Starship Troopers - Deceptively Smart Satire 

True I haven’t Even bought the game yet

Sad for the ST franchise considering their latest game literally had 0 presence 😬 But helldivers has been amazing, even bringing old groups together

Real

FOR SUUUUUUUUPER EEEEEEAAAAARRRRTTTTHHH! *mid 150 round burst into the bugs*

Yes we are

Pretty clever way to shake up the "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" game

that scene _always_ got me by surprise.

"An unfortunate shmelting acshident."

ATTENTION!

"Haha you fools! If only you knew that beneath my clothes I've always been naked!"

Cringe

​@@kelpermoon23your mom

​@@sabi771that's the best response to "cringe".

​@@kelpermoon231.4k people would like to disagree with you.

@@NSD150 they’d be wrong

These bugs are literally allah

For super earth ✊

Have a Democratic day, soldier.

HOW ABOUT A NICE CUP OF LIBER-TEA?!?!?

I’d rather call it "sci fi war game" instead since it’s taking some super heavy influence from warhammer

I don't get that honestly lol.

Also Verhoeven, "welp, at least I'll have something to hang my towel off...ladies"

@@dingerling9017 Being European, Verhoeven wouldn't be nearly as prudish as Americans about simple, non sexual nudity because Europe or the Netherlands has a long history of naturism or nudism--clothing optional activity (nude beaches, resorts, etc). He might even be a nudist himself. There are many clothing optional beaches and resorts all over Europe; it's engrained in the culture.

@@Hjerte_Verke I am European. I didn't understand them being fine as long as the director was also nude. This wasn't some invitation for you to to rant about how Europe is just full of nudist and hoe nobody considers nudity a big deal which just isn't even true.

@@dingerling9017 they were trying to bluff him into toning the scene down, they didn't think he'd actually agree, but he called their bluff and agreed.

Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown, two very under rated actors.

When I saw that part of the movie, I thought "Well in that case, you are all safe."

Michael Ironside can make anything sound cool and badass.

As a canuck I approve this message

Yeah, a statue dressed as a trooper with that mechanical hand...

Good ole parodys of fascist imperialism that goes over peoples heads

Yep.

Yep.

Yep

Yep.

For Super Earth!!! For Democracy!!!

I was wondering why this video got recommended to me 😅

Spreading Liberty one clip at a time

SES Aegis of Peace standing by in orbit!!!

Haha! 💯!! I'm picking it up tomorrow! 😁

I think they also used pratical effects mixed in with the cgi.

@BenjaminTheRogue The CGI looks legit better than some stuff today.

Meanwhile, Star Wars Episode 2, which came out a whopping five years later and had a substantially better budget, had scenes with absolutely awful CGI that forcefully ejected you from the movie.

The CGI work in this film is exceptional. I wish all movies had this level of computer animation.

Agree it still holds well.

Hell, even the cockroach that helped the brainbug to move had more characteristics and emotion than daisey ridley as rey

Yes sir.

Don't remember seeing a Rey with 4 legs, but I assume that I was asleep at that part.

Rey? Is Rey some sort of bug too?

those are cool!

That's a big part of how it actually works too... 👁

Wow, never saw that good observation 😊

Cringe

Only reason I started playing HD2 was because I heard it was basically a love letter to ST. So hyped to see the rest of my generation catch up and finally watch this gem.

Lol! correct!

underated comment right here

amen brother

We could hold out for a Space Hulk movie, and get Real Space Marines and Tyranid... for the Emperor!

Beat me to it. Be cool if they introduced a "Protoss" like species for fun.

This is actually brilliant

One extra gets impaled and suddenly you have people crying about human rights, safety, responsibility, etc., and then before you know it we're using shitty CGI aliens. Just ridiculous.

That's why movies like this and lord of the rings still look better than modern day films all these years later. The late 90s and early 00s were the golden age of Hollywood. It's been all downhill since then.

Hol'up

@@MrFreeGman fr They are not even hiring Minotaurs anymore... Even the one Multiverse of Madness was CGI smh

I salute you, fellow helldiver

@@HER0_ For Managed Democracy!

Sweet, Liberty.

I just did las night because of helldivers

Helldivers cringe

Hell Yeah Brother!

