STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING! Full Movie Review | Best Scenes 

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Shutup !!! You guys have never watched this before ?!?!? You Guys......

I'm now leaving the reaction to re-watch - it's a classic !!

Rico is Chrissy's dad IRL (girl from Stranger Things)

Hey I dont know you guys are fans of any of the power ranger series but the the 8th installment of that franchise power rangers lost galaxy is a space race adventure to find another inhabitable planet for man kind to live on, and in that series there space military service borrows the starship troopers outfits for a couple of episodes in the beginning, middle and end of the series.

lots of good praccy effects

Thats what well thought out Practical Effects do for ya.

Practical effects go a long way. Reason why I still watch Jurasic Park to this day. And cause dinosaurs of course lol

Very, VERY good practical effects go a long way, but for 1997 the CGI was amazing. There's always gonna be the cliche of "why did the effects look better then!" but I think that's to do with a lot of lazy VFX and over-used CGI now (because it's cheaper and easier now than ever before), but still today when CGI is used properly it's far superior. But this movie is totally my jam!

@@DiscoRaptor Less about lazy or over-used and more about so many movies using them today without a significant enough amount of growth in the workforce means that very few CGI houses are having to get more and more done on less and less time. So, you get stuff that's just too rushed.

Dude, plug the shop!

Dude, awesome!

You guys did amazing !

You guys are a gold standard

That is awesome.

Did you say... Phil Tippet? As in... "You had one job!" Phil? The dinosaur supervisor for Jurassic Park?

Yeah most of the people who hated it had clearly never read the Heinlen book and had no idea it was entirely a satire about War Propaganda and patriotism.

Okay so this isn’t an isolated experience watching this at an age too young to get it 😂

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I was 6. Lol still love it.

i was way too young when i first saw this too, very thankful to my dad for that

Never noticed that detail before. Thanks for sharing!

"And we will win!" Seeing the desperation in recruiting younger and younger troops, that last line always gives me the willies.

Never thought about it that way.

I always thought the meteor was sent by the Federation to justify the eradication of some alien bugs that happen to inhabit some planets they wanted to colonize. Launching a huge rock across solar systems and hitting earth seems beyond the capabilities of the bugs. The children might be orphans from Argentina or something.

And a cycle that seems to constantly be repeating itself, since all the adults at the start of the movie are missing limbs. They're always going to find someone to fight.

I was already 18 when this was released, so it wasn't even a staple of my childhood. Imagine how I feel 😉

​@@philiphunn194same

I was twelve when I saw it, it's a great movie and one that works at all ages

I was young when I watched this and Robocop. I don't know what my dad was thinking but apparently letting a 10ish year old kid watch a guy being eaten violently by aliens and watching someone melt from toxic waste was good family entertainment🤣

Us 80s and 90s kids saw some shit! 😅 I don't know anyone of my generation who wasn't traumatized by seeing something too young. IDK Maybe because our parents didn't grow up with cinema, they didn't really get how it could impact children? I remember my sister preventing me from seeing most of Se7ven when she and mom were watching it, but she was definitively too young as well!

And I've seen her armour. It's on display in the Museum Of Classic Science-Fiction in Allendale Northumberland in the UK

I forced my girlfriend to go see this opening night...she didn't stay a girlfriend much longer after that.

Same. I saw this when I was 7 in theaters lol. Still love it

I saw this in theaters as a grad student.

Y’all lucky lol I was born after this but saw it at 6 years old lmao

@@kennyfmt510 SO YOU SAW THE SHOWER SCENE??

They're showing all the signs and symptoms of being a liberal leftist brained drone.

They both do. Gotta love how this movie is anti extremism on both sides of the aisle, yet people only ever happen to notice the parts about the *other* side's extreme 😂

Dude my thought exactly. He said that and I was like wait....how can you be so wrong?

Unfortunately most people were too stupid to recognize it and saw it as a fluffy action film.

