The thing I hate is that reading the book, one gets the idea that the director totally didn’t understand what Heinlein was trying to say. He turned it into a blood and guts parody. Heinlein was trying to discuss the balance between authority and responsibility. If you give a person authority without responsibility, you get despotism. If you have responsibility without authority you get incompetence. He was arguing that authority and responsibility should match. The director was incapable of understanding that.
I remember going to see this at the cinema when it first came out, and not really knowing much about it. With no exaggeration it was one of the most exciting cinema experiences I have ever had - the story, special effects, gore, music - everything was absolutely amazing. And it still holds up today.
many people do not understand the essence of the film: this work is a parody of war action films. it is a conscious integration of dialogues, characters and commonplace situations and behavior patterns seen in a thousand other films. there is no catharsis at the end (which the viewer expects) because the war continues without end...
Please sue and jail all criminals involved in my abduction and thefts during the filming of the "starship troopers" . I was poisoned and awoke from unconsciousness several times while being held at different hostage and abuse points. Please return my Stolen identity Cards and passports so I may leave sick psychos in America surface and American underground Cults. Loud sounds and poisoned air will not change my moral and sensible bank accounts to fund false wars and cult abuses in American military. #Blackrock #bakertilly #Fbi #Sony #Japan #Whitehouse , Shah A Z. Goku' Pahlavi M.M.C. Q
I wonder… why don’t they use flamethrowers. Or something that can hurt the bugs more than those peashooter rifles do. They’re bugs, so wouldn’t certain chemicals also work? It’s never stated that they can’t, but they’ve never stated they’ve used them either. So if they can use chemical warfare to our advantage, there’s no need for this many troops to die. Equip them with flamethrowers, or better yet, what about drones?
I was born in 98 but I thank my parents for letting me pick from their insane dvd collection as a child. I have to show so much people my age classics that I feel like they should have seen already. Folks don’t catch movies on tv anymore. It’s sad. Showing my gf this movie tonight.
I can’t find the ost for when the music hits when Ironside says “HOLD WHAT YOU’VE GOT!” I know it’s not Klendathu Drop even though it’s got elements of it.
so....why shoot ratjack? the ship was right there, nothing was pinning him or otherwise trapping him. Rico, the recruitment officer, and ratjack's own prosthetic arm showed that losing two legs was no great loss. Why not tourniquet him and drag him on the ship? He certainly would have weighed less. also side note that Rico should have known as a trained soldier: if you've been stabbed and the weapon is still in...leave it. You're likely to do more damage and unplug the plugged wound and bleed out if you remove the weapon.
My dad bought me this movie around 1998. He passed on 2017..now I'm.here watching n it makes me cry..I mic him so much..its like he knew me from a younger age that I like science fiction 😢
My judgment after having originally seen this in the theaters was that this was a pretty decent movie in a lot of aspects. We could’ve done without some of the camp, but I always feel like this movie had the potential to be a very serious movie. My favorite is the scene where Michael Ironside says “all that you’ve got” and you can completely feel the desperation with the music playing to that
0:42 How could Cole explode at the end of the flight, 0:39 they want to tell us, that he managed to hold the grenade in his hands under such an impact?
