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I like the theory that Carl knows Rico isn’t psychic, he’s just trying to practice his own ability and influence Rico’s mind
It's a good theory here. At 5:45 Carl has 6 of diamonds and Rico guesses wrong. But on the next round, 5:57 Rico picks 7 of diamonds without thinking. It's like Carl's influence was delayed and off by a number but got the same suit.
Carl also puts his index finger to his temple as if he's trying to transmit a thought.
He's treating him like the ferret and implies it doesn't work on humans.....yet.like he's actively experimenting if it can be done
Everyone should watch this scene and then watch the funeral scene when the trio meet again. You can clearly see Carl take the most drastic change in appearance compared to the other two. He’s more gaunt and there are dark bags under his eyes. He wasn’t kidding when he said he had to make tough choices everyday.
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Leadership sucks, someone has to do it…
Plus there's the fact that by that point, Carl is now dressed like a Gestapo officer.
Plus his demeanor changed to something souless. Definitely took a toll on him.
Also the SS uniform. Pretty important to the satire
@@jmcalcy69 Well, they are technically a fascist state much like the nation you reside in. 👉 🇷🇺
30 somethings playing teenagers. Just perfect for this movie lol
They weren't quite 30.
@@4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944 Casper and Dina were 30, Denise was 28 and Neil was 25 so mostly right
@@johnwilliamson8556It's funny how Neil looks the oldest out of the bunch though.
@@johnwilliamson8556they were 29 29 26 and 24 during filming, which is not 30 something
its like that in most american movies lol
That future technology they had was nuts those iPads had some detail.
I wish they would have gave Carl more screen time. His character having ESP made him interesting. Also Neil Patrick Harris is a good actor.
Neil Patrick Harris as a Gestapo officer with ESP sure is something.
Or Blanche Devereaux as a blind mad scientist dissecting spider aliens
imagine being a jew hiding in the attic only for neil patrick harris to turn on wallhacks
@@banhammer3904 Gestapo was a part of Schutzstaffel
"Well that's alright then!"
He's Doog....as in Doogie Howser, MD.
I felt that Carmen always lead Rico on throughout their relationship. Even left him hanging and sent him the future equivalent of a text message to break up with him. She really sucks as a character.
She didn't deserve Rico and DIzzy was a much better person overall. Carmen was out of the door as soon as she became a pilot.
I think it’s hard, because they clearly had two different end goals for their relationship. For him it was something permanent to he built on, for her it was a high school relationship. We can see she cares for him to some degree, but for sure not to the level he feels for her
She saw her boyfriend get his brains be sucked out by a giant bug and 10 minutes later she was fine
@@LetHimRead she was never even into him, I bet he was like a status boyfriend to her
Maybe he has a vomit fetish and Carmen satisfies his needs... 👀
High respects for people who made those insect dummy
Good old practical effects. It looks real.
Agreed it's really impressive, but you didn't have to call me a dummy.
@@lactobacillusacidophilus So real that the vomit is not scripted
this movie looks so good all these years later....bright and beautiful, even the rendered background scenes of the city still kinda hold up
Anyone else here relaxing with Starship Troopers videos and a cup of Liber-tea? 😂
Oh, I miss those beautiful days. 😢
Everything about this movie is perfect
Only if you didn't read the original source material...
@@caronstout354 I disagree. I grew up with the book and the movie provides a great counterpoint to the book.
@@NapalmdogIsn't the only reason they continue to live because of how militaristic their society is though?
@@louisryan5815 in the book/movie or in the U.S. today?
@@Napalmdog I was thinking the movie, but all 3 work
I love how the teacher here is compassionate and does not raise his voice when he makes a point to call someone out. He's very confident but not arrogant he wants his students to think for themselves but also understand why they think that way. Its no wonder he became an amazing LT. The way he used his disabled arm as a primary to point and gesture with authority said a lot about his character not allowing his disability to limit him in anyway. Great acting and character writing.
I love how the movie's satire is apparently lost on you.
@@Schokioki Not everyone who made this movie was a one-dimensional communist who didn't read the original text.
It can have both well written characters and be satire stop being dense
🤓@@Schokioki
@@MyUniqueHandle.”-🤓”
2:20 I love the small detail of dizzy watching Rico kissing Carmen . You can see her reflection on one of the poster on the wall .
You have an insane eye for detail! I hadn't ever noticed !