Indeed pure fascist crap

Not brainwashing when its true. Force is violence, and using force on anyone especially political force does not contribute to a moral and decent society. The reason He is saying that because the society before it was run by Scientists, and they lacked the morals to run a Just and Fair government, so Veterans rose up against the terrible things the scientists were doing (imagine Tuskegee but larger scale.) and established a Starship Trooper society where civilians and citizens are all respected equally under the law, except Voting is not a right but a privilege to be a Citizen. You have to want to be a Citizen which is why there's a service requirement. And people who haven't read Heinlen's Book, or paid attention to the movie, Rico's family are not Citizens, and they are one of the wealthiest Families. They were talking about sending Rico to Harvard, and he has shitty grades. A Brainwashing Fascist Authoritarians wouldnt let families like Rico's to be so wealthy and Free. This is also satire because Paul never read the book and Robert Heinlen is a liberal with some authoritarian tendency.

Also forgot to mention, the reason Rico and his fellow students arent really paying attention to Ironside's lecture is because the class is a requirement to graduate as long as you are making attendance. The grade you have in the course does not matter, and does not effect your overall GPA at all. You can fail the class and still pass.

The part at the beginning is true, voting is using political force, and authority is derived from violence at some point. The revolutionary war gave us the right to govern ourselves as a country.

Put some respect on Denise Richards baby is gorgeous

The sad thing is: the satire is really easy to pick up on.

The satire is really bad though, the federation is portrayed as a utopia

They rejected it because it wasn't actually Starship Troopers. It was a great popcorn flick in its own right, but it tried to claim to be something it wasn't.

and Firefly

Yeah, after the movie, they made so many of the costumes they were eventually outsourced to other projects. I remember the game C&C3 using them for their live-action cutscenes. Except they painted the outfit white.

Weren’t they in Space: Above and Beyond too?

@@philipsmith8644 haven't seen it? But they were also used in Firefly

And the movie Impostor.

The asteroid wasn't a random event - they specifically showed the moon has all the "anti-meteor defenses" that weren't used to stop the asteroid. Also, the Roger Young wouldn't have seen the rock if they hadn't used that improved flight path. The bugs don't have FTL capabilities or spacecraft, so they couldn't have fired a Rick from across the galaxy- and it would have taken millions of years if they had! It's all set up.

That's not just a theory, it's implied by the director, but merely implied. The source material never implied this, nor has a fascistic tone.

@@ravissary79 When i read the book it could easily have been the goverment doing a false flag

If the movie came out 5 years later it would've been seen as a commentary on the war in Iraq, with all the media propaganda, lies etc: An attack (9/11) shocks America and the government uses it as an excuse to attack a country that had nothing to do with it. It's intriguing that this movie came out a few years before 9/11.

@@zombie5505 you'd have to read into that based on literally nothing. The government in the book isn't imperialistic, it's relatively small in size despite being global, and functions a bit like the Federation in startrek,, individualism and liberal freedom is explocit. The bugs actually do launch asteroids. They're not just innocent animals minding their own business, they're in fact the imperialistic collective in the story. It's precisely BECAUSE the Federation doesn't control the citizenry in the book which allows the Mormons to get away with breaking the ban on colonizing a bug planet, which is what passed them off.... which is exactly what Mormons in an interstellar future would do. No false flag needed. Also the whole license to reproduce thing is bunk that the director added to make the government sound more fascistic. I don't agree with the idea that franchise is earned, but I get the "decadence leading to implosion" argument the book makes against a democracy "gone wild" leading to global catastrophe.

I don't know my friend..the bugs are generally hostile..the put a cow in the same room and it just charged at it and killed it in 2 seconds flat..seems they are hostile by nature...moreover to answer the question of what are the bugs doing to deserve the fighting, well the issue is expansion, the human race is attempting to do it and the bugs are as well so thus we have this conflict and we see the bugs aren't interested in sitting down at a negotiation table..wouldn't help seeing as how they can't you know, speak.

​@@shootingreal5945 the arachnid has to eat. I seriously doubt they were feeding it. Humans kill 10s of thousands of cows every day.

@@russellward4624 That may be true in regards to not feeding it but we don't know for sure..your answer is your opinion to justify your belief in this particular situation..now to be fair one can argue that mines was as well but we clearly see a extremely aggressive nature to the bugs..to much amoung the entire species to believe they it isn't there natural state..the take on them seems to be that whatever isn't a bug is a enemy which follows in our animal kingdom as well.

