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Summary: I hope Virginia was well paid
Review: The idea that "Starship Troopers" had been made into a movie was quite exciting. I had read the book in my early teens and loved it. Re-reading it as an adult gave me an appreciation for Heinlein's ability to write a juvenile adventure with hard looks at jingoism and the horrors of war tucked inside. Film making technology has evolved to the point that sci-fi settings can be dealt with without having to have a super-hero's "willing suspension of disbelief" and some really fine films, like "Blade Runner", have shown plots don't have to be dumbed down for us poor sci-fi fans. This film just does not deliver the goods. It is currently in the lead on my "Worst Film Ever Made" list.
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Summary: Good looking film
Review: This is one of those films that as long as you're not looking for much of a plot, you'll do fine. I really liked the idea behind it, though. It was interesting to see the director's version of a future fascist state. The look of the bugs is kinda cheesy, though. And I think the dialogue is scarier than the bugs ever were.
Still, it works pretty good as a popcorn DVD movie that doesn't require a lot of thought.
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Summary: Steer clear of this folks! Another marketing method!
Review: Funny, these film companies just don't get it! You buy a DVD product thinking that your getting the best possible product you can buy. Then a few months/years go by and the movie companies who market these movies think if they create some new packaging, put two discs in the package instead of one and market it with lame 'extra' film commentaries, the movie companies will make even more money! WRONG!!I love this movie! No, I take that back, this movie rocks like no other! It's a great concept and even though it doesn't live up to the brilliant original story of Robert Heinlein, it still delivers the goods for a new generation of film-goers! What really doesn't fly with this new DVD release is that it's marketed to include supposed "new" material. The problem is the original DVD provides the same material! You aren't really treated to anything new in comparison to the original DVD. The commentaries featuring the stars is boring with them talking about the marvels of CGI and how this and that happened on the set, tell us something we don't know!! I encourage people, if you don't have the original "Starship Troopers" DVD-get it! You will not be dissappointed! It's got plenty of deleted scenes, commentary and featurettes to knock your socks off! If you have not seen the CGI animated series, you need to get those too! They're completely brilliant and fun to watch! Steer clear of this marketing ploy! The price is ridiculous for what your getting and the features are really nothing new, no matter how nice the new DVD cover looks! Be well!
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Summary: Could have been an ok movie
Review: The disappointing thing about this movie is the apparent hostility that the director and screenwriter had for the concepts in the original novel. For them to make a sci-fi action movie giving us their view of the future is one thing. To (apparently) deliberately take another artist's work and distort his vision is entirely another. I often find myself in disagreement with Mr. Heinlein on many issues, but to take his work, deliberately change the message of that work and then use his title in an apparent attempt to capitalize on his reputation is reprehensible and, for me at least, prevents me from enjoying the rather good technical aspects of the film.
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Summary: Where is Mr Rico?
Review: Starship Troopers is one of those books I read every year or two, and one of those films I never want to see again. The film omits character development altogether, so you never get to know Juan Rico, the main protagonist of the book, and ignores completely the thrust of the story, which is Mr. Rico's growth from a pup to a leader of men. I was especially bothered by the films cavalier attitude with regard to violence and sexual morality, which were the opposite of what Robert Heinlein's novel depicted -- a futuristic society that goes back to simpler, stricter mores.
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Summary: Like watching a horrific traffic accident
Review: I'm sorry they ever committed this movie to videotape and DVD. What a severe waste of time and talent on the part of so many people putting this gory, plotless piece of trash together. It's like watching a traffic accident--you just can't take your eyes off the carnage. I watched the entire movie, waiting for it to improve, hoping that it would somehow redeem itself, but it never did. RoboCop at least tempered its excessive violence with the subplot of the protagonist's loss of humanity. Any attempt at social commentary is totally obscured in this movie by the graphic violence and shoddy acting. Normally, I give films I don't like a second chance, but there's nothing even remotely compelling me to watch this again on DVD, not even the inclusion of deleted scenes. I can honestly say that this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and that's saying something since I'm a sucker for sci-fi, and so many of these films degenerate into techno-splatter or are more concerned with visual effects than plot. Like another reviewer, I, too, am sorry that I had to give it even one star. If negative star ratings were possible, this would be a black hole.
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Summary: I'm sorry I have to give this filme even one star!
Review: The Top 10 reasons it is awful!
10.) They have the technology to travel through space, blow mountains up, and saturation nuke planets...and yet they have nothing to detect/ shoot down a large asteroid traveling towards earth?
9.) They reload 1 time during the whole film.
8.) In future sports no one ever tackles an opposing team member.
7.) The smartest man alive is a nazi outfit sporting, psychic, Doogie Howser.
6.) The bugs should've starved long ago because there is nothing on those planets but rocks.
5.) Military intellegence can't tell the difference between harmless bursts of light, and rear-end launched, ship destoying, bug laser blasts.
4.) Jets bomb the devil out of the bugs completely incenerating 1 tiny group of them, and then they send in the footsoldiers.
3.) Even though the marines are shown to blow away the nerve center of the bugs to take them down for good, they inherently blast small sections of arms, legs, etc., until the bug kills the marine, or several of his buddies.
2.) They are never going to use these planets ever, but yet instead of nuking them they decide to send marine footsoldiers against the bugs.
1.) If the greatest warrior of the future is Casper Van Dien we never would've lasted through 1 battle.
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Summary: Forget the Movie...Read the Book
Review: The book resonates with the ideals of loyalty, self-sacrifice and bravery, not to mention a system of enfrancising voters that this country could use today. The Movie is a disappointing collection of disjointed gratuitous violence, sex and insipid dialogue.
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Summary: Heinlein would cry if he saw this.
Review: This movie is based...loosely...on the great science fiction novel of the same name written by Robert Heinlein. The book is an all time sci-fi classic about honor, politics, government, and personal struggle. The movie is a "90210" type parody of this great work. The movie is technically fine, with good special effects and plenty of gore. The story in the movie is silly and soap opera compared to the book. The movie is a waste of your time if you are looking for the great substance science fiction is capable of. If you want blood, gore, brief nudity...then have at the movie.
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Summary: Kill The Bugs!
Review: THis is a great testorone flick. The action is fast-paced, the dialogue campy, the enemy is one everyone can hate and the hero is a big dumb handsome guy, just like me!!
The earth has been unified under a quasi-military regime that has brought stability, peace and space travel. During these travels, we encounter the BUGS, space-voyaging insects. Inevitably, the two cultures clash inan interstellar war. The story, from Heinlein's book, focuses on a small group of Space Marines and their battles with the bugs. The film deviates from the book, with the addition of a love interest, but that's ok.
The film spawned a series, Roughnecks, that may be even better, story-wise, than the film.
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