The Bugs Whacked Me! *Starship Troopers* First Time Watching
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- #starshiptroopers #starshiptroopersreaction
I had NO IDEA this was a Satire when I started watching it and realized it at the end! But I still LOVED IT!!! Some of the best 1 liners ever!!!
Thanks so much for watching! Hit the sub if your feeling it and the like! I really appreciate the love and support on my lil channel! It means the world to have you here watching with me and the rest of the crew!
Here are some links if your interested!
If you want access to the Watch a longs head on over to Patreon!
/ holddowna
🎉🎉🎉Enter to win your own POSTER! 🎉🎉🎉
Movie Poster Giveaway from movieposter.com
Enter for a chance to win any poster valued at $20 or less, please provide your name, email and address here! draws are once a month!
docs.google.co...
Be sure to check out;
www.movieposte...
Disclaimer: This is an affiliate link. If you click and make a purchase, I might earn a small commission. This supports my channel and helps me make more videos like this. Thanks for your support!
Original Movie: Starship Troopers (1997)
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. No Copyright infringement intended. All rights belong to their respective owners.
![NOSFERATU - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters December 25](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nulvWqYUM8k/mqdefault.jpg)
Ya’ll! I had no idea this was a satire going in and I was so sassy that day! Started to realize it by the end! But wow I loved this movie!
The book, written by Heinlein, was satire and that carried over into the movie. In addition, the movie added a lot of satire towards the military. The whole "do you want to know more" was taken from AFRTS where servicemembers overseas got to watch "commercials" for the Library of Congress and would ask family members back in the states to record commercials for them. The drill instructor harming recruits without blinking an eye, just yelling, "MEDIC", and walking away. The, "I'm doing my part", again from AFRTS with FOD announcements. The wartime field promotion system (I need a new corporal, you're it). All taking jabs at the military.
There is a great video about this , the politics of star ship troopers, ( sargon of akkad) fascism, communism,
@@mgass1354 The book was not satire
Thanks for the content! New subscriber here.
Think you are absolutely gorgeous , love the channel
Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown are amazing in this movie. Well, pretty much everything they're in is amazing.
They definitely killed it. :D
To be honest, Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown are amazing in everything they do.
Darkseid and Lex Luthor
Both had voice roles in 'Transformers : Prime' (2013-15) as well. Ironside as Ultra Magnus is basically Lt. Raczak in robot form, perfect casting.
Tbf, Micheal Ironside was in about 90% of movies between 85 and 2k lol when i was younger, there was a movie trivia game that we played and when asked "Name an actor from this movie?" 9 out of 10 you could say Micheal Ironside and youd be right lol points!
Movie: *horrific scenes of the destruction of a city*
Ames: *laughing maniacally*
Yeah, that tracks.
It was BECAUSE off the way the line was said “bugs whacked us” lmao
@@holddowna That's one of the greatest lines ever delivered by a secondary character in US cinema. She committed so much to it, I buy it. For that line alone, I think this movie should be preserved by the Library of Congress. The only greater line ever delivered (this one by an extra) is "Johnny, you're a creampuff!" in the first Karate Kid.
@@angusmcculloch6653 🤣🤣🤣
“You tryin’ to be a hero, Watkins?!”
@@holddowna you're surprisingly adept at seeing past the deceptively "straight" delivery in these films, and picking up on the underlying tone, the true heart of the film
Never pass up a good thing, Rico
Diz is best girl...
She took getting George Floyd-ed by Zim like a champ.
Damn right.
Team Diz
A podcast was talking about this recently and they said “Boys think the first GF is the best, men know the second one is the best.”
100%. Carmen is a piece of sh.. I would take Diz every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
"Make it twenty minutes"
One of the best lines ever.
Lol
Hey, if y'all know how to use it, 20 minutes is just enough time 😅😂😂❤❤🎉
@@infinitelybi2064 These characters for sure are asking "what do we do with the other 18 minutes?"