FOR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!

You mean SUPER DEMOCRACY!!!

Cringe

GET SOMEEEEEE

The concept of adulthood is a lie told to small children so they would obey the grown children.

Lol I loved it but when I watched it with my younger brother I had to endure him having really bad nightmares of being sucked into space after he saw the fleet being hit..... Fun times lol

Yeah. And then you found out. .......Oh, my God! NOooooo....

@@trauko1388 we used to have rituals that would draw the line in the sand for this very purpose.

Some Conservative points were well made. Rico's teacher brings up the failings of social scientists resulting in top down authority and how "that which is given has no value". These two points I agree with Conservatives on. Look at how social scientists cooked up alotta the critical theory (like critical race theory) and gender studies crap that's dividing society and may require an iron hand to bring under control. Look at how spoiled Millennials are given so much yet appreciate nothing. Michael Ironside made some damn good points in that scene.

Just like the U.S. Civil War.

Or any space anime.

I think that's more of a reference to Nazi Germany. By 1945, the end of the war, literal children were being drafted into the Wehrmacht due to Germany's massive loss of military aged men.

At the start, the average German soldier was a big ass 28 year old tough guy, at the end they were 19 year old scared kids that were left trying to fight...war sucks...

@@iurhviusdfavhi They were even younger than 19 earlier in the war. If you read the autobiography of Guy Sajer ("The Forgotten Soldier"), who was in the German army during WW2, he and his platoon were all recruited at the age of 16 in the winter of 1942. So Germany ran into manpower shortages much earlier than 1945.

Cringe

Or simp after a guy that is obsessed with another girl

More importantly, don't simp for the state.

@@npcimknot958 I would argue Rico became a walking death-dispenser because he 'died' in combat and came back. It's also useful that he's got no family or home left, but you're not wrong.

No, it teaches us that we should chase the girl, and enlist TODAY. Do it for fascism. Sexy, sexy space fascism.

Don't simp for anyone, ever.

The next line in the book is 'everyone knows that carthage was destroyed'. They changed that to Hiroshima in the film because 90% of the audience would have no idea where or what Carthage was. How things can change, it was only 38 years between the book and the film.

@Atheist Biologist "progressive"

@ Narapoia1, Not at all disagreeing with you here, let’s at least consider the possibility that Carthage reference went over a lot of people’s heads when the book was originally published, too.

@@Narapoia1 Carthago delenda est!

@@Narapoia1 Even worse, Hiroshima is now (and was in the 90s) a thriving city of over a million people...

Helldivers sucks tho

Lmfao, that'll do pig. That'll do. Go play some Starfield or something.@@kelpermoon23

maybe try to connect your mouse to your PC@@kelpermoon23

Danger. Darkness. Dwarves.

I think the satire of the movie works better the way the movie did it.

The book hints that it was a false flag. And the Sky Marshal resigned because the close formation caused the fleet disaster over Klendathu. Bugs didn't have anti-ship artillery in the book.

Heinlein was known for adhering very strictly to known physics, paying attention to details like that. And considering The Moon is a Harsh Mistress involves a similar style of attack (the moon being a bit closer, they say), obviously he would have been entiiiiirely aware that said, I only ever did an audiobook of Starship Troopers, and fell asleep a few times, so I remember the movie far better

I can remember for sure, but I think one of the later movies claimed it was a false flag. And as Chris green said, the book makes that more clear. I like the subtlety

Some things are best implied. Those smart enough know the truth, those who are not have no attack.

Probably how Zim found the brain bug too. The animated movies touch up on it more and its more out in the open with the psychic when it does happen

Making them no different from the bugs, with one central brain controlling hordes of mindless minions... This movie indeed is a lot more complex than poeple give it credit for!

Yeah wouldn't it be terrible if your officers went out of their way to save you and the mission via telepathic warnings. The horror. THE HORROR.

@@AthelstanKing freewill = bad

@@AthelstanKing Well...Carl only did that because he was best friends growing up with Rico and Carmen, and while Carl changed the most of all, he still cared for them. Also, he knew Johnny cared about Carmen and was looking out as his faithful wingman. He already had Zim (Johnny and Dizzy's (( his former crush )) former drill on the mission to catch the brain after it rang from Rico's squad.

