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

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[@jamesbuchananbarnesss]

Hello there

[@MegaTerryWogan]

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

[@MegaTerryWogan]

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

[@JAYmeeFromAmerica]

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

[@ZacksZinema]

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.

[@ClanMcDuck]

I worked on this! I did the hand that gets the knife through it. I also did Michael Ironside's amputated arm and a bunch of other stuff. I did the mechanical parts while other artists did the skin on the outside. I did a bunch of other effects. Pretty much anything human came from our shop. The bugs were a different studio. Good times!

[@Mallard942]

Dude, plug the shop!

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

Dude, awesome!

[@deetzyboywonder9312]

You guys did amazing !

[@joshuawood3055]

You guys are a gold standard

[@Templarofsteel88]

That is awesome.

[@Jorary209]

God I'm still surprised how well this movie still holds up visually to this day

[@willem8820]

lots of good praccy effects

[@lykan2]

Thats what well thought out Practical Effects do for ya.

[@Jorary209]

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

[@DiscoRaptor]

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!

[@williammobley9634]

@@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.

[@Silver-rx1mh]

"Why does this look as good as It does" “Starship Troopers is a good example of hybrid moviemaking,” Davis tells us. “We had a lot of miniatures, a lot of really spectacular CGI from Phil Tippet's studio for the bugs. We had prosthetics and they had all the physical effects artists in that movie." Nuff said really.

[@LongandWeirdName]

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

[@DamnFineCupOfCoffee]

I don’t know how my dad let me watch this when I was seven. Loved it then, before I knew it was satire, love it now

[@bridgethaines7127]

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.

[@ReesePlaysGamez]

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

[@beaumont7411]

😀

[@silkypnub]

I was 6. Lol still love it.

[@evansutcliffe1099]

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

[@samuraibeluga3749]

always loved the dark implication that ultimately they are losing the war, and that its all just a repetitive cycle of death. shown by the increasingly younger and even older recruits at the end of the movie. they are literally running out of soldiers.

[@paloswag911]

Never noticed that detail before. Thanks for sharing!

[@EddieDexterStewart]

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

[@monolithofwoe4366]

Never thought about it that way.

[@pvtj0cker]

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.

[@vanyadolly]

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.

[@brandonlt6434]

Starship Troopers, Aliens, and Soldier were huge influences to games like Halo and Gears. A lot of Vietnam but in space vibes. This is as classic as it gets for 90's films.

[@theminiatureparent]

No way this is John's first time watching this!! ... what a fantastic movie, it was my favourite for such a long time and I'm pretty sure I was too young to watch it when it came out given the style of the action 😅 ... parenting done right!

[@charoleawood]

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

[@chaost4544]

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🤣

[@vanyadolly]

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!

[@ABellJar1998]

Fun fact: Casper Van Dien's daughter Grace played Chrissy the cheerleader in Stranger Things 4.

[@doomie77]

Nothing makes you feel old like seeing two people that haven't seen a movie that was a staple of your childhood.

[@philiphunn194]

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

[@adiahaalexander9359]

​@@philiphunn194same

[@ky6632]

One of my favorite movies of all time. I actually saw this in theaters as a kid.

[@scottaudetat3090]

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

[@kennyfmt510]

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

[@asperhes]

I saw this in theaters as a grad student.

[@MultiAsssasin]

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

[@appledough3843]

@@kennyfmt510 SO YOU SAW THE SHOWER SCENE??

[@starbrand3726]

Even after TWENTY FIVE YEARS the effects in this movie still hold up. The CGI bugs look great then and now.

[@mycroft16]

This movie NEVER gets old. It's just so damn well made. The production quality on this is astonishing. And they clearly got their money's worth. The score is fantastic, especially that drop on klendathu. Even just as a straight up action film it's awesome. But as a satire it gets even better. The big ships in the space sequences were miniature models. Big ones, but yeah. The model makers said they put no less than 5 R2-D2 figures on the exterior of the Roger Young model. Also said they had a blast doing the ship breaking in half and putting in the rooms and the bodies, etc. TONS of detail.

[@paulnolasco2831]

Every single person that's seen this movie hates the Diz death scene. She was truly the best character and a badass!

