- it was an extremely fun watch and an insane movie with a really interesting concept that I enjoyed 🥰
I hope you all can enjoy it with me 😊
Comments
truly amazing, right?
ExquisiteCapybara
2024-11-23 21:21:22 +0000 UTCRico didn't become a monster by the end he just accepted the fact that its us vs them. He fully integrated into the military life which is understandable since his family was killed.
SavageDiplomat
2024-06-06 20:07:16 +0000 UTC"I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't." - Paul Verehoeven There's literally people in this comment section failing to understand it still.
Inhuman Paradox
2024-05-30 01:58:33 +0000 UTCCouple of things - tragically, this movie is so disconnected from the book it is "based on", that they're only tangentially connected. As I understand it, they were already a good ways into pre production for this when they found out the rights to the novel Starship Troopers were available, so they grabbed them and shoehorned - vaguely - some of the characters and plot points into the existing story and plastered the title onto it. I say vaguely, such as Juan Rico, his (male) acquaintance Dizzy Flores... Carmen Ibanez wasn't a love interest, but was just an attractive friend from high school, who was friendly with everybody. The bugs aren't all mindless drones, but an intelligent race, the battle plots are completely different, etc and so on. Oh, and the major gripe a lot of people have - the Mobile Infantry is so-called because the members wear, and drop from the starships to the planets, in powered suits of heavy armor, and the power armor is obviously nowhere to be found in the movie. The novel is one of the more influential bits of historical social/political pieces of writing, combined with (or under guise of) science fiction, and you would barely recognize it from this movie. In fact, Verhoeven actually commented that he never even finished reading the book, finding it boring wanting to make a movie that was, in his eyes, counter to what he felt were the author's politics. As for the shower scene that seemed like it would have been so awkward, it apparently was. While the director didn't personally think nudity was a very big deal, some of the cast felt otherwise, and when they challenged him on it, he took that to heart, stripped down with them, and directed the scene in the buff. The shock of cast at this reaction helped them film the scene. For what it's worth, the book is very well worth a read. The movie is fun and has memorable moments, and is good as a popcorn flick, but it is a shame they slapped the name on it that they did.
Chief
2024-05-29 05:41:27 +0000 UTCFunny or ironic, she finishes the reaction saying she LOVES it, but then after after she's had time to read about it, she talks in her outro about how "conflicted" she was watching it. Total b.s. She defintiely felt bad loving it as much as she did. And she shouldn't. Starship Troopers shows an ideal future. No rasicm or sexism, all races and sexes are equal. There's responsibility put on being a citizen of society, as there should be. This movie was the one of the motivating factors of me joining the Marines!
David Crabtree
2024-05-19 05:30:20 +0000 UTCStarship troopers is probably my second favorite "star" films/series. Stargate is still my favorite! And yeah, this movie is a satire on Facism/propaganda all that, and it's funny how you already fell for the "bugs are bad" propaganda 😂😂
FatLittleButterfly
2024-05-13 13:47:33 +0000 UTCI only vaguely remember Top Gun if you're referring to the OG. I would have been a kid, but I was a kid when Karate Kid came out - actually would wear that headband Mr. Miyagi gave Daniel Larusso when I was a kid in FL. Maybe the latter movie resonated with me more. Btw that's a badass username!
WarriorPoet1980
2024-05-12 04:07:10 +0000 UTCHe was also Jester in Top Gun. He's the quintessential "Hey, it's that guy!" of Hollywood.
SnakeandNape
2024-05-11 23:26:35 +0000 UTCThey probably weren't even throwing those rocks, and Buenos Aires was a false flag operation to boost support for the military regime.
Isak Haugerud
2024-05-08 18:23:55 +0000 UTCThat's heartbreaking... the Bugs were throwing rocks for a reason 😢😢
VKunia
2024-05-08 17:19:52 +0000 UTCI read the book after having seen the movie first. So many differences, but honestly, I love both. The Halo ODST drop pods always reminded me of the book's combat drops.
Andy
2024-05-08 16:52:16 +0000 UTCBased on the 1959 book by Robert Heinlein, though the book is more serious and the Mobile Infantry troops all wore power armor, which some have said inspired the original Iron Man comics.
Thaddeus Winterson
2024-05-08 13:38:43 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite movies. There’s a bit at the start where the teacher tells Rico that the only freedom we have is to decide things for ourselves and then Rico goes through the whole movie not making any decisions and following orders. He wouldn’t even have slept with Diz if he hadn’t been told to. So much of his dialogue is just repeating lines other people have said to him. The prisoner who got executed was the screenwriter Ed Neumeier.
Jacob King
2024-05-08 12:20:03 +0000 UTCShowgirls is also a parody. It’s doing to showbiz movies what Starship Troopers is doing to war movies.
Jacob King
2024-05-08 12:12:41 +0000 UTCThere’s an earlier bit where we are told Mormon extremists have been colonising bug planets and when they find the general he tells them he is hiding because he has knowledge of their actual plans for the planet, implying that the other soldiers don’t know what’s really going on. There are a few subtle hints.