Yeah, I think this was probably a teaser for the Game

I didn't play the first one, but I'm pretty sure that's what the video is about. I didn't watch the video.

Honestly, the world would be a better place in some ways if people needed a license to have more than a certain number of kids. Parents should also have to take mandatory classes on childhood development, nutrition, and communication before they are entrusted to raise a child. So many generations of fucked up people doing fucked up things, all because parents don't know what the fuck they're doing.

@@derek96720 only applies to Brits though, not UN citizens in UN regulated territory in UK.

Legitimately this line (not in the books btw) is the only thing that is genuinely an eyebrow raiser, even so rico's parents had no issues nor did carmens so *Shrug*

@@emjay3066 thats not caused by that,

@@emjay3066 yes and nazis breathed air so we should stop. Not everything china does is bad just beacuse china does it. That's tribal mindset.

He doesn't look at all Filipino, though. He looks German.

Ricos roughnecks!

Death from above!

Probably because they cant remember his real name when they think it might be him.

@@FoRmaTiTo No. In the book his mother is killed in a Bug attack while she's visiting Buenos Aires, Johnny's family lives in North America. They're Filipino.

Yeah I was thinking that

Because the creatures are actually real. They spent a lot of time and hard work building each bug and even made them move mechanically - check it - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2cylNnCaUI0.html

Honest to god, netflix originals have spiralled so much. Gonna cancel my subscription now.

Aged surprisingly well

Im pretty sure netfix has better SPECIAL effects cause they have well trained specials to do the job right.

It's Schrodinger's satire. Bad acting, bad writing, sexploitation, overtly "propaganda", basically everyone found it overwhelmingly stupid -- so it becomes, "it's satire bro!" The only people who liked this movie were fanboys of 1950s style agitprop.

@@stevemaurer8120 Nah, it was and is nice action-flick in it's own right. Not that deep or that logical with it's message, but entertaining nonetheless.

@@stevemaurer8120 I mean, it's pretty fucking obvious that it's satire if you actually watch the movie for three seconds - especially if you know literally anything at all about the book. The entire movie is intended as a giant middle finger to Heinlein from start to finish, and it's pretty dumb to claim otherwise.

The other brilliant point of the movie is that the source material, Heinleins book actually took itself seriously. That militaristic outlook of the society, the citizen model introduced weren't warnings like in 1984 but what Heinlein actually thought would make a good society. So Paul Verhoeven took a book that depicted in the authors eyes a hypermeritocratic militaristic borderline fascist utopia and turned it upside down.

@@kiraselby3790 Satire requires sophistication, a keen sense of irony. This movie is more like a guy doing a "satire" of Carmina Burana by repeating it entirely in autotuned fart noises.

The best CGi is that one which you don't even recognize as cgi.

She is a tremendous anchor around the neck of any movie she's in. My favorite Brosnan Bond is "The World Is Not Enough." Sophie Marceu was an epic Bond villain, and smokin' HAWT! Then Richards pops up in a Russian nuclear weapons depot as a nuclear physicist wearing a tank top and short-shorts. Ugh... Even Brosnan looked pained in their scenes together. Fortunately, she didn't have much presence or impact on the story, but she kept it from being up there with 'From Russia With Love,' 'Goldfinger,' 'For Your Eyes Only,' and 'Skyfall.'

@@CowboyRobot2000 I remember watching this as a young teen and I thought she was strange looking too. I can't remember who it was who said she always looks like she's just smelt a particularly smelly guff. Honestly I thought that girl who trains with her during the fleet scenes was much prettier and more elegant looking.

@@mikesully110 tasty coma wife

Hahaha

Savage

OMG, yes!

Indeed!

i'd buy that for a dollar

5:58 "Would you like to know more?" Was the clickbait at the end of every MSN article for a while. Always saw the use in the film as comment on the risk of Microsoft taking over the news industry.

​@@ChrisisisB The irony is they were still not wrong, that has come to pass anyway. They predicted the internet would be an endless circle of news from the same source, keeping you in their propaganda loop of mental control under the guise of "informing" you more.

That quote sounds more fit a collectivist mentality than a libertanian one.