[@weldonwin]

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

[@RealBradMiller]

Long Live Dizzy!!!! The only thing I would change about this movie!

[@RealBradMiller]

​@@weldonwinThat's awesome!

[@thechad4485]

The genius of hiding the political satire in plain sight is one of my favorite aspects of the film. In the beginning, when Rico is drawing on his tablet, go back and listen to Ironside’s words as he teaches the class. Most people tune it out just like the students, unaware of the brainwashing they’re receiving.

[@russellward4624]

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

[@Sage2000]

Indeed pure fascist crap

[@Torente32]

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.

[@Torente32]

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.

[@TresTrefusis]

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.

[@wrenwry]

this is one of my favorite movies of all time, so hype y’all are reacting to it!

[@platinumphazer]

The special effects really held up, like it's honestly impressive just how good it all looks

[@anthonydean1743]

Something I have to mention, the military uniforms for the infantry was used in the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy series.

[@jeremykwan8794]

and Firefly

[@Razgriz_01]

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.

[@philipsmith8644]

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

[@anthonydean1743]

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

[@TheTerranEmpire4]

And the movie Impostor.

[@reconsoldier135]

Saw this in theaters 4 times, was a freshman in high school when it came out, loved it from the first time I saw it and hated that so many people shit all over it because they didn’t pick up on the satire. Thankfully it’s getting the recognition that it deserves 25 years later.

[@Jigsaw407]

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

[@leonrussell9607]

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

[@rmhartman]

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.

[@botz77]

This was pretty amazing in the theater. Especially that one shot of thousands of bugs storming the outpost.

[@pieceofgosa]

So Verhoeven wanted to make a movie from the perspective of 18yr old Germans graduating high school in 1936 & then joining the Nazi party. For some weird reason the studios were not too keen on that pitch, so Verhoeven & his writing partner adapted an existing sci-fi novel into the film you just watched.

[@aikrichter5403]

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

[@acereporter73]

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

[@travisfoster1071]

@@acereporter73 only had read the first two chapters.

[@frank-vt8yf]

@@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.

[@aikrichter5403]

@@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.

[@pieceofgosa]

Greg, you didn't miss anything. Literally the entire point of this movie is that the bugs were just chillin' till we showed up & tried to steal their planet.

[@shootingreal5945]

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.

[@russellward4624]

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

[@shootingreal5945]

@@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.

[@heavycritic9554]

@@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.

[@shootingreal5945]

@@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.

[@cwell510]

One of the best sci-fi films of the 90's! This film was so ahead of it's time and still holds up to this day. I really enjoyed the social commentary and propaganda throughout the story. Thanks for sharing! 💯

[@SpectorPrime07]

I like the theory that the bugs are innocent and the meteor was just a random event that was used as propaganda to invade their planet. You see the movie differently.

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

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.

[@ravissary79]

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.

[@zombie5505]

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

[@mori1bund]

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.

[@ravissary79]

@@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.

[@Smokie_666]

Saw this back in the day in the theater with some friends and we all said the same thing... Dizzy is the best. I think we spent a fifth of the movie or more internally calling Rico a moron for not seeing it sooner. We also worked in the same machine shop for 4 years and anytime any of us needed a band aide or something from the medicine cabinet we would say "Medic!" to one of the other's. Just a great movie!

[@digidv85]

My father took me to see this in theaters. I came out very impressed. Always thought it was weird how Casper Van Dien never really made a good career after this. Aside from some other roles in Sleepy Hollow, Tarzan and the Lost City, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and The Psychic, he's mostly faded from the public eye as far as I'm concerned. It's also humorous to see Drill Sgt. Zed post-1999 after his vocal work on Nickelodeon. I can never look at him in live action ever the same.

[@PHDDude13]

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

[@SevenHunnid]

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

[@JoshSweetvale]

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.

[@digidv85]

@@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.

[@johnstevensstevens402]

​@@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

[@ROS1101]

Greg - “She was so ugly” John - “I heard this movie was Gross but Jheez”😂😂😂😂😂

[@javonking9943]

Put some respect on Denise Richards baby is gorgeous

[@Matthew-hy1qp]

@@javonking9943 He doesn't find any white girls attractive lol.

