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Summary: Totally bugged
Review: This movie has so many bugs, I just tell U a few funny ones: The meteorite, which destroys Buenos Aires is travelling under lightspeed and gets to earth in an instant. The bugs don't have any technology, but manage to send this big stone exactly to one city. The human race managed to travel faster than light, but can't see a meteorite coming slowly in on earth. The bugs live on a planet, where there is no vegetation and nothing to eat. Earth is sending troopers (some kina space marines) to fight with the bad bugs in hand to hand (or machine gun to claw)combat, instead of blowing the whole place up. The troopers are weak girls and boys......This movie is ironic! And it should be shown only to really grown up adults, who can understand this irony! It is not for those 14 year olds, who mostly watched it! Only adults, who can get some kind of positively sick, can regard it as fun-movie. The satire on Nazi-uniforms, typical US-war propaganda and stalinistic lifestyle has to be understood! It's a lot of gore there, yes, and it's funny (but only the first five minutes). For all the prude US-citizens, who even care for the so called sex/nudity: I could'nt see any sex in this movie, or is kissing considered sex? And some naked breasts in a shower scene is not a lot of nudity. In Europe you get more breasts to see in the commercial break, than in this movie! If You can stand it (as an intelligent adult), watch this movie once, enjoy the gore and the fun parts and then forget about it.
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Summary: Good but not a "classic"
Review: Wherein the special effects wizardry take center stage in this "big bug" tale, that alone does not come close to matching the greatness of true sci-fi films like "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "The War of the Worlds," "2001: A Space Odyssey," or even "Planet of the Apes." I really feel that the film deserves a "3 1/2" rating! Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, and the rest of the "pretty" cast have a few more roles to log under their belts before one can take them seriously as thespians. For one into the technical aspects of Hollywood moviemaking, the film is a winner. For someone who wants an intriguing story about monster insects, stick with "Them!"
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Summary: What a Terrible Movie.
Review: Clearly aimed at teens, with a cast of teens who can not act, very sick and graphic violence, and a battle with giant bugs that have nothing to do with Robert Heinlein's novel, Starship Troopers should be retitled, Starship gone down and can't get up again.
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Summary: Starship Troppers rule!
Review: This is the best movie I have seen in years. It has a great story and some fantasic special effects. The actors are first class and gets an A+. If you like Sci.fi and you haven't seen this movie yet, buy it!
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Summary: Words cannot describe how bad this movie is.....
Review: .....but I'll try my best. Allow me to preface my comments by making it clear that I LOVED the book. It was great, I recommend it highly. Now, to commence with the demolition. "Why?" is the question that popped into my head most often while watching this movie. "Why did they combine the characters of Lt. Razcak and Rico's teacher?" "Why did they make the power suits much less powerful than they were in the book?" "Why were the skinnies (another alien race from the book, separate from both bugs and humans) totally absent?" "Why was the training camp much less gritty and spartan than it was in the book?" "Why was the political commentary on Earth society missing entirely?" This movie might be worth watching on a "USA: Up All Night" camp-fest, but not for anything other than that. The book never should have been made into a 2-hour action movie. Even a wonderful talent like Paul Veerhoven (I still love "Total Recall,") couldn't do anything with the story in that short an amount of time. There's simply too much stuff in the book to cut it down to feature-length. It should have been a mini-series (or maybe even a full series) on the Sci-Fi Channel in order for it to be accurrately portrayed. Watch the syndicated cartoon "Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles," but don't get withing 5 feet of this dung heap.
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Summary: A great and troubling movie....
Review: In my travels through some of the world's better universities, this movie actually was mentioned in lectures twice. The first time I head of it was in the U.S. when one of my professors called it a "Nazi movie" and said that the only thing he could really do was identify with the bugs, that they were "so cute with their little pincers..." The second time was in an ethics course in Britain when it was to be watched as a study on militarism. And strangely, it sufficed in this role. This is one haunting movie. The human race gets all bent out of shape about fighting bugs.... society becomes warped because of an outside threat.... Obviously, this movie speaks on oh-so-many-levels, which is really something for a movie about a bunch of twentysomethings leaving off to fight bugs..... I love this movie (though, for my little Buddhist professor, it is a Nazi movie...) because it is so deep for something so shallow. And fun to watch....
