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Summary: american heroes
Review: I really, really, really, really liked the movie because it was really bloody and gorey movie. bye,bye
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Summary: Good movie, if you haven't read the book...
Review: Thus far, there are, (that I know of) three films adapted from the science fiction works of the late Robert A. Heinlein. This one, The Puppet Masters, and Destination Moon (an old affair which was hailed for technical accuracy more than anything else). I cannot say I've read the book, but I LOVED the movie. Another reviewer commented that "Heinlein would weep" if he'd seen this, or somesuch. I also saw the other two films mentioned above, and read The Puppet Masters. The Puppet Masters was a good movie, but having read the book spoiled the experience, since it really didn't follow the book very well, especially at the end. I think I would have enjoyed the movie if I hadn't read the book first. This seems to be a recurring theme in film adaptations of Heinlein's work. So, in short, it's a good film; if you haven't seen it, see it. If you also want to read the book, you might want to wait until AFTER you've seen the movie. This film contains blood and gore, people being shot or ripped to pieces, and a little frontal nudity, (but it's not gratuitous). And if any movie-makers are reading this, we need someone to make Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress into movies. And please, please, PLEASE... follow the books! Thanks!
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Summary: Heinlein would weep
Review: The only description that truly does this movie justice is AWFUL! That is the most polite word I can use in this forum. To have ruined one of Robert Heinlein's most wonderful novels in this way makes me positively ill. I loved the book, hated the movie. Perhaps the director should have bothered to READ the book before he attempted to make the film.
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Summary: Great escapist fare!
Review: This is one of the finest High Adventure films ever made. I was captivated in the first few scenes, and was on the edge of my seat until the closing credits. The monsters are horrific, and still inspire awe and fear, even though I've seen the movie a dozen times. If you love space adventure at its best, this is an excellent movie to purchase. It will continue to satisfy after many viewings. Sure, some aspects are a bit corny, but, for me, that simply adds to the aura of this soon-to-be cult classic.
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Summary: Nazis in space!
Review: Verhoven sure knows how to do camp. You got to give him credit for that. Nowhere in this movie are any of the scenes truly "serious," and yet the menancing attitudes that story's characters develop as the tale unfolds really give the whole production an edge that I found a welcome surprise. Pulp sci-fi with a dash of social commentary? Cool. Reminds me of the science fictions of the 50's. A fun, slick homage to the genre... C'mon, our heroes wear nazi uniforms for goodness sakes! (The fact that the main characters are from Argentina made me laugh out loud; great touch) Wonderful layers of context that make this flick more than the sum of its (apparent) parts.
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Summary: Buff Bods, Big Guns, & Bugs: Friendly Fascism in Troopers
Review: No stranger to the nuances of speculative fiction as seen through the camera lens, Paul Verhoeven throws controversy into most of his productions, including the increased violence of Robocop and the continually questioned reality of Total Recall. Starship Troopers is no exception to this trend, creating a very distinctive schism in film criticism between those who saw it as an endorsement of a pro-military stance and those who consider it to be a wry attack on the ideas it purports. Both groups keyed in on the visual appeal of the film and formed their opinions based on their perceptions of audience reaction. In choosing to adapt Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel, Verhoeven creates a film which manages to simultaneously negotiate the controversy and add to it. Verhoeven concentrates on the visual pleasures inherent in this future of killing, raiding the casts of various soap operas (and linking the thrill of viewed combat with the voyeurism of attractive people) for his characters to exemplify the portrayal of killing the enemy as a glamorous occupation in most war films. As an intelligent satire of war films, the dialogue is filled with ironic machismo that implicates media from WWII era recruitment films (both US and German) to coverage by CNN. Through the "breaking news" appearing in the film, Verhoeven plays with the societal changes as speculated by Heinlein, or what Heinlein called "a democracy in which the poll tax is putting in a term of voluntary service--which could be as a garbage