@@Cyricist001 Not everything is as simple as "collectivist" vs liberty. Individual freedom is preserved by people who sacrifice their own autonomy for the group's.

@@Cyricist001 Taken without context, yes. However, in the book it is established exceedingly well that being a full citizen with voting rights (non-citizens have total equality of rights, other than voting - there's none of that bizarre "pregnant license" the movie invented) is a personal choice. They first show you how much you have to sacrifice before you complete the enlisting process, and you can quit anytime you want. The point is that only someone who is willing to lay down his life to protect the people of the country should have a say in how it is actually run. Being a soldier is not something that is common or even looked really high-upon - Rico's dad can't even understand why he won't go into business like everyone else. Also, they are supposed to be MOBILE infantry - as in skilled troops with high-tech mechanized suits, not entire battalions of stupid grunts running with rifles, that's just sad really.

@@Mrdardas99 the movie was a piss take of the authors ideas by the films director which I’m honestly ok with I appreciate the book for its insight and good story and the film for its fun 🤩 nature.

@@Mrdardas99 Yep. The landing /power suits that could "leap tall buildings" and the mini nukes they carried.!! These things were smaller versions of what you saw in Pacific Rim..

And then later that huge bug literally sucked that guy's brains out.

Well, how big of brains did these actors have, like maybe not so hard to do?

Dude I swear he drops another brains line like that in something! Total Recall or Scanners, I can't remember! Does that ring a bell??

Michael Ironside is a legendary human being. The undisputed king of the cheese...

@@victorboucher675 - Just a light low-cal snack. Horderves. Mostly full of air. That first trooper was probably a plant. Just to piss the big bug off.

For the time. At least we still have those incredible CGI shorts made by Astartes

I think I hear cries of 'Hold my beer !'.

@@arsennegiovanna That series by Astartes is fucking amazing. I wasnt even interested in 40k until I stumbled upon that work of art.

@@arsennegiovanna to bad they got swallowed up by games workshop and got stripped of all the awesome audio work and music

I am Alpharius.

One of the elements the director accidentally left in from the book.

Service guarantees citizenship, of course.

@@AHagridLookalike Rico dad argued with him about enlisting. His parent are civilians and they were doing fine.

The class society of ancient Rome had citizens and civilians. Women were also considered civilians. Robert Anson Heinlein had this irrational belief in the existence of the warrior who would use force for the good of the many. In all his work he failed to address a solution to the exploitative relationship between 'owners' and 'employee'. Ultimately, the 'Employee' makes the products, takes those products to the market, sells the same products, he made, to himself and finally he pays a fee known as Profit to some 'Owner' for a permission to own the same products he made and sold to himself. The owner gets to collect profit for doing nothing.....and many call that 'earning' instead of 'taking'. The way forward to a better society is to increase and maintain a strong minimum purchasing power of the end-consumer using the magic formula. (Magic Formula: 'Your minimum Purchasing Power' = 'minimum wage' + 'Benefits payments' - 'Cost of dignified living from cradle to grave' - 'Taxes, fees, penalties') Firms are no more "legal entities" than your back-up power generator is a "legal entity", and it does not matter if it runs on fossil fuels or if a bunch of humans must run on treadmills all day. Firms are just property and should be treated as such by the laws. Save the minimum purchasing power of the human citizens instead of saving businesses/firms.

@@reasonerenlightened2456 - It's pretty obvious you've never attempted to start and own a business. The vast majority of business owners start from scratch, need to pay wages, taxes, upkeep, rent, benefits, insurance, etc. If there is a profit after all that, they get to pay themselves and feed their families. If not, they need to find ways to keep going, or they lose their entire investment. Most business owners are the first ones there and the last ones out. They are the ones that provide jobs for everyone else, and that's possible because instead of depending on someone else to make a living, they take on the entire risk and monetary investment of the business. Instead of whining about how unfair it is that a fairly successful business owner pretty well off, you could learn HOW they succeeded. Unless that's too much work for you.

What I like to describe as “the holy trinity” of satirical sci-fi 👍🏻

@@Splenetic- idk man def add demolition man to that list

The other 2 are Minority Report and Blade Runner

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Don't forget Terminator and even better Terminator 2

Legendary words

@@PaulSmith-nb6md from the man who caught the brain bug 😎💪

Or bust a cap in its occiput....