Lt. Rasczak bein' a bro.
‘She fucked his brains out’ 😮
"Goddamn bugs whacked us Johnny " with tears in her eyes, Oscar worthy. I wouldn't be able to be serious and say that lines lol
Right she’s soo good but it killed me!
The kids stomping the bugs while thier mother laughs hysterically was my favorite part 😂 🐛 hahahaha "THEY'RE DOING THEIR PART"
The Veterans took over the government. So, serving makes you a Citizen. When it started serving didn't have to be in the military. When you go for Federal Service, you would be tested for where you would best fit. This is based on the Robert A Heinlein book - Starship Troopers.
And, you could quit at ANY time. And, Federal Service was entirely voluntary - no conscription at all. A god part of the justification of Federal Service being necessary to ear voting rights is so that the people voting for government policy know what enforcing government policy entails. If you aren't willing to personally risk your skin to enforce a law, if you object to people being harmed in the enforcement of the law, then you shouldn't have any say in what is the law. None of this "X should be illegal, but the police should be nicer to people they arrest" nonsense.
@@flatebo1 Amen. Truth.
Fascism in Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Author
Alton C. Ayers, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Abstract
This thesis responds to criticism of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959) as a “fascist” novel by further investigating the claim through a close reading of the novel that applies political theory scholarship on fascism. Chapters I and II introduce the novel along with its general reception and controversy. These chapters consider the accusations of “fascism” given to the novel while at the same time understanding that a clear, exact definition of “fascism” has long been grappled with by scholars since the rise of the regimes in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Chapters III and IV apply political theory to examine Starship Troopers’s characters, language, and plot to find if the novel’s narrative expresses the “mobilizing passions” of fascism identified by Robert Paxton in The Anatomy of Fascism (2004). In addition to Paxton, the political theory analysis will also be aided by Roger Griffin’s The Nature of Fascism (1991) and Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism.” The focus will be on “checking off” each mobilizing passion listed by Paxton, but consideration will also be given to how Starship Troopers buys into the “national rebirth” myth in Griffin’s definition of palingenetic populist ultranationalism as well as how it expresses certain fascist features observed by Eco. Chapters III and IV ultimately find that Starship Troopers’s narrative expresses all of the mobilizing passions listed. Chapter VI concludes the analysis by denouncing fascism and Starship Troopers’s vision of a false-utopia, pointing to the inherent ineffectuality and destructiveness of fascism. The concluding chapter closes with final remarks reflecting on applying current scholarship on fascism to the reading of a novel."
Robert A Heinlein - www.brainyquote.com/authors/robert-a-heinlein-quotes
@@flatebo1 It also was a matter of being willing to make sacrifices for the good of society as a whole. By putting society's needs ahead of your own, you demonstrated that you were responsible and mature enough to make decisions that would further society as a whole.
To get an idea of what Verhoeven tried to say with the movie two things you should know.
1 - As a kid he witnessed the nazis invade his country (Holland).
2 - The uniforms of the high officers of the human army look exactly like the uniforms of Gestapo and Nazi SS officers.
also the Book its based on is very different, soldiers in huge power armor, written by an American more than 3 decades before the film.. very much not satirical.
He also didn't read the book which is about militaristic meritocratic liberal utopia but all he saw was "Military. Ew Military = Bad"
@@AaronPaulIbarrola I read the book and yeah, that's a fair assertion hah. Helldivers is closer to this movie than the actual book 😂
@@AaronPaulIbarrola also deeply steeped in American ultra-patriotic militarist fetishist.. the whole 'thank you for your service' mantra the US civilian public has for former military service men, while not giving them proper healthcare and PTSD mental health care.
school children swearing allegiance oaths etc.
its practically cliche for a former successful General to leverage his popularity into a presidential term.
That is practically unknown in most other democracies.
Director Paul Verhoeven was surprised that so many people missed the social satire in "Robocop," so he went even more over the top in this movie by making the heroes into literal imperial fascists with Nazi-like uniforms. And yet some people still missed the point.