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Summary: We're the good guys (or are we?) in the war against the bugs
Review: Paul Verhoeven directs yet another sci-fi near classic with Starship Troopers. Definitely not as good as Robocop, but much better than (although exhibiting some of the same misguided reliance on SFX as) Total Recall, this movie attempts to bring Robert Heinlein's book to the screen. Perhaps Verhoeven achieves this goal too well, as I found Heinlein's book to suffer from a similar lack of focus. The movie takes us into a fascist, militaristic society of the future Earth. Humans are expected to enlist in the military in order to gain the rights that go with citizenship. The military government is on a quest of xenophobic galactic expansion. But I'm not sure we're supposed to realise this, or whether we're supposed to buy into the government view - perhaps it's the intention of the movie to be vague about this. Our (anti)heroes are a bunch of clean-cut but empty-headed pretty boys and girls who join the military for a bit of excitement and the chance to visit foreign worlds and kill things whose only crime is that they're fairly ugly, and they live on worlds we humans want to turn into vast alien graveyards. As our simpleton-heroes go through basic training, the war is heating up, as the human forces fight towards the bugs' homeworld. Without giving too much away, madcap hijinks ensue, along with sparkling-teeth grins from our dull, but somehow engaging heroes (or are they villains?), a bit of co-ed nudity, violent dismemberment, torture, great special effects, lots of squishy alien villains (or victims) - basically, all anyone could want from a rip-roaring sci-fi film with no appreciable moral message (or is there?). Annoyingly (or perhaps refreshingly - you decide), the movie leaves its morality for us to judge - who's bad? Who's good? Who knows? Verhoeven isn't giving anything away. I think the director is making a mistake in making the heroes so simpleminded in their acceptance of the military system they're told to support. In reality, intelligent and enlightened people can just as easily be convinced to blithely follow dubious causes and commit crimes in the name of 'freedom'. I feel the movie perhaps makes the human protagonists too stupid to be believable, although perhaps a society where those in power own the media can produce such credulousness in its citizens. Perhaps we, in our media-dominated society, should be able to answer this (and perhaps that is a major message of this movie). One quick observation related to a recent review: why is it that some reviewers often decry fairly innocuous nudity, while extremely vicious and unnecessary violence is left unquestioned? It's so common for people (and the MPAA) to be up in arms about nudity in movies, even when the nudity is consensual and harmless, while multiple humans getting torn apart, and inflictions of violence and torture on helpless creatures (or human beings), are fairly safe from the editing scissors. Why is that?
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Summary: Only a dead Melrose Place Star is a good Melrose Place Star
Review: This movie is probably the dumbest one of all time, well perhaps Rambo III and Godzilla are even worse .... And this outer-space trash from the director of two science-fiction cult classics called "Robocop" and "Total Recall". Verhoeven should be ashamed of having directed this nonsense. And to say one or two words about the "cast" I can only add to my embarassment that this movie contains no acting at all. The only good scenes throughout the movie are the ones` when these awful "Beverly Hills"-teenagers are torn apart by the bugs, Hurray ....! Even the climax doesn`t work ..... Everyone who calls this movie a masterpiece deserves to be eaten by an alien-bug.
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Summary: The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug!
Review: Starship Troopers is a must see movie for any fan of Science Fiction or Insecticide! Extremely bloody, insanely hokey, this film should not in any way be taken seriously. Although the storyline does have some serious elements (playing up the power of propaganda) it mostly does one thing, and that is: It Makes You Hate Bugs! Put aside all the naziesque similarities, the only over all message I got was that in any war, the enemy is nothing but an enemy. And it's either me or them. It sure as hell isn't gonna be me! The special effects were what made the movie, it's just as good on mute as it is with the sound blaring. Pure eye candy fun. The gore is probably what limited this movie's success at the box office, but it's only a movie! The bugs aren't real! And my weren't those body parts realistic! Throw in Denise Richards and you can't go wrong! Paul Verhoeven is definitely a misunderstood genius and this movie proves it. An all out testosterone/adrenaline cocktail that you'll watch again and again. If you haven't seen it yet just buy it, there's no point in renting it unless you like throwing away money. This is a solid video purchase for any home collection. Especially if you have any insect phobias!
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Summary: This Movie SUCKS!
Review: This is the worst movie ever. Don't rent it! Save your money and yourself! The only good thing was the bugs. The acting is BAD, and WHY did they put Denise Richards in it...in any movie for that matter! What's with the whole Nazi thing? And are the nude scenes really necessary? The story is SO unrealistic! I suggest reading the book and watching the TV show! They're both way better. The movie doesn't even deserve one star!
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