Oh, Starship Troopers, let me count the ways I love you:
* That poor cow.
* The greatest Space opera in the last 15 years
* The [CENSORED] brain probe moment.
* Doogie Howser, Space Nazi
* "They sucked out his BRAINS!"

5. It's 5 ways. Do you want to know more?

This is definitely a favorite and always will be.

Oh god this film brings back memories, I used to watch this with my dad when I was younger, he would cook something to eat, we would sit on the bed, kick off our shoes, eat, sit in silence and watch the movie. I swear, I should have been a boy.

Starship Troopers is insanely fun to watch, and plus the bug creature used to scare me to death and the ending is INCREDIBLE!

One scene in particular that I love is when Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) throws a bomb inside the huge bug and orange slim spurts out! Ah so fantastic.

Just everything about this is PERFECT!
Every scene is unforgettable.

Just watch it. PLEASE if you haven't.

I thought Robocop was the pinnacle of Paul Verhoeven's action-movie-as-subtle-satire aesthetic, but that's just because I hadn't seen Starship Troopers since I was 12 years old. This ups the ante on Robocop significantly - at no point does this seem like anything other than a particularly chilling (and clever) piece of propaganda from an alternate future, one in which humanity might not be the good guys anymore. I really admire Verhoeven's Series 7-like commitment to sticking to the joke, and it's truly amazing that he was allowed to do so with a $105 million budget - not to mention the fact that it completely subverts the source material (or so I understand, I haven't read the book).

Anyway, I'm gonna go join the Marines now. I heard you get to take showers with girls there.

Part of The December Project: Film #41

"I'm doing my part!"
"Would you like to know more?"
"It's an ugly planet! A BUG planet!"
"Medic!"
"An enemy can not push a button if you disable his hand!"
"I'm from Beunos Aires and I say kill them all!"
"Now have fun! That's an order!"
"Never pass up a good thing!"
"You're some kind of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?"
"It's afraid!"
"Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks!"
"Come on you apes! You wanna live forever?!"

I have seen Starship Troopers countless times, and it never gets old, despite the fact that I have the film practically memorized by now.

I think I have an addiction.

¿Una película dentro de otra película? ¿Un soberbio ejercicio de Metacine? Para mí, la más sutil crítica al fascismo jamás hecha. Y salen bicharracos muy guapos...

Some would call this a guilty pleasure but I wear my love for Starship Troopers with pride. Let's be honest; it's trash, but it's entertaining trash. I appreciate it in the same way I do Aliens. That film in no way tries to mimic its predecessor. It's a simple action film based around military forces kicking alien ass, and that's all it needs to be. The same goes with Starship Troopers. It's in no way intelligent or thought-provoking, but it's a film you can't tear your eyes away from.

Plus, every once in a while absurd humour is the way to go.

Το γαμάτο δν είναι απλά το πόσο ύπουλα διαμορφώνει το "μήνυμα" της που το έχασα εγώ όταν το πρωτοείδα η οι πάντες όταν πρωτοβγηκε, αλλά ότι ξαναβλεποντας το είσαι απλά σίγουρος ότι ο Κασπερ Βαν Ντιεν και η Ντενιζ Ριτσαρντς 15 χρόνια μετά δν έχουν ιδέα. Σατανικό.

"Starship Troopers doesn’t mock the American military or the clichés of war – that’s just something Verhoeven says in interviews to appear politically correct. In fact, he loves clichés, and there’s a comic strip side to Verhoeven, very close to Lichtenstein." - Jacques Rivette

I'm inclined to agree, but I can still take this film as unintentional satire. It's not nearly as "deep" as RoboCop simply because there's a less of subtext. This is mostly just an indictment of military culture, which is fine. I guess you could argue this film has a wider reach. Whatever the case, it's still really great, and not just because it has the greatest sex scene ever* though yes, that helps a ton.

* sorry Nicolas Roeg

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

When I first watched this, I was really torn on what to think. I couldn't decide if it was pure shock or a more nuanced, satirical work of exploitation genius. The more I thought of it, the more I decided I loved it. Like Verhoeven classics ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL, the dark humor, ridiculous violence, and pessimistic take on society is a gleeful concoction.