I'm doing my part
Haha
Clancy Brown - Shawshank Redemption
Jake Busey - notably Gary Busey's son, he's in Contact and Stranger Things)
Michael Ironside - Top Gun, Total Recall
All the actors in and around this movie have roles you'll know!
AHHHHH!!
Sir yes sir Mr. Krabs sir!
- I don't think I knew Clancy Brown was Mr. Krabs til I started watching reactions to this. My favorite thing I've learned is that guy who got shot in the head in training married the girl who shot him. Kids be like mommy how did you meet daddy?
When I think of Jake Busey I always think of the movie Tomcats.
@@kmill5009 When I think of Jake Busey I think of The Frighteners with Michael J Fox, personally.
Clancy Brown is also the Kurgan in Highlander.
"Luck didn't have anything to do with it. We have a hell of a flight team..." WHO WAS BUSY MAKING GOOGLY EYES AT EACH OTHER and lost the friggin' conn tower off the ship. That part always makes me literally laugh when re-watching this movie.
They were on course to witness the false flag meteor, but Carmen's change of flight plan put them in its path 🤣🤣🤣
Right lmaoooooo
@@LordVolkov yeah. It also never made sense that the bugs would send meteors lightyears from the other side of the galaxy, and on target. Just blame any rogue meteor on an enemy, easy demagoguery
I always thought that exchange was to further highlight the difference in culture and experience between the grunts and the fleet. A satire of army/marines vs air force/navy. When MI screws up they get torn apart. When fleet screws up, they get a pat on the back.
"That vagina bug just Capri Sunned that man!" - Emily, Just SUMM Reactions
Carmen is the worst thing ever.
Lol I was really hard on Carmen lol
I'd say Jenny from Forrest Gump has her beat.
Apparently that's a controversial statement for some, but it's pretty obvious.
@@NefariousKoelI thought jennay what's cool when I first watched it as a young teen. Now with a little more experience it's pretty obvious just how many red flags she has
@@NefariousKoel no. Its pretty obvious that Forrest Gump is just a really bad movie. Like...really bad to a point where its almost propaganda.
@@NefariousKoel Cinema Therapy did an episode on FG recently and whether or not Jenny was Toxic. I'm on the fence myself. I think both sides of the argument have merit.
I saw this opening night and had such a blast, I was shocked to find out a couple years later that this was a box office failure.
Oh man... This must have been FANTASTIC on the big screen...
Being around at the time, I don't recall it having much marketing at all. I didn't know it existed when it was in theaters. It became popular after it hit video rental stores though.
@@AsymptoteInverse Yes it was! Me and my brother had to see this movie twice!
You laughed more than anyone I've seen watch this movie.
I have a habit of loving comedies lol
Yeah, this reaction is unique. Most reactors seem to be shocked by the violence.
@@holddowna : Anyone who considers a story about fascism and genocide to be a comedy has to be seriously psychotic.
I'll forever hold a grudge against Rico for pulling out that Arachnid limb out of Dizzy's torso. It was probably keeping her alive as long as it was in there. Basic medical procedure states this in the real world. Leave the object in to slow blood loss until you're transported to hospital for surgery. Ripping out is basically a death sentence by further damaging organs and flesh and causing irreversible damage. Let's not also forget this is the future with advanced medical technology. So I'd bet to say there was something back at the fleet that could of healed her up.
It's not Johnny's fault. Carmen taught him to always pull out.
@@angusmcculloch6653 You don't pull punches. I like you.
He's mobile infantry. Everyone else is just a medic and knows how to deal with it. lol. Seriously though, the characters are supposed to be young and dumb until they gain some experience. Nailed it.
Carmen is a walking red flag. Toxic tease! Dizz is the 💩
Lololo
Mobile Infantry and Fleet don't mix!
Chocolate yogurt?