@@shootingreal5945 Or the bugs were hungry and hadn't been fed. Remember that all information we're explicitly told about the bugs, comes from a fascist, colonizing society which is trying to eradicate its enemy. It's not exactly a reliable narrator. It's in fact an incredibly unreliable narrator.

@@heavycritic9554 It is possible that there was a conspiracy going on but if what you said was true then what's to gain from starting a war with some isolated species stuck on there home planet..there is no threat there or resources that earth would want..there's nothing to gain so it makes no sense.

he could have adapted a book about that Topic, that would have been better. The book he adapted unfortunately he totally misunderstood.

@@aikrichter5403 Even worse... Verhoeven said he never even finished reading the book.

@@acereporter73 only had read the first two chapters.

@@aikrichter5403 he understood it just fine but has openly saidn it nmade him depressed. having grown up under nazis he decided to show the dark side of the pro military theme of the book.

@@frank-vt8yf so based on a heavy childhood trauma he made his own story and interpretation,not the book Heinlein wrote. thats what they all said above your comment. the military in th ebook was not liek the nazis at all.thats the whole point of the complaint.

Do you know how ridiculous it is to send an entire meteor light years across the galaxy? Do you know how many years it would take for a NASA rocketship to go through one light year? 200 years. Also a light year is the amount of time. Light travels in a year, which means that whenever you look up in the stars, you’re technically looking back in time, because the light has taken so long that it’s not even recognizable from modern day. The bugs are like 300,000 light years away, if they have a telescope, they would not see modern day humans, also, the bugs don’t have advanced technology, at least, according to the movie’s lore.

@@itsathing3369 It never gets old how easily people fall for obvious propaganda.

@@anitaremenarova6662 I think Alexexao11 traveled from the starship troopers universe into our, and Alexe is an absolute sheep.

What's funny is Casper Van Dien made a cameo on Casper meets Wendy when Wendy's aunts were hitting on him and he's not enjoying it and goes, "Sorry I gotta go....kill some bugs" and runs off

i listened to andrew tate & started following my dreams.. now i do food reviews on my RU-vid channel ‼️‼️

Thing is, he was picked *for* his wooden acting. At the *time.* That is, eh, not a good start. Only person who kinda got over it was Barney.

@@JoshSweetvale I definitely get it. Just like the numerous other actors/actresses that never reach true heights. Hollywood can be a brutal industry to work in.

​@@digidv85...and then you have actors like james Corden or Simon pegg who's in everything - sometimes it just comes down to having a good agent

That would have been better than ruining this story.

@@Mallard942 didn't ruin anything, made it tolerable.

@@LostButBroken I agree.

@@dudermcdudeface3674 But that isn't this movie. It doesn't work as a metaphor for dehumanization of peoples when the bugs are actually just as bad as you'd think. Honestly, that concept sounds kind of interesting, but Paul V does not have the requisite skill at subtlety to pull it off without being tacky and probably offensive. Besides, if it's supposed to be SS troopers, then it's not fascism either. The Nazi were Nationalistic socialists, not fascists.

@@Mallard942 lol the Nazis actively persecuted socialists and hated Communism. They called themselves national socialist early on to gain public support but dropped the pretense after gaining power. Nazis were more accurately described as far right nationalist aka fascist.

"Also if I’m not mistaken this movie was nominated for an Academy Award for visual effects, for 1997 this CGI was top notch." Yes it was, and it lost to Titanic. While the effects in Titanic are great too, I feel Starship Troopers should have won. But as always the Academy was partial to historical dramas and biased against science-fiction.

Do not forget many shots of bugs was a stop motion animation composed with actors. Not too many CGI was used here.

Yep, this is the case for all totalitarian idologies, but the government in this movie, even, isn't fascistic at all. PV tried to make it that, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't understand fascism or simply chose the completely wrong source material for his idea. The bugs are absolutely the bad guys. In the books, the Confederation is as close to a realistic liberal utopia as you can feasibly get. Small government, huge and absolute guarantees for rights, and a society based on voluntarism.