Very good ! And that comes from someone who usually tries to look for background details in movies 👍🏼
I think Carl always knew Carmen really didn’t rock with Rico like that
He is a psychic after all
@@voevodineu I doubt you needed to be a psychic to know lol
As if that ending “Yet” wasn’t menacing.
You should watch the sequels where Carl's abilities actually becomes a bit more potent.
“My mother always said, violence never solved anything.”
😌 “Really…”
Perfectly delivered.
The only flaw in that argument is that Japan didn't have atomic weapons. Violence can only force a resolution favorable to a victor only as long as one side does not have access to the same weapons. Mutually assured destruction changed the course of warfare forever.
@@brettdeadrick524 I agree that mutually assured destruction changed war (becoming non-favorable to all), but up to that threshold violence has yielded resolutions even with similar weapons, skills, aggression, etc.
To be clear, I don’t believe violence is de facto in its offerings, I just like the character’s reaction the naive classmate’s blanket philosophy.
5:13 that laughter delivery was awesome
"cant do human, yet"
awesome foreshadowing for the 3rd act.
Does he influence humans? I don't recall that
@@DaDaDo661 yup, in the ending where they reunite Jonny asks Carl if it was him who nudged him into the right cave to find Carmen
@@holostro ah that's right
and the guy went on later in life to work on a project for Mind Controlled Bugs to use so the federation can have their own army of bugs to command by the time of the 4th Film. Having become the Minister of Paranormal Warfare, he has plenty of supplies and connections by then.
@@orrthehunter the animated movies were enjoyable but in my headcanon only the first film counts
2:44 "I'm totally gonna be a rocket scientist in a Bond movie now."
With a dumb name
For me... Dizzy is the main gal! The smile?! the looks?! Oh my!!
What I thought too
This movie is legend... Wait for it. DARY!
LEGENDARY!
Tmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtm❤🎉😂😢😅
Denisse Richard was a total B in this movie
Next up, Psykers.
Then, Chaos.
@@daniels7907*charges plasma pistol*
@@daniels7907then warp storms
5:57 if you look closely, yon can see that Rico chose 7 of tiles. Before that, Carl was trying to influence him to choose 6 of tiles !! Just a little close... 😅
The actual start of the video is at 5:20
*When Toymaker knows he can fight well to the doctor.
Would what carl said from 5:50 to 5:53 be a definition of being lucky? So saying luck is not a factor is a big contradiction when putting that into consideration.
Statistics isn't luck.
3:36 Your going waste an afternoon with Rico, Carl.
Title says Nph is testing his psychic abilities but he's not, he's testing Ricos.
You think so? 😈
wtf this movie looks awesome. Next on my to watch list!
Bruh you've never seen this? It's a cult classic. The book is a decent read as well.
movie was originally something else but their rights to the book were expiring@@home_taping
there were several more movies and a cartoon series
It's a lighthearted romance comedy
Carmen is really beautiful❤
0:43 I have always loved the jacket the kid is wearing. it has a nice muti color scheme
So, he was a mentalist before being The mentalist?
5:49 He seemed a candidate of the "Federal Psychic Programme". Perhaps being chosen by the military or he voted to join a study?
The Mentalist is Simon Baker, not Neil Patrick Harris
The StarShip Trooper: first learn how to manipulate a ferret..... you got it ? great...improve your manipulation by implementing your thought into your friend mind who is in the tunnel looking for his ex...and last but not least look at girl you want to control.....AND IT IS OOOOOOON
5:21- Me: “I want you to concentrate. I want you to tell me and Carl what you think it is.” (Rico flips a wrong card with No Match on screen.) “Good guess, but wrong.”
5:29- Me: “Ready? Think hard. What is it?”
Rico: “I see, Ace of spades.” (No Match appears on the screen.)
Me: “Close, but definitely wrong.”
5:54- Carl: “Try another.”
Me: “What's this one?”
Rico: “So, my psychic abilities are zero and I'm unlucky.” (Rico flips another wrong card as the screen again reads No Match.)
Me: “Sorry, this isn't your lucky day.”😂
Carl: “Luck's not a factor.”
Dennise Richards was my celeb crush when I was like... 10.
This clip reminds me of Ghostbusters where Peter was studying the negative reinforcement on ESP ability except no electrical shocks.