Sgt Zim absolute legend.

Medic!

I wish they showed rico as the comptent commander he is in tje books

You can even find skeletons on bug planets that look like the troopers in this movie

It's not called a forlorn hope for nothing! First in the breach is the first to die!

part of the satire of course

@@Zontar82 haha look how smart we are for pointing out the obvious while we sit on our asses and have poor people do all the grunt work for us

@@sofaking7045 ....what

@@Zontar82 ah yes I feel like a genius watching soldiers shooting bugs up knowing how truly evil the military is

OmG tHaNkS fOr QuOtInG. Dipshit.

@@JohnSmith-qi6pm Welcome to the Roughnecks, Rico's Rouchnecks! Fuck Face.

@@JohnSmith-qi6pm It's afraid!!

@@JohnSmith-qi6pm you're the one who's brains the queen ate first aren't you?? cus only a brainless would say something so....thoughtless 😈

@@JohnSmith-qi6pm yOu MaqD BrO

Until you get the the 3rd one then it's shocking lol

That's not really saying much

Edgy*

What’s In my toilet after waking each morning looks better than she-sulk 😂😂😂

​@@mucy2807 shit hulk

Honestly, I prefer the way it went down in the movie much more. Xander might have been an arrogant douche, but he wasn't a bad guy in the end. He was courageous in the face of death and I like how the movie makes us empathize with him at the end.

@@derek96720 Agreed

Dizzy was way better

@@s1050 yes, she was...

Trust me. The final cut was the more appropriate cut. How's the song go? I like her, she likes him and he loves someone else.

*Verhoeven

Going Dutch

He was probably already wearing a robe with nothing underneath.

@@ktowniecity7269 Commando?

“You mean I don’t have to do that part when I get back to my hotel room? Wunderbar!”

one of a few.

Book got deeper details even Johnny Rico's dad survived and became a private under Johnny Rico.

@@dennis4774 yeah the book is alot less satire and much more thought provoking I learned

One of my top 5 movies of all time. Such delicious 80s-90s action cheese, but with solid satirical undertones. Drinker seems like my kinda dude. Drinker needs to host a watch party at some point where 100 people show up, get blasted, and marathon a bunch of action schlock.

A key point from Sargon: "In ancient republics, it was the citizens that voted, and the citizens that fought. The people that defend what you have are the ones with the franchise. And these days, you defend what you have by paying your taxes, which funds an army, which is why every pacifist is a hypocrite. Their life would not exist were it not for their ability as citizens to provide force."

Put some sunglasses on. They live.

Service guarantees citizenship?

Me too ✋

In the movie Johnny was a self-centred jock with fake confidence based on his parents' social status. He signed up because he wanted to impress his girlfriend and didn't even stop to think for a second about what he has learnt in class. He wasn't directionless, but took life too lightly and thought that he could breeze through things as he was used to it, but ends up in the bottom rung of the military. Drinker is relying on the director's post-creation interpretations too much.

Yeah, 18 year olds are like that in general.

Yes SIR

For Super Earth!

Maybe because they weren't training for bug fights yet?

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The guy who said it appears dead during the landing sequence. Seems like he died before even touching down.

If Im not mistaken, he told everyone to remember their training & he then got killed by a bug as soon as he got off the landing craft-love this film!

Yeah that's part of it that's actually pretty funny. They're trained for urban combat against humanoids but they end up fighting giant bugs in open desert.

read the book , its a bigg point of power of the single man

The actual lesson is that can’t win a war with only nukes.

Clancy Brown truly is underrated, both here and in Highlander.

@@TysoniusRex And as Mr. Krabs!

@@TysoniusRex Truly untapped potential.

The first Star Wars movie was based on a British near-suicidal Royal Air Force squadron raid on German dams.

@@celtspeaksgoth7251 Damn! I knew it was based on Allied WW2 media, but I didn't know it was something that specific (or intense)

Imagine no crime, only downside is we speak german. Seems like a utopia compared to the hellscape (((theyve))) created. Hell, even the empire is arguably better than the rebels, but still not as "good" as the troopers universe.

fucking result! bean was proper shite

the boob action in this flick was worth the admission alone

@Alan Well your obviously young.