Jacob King
2024-05-08 12:07:19 +0000 UTClove this movie, so happy you did a reaction to it.
rick trevino
2024-05-08 06:28:15 +0000 UTCI thought the tone of this movie was genius. first of all vee, you're totally right the likening of officer uniforms to the nazi SS is definitely not an accident. The whole tone of the movie is sort of gallows humor, which shows not only how a lot of young people clearly don't buy into the propagandistic BS, but they're at the same time enticed by the privileges of citizenship, so they're like "haha yeah a citizen is so virtuous yaya", and as they get more exposed to the horrors of war they're realizing like, even though they don't buy into the propaganda, they start to understand it as a necessary evil to unify the humans against the major threat
Dale Diaz
2024-05-08 05:28:39 +0000 UTCI enjoyed this film for what it is, which IS, as you noted, a satirical parody. I do feel that the actual depiction of the military parts was, just, ridiculous. For instance, in actual boot camp, NO ONE is permanently squad leader or team leader. Everyone has to take multiple turns, both to learn the jobs and for the cadre to assess the trainees and determine their strengths and weaknesses. The way that Zim would hurt trainees with such reckless abandon was unbelievably stupid. The fact that the "strategy" and "tactics" were almost nonexistent. NO air support during the ambush mission?? WTAF?? I also don't like the use of the ranks: In an actual infantry unit, a corporal is a team leader, a sergeant is a squad leader. The mobile infantry just kinda strolled around, NO tactical movements, no tactical formations.....re-donkulous. Vicky I am glad you enjoyed it and I would STRONGLY discourage you from watching ANY of the direct to video sequels.....the quality goes WAY down very quickly.
David Bennett
2024-05-08 05:12:40 +0000 UTCA small but important moment, that is blink and you’ll miss, is the reporter asking about how the bug were provoked when humans first encroached on their natural habitat, but then cut off by Rico yelling to “kill them all”… It’s a different kind of film when you watch it again realizing that the humans are the aggressors 😢
Mitchell Bowker
2024-05-08 02:59:28 +0000 UTCWas waiting for u to see Hank...classic!! This movie is one of those cult classic types that u can watch again and again. Are we going to see a little mini brain bug prop at your station next time? Great reaction.
David Cansler
2024-05-08 02:50:19 +0000 UTCVee: "Neil Patrick Harris looks like a baby in this". Me, who grew up watching Doogie Howser.... "How dare you make me feel old".
Derder
2024-05-08 00:22:50 +0000 UTCAnother classic, in the cult classic sense. Fun fact- the teacher and later on, Lt. of the Roughnecks, is Michael Ironside; he was also the voice actor of Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell video games. The old school stealth games back in the early 2000s once upon a time when Ubisoft were interested in making good games before they turned into an Assassin's Creed factory. Would you like to know more? (I had to say it).
WarriorPoet1980
2024-05-07 22:45:14 +0000 UTCBuenos Aires was an inside job 😉
Isak Haugerud
2024-05-07 22:33:16 +0000 UTCThere are hours of video essays on YouTube you can get lost in as well that really go over every little detail about the Federation and why they’re not really the good guys. Also fun fact about the shower scene: they actors weren’t really comfortable filming in the nude like that so the director stripped naked along with them to film the scene
Zach
2024-05-07 20:17:28 +0000 UTCThe parody aspect of this film didn't hit with audiences of the time. People saw this film as positive framing of the future, and not fascism/militaristic control "Step in line for the meat grinder like a good resource commodity. We'll let you have SOME rights IF you survive". For myself, when I saw this in theaters, I thought it was a funny movie but I just really wanted to race home and play X-Com: UFO Defense, lol. Like, the point didn't mean much to me and all I saw were defense strategies and tactics for overwhelming odds, lol. There is a whole series of films and animated movies that spun off this: 2 more movies, 2 animated films, and then an animated series called Roughnecks, lol. They're all campy, and gory, and cliche with an underlining message but low budget and straight-to-video types so mostly unknown. Tons of unresolved cliffhangers because there are a lot of years between each release. They kept trying to breathe life into the franchise but once word got around about the movie, and people finally got it, the public didn't care. Most people don't like it when you hold up a mirror to them. They just want the machine/system to keep running so they don't have to think about it and they can go on "living their best life!"
Raptor
2024-05-07 17:54:05 +0000 UTCThe goddamn bugs whacked us, Johnny.
Tom W.
2024-05-07 17:52:38 +0000 UTCDefinitely going to enjoy watching this with u Vicky I'm expecting many shocked looks lol
Ian
2024-05-07 17:36:15 +0000 UTCMade by the same dude who did Robocop, Total Recall, Hollow Man, Basic Instinct and...wait, wtf, SHOWGIRLS?!? Anyway, I saw this in theaters when i was like 10, they even had a CGI morning cartoon. Love this movie so much. Also love the not so subtle references that the government in this movie is a Fascist one. Outright lying propaganda, an emphasis on being a good Citizen by taking part in war, displaying power and might, the meat grinder where you are just a replacement until your replacement is recruited.
MrAlexSan
2024-05-07 17:32:09 +0000 UTCThis and Toxic Avenger were movies that I shouldn't have watched as a kid. I was freaked out by the gore, but the campy dialouge and the satirical nature of the film won me over. Can't wait to watch this again later. Fun fact: The gear the troops wore in the movie was later used in episodes of Power Rangers and Firefly.
Jeremy Bassi
2024-05-07 17:32:05 +0000 UTCI did NOT expect to see so many brutal scenes tbh LOL I hope you're having a good day, and enjoy Ian 🥰🥰😊
VKunia
2024-05-07 17:32:03 +0000 UTCAfter the ending and noticing the ironic nature of so many scenes, and then letting the movie sink in - it all started making sense to me 👀 it actually made it kind of sad to realize LOL but that just gives the movie more depth and definitely makes me want to rewatch it knowing what I now know. :)
VKunia
2024-05-07 17:31:13 +0000 UTCI shall do my part and watch this later 🙂
Ian
2024-05-07 17:25:43 +0000 UTCIt's crazy how many people miss the point of this movie, including me when I saw this in theaters as a teenager.
G. T. Blackwell
2024-05-07 17:24:27 +0000 UTC