@@Jigsaw407 The Academy also doesn't like comedy or parody. They like the suffering of the Jews, not the pratfalling of the Nazi. And ain't that interesting?

@@killjanPL There are no stop-motion bugs in the movie at ALL. The bugs are mostly CGI except some practical shots for extreme closeups.

Nah bro this is a pleasure pleasure movie not a guilty pleasure. LOL. That all aside I think the commentary works. It really hits on it without making it all that stupid

@@Alexanderthegreat159 I mean true I guess the movie is fun

what does asexual have to do with it...its always weird to see nudity when young and freinds there too

@@clarkkenttheman Because to me it wasn't weird to see nudity while friends were there. We'd watched all sorts of films with shirtless dudes. I didn't see why this would be any different. The nudity wasn't what made me uncomfortable, what made me uncomfortable was how we had basically all been chatting it up during the whole movie, and then as soon as the shower scene happened they all went dead silent and just kept acting super weird, and I had no idea why.

@melodydia6824 it was awkward cause u saw boobies and it was exciting and awkward and seeing guys with shirts off was not really a thing i guess for u guys...i been on that situation...i remember watching soft porn with my dad several times it was weird awkward and i was turned on bybthe nudity...normal behavior

@@clarkkenttheman Yeah, and I just... didn't understand that. At 12 years old the idea of being physically attracted to someone was a completely alien concept to me. Heck, 20 years later and I still sometimes have reminded myself that that's a thing with most people. XD

@melodydia6824 oh u u have no sexual attraction to anyone

Totally agree about PS2

It's propaganda

The beginning of the movie is essentially lampooning propaganda. consider that the meteorite that hit earth would never had hit earth if it didn't collide with tthe ship. The point is that the bugs are the "other" that the fascist government needs to rally the population to support facism.

p.s.: none of the sequels come even close to this. The two live action movies are cheap direct-to-video schlock with bad effects. The 2nd one is a simple B horror movie with some weird tangents and the 3rd one at least tried to pick up the satirical element again, but didn't quite succeed. The two animated movies are alright. They look good and are entertaining, but are a far cry from the original as well.

It really bothers me how this movie has twisted the perception of the book. This proposed liberal-libertarian utopia is as far from fascistic as you can get, but this movie only connects all the concepts to fascsim in people's minds. It's a travesty

I also commented about this on another post. I’m amazed how ignorant a lot of Americans are about the rest of the world. I rolled up my eyes when he said that, unreal. Dude should get out of the country once and travel the world. Argentina has a higher percentage of whites per capita than the U.S.

@@eyesears113 They have some kind of blindfold... I'm spaniard (quite white, with green eyes and bown hair... anywhere I go in Europe; they believe I'm a local) and I went to california. I found hispanic cashiers in a shop, speaking in spanish with each other; so not to force them to change language, I spoke to them in spanish. They answered me in english. I continued in spanish (they clearlly undestood what I was saying; our accents where different but not enougth to be a problem) but they insisted to me to speak in english, but not even adressing it... for them it was unconciveble for a white man to speak spanish