[@melodydiagames]

I was 8 years old when this movie was released on VHS, and I remember loving it so much. I even had a toy of the Warrior Bug, it was without question my favorite toy. I still remember the day several years later, I was maybe like... at most 12, cause I was still in middle school, when I had a bunch of friends at my house and decided we should watch it after they saw my bug toy and asked what it was. I had literally never thought anything at all about the nudity in the shower scene, I was pretty much just as unfazed by it as the characters in the film. My friends on the other hand... As soon as that scene started the whole room just went dead silent and got SO uncomfortable, and they pretty much left my house as soon as the movie ended with that weird awkwardness still just... hanging around. I was so confused. Ten years later I learned the word asexual, and thought "Hmm.... 🤔 I wonder?"

[@clarkkenttheman]

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

[@melodydiagames]

@@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.

[@clarkkenttheman]

@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

[@melodydiagames]

@@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

[@clarkkenttheman]

@melodydia6824 oh u u have no sexual attraction to anyone

[@BlackWACat]

“mobile infantry made me the man i am today” and the pan to the man missing an arms and both his legs is still my favourite bit of the movie ngl

[@1dudecrush]

I watched the animated movie series as a kid, it was definitely less rated R than this. Didn’t even realize it was based on live action movies, and I watched these later as an adult, and LOVED it. It’s so weird and campy, but in such an endearing way.

[@reconsoldier135]

I believe the answer to your question about why the bugs are so “bad” is because fascism needs an enemy, whether that’s based on race, religion, political ideology, or in this case species. Also if I’m not mistaken this movie was nominated for an Academy Award for visual effects, for 1997 this CGI was top notch.

[@Jigsaw407]

"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.

[@killjanPL]

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

[@Mallard942]

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.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@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?

[@reptomicus]

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

[@abc123tiktok]

Its done perfectly in a way that some people don't really see the heavy satire and only see a scifi war movie an love it. It done so well that it bridges both ends of spectrum that can enjoy it.

[@TerrelLism]

A classic from the 90s. In my top 5 favorite scifi films of all time! DO YOU GET ME!!!!? 😁

[@althelas]

I think it was in 2013 when we had Caspar van Dien, Dina Meyer, Patrick Muldoon and John Barrowman ( Trochwood, Doctor Who) as guests at our convention. We did a late night screening of Starship Troopers with the actors on stage doing a live commentary. John Barowman crashed the party and it was the most hilarious evening and screening we ever had. Later that night all of them got on the party stage with the band and did a roof rising rendition of "Great Balls of Fire" That was a party night no one who was there, would ever forget, esp.not the hangovers the day after. 😀

[@robfus]

The turrets guys literally carried in that battle. They were gone to soon. We salute you heroes of the federation.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Verhoeven's original concept was a satirical happy-go-lucky story about some SS Storm Troopers who are friends before going off to fight on the Eastern Front. The suits flat out refused.

[@Mallard942]

That would have been better than ruining this story.

[@LostButBroken]

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

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@LostButBroken I agree.

[@Mallard942]

@@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.

[@wiseguy01]

@@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.

[@OrionInSpace]

This is one of the best guilty pleasure movies of all time.🙏 I love this movie, it's a great background movie to have on when doing something else and it's also a great movie to watch for first time viewers. This movie just rocks regardless how much social and political commentary and what not was put into it by the director. It all works because of that it makes it interesting. I haven't seen any of the other movies but this one is the only one in my mind.

[@Alexanderthegreat159]

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

[@OrionInSpace]

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

[@hydralissk]

I can't believe it took you guys this long to watch this underrated classic.

[@brentongray7812]

Dang it. Now that I watched this, by law, I have to watch Starship Troopers tonight. Canceling our date night. Thanks a lot guys.

[@Thegriff19]

"Are the bugs that bad?" Well I mean in the beginning of the movie they explained that they invade human planets killing everyone. Or shoot meteorites and decimate planets...so yeah I'd say they are pretty bad.

[@djsoo]

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.