collector." While the troopers are out there cleaning up the galaxy, Verhoeven deliberately invokes Nazi imagery - including copying shot compositions from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of Will and World War II newsreels like Prelude to War - as an integrated part of the film's microcosm; the attainment of this bright future is not without a hidden cost. Verhoeven throws the audience headfirst into Starship Troopers without defusing any of the controversial landmines which pepper the different layers of this seductive dystopia. Perhaps only echoes of the novel's controversial political subtext have survived, and yes, the film may occasionally falter as social satire as the "two parts ultra-violence" component of Verhoeven's film formula is overamped and coupled with the fascistic imagery; even one of the film's producers, Jon Davison, has referred to the veteranocracy of Starship Troopers as a "fascist utopia", which has to be one of the boldest representations of a future world ever filmed. As a cheeky futuristic hybrid of Saved by the Bell and The Green Berets, the snippets from the recruiting videos and news bulletins (deftly used in the previous film Robocop) show that Verhoeven has dished up a "really tasty" (in a Naked Lunch fashion) propaganda period piece for the American film system using many of its own World War II conceits. Taking a different turn from the "combat science fiction" so adroitly exemplified in Cameron's Aliens, Starship Troopers invites discussion of the imagery and military/political rhetoric laden in the film. Goebbel himself perceived the weakness of propaganda in the face of education, as evidenced through his speech at the Berlin Krolloper in 1937 where he said, "At the moment that propaganda is recognized as such it becomes ineffective." As for the DVD treatment, this is a first-class disc, loaded to the brim with lots of amazing extras. Pay particular attention to Verhoeven's commentary as you watch the film. The additional materials will give you an interesting insight into the world of cinema. In terms of technical specifications, the 5.1 Dolby sound will rock the foundations of your house, and the quality of the transfer is one of the best I've seen (the CGI looks amazing). A superb film, both in terms of technical prowess and content.
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Summary: typical american
Review: I am from Germany and we had the fascists 60 years ago, I know how to make a satire about fascists, and Starship Troopers is a Satire. It is a movie from a european director, Paul Verhoeven is born in the Netherlands, so he has the typical european humour, we can't laugh about typical american comedians, you can't laugh about our jokes. Paul Verhoeven has made one of the best movies about war, sure you have to look for messages, but this is typical european, we don't like it if a movie is too easy, we like difficult movies...
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I mean, these bugs are located about 1/4 around the galaxy andthe "brain bugs" just shoot them toward Earth and they gethere in about a month! Voyager travels at around 413 times the speed of light and it's going to take them about 70 years to reach the Alpha Quadrant if they just used warp drive. They should have named this movie "Beverly Hills 90210 Goes to Space.". If you like cheesy plots, and shallow characters, this is THE movie for you. About the only thing missing was Jim Varney (Ernest P. Worell) as a Starship Commander. Yeah, the satire was obvious in the "propaganda news" clips, but I really don't think intentionally making a movie this bad makes it a "great movie". Save you money and save yourself; don't watch this movie.
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Summary: A movie with a lot of 'bugs'
Review: If you like the idea of stupid teenagers fighting smart giant bugs on another planet, you are in for a treat. Acting is lost somewhere between brief nudity and poor special effects, and plot is very, very obvious - giant bugs from another planet declare a war on humans and someone must go and kill them. The only splash of romance in the movie is laughable, and if, as some critics noted, there is some deep sub-context to be found, it is hidden very, very well. I could give an extra star to beautiful Denise Richards who looks, as always, really sexy, but unfortunately, it does not compensate enough for her acting and exceptionally foolish script.
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Summary: The best DVD ever made
Review: There are two side on this DVD. The first one is the movie wich is really cool, well made with very good special effects and very good actors. The second one contains a documentary on the movie, and deleted scenes (all with Denise Richards). The second side may run 45 minutes. I like this movie even if I don't like science fiction, I think it's really great DVD.
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