I remember being told the book is much less satirical about it being a military state and more of it being a world council and just fighting the buuuuugs
This part of the movie cracks me up. Bunch of rich white kids going to school. Where? Buenos Aires. Argentina. The fascists won the war generations ago, and the lily white kids were living in South America blissfully ignorant of what their ancestors had done to get there, This movie has levels.
Argentina is like +90% white even now. The spaniards killed pretty much all the indigenous people, which might be what the filmmakers where going for here.
One thing I never picked up on when I originally watched this film is the implications of the scene with the dead bug the students were cutting up. The whole point of this film Paul Verhoeven basically taking a jab at fascism and showing it for the loser ideology it is and that the humans of this film are in fact the villains and the aggressors of the movie.
That's what makes the scene with the bug so interesting, really think about this. The bugs are established to be intelligent beings, fully self-aware and can feel emotion and here are some that are just being cut up. Those bugs were killed and taken to Earth to be cut up likely as a means to make civilians to see them as just something to be studied, to de-humanize them as much as possible.
This film is even more unnerving when you remember that fact.
Oh, no no no. Surely they work on dehumanising bugs as much as possible, the thing is.this is not needed. Almost no human would actually treat some alien bugs as a fellow sentient species that doesnt deserve extermination. The thing is, we are talking about two stellar empires that are expanding over universe and yeah, eventually they clash. The point Verhoeven was trying to make is: this comicaly exagerrated fascist society is only good for one thing - killing some bugs
@@akrabis8905 And even then they suck at it considering they loose almost every major fight in the film.
One of my favorite bits of this film with the understanding that this film is making fun of fascism is when we get the first real fight of the film. The scene opens with the troopers being all macho and acting like they're the most dangerous badasses of all time. WWhat I like most about this battle is just how pathetic the humans are during all this.
Keep in mind that at the start of the battle the Bugs haven't actually done all that much at the and yet after losing one man the rest of the soldiers make a run for it before the orders to retreat are even given and said order to retreat is given only a few second later after everyone is already running for their lives after a few seconds into the war.
Hell the Bugs were already kicking their butts and took down most of the fleet before the troopers had even made landfall.
It highlights how utterly under prepared these idiots are for an actual fight. They talk a good game about how badass they are but as soon as things get even slightly tough they run with their tale between their legs like a dog with a spray bottle.
@@Winter-The-Masquerade oh, sure.
"The intel says deadly blue balls of plasma are just harmless lights"
Speaking of Klendathu invasion, its a bit different. At first a single bug withstand whole platoon fire and killed their leutenant, so they were short of command. Ace hesitated and screwed, so Rico took command. They were doing fine but well Shujumi rushed and got brutally killed in front of all of them and thats when weak-willed started to panic and run (actually the time they get shot in true fascist society). As panic spreads, especially if they noticed girl falling in a tunnel and gdtting captured ,(which means they are surrounded), there is no point not to command tactical retreat before it gets too late
I don’t think ST is strictly anti-fascist. Heinlein was a Navy vet and had a good look at the pros and cons of such a society.
For example, if this movie was meant to be wholly negative, why is there racial and gender equality?
Liberal democracy began in archaic Greece where they practiced the citizen-soldier ideal discussed here. Military service was the basis for citizenship. Same in the Roman Republic.
The movie definitely takes a more negative and satirical spin on the politics, but even still there are scenes like this that are far from one-sided.
I think a lot of ST involves ruminating on the limits and duties of obedience to authority. You can vote your conscience in politics but must obey orders as a soldier on the battlefield. Except when you know better and must risk punishment by disobeying authority for the good of the state.
I think they are interesting questions and the satire is more about the certainty of things, the simplistic propaganda, etc.
My take is that Heinlein probably thinks a liberal educational foundation is fundamental before the military training and indoctrination.
That the citizen-soldier model works well because you are a civilian first, and that's how such a society resists falling in to fascism a la Rome.
@@tradtke101 the issue is that due to TB, Heinlein never participated in real war. Also yeah, navy. A lot of people miss that navy and field soldiers percieve war different way. While Navy may romanticize their duty, for those in trenches war is hell.
Not sure if anyone caught this, all of the girls in this school wear short skirt and knee-high boots even tho they are not wearing uniform (all have different style of shirt, skirt and boots).