[@karlheath4327]

Saw this film in the cinema in 1998, still hold up today, also the biology teacher at the beginning is Blanche out of Golden Girls

[@GuardianOwl]

There is also a 6 episode Anime OVA adaptation from the 80s that you find on youtube that is pretty good. I think it handles the relationship between Rico and Ibanez much better. A little after this movie came out was the Roughneck Chronicles, one of the earlier CGI TV shows, it is based on the same book but is in its own universe separate from the movie. The animated movies are more sequels to the series than the live action movies. Starship Troopers 2 was probably an existing script that they reworked a little and called it ST2 as it is just a completely different tone. Starship Troopers 3 I wouldn't go as far as calling good, but it _is_ entertaining.

[@oliverbergau4043]

The bugs destroy a major city, killing millions... "I still don't feel like the bugs done anything bad"

[@JoLuRaArias]

It's propaganda

[@darklelouchg8505]

@@JoLuRaArias Bugs did it according to Veerhoven during an commentary, so no.

[@daveb947]

I love having Mr Krabs being a badass or a creep in movies. I mean, he's good in this, The Highlander and he's the best part in Pet Semetary 2. 😆

[@anthonydawson8080]

Totally agree about PS2

[@haskell420]

CLASSIC!! Saw this we friends when i lived in Gainesville, FL, We were blown the F away! The SFX were stellar! Yet the "Would you like to know more?', was like...WTF going on?.........lol

[@HobGungan]

I think I had to have been 11-ish when this came out, and I first saw it on TV (with "cover eyes" orders in place), and it was the line "It's afraid!" and everyone cheering that clues my young brain into the fact that the humans were the baddies all along and that moment of sickening realization has stuck with me.

[@leekaratee4710]

I should’ve never been allowed to see this movie at the mere age of 4 or 5 but one thing I’ll never forget is “The only good bug is a dead bug”💯

[@joeydeejay5386]

Greg your reaction during this whole entire movie cracked me up! 😂😂😂

[@alex1311t]

*The bugs wipe Buenos Aires off the planet of Earth and burn it to hell* "I still don't know why the bugs are bad" Bruh

[@itsathing3369]

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.

[@anitaremenarova6662]

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

[@itsathing3369]

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

[@Jason2425able]

​@itsathing3369 I'm sorry but you are not right about our current capabilites. While it's true on it's own that we don't have fast ships. It is theoretically possible with our current technology to fly from one end of our galaxy to the other end in 100 year's. Constant acceleration and using the Lagrange points is all we need to do to accomplish this.

[@samturner6061]

"REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING, AND YOU WILL MAKE IT BACK ALIVE!!!" - First marine to die

[@ae86takumi]

"The whitest south american" XD the guy hasn't been to Argentina it seems...

[@thenerdywave2007]

This movie is a classic, so glad you guys are reacting to this movie

[@dpacc88]

This movie was way ahead of its time in '97!

[@alphatesla684]

Don’t apologize for liking this movie. It’s one of my favorites of all time. The relationships and friendships is what it’s all about. Perfect casting, perfect storytelling.

[@rickkeller947]

Who else came straight here after watching Greg & Coy do a reaction to RoboCop?

[@rocksreviewsreactions337]

Same, lol.

[@MagsonDare]

In re: "The Whitest South American" at 19:25 -- Something that very few USAmericans seem to know is that in South America, there's a saying along the lines of "the souther you go, the whiter you get." According to a 2020 study by a Mexican university, Argentina is 84% white, 11% mixed, 4% Asian, and 1% Native. Chile is also about 85% white, as is Uruguay, and the states of Brazil from Sao Paolo southward shoot from 65% in Sao Paolo to 90% white almost instantly. To give a point of reference, most European countries are listed as about 85-90% white, so... yeah. Argentina is pretty much just as white as any European country. My wife lived in Mendoza, Argentina for a few years back in the mid-1990's and told me that there was a local holiday celebrating the extermination of the last Natives in the area. I don't know if that's still done, but 28 years ago it was still a thing, it seems.

[@eyesears113]

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.

[@dhorn4005]

@@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

[@eyesears113]

​@@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 KZbin commentators.

[@thedarkknight2221]

When I first saw this movie as a teenager I hated, but as an adult I now like it because I see it’s a satire. Screen Junkies actually did a video on this movie saying that the bugs are actually the victims and that maybe the military actually attacked Buenos Ares as a false flag operation to justify invading their planet, which I actually believe. Also, as gorgeous and adorable as Denise Richards was I MUCH prefer Dina Meyer’ character Diz. She’s scalding hot, incredibly loyal, and is an absolutely badass soldier.

