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Realistically is there a better movie in the history of cinema than Starship Troopers

SmootsDaddy89

By SmootsDaddy89,
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  1. 1. What say you?

    • No
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    • Hell no
      15
    • Yes, and I look up to akpantherfan.
      10

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PanthaSan Newbie

PanthaSan

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You are correct. I have done my reading sir...

- Humans are more important than Hardware.

- Quality is better than Quantity.

- Special Operations Forces cannot be mass produced.

- Competent Special Operations Forces cannot be created after emergencies occur.

But I would like to respectfully submit that if they can haul those poor grunts asses across interstellar space, and Doogie Howser can read minds, I would expect at the very least some kind of kickass exoskeleton/supersuit/superweapon rather than a no-reload M16, a brainbucket and a set of tights like they got.

Just don't seem right.

And I think they could have just taken off and nuked the entire site from orbit.

It is the only way to be sure. ;):D

No arguments here regarding what should have been Plan "A". It would have made for a shorter movie, tho.

I was aware of it during it's production because an old friend worked in Hollywood and told me about it. It was really delayed during production and was released late....

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Captroop Veteran

Captroop

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i'm impressed by the number of people that took the movie seriously.

It all depends on what you take it seriously as.

If you take it seriously, at face value, it's sure to disappoint cinema snobs. I admittedly, am not a cinema snob. I loved this movie from ages 13 to 18 because it was an alien shoot'em up, because they had badass guns (that never ran out of ammo) and space ships, because it had awesome special effects and because it had bewbies.

But there is another way to take it seriously that I started picking up on at age 19 or so. And that it taking it seriously as a Verhoeven movie, which is basically, "take whatever the prevailing message of the movie and realize that he is actually criticizing it." It's a film so rife with satire (how can you not laugh out loud when the soldier hands the children a fully automatic rifle) and social commentary (it's nop coincidence that the uniforms look like SS), that it's a shame that it's overlooked as one of the smarted movies of the '90s because it's masquerading as a Gung Ho war movie.

Starship Troopers, without an ounce of hyperbole or sarcasm, is one of my favorite movies of all time.

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Captroop

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No arguments here regarding what should have been Plan "A". It would have made for a shorter movie, tho.

They could have bombed the planets and wiped them out, but then they wouldn't have gotten the brain bug.

We could have bombed Iraq without ever going in. But then we would have lost all the oil.

Again, Verhoeven is the master of social parody.

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mmmbeans Newbie

mmmbeans

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It was ok until I read the novel.

Now its still ok I just pretend that its a foreign flick and those letters mean something else because they bear so little resemblance to the novel that it offends me.

It would be like having the next Batman movie star a guy in a red suit that was bitten by a radioactive spider.

the novel is great but it's an entirely different thing.

I love the movie and i prefer it so much to a half-assed actionish version that would've come out if PV hadn't taken it as far as he did. It's a joke and a great one. Much better than a shiatty serious movie.

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