@Alan PG movie or R movie? 13-year old: R!

Good one

@@gsesquire3441 You seem like a lot of fun. I’ll remember to pander to the lowest common denominator when you are in the room. 😂

@@gsesquire3441 But it all pays off when that one guy goes "I'd like to know more!" It's called putting yourself out there.

@@gsesquire3441 And why would laughter behind your back be relevant when their laughter is based on their own ignorance? 😂 You’re funny.

@@Thomas-fz9xw BAM. Thomas gets it. Mr. Myagi gave chores to Danial. Only Danial didn’t realize his lesson was multi-layered. You can find use in everything around you, even mundane tasks. You can learn quicker and better when just the right emotion powers the neuronal connections being created and integrated. Don’t always assume you are the wisest one in the room because of your preconceived notions of superiority over others. You’re basically the Karate Kid before the opening credits. 😂

Sean Connery: "You don't approve? Well too bad -- we're in this for the species, boys and girls; it's simple numbers. They have more. And every day, I have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths." Director: Yeeeaah... no.

Nah they were good actors just the people were too stupid to see they live in a fascist america

People never think: "they're good at acting, but they're playing totally average, unsympathetic, and/or unlikable people, so they're acting like average, unsympathetic, and/or unlikable because that's the role they're in, and the good director made it clear to them what they're expected to do"

@@TransRoofKorean The actor who uttered that line was Neil Patrick Harris. That actor is actually really good in my book. And, yeah... the character he was playing was a douche.

@@gilian2587 Actual Sean Connery: "Sho you don't approve? Well too bad ---we're in this for the shpecies boys and ladies; it's shimple numbers"....

Communal showers are already standard in many of the Netherlands naval vessals. Why you get so many in the British navy volunteering for exchange programs with them.

I’m surprised they didn’t explain the Double Dutch Rudder.

Yes, our people have a thing for the naked and degenerate I'm affraid.

@@arbanalechordin4710 Meh...if anything, clothing is degenerate. It makes people weak. The microbiological structures in our body that regulated our internal environment have atrophied since the advent of clothing.

@Char Aznable 😂 Which? The Double Dutch Rudder, or the reliance on clothing?

How can you call it propaganda when they have journos getting killed on the front lines broadcasting live? I think this review is complete shit. Drinker didn't read the book and neither did Paul Verhoeven. The Sky-Marshall who screwed up took full responsibility and stepped down, that's not a tyranny. Yes, the federal network is punchy and over-the-top... so? Go rewatch the classroom scene where Ironside explains about violence, Drinker.

@@captainmaim Film and book are two different adaptations through different eyes. I for one have never read the books but love the movies, and Drinkers 3/4 there. Soooo you be a little salty huh...

I appreciated that

@@captainmaim And if this was a review of the BOOK your point would be perfectly valid.

@@Razzlion Same shit happens in the movie, what are you talking about?

That sounds like something a bug supporter would say.....

Insects, arachnids, THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG

FRANKLY I find the idea of a bug that thinks OFFENSIVE - the film even manages to satirise today's ideology that being offended = being right.

The plasma-launching ones did have 8 legs tho -

I think what you're trying to say is "But where were the spiders?"

FOR DEMOCRACY

He's THE Kurgan.

Also the sadistic prison guard from the shawshank redemption and Mr Krabs

He's also going to always be the best Lex Luthor. he was the voice of him in the animated Superman show.

He's the prison guard from Shawshank.....No he's Mr Krabs from Spongebob....

You can add Dark Hold? From Invincible!

Richards didn't move me an inch. on the other side, Dina Meyer is the one I can't look away from. I find her like 200% hotter.

@@waltercomunello121 I agree she was fine she had the perfect face for the curly hair

@@lonemaus562 Agreed! I felt like Dina Meyer had a gorgeous "girl next door" look with her curls and had a great body... Respectfully speaking of course 👀.

DENISE RICHARDS, THE ONE AND ONLY!