[@walt33743]

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

[@mundanepants]

@@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

[@HobGungan]

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

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@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.

[@walt33743]

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

[@WaywardVet]

Worry about radiation in this future? You heard the teacher talk about how the veterans took over. This universe has the best VA care of any universe.

[@kaizerlith7070]

So crazy enough they made a cgi cartoon for kids based on this film called Rico's Roughnecks that came out some time around this one. It was obviously toned down a bit but one of my few memories of it was someone being mutated and dying. It was also set in it's own canon as Dizzy is still alive but Rico is the leader.

[@SandraMorris51]

Oh I bet you guys didn’t know what you were getting into with this one! It’s crazy weird 😆

[@JAYSAL22]

This movie still holds up sooo well today. Such a classic Sci-Fi movie!

[@Bray1Jay]

Holy hell!!! How can this be your first time watching this?! Such a classic.

[@secretagenttau2233]

Why did you guys feel bad for the bugs? They attacked first? Its even mentioned

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Michael Ironside's character in this movie is...the best. He's ALMOST out of place, but his unique competence among all the rest actually still works and it just highlights how well he fills the role even more. He acknowledges the things about the Federation that are actually good, but is fully aware of all of its weaknesses and flaws, and since he can't change those, he does what he can to mitigate them. Frankly, had he survived the war, and been further promoted, he honestly probably could've led a very successful coup against the existing regime. Might've managed to keep the good aspects and fix the flaws. Assuming he was smart enough to not grab power when finishing the coup. That's always the problem. The one who leads the revolution, cannot be the one to lead the nation afterward.

[@Drknnja]

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.

[@Jymm]

It was a good movie. But I enjoyed reading the book more, back in the 60s. Robert A. Heinlein is one of my favorite authors.

[@Mallard942]

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

[@imgettingtoooldforthis]

Watching this after playing Hell Divers 2.

[@shainewhite2781]

This movie is the ultimate satire, as Paul Verhoeven, director o RoboCop and Total Recall, wanted to show the audience that war is hell and should not be glorified, as segments of the movie had military propaganda. Verhoeven said that he wanted the audience to experience what he felt after the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. 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. He even wanted to mock the military on how they handle situations that they wouldn't be prepared for. The film recieved negative Reviews by Critics as they accused Verhoeven and Screenwriter Edward Neumeir for being Nazis, as well as promoting Fascism and the over the top violence. It was also a box office disappointment, making $122 million dollars against a $110 million dollar budget. It did recieve an Oscar for Best Visual Effects but lost to Titanic. It's now been considered to be a cult classic.

[@stuka80]

"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.

[@imthatguyk.j.6747]

Imagine if the creator's behind the Expanse made a Starship Troopers series

[@LaytonEversaul]

One of the greatest movie satires ever made.

[@jirokoshibailey2052]

Klendathu drop is probably the best thing ever, even today it holds up because it's a mix of irl actors, CGI and models/miniatures working together rather than some greenscreen

[@Hagdawa]

I remember this movie when i was about 4-5 years old, its quite enjoyable for me as per what i feel everytime i think about this. Especially the final scene, that's the only part i can clearly remember.

[@yxeaviationphotog]

"Put your hand on that wall Trooper. PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL!" 😂. Favorite scene. Lol

[@Jigsaw407]

Fantastic movie. Love the satiric vibe that is relevant today as ever, the gory action is fantastic and the great visuals effects still hold up. And the music: it's so epic. I've seen it many times and had the pleasure of seeing it in the theater back in the day. The trailer for it was awesome, featuring Song 2 by Blur to get you pumped. P.S.: Dizzy all the way!

[@Jigsaw407]

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.

[@BaffledRich]

one of the greatest films out when i was younger! i remember me and my friend down the street made replicas of their machine guns in his fathers woodshop. We thought we were the coolest kids on the block lol

[@HirXeBomb]

Why Jurassic Park and Starship Troopers still look so great 30 years later is because of the smart use of animatronics and CGI. This is something you don't see anymore because it is a time consuming and costly process. Starship Troopers didn't succeed in the '90 because it was misunderstood by critics and audience, poor marketing and the stack of blockbusters it had to compete against that year. Also I don't think you guys ever been to South America before? Buenos Aires that got destroyed by the bugs is the capital city of Argentina and the population is mainly white.