Rue Mcclanahan is exceptional
And her name here is Ruth.
the movie has all these elements and they just shove in "and there are psychics" and everyone is just "ok makes sense to me"
This movie is supposed to be a B level flick yet its levels above 96% of the crap sci fi today.
it's supposed to be a parody of a b-level propaganda flick, not to be one itself
Interesting how he psychically influences the Ferret to attack his mom, just how the brainbug does later in the film.
Carmen puking was the best moment in the movie.
5:43 If Carl tested this on me, I would have the same results as Rico.
That actor can roled as Leon S. Kennedy in resident evil movie
Michael Ironside was so good in this movie.
best movie ever
In reality "Doing human" is much easier than a mongoose
This is just normal Neil Patrick Harris
Blanche Deveraux as a teacher...
❤good movie
I don't get the card scene. He guesses "ace of spades" and turns it over and it's the ace of spades. How is that wrong?
The other card is the one he’s trying to guess
No, he is supposed to guess the card we are being already shown, the one Carl picked. It wasn't something with the program but rather simply trying to read the other person's thoughts. He read Carl incorrectly.
Hollywood always misses casting highschoolers
Yeah it’s partly so they don’t have to worry about child labor laws.
Dizzy was best gril
The age of Strife...
I just realised this Starship Trooper movie could have been a precursor to the warhammer 40k universe.
Hmmm I’m not so sure. From what I understand humanity was pretty well-off during the DAOT. It didn’t become fascistic until the Age of Strife onwards
It's canon
That would be the film Event Horizon
My hunch is that due to humanity’s leave from earth, they develop some psychic powers or some near sixth sense there.
We already have it.
Gundam reference?
Similar to Warhammer 40k universe, where humans also have psykers among them. I suppose it could be tied that both are intergalactic or in space but 40K usually tie in psychic individuals with other dimensions or the Warp.
it's a cool trope IMO. warframe also has that, star wars also has that.
Sam Fisher teaching the legen..dary and others democracy and freedom
The most unrealistic part of this movie was him wanting Carmen instead.
lmao that other woman looked north of 35
@@somealias-zs1bw Diz would be bringing over a friend on your birthday and rocking your world on a regular basis. Carmen is a straight cold fish
Me watching this when I was a kid: ha ha funny drawings. That man has no hand
Me watching this now: holy shit this whole movie is a satire of fascist militarism and humans are the colonizing force invading another planet
This movies is profetic.
Denise Richards can manage my democracy tho 😂😂😂
I remember watching this as a kid and thinking that this form of government was awesome!
Cause it might be
i remember watching this as a kid and thinking this society was sick & twisted
@@plus_sign So you hate the Western nation you live in right now? The world of ST is almost entirely what a Western nation like Canada or America looks like right now in terms of freedoms with the only caveat being you have to do two years of service to the state to get the franchise (right to vote). This of course already exists on our world right now in Switzerland, Germany, South Korea, etc. Are you saying these countries are sick and twisted?
Because it's basically a liberal Western democracy with all the upsides (mostly) kept and all of the downsides removed. Originally that was Heinlein's philosophy, he wasn't saying 'democracy bad' but rather that it needed a serious looking at. The director of the movie claims he was making a satire of fascism (which is odd because that's not what Heinlein wrote), but he also failed to, you know, actually make the society in the movie fascist lol.
@@TRENCHESandTREADS except this society is not like current western societies, specifically including switzerland, germany and south korea - you are mischaracterizing their citizenship schemes - and the society being satirized is in fact fascist and has no redeeming qualities. No point trying to make an argument from factclaims valid only in your own head.
Me when I play Helldivers 2
Yet...
Can someone explain? He guessed ace of spades and the card was the ace of spades....
it's supposed to match the other card...
i finally figured out foreshadowing
3:57 magnum condoms Fuckin Radroach from fallout..... 😂
My god women "back then" (20-30 years ago) looked so much better ...
This movie must have been like a wet dream for bisexual NPH
That speech the tech gives is spot on.
Denise Richards isn’t even human bro
Too bad he couldn’t 101 to Budweiser…..
people either arent understanding the point of the movie or are just joking and playing on the movies satire 🤔
In the book, that instructor is the most interesting character...and that's all the screen time he gets in the movie
I know you're here because helldivers 2
Rue Mclanahan
look at "2:37"
is that dude's arm a potato?