Carmen over diz every day
Just watched Deadpool again. Couldn't resist.
The only way the cast would agree to be completely naked for the shower scene in boot was if the director was also naked. I believe it ended up being everyone involved in the direct filming of this scene was completely naked (cast and crew)
Lmao
Now THAT'S how you shoot a movie!
The story... as I've heard it....
The cast kept having trouble getting that scene right ... blowing their lines ... not staying in character ... etc. Finally, Deena Meyer (aka Dizzy) shouted out, "If you think this is so easy why don't YOU try being naked for this?" ... and so, the director Paul Verhoven (who was from Europe where they're much less embarrassed by nudity) and one of the Directors of Photography (I believe) -- the D.P. actually grew up in a nudist colony, so he had no issues with public nudity -- both stripped naked.
Casper van Diem and several of the other cast members ALL replied, "Oh gawd, Deena... WHY??!!" - because honestly... nobody wanted to see Verhoven naked. (*LOL*)
I wish Mister Crabs would yell "MEDIC!!!" when SpongeBob gets hurt.
There are a lot of differences between the film and the original novel by Robert A. Heinlein...
1) The Troopers wear power armor, like an army wearing Iron Man armor.
2) Carman Ibannez is not in the story, only mentioned. Zander is entirely made-up. Dizzy Flores was a man on one page in the novel, dead. Raszcek is an amalgamation of two different characters.
3) The bugs were basically human-sized, not nearly as wild, and more technologically advanced. There is an entire other alien species in the story.
4) Rico's dad survived and joined the Mobile Infantry under Jonny's command.
5) Because of Heinlein's background (he was an Annapolis graduate and a naval veteran), the novel is pro-military and borders on everything the film satirizes.
Interesting castings you may have missed:
- The guy who processes Carmen, Carl, and Jonny without legs is actor Robert David Hall, best known for playing Las Vegas coroner Dr. Albert Robbins on CSI.
- The psychic with the third eye is Timothy Omundson, known for his TV series Galavant and Psych. Most recently, he played Haephestus, God of the Forge, in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He survived a stroke in 2017. He had to relearn how to walk, talk, and everything else, but he is still a working actor, even though he still deals with the aftermath.
- The biology teacher during the bug dissection scene is Rue McClanahan, best known as Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls.
- Jake Busey, who played Ace, is the son of Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story, Lethal Weapon)
- Lt. Willy, who leads Rico and Dizzy during the Klendathu drop, is played by Steven Ford, son of former United States President Gerald R. Ford.
- The General who asks Cark what the brain bug is thinking is Dale Dye, who trains actors who are playing military roles and serves as a technical advisor on the same films. Among the movies and TV series he has worked on are Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Platoon, and Casualties of War. He also is an actor in many more films and TV shows.
Eric Bruskotter (Breckinridge) and Tami-Adrian George (D'janaD), the big guy shot in the head during the live-fire exercise, and the girl who shot him fell in love in real life and married.
Carmen shows up when he's in training and takes him out to lunch. She's mentioned as being like 5 foot tall and shaved bald like most female pilots. I love Heinlein, probably my favorite author. This is a fun movie, but should not be confused with the original source from which the writers cribbed the names of people and places.
Also one of the infantrymen (the black guy) is Carver on The Wire.
@@GlebNerzhin I haven't seen The Wire yet; is that the priest from Walking Dead?
@@dupersuper1938 Yep, thats him
Ames doing Starship Troopers? Why, yes, I do have time to watch.
😂
You mean, you would like to know more. Also remember there are three ST movies with the last one having the best soundtrack.
If you like ferrets, I highly suggest the sword & fantasy movie Beastmaster. 😂
odd ferret trivia. ferrets have been used to run cabling through small enclosed space in aeroplanes and buildings for decades by fitting special harnesses to attach the cable to.
The broadcasting of some of the largest events in history were only possible due to them 😁
That film traumatized me as a kid. Still haven’t yo e back as an adult
Good call.