Just saw a really stupid 'didn't age well' review of this awesome movie on Screen Rant complaining the movie lacked diversity and had a 90210 cast. Ahhh! That's the point. It's a movie satire about a facsist society (i.e. 'perfect people') made in the 90's. So yeah it's got to have perfect looking 90s actors. Anything else wouldn't work.

You call children that?

This is not even hyperbole for a certain percentage of our population.

lol cant say I got ammo for christmass but my sister and I got 22 rifles one year.

You call them stocking stuffers, I call them finger bangs.

I always got a bulk-pack of .22LR ammo for Christmas as a kid, to use in my Ruger 10-22. Just because Drinker grew up in a fascist monarchy that doesn't allow him much freedom doesn't mean that everyone else grew up that way. I highly suggest he get some perspective and come on over to Kentucky for some BBQ, bourbon, and range time with various weapons. IN THAT ORDER!

Easily believable. The man is a troll of the highest skill

Watch Showgirls for more proof 😂

TALK ABOUT A BALLER MOVE

Yeah, so hard to find in hollywood....

@@Adjustment42 IKR, but to do it for satirical purposes rather than to coin it from your dumb audience without blowing the game...

My father hated it because he read the original book by Heinlein and the movie is almost NOTHING like it. I fully agree. Paul Verhoeven didn't even bother to read it and just decided to dick around making something else that people now associate with Starship Troopers instead of the actual damn book that the movie gets its namesake from.

@@arnox4554 and that's why reading is bad.

@@arnox4554 You're right, but _maybe_ don't have this comment under the guy talking about a good day with his late father.

@@Thomas-fz9xw took the words from my mouth

@@Thomas-fz9xw Fair enough. I apologize but it had to be said and no one else was saying it.

this movie and i believe the CGI animated series are targeting kids like i was back then, teenage and pre-teenage kids. remember animax? i was no more than 13 years old. starship troopers, macross, and gundam wing is an adult theme shows targeting the kids. i related to them more once i grew up. back then i only watched them because they have cool space ships, mechs, and cool battle scenes. after i grew up, "shit, those shows is way deeper than they appear to be"

You know it honestly just reinforces the artificial propagandistic nature of the film.

It's very american.

That was the point of the backdrop to drive the satire home. Along with the commercials in the movie that were almost 1 to 1's of the original WW2 commercials to drive up recruitment.

@@begobolehsjwjangan2359 I smell animax fan of culture. Also I agree with certain animes does go deeper in values than average normies view of anime fans.

Thank you for bringing this up.

I like the movie more but I still want to see power armor lobbing nuclear warheads. That stuff makes wh40k space marines look like scrubs

god the book was so good, just unapologetic fascist propoganda from the perspective of someone indoctrinated by and actively engaging in the system. Was so very good to read.

@@derekpeterson6325 HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

There's a story of Verhoven reading the first two chapters, hating it so much he threw the book across the room, then made the movie he wanted.

Love that guy!! Especially his score for Conan the Barbarian. Makes me want to go bare chested and forge some steel!

@@Mr.Quinlan888 oh boy, the Conan soundtrack is awesome as well... So true

I didn’t know that Basil did the music on this film, too. Time to rewatch this.

Yes!!!!! The soundtrack is bomb! One of the best of the 90s.

“Citizen”

it is litterally my numer 1 movie, this came out when I was hitting puberty and was the "cool" movie of the time.

@@Stinkyremy My dad wanted to see it so bad when it came out that he brought the whole family to see it. I was 6. My mom got really mad. My life was changed for forever in the right direction. I instantly asked for all the action figures for Christmas.

@@42k78 it is a 15 movie, how did you get to see it when you were 6?

@@Stinkyremy Starship Troopers came out in 97 so I was actually 9. I had to look it up.

Total Recall is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick and his stories are anything but shallow. And even if the adaptations are packed as action based sc-fi films, they always retain the philosophical essence of the source material. Just look at Blade Runner and Minority Report.

"Running Man" was also another wonderful action satire on Government/Media collusion and Propaganda.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

@@MW-bi1pi- Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out.

Its called talent, something painfully lacking in modern filmmakers

It has everything I could want in a movie - excellent action, good acting, exciting and unpredictable plot twists, Denise Richards looking beautiful and solid satire