[@mintjulius275]

Man this is the first te I've come across yalls channel, but I really love your commentary and breakdown Gonna have to dive into more of your videos

[@twitchyrascal5025]

I saw this movie multiple times when i was little. I forgot how insane this whole film was 🤣

[@hotsauce69247]

Lmao the Denise Richards commentary throughout “Ugly” “Ugly” *her character vomits* “She just got hot” 😂

[@EleventhCubFan]

This movie is wonderfully bonkers, and kinda relevant today!

[@mactony4]

''they didn't used gloves'' i remember in high school we had to cut a cow heart without them, i didn't think it was that weird since i've seen this movie years before that.

[@yasielgomez7884]

Classic movie my favorite

[@sntxrrr]

Although it got an Oscar mainly for the CGI swarm animations, the more traditional model shots of the spaceships were also some of the best ever put on film.

[@christomlinson3074]

The mobile infantry armor was also used in Firefly for the Alliance soldiers.

[@Jigsaw407]

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

[@CorrionReap]

Also in power rangers lost galaxy

[@coulombedon]

When this came out in '97 there was no Google yet, no Wikipedia yet... the whole idea of a hotlink where "would you like to know more" was truly science fiction.

[@steffurness]

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'.

[@Rdfelic]

16:03 FUN FACT the same actor was killed the same way in Saving Private Ryan. (when the soldier took off his helmet in the D-Day scene). 🤣

[@209sMichaelJ]

I worked at Toys R Us when the movie came out rumor was Dizzy didn’t get an action figure because her nude scenes Carmen had one Johnny had a couple and a couple others even the Brain bug had a action figure

[@munozvibez2296]

For Democracy, For SUPER EARTH!!!!

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

“It’s afraid….It’s AFRAID!”

[@lich109]

- Doogie Himmler

[@thesilverbaby4880]

Very fond childhood memories of watching this and loving it 😭🤣🤣

[@eyesears113]

When you said, “The whitest South American”…I rolled up my eyes. You implied like if it was somehow odd. Dude, Argentina is a white country. Most of its population is of European decent.

[@deetzyboywonder9312]

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

[@rumuelnathanael8043]

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.

[@BryanWhite77]

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

[@dhorn4005]

@@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.

[@kaleiohulee6693]

The film holds up very well and it was a bit ahead of its time in many ways. I remember there was a lot of criticism at the time from people that completely missed the satire, but to be fair the late 90s were a weird time when being over the top was pretty common in films.

[@felix_hernandez98]

Finally been waiting for this reaction!!!!!!! react to DOG SOLDIERS 👍👍great werewolf film

[@brandonbecker8707]

Im pretty sure like me, most people watched this before 10 years old and enjoy it. It has left a lasting impression and is one of my favorite movies.

[@LongandWeirdName]

Why... You... Rotten... You cut out my favorite joke right after Game Theory. "Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today." That cheerful and not at all sarcastic delivery followed by the reveal is simply priceless. One of the best lines in the movie, right after "MEDIC!".

[@Luka_Tim]

yea, that where i stopped watching, also with half of it blurred out.

[@leonrussell9607]

In the book that guy shows up later with robotic limbs and is able to be deployed into combat, it was a test to weed out the weak willed

[@Chanwills0]

My dad used to let us watch this YOUNG and make us look away for ‘the bum bum bits’ 😂

[@papabear_cdxl4699]

Fun fact: shooting the shower scene the actors were nervous about stripping off, so Director Paul Verhoeven and Director of Photography Jost Vacano stripped off. Everyone laughed and relaxed then got on with the scene 🙂

[@uriflowers7026]

This movie was so much fun 😊”come on you apes! You want to live forever?!!”

[@ghostmkc4045]

"Aint no medic for that" lololol

[@happisakshappiplace.6588]

Some of the best special effects in a film, a mix of model effects, animatronics and CGI and it still is better than half the stuff made today.

[@toddbradford4700]

This movie came out 25 years ago and visually it still looks better than 99% of the big budget blockbusters that were made in the quarter of a century after it. Every time I re-watch it I am blown away by how good all the special effects are.