​@@dhorn4005 And I will tell you why, my friend. Because the vast majority of Mexicans who migrate to the U.S. are working class, poor and uneducated mestizos, indigenous, etc, not many white Mexicans. Why is that? Because Mexico’s upper class are Mexicans of straight European decent, not many mixed. They hold the best high paid jobs, are the most educated, and they don’t migrate to the U.S. at all. They do go to vacation there, but no more than that. I guarantee if you go to Mexico City, and visit one of their top neighborhoods like Polanco, Condesa, Roma Norte, Lomas de Chapultepec, etc, you will be right at home. Now, I’m American born citizen of Mexican, French, Spanish, Basque, Lebanese decent, yes, I’m a mutt, lol. I look Arab/Middle Eastern. But I can mingle with Mestizos just fine, as I kinda blend with them. I’m taller than the average Mexican (6’ 2”), and have a full beard (trimmed into a goatee though), Sometimes Mexicans here in the U.S. do call me árabe, lol. But when I speak Spanish to them, they do respond in Spanish back. I’m brown enough, ha. They will call you gringo/gringito though. But when I visit Mexico City, especially in those neighborhoods I mentioned, nothing of that sort happens there. Mexico City for the most part is very cosmopolitan. They do have rough areas, but so most cities I’ve been too, including here in the U.S. I was in Spain a long time ago, 20 years to be exactly great country. So hot in the Summer though. I hear Spain is tired of so many tourists, as they have the second most visitors a year in their country (France is number one, Mexico is number 6). I’m married to a Japanese woman. Japan is my second home. It’s absolutely my favorite country on earth. So clean and safe, so efficient. Gorgeous countryside. So green. The people can be introverted though, especially if you don’t speak Japanese. Most Japanese do not speak English like in the Philippines (everybody knows English there). One of the reasons is because Japan is homogeneous and are First World country. No need for English. My Japanese is not bad. Not perfect, but not bad. I’d say 75% of the time when I speak Japanese to a Japanese, they answer in broken English or Russian, lol. It’s the funniest thing. So I can relate to what you just said about your own experiences in America. Anyway, nice talk. I always enjoy a good conversation with fellow RU-vid commentators.

And they reused some of the shots in the movie "Impostor".

Also in power rangers lost galaxy

We used MS Encarta, an encyclopedia on cd-rom w links connecting related topics, and the internet was definitely available on a commercial level by '97. Google and Wiki did not invent the 'hotlink'.

No it WAS a bug meteor that took out Buenos Aires, but that was in retaliation for the colonists that settled in the bug system. I dont remember why Buenos Aires gets hit in the book though, its been years since ive read it

@@walt33743 from what I remember there were several large cities targeted, it wasn't just one meteor. But it's been a while, so there might've been some other reason given in the book I just don't remember

I just assumed it was the meteor that Richards knockedbout of orbit and they blamed it on the bugs to get people fired up.

@@walt33743 unless they settled there like 10k years ago doesn't really make sense only way it would makes sense is if the bugs were in the solar system it would simply take too long to get an asteroid to earth. I think in the book the bugs use something else but then the bugs in the books also use firearms though plasma or whatever lol they are a lot more advanced than the movie.

@@jacksmith-vs4ct I will NOT stand for this abti-federation slander

Dam I remember that. Where do you find it

@@haydnw869 I still have the Box Set on DVD and the two later animated films on digital.

I remember watching the animated series, it was actually well done deserved more airplay over here in England, gonna try and check it out RU-vid

Ironsides character was combination of 2 from the book. The book has so much more detail about the society. It's a rare combination where the book is good and the movie is a different type of good. In the book Ricos Dad didn't die but joined the MI when the wife was killed. Because LT Ricos Sergeant.

"Verhoeven read the novel the movie was based on and stopped reading after 2 chapters as he found it to be very boring, as well finding elements of fascism, Nazism and Xenophobia, which was later used in the film." And he completely misinterprets the book, not surprising since he only read 2 chapters but he made a good movie at least.

It's crazy how many nazis live happy lives there to this day sadly

We are now in woke era so we will see that kind of stupid commentary/opinion. Just shrug it off and move on until they educate and unwoke themselves in the future. Soon I hope.

"Argentina has great beef. Beef and Nazis." - Saul in While You Were Sleeping

@@deetzyboywonder9312 Before that when the Spaniards arrived to the area in the XVIth century, the percentage of white/locals was allmost 50% Race mixing was even encouraged by the goverment, to ensure good relationships between europeans and locals (acording to Spanish law; the Americas where not a colony of Spain,but rather full provinces; and therefore the locals where full fletched cittizens of Spain) so white/mixed poppulation reminded pretty high. In the XVIIIth century, lots of lands where empty and virgin; so the same way it happened in the USA, massive migrations from all over Europe came to Argentina; mainlly itallians (that's why argentinian spanish, is similar to the accent of an itallian speaking spanish) who married with the locals, witch made the percentage of european descendants to be hiher to the natives. Finally in the XXth century; begining in the 30's, a new massive wave of europeans migrated there, just some of them been the infamous escaped Nazis.

- Doogie Himmler