@@ben2741 It's okay - I have similar issues with the original Salem's Lot (1976). Why Dad ever thought it was okay to let a seven year old watch that... 😶
Welcome to the Roughnecks, Ames!
heheheh
everyone fights, no one quits
Hoo-Ha!!
RAZCACKS ROUGHNECKS!
Rico’s roughnecks!!!
It absolutely blows my mind that this was from 1997, and we still haven't surpassed it in visual effects, from the bugs to the starships. The death of the Rodger Young is probably the most beautiful (and horrifying) starship destruction ever filmed.
"Listen to Rizz!"
Dizz has the rizz 😍
Dina Meyer is a great mix of badass and hotness. Her look at the dance in the backless silver dress is 🤌
Check out Bats, with Lou Diamond Phillips for a fun creature feature with Dina.
SHES RAD
@@holddowna I was also disgusted with "Johnny" for simping over that C-word Carmen, whilst overlooking the sincere (albeit stalkery) hotness that was Diz. Then I remembered that it was a BS luv triangle jammed into this story, which WAS NOT IN THE FREAKIN' BOOK! 🤬
Pant. Pant. Breathe, just breathe.
Ok. But "Johnny" was JUAN, a freakin' Filipino in the book godddammm it!!!!
ok, I'll stop...
But they had _fighting_ _suits_ in the book, so it didn't matter if they could breathe the atmosphere, and and and 🤯
💀
Dina Meyer plays a big role in Johnny Mnemonic, a 90's cyberpunk SF with Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren and Ice-T. It is a fun watch and sadly almost forgotten today. I think it's better than its rating.
@@Mackampackam I really wanted to love that movie but I felt it missed in so many ways. It did, however, pave the way for The Matrix.
@@3rdOption-l9t And Dizzy was a DUDE in the book.
As someone with a degree in entomology, I approve of this movie!
🥾
🪳
It's good to know your enemy.
You're doing your part! 😎
Would you like to know more?
You must also cackle hysterically while stomping the bugs as well.
There was a short lived CGI animated series in the late 90s or maybe 2000. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
This movie has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Lol
Mine now too
Carmen took the ship sideway out of the space station, like little Tommy Webber tried to do it in "Galaxy Quest"
[Nerdue ue te... ]
Don't exceed port speed. "Why?" Because I'll fail you and have you jailed for insubordination..
"the enemy cannot push a button!....if you disable his hand" 😆
I never noticed all the double entendre lines that Xander drops in this film. "I heard about a crazy girl who's wild on the stick"... "You think you can lick my navs?"
LMAOO it was so funny
7:55 “😊Yaaay-*sees he has no legs*- ohh, buddy😟”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“It’s like a dead dog and then the funniest lines I’ve ever heard.” I think this sums up Verhoeven perfectly.
LMAOOOOO
36:05 “I don’t think the plot matters” 😂
Okay, I subscribed for citizenship!
I've made it my personal responsibility!
UVE DONE UR PART
@@holddowna o7
A lot of commentators ask why you have to send in foot troops after air raid bombing. The quick answer: No war has been won in the air, you have to have boots on the ground.
"It's afraid!"
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH 👏👏👏👏
Everyone fights, no one quits. Classic.
The interesting thing I have discovered about this movie. Too young to get at the time it was released. Is that the bugs never attacked earth. It was a false flag to invade the bug planet.
!
Alright Alex Jones, settle down!
@@asmrhead1560 He aint wrong
@@ivantot506 He is wrong.
@@thescrambler692 Considering they are on opposite side of the galaxy they would have to send that asteroid towards Earth hundreds years ago. And even if we disregard that fact you just need to see where that war is fought. If they attacked Earth that war wouldn't be fought on their planet. Its just logical
"Goddam bugs whacked us, Johnny!" 😋
Nothing like watching this in the theatre while doing tequila shots. Good times.