Yeah the way everyone reaction to the first movie and the trio I prefer the animation movies as least people don’t have a reason to point out politics and how bad Carmen was to Rico when that shit shouldn’t matter to you in the first place
Denise Richards. Looked great. Couldn't act. Looks can get you far without the talent.
Can't blame her for making the most of it.
Both she and Casper van Deen were cast because of their looks specifically, they give off the vacant-eyed all American teenager hero vibes that the director wanted to subtly hint at the kind of idiots that the fascist society they live in has created
Oh but he does…..for his own good though
*bUt ItS a SaTiRe!!!!*
Me: I don't care
Wait a minute why is everyone speaking English on argentina?
VIOLENCE ☝🧐
future English is the primary language
I don't understand how anyone can watch this scene and then pretend that this isn't a parody of fascism. The teacher literally talks about "the failure of democracy" as if any other system of government has a better success rate than democracy. That's classic fascist propaganda.
There are many other forms of government beyond democracy, and many fascist thinkers believed their system was the mature form of democracy, exerting the true will of the nation, as it unifies all competing interests into the one state. The problem is Verhoeven doesn't understand any of that.
@@Paul-A01fu*k any form of fascism.
@@Paul-A01 Well, yeah, there ARE many forms of government beyond democracy. I never disputed that. But history has proven unequivocally that none of them work as well. Anyways, fascist thinkers who believe fascism is a form of democracy are delusional; that's obvious nonsense. They're diametrically opposed.
I don't understand how anyone can live in today's day and age and be so ignorant of what fascism is. Democracy, for starters, is not a monolithic ideal, there are many forms of democracy, and most of them failed throughout history, one could even argue the current forms of democracy are failing literally right now. Regardless, it's worth pointing out that the society in the ST movie is literally not fascism BY DEFINITION. It literally breaks far too many sacred cows of fascist belief to be fascism. In fact, the world of ST is literally still a form of democracy, just with the franchise shifted to only those who have done civil service.
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Do you think modern day Switzerland, Germany, or South Korea aren't democracies? You are *required* to do two or more years of civil service in these countries or face jail or disenfranchisement. How is that any different from ST?
The world of ST has
Free Markets
Volunteer Service to the State
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of the Press
Free Movement
Like, their world is basically any liberal Western nation of today, sans a few differences, like population control via birth lottery (the planet is extremely overcrowded) and the criminalization of weapon ownership for non-Citizens. I literally don't know how people can watch this movie and call it fascism when it doesn't portray a fascist society at all.
@@TRENCHESandTREADS it's not that they are ignorant, it's that you are lying, about the qualities of this society, the real world, and about the definitive chacteristics of fascism.
None is physic.
Doogie
Turns out he's not psychic, just gay 🤔🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
can't he be both?
GAY-PSYCHIC
Basically Erudite in dnd 3.5e
This movie is so strange. A combination of dumb, mindless teenagers smiling and kissing. And a civics lesson that teaches cold reality like no school I've ever heard of before. Some people think this movie is stupid. Some think it is brilliant. I think it has stood the test of time.
It teaches fascism, not reality. I guess that went over your head?
@@ImperatorZed guy who thinks "all authority comes from violence" isn't a reasonable take
also thinks voting (telling the government you want them to use their guns to enact something) isnt violence at its core
this movie really is a midwit trap, you're stuck in the middle recognizing its satirical in nature, but not realizing that some of the things it says can have value at the same time
@@carbharharbcar5867 you are illiterate. Any ther neccessary component of fascism. You are putting it on display here.
@@ImperatorZed any ther? did you misspell authority? (crazy to call someone illiterate when you cant spell check yourself on a device with spell check built in) embarassing
anyways, if you mean authority, this only makes you seem dumber, 'authority' is a necessary component of any conventional government. it's also an extrapolation of nature, hierarchy and violence are natural things that cannot be done away with, and by extension any government system or any organization of humans will be influenced by hierarchical and authoritative (violent) concepts.
i think your main problem is that you think fascism just means killing all brown people and enhancing suffering. fascism isn't a good governmental system but in wartime for example dictatorial elements can be beneficial. and just because fascism itself isn't good doesnt mean that fascist ideology and reasoning can't be correct on some level. there's a reason people believed it in the past. same with communism, because labor theory of value has certain correct aspects to it.
The book was way better than the movie. The real Troopers in the book would have destroyed the pathetic ones in the movie. I would have been more impressed with the movie if it had stayed true to the book.
Prime Denise Richards