😂😂😂
My favorite part of any Ames reaction: [Something awful happens]: "Awwww, buddy."
Im so Canadian 😂😂😂😂 gotta make my shirt for merch
and its all downhill from here. the sequels aren't really worth watching and the third one is embarrassingly bad. At least 2 kinda has an interesting idea for a plot even if the movie itself is garbage and doesn't really make any sense
2 isn't garbage... it is simply a super low budget Scifi movie that basically takes place in one location. I actually quite like it as it's own movie...but it really isn't a sequel or connected to this at all
the animated one is not that bad
I remember when this came out, a fellow IT geek at work was constantly and randomly working in 'Do you want to know more' into conversations. 🤓
But Ames, you totally got the thing that most reactors miss, about how it was all Carmen's fault, trying to 'lick Zander's navs' by re-plotting their course, that caused them to lose their comm array to the bug meteor and prevented their warning Earth defenses, which could have saved Buenos Aires, the loss of which kickstarted the war.
When they were all in basic training, Zim was talking about disabling the enemy's hand to prevent him pushing a button. Their live fire exercise's enemy silhouettes were all human soldiers firing at them. In other words, they were training for human-on-human combat. The Arachnids were just these weird aliens they had encountered. Then Buenos Aires was lost, and suddenly it was war.
And all because Carmen thought she was so smart! 🤣
One day now you will step on a bug and swish it and you wont realize it but you will say -"I'm doing my part" , because of this movie
Dougie Howser is now Dougie Himmler.
Because he made a ferret go up his mom's leg and ran tests on bugs that were never humanized?
You've killed bugs before, so you must be a natsoc too.
Ha!
Herr Dougie to you!
I believe it's the same guy who did Total Recall and Robocop
Yes I learnt this after - I have seen TR as a kid it’s been forever but never seen Robocop!
@@holddownaYou really need to do Robocop!
@@holddowna He also did "Basic Instinct"........
Robocop for next reaction! Great film
@@holddownaSecond what the last guy said - RoboCop is a must.
I saw this flick when it came out. I was still in middle school, so a lot of the satire went way over my head. I was still fairly new to seeing R rated flicks in theaters, so I was just excited to get the action and sci-fi. It’s always fun the revisit this one.
The boobs were also good.
"I'm getting smarter." slurp slurp slurp. Ames giving off serious liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti vibes.
Lmaooooo
I don't think you can dehumanize something that isn't human to begin with.
Lmaooooo
I was just happy to hear someone call him Doogie Howser and not Barney from How I Met Your Mother.
I’ve actually never seen doogie howser just know he’s in it and he’s an incredible talent !
Watch this reaction and the Popcorn in Bed for two completely reactions 😂
_"Goddamn bugs whacked us, Johnny."_
That is also my favorite line, I've used at random just to see if anyone catches it.
Fun fact: The drill sergeant is the voice of Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob lol
Because it is him.
Surprisingly, the digital effects actually hold up better on bigger screens. There's a ton of detail that looks bad in compression algorithms, because this was made for the big screen without much thought to home screens, which were still analog trash by comparison then.
They designed the Bugs to be as easy to consistently render as possible without looking cheesy. And since the main bugs weren't flexible, they were easy to render and skin en masse. The squishy bugs were the difficult parts that took the most time or they had to rely upon practical effects. You can see some sliding in the Bugs' ground placement when you study carefully, but they did a pretty good job with most all of that, too. The scenes in space, like where the ship is blown in half, are amazingly detailed. If you pause it on a big 4K or 8K screen, there are literally dozens of scenes of things happening to people in that one single shot, for instance.
About the time that this movie came out, my buddy and I had a fractal t-shirt enterprise. We would zoom and render through variations of Lyapunovian space and the Mandelbrot set to find unique images to sell. Each of us had decent computers for the time, but a single image could still take days to render (where nothing else could be done with your computer). I can only imagine how long it took to render this movie back then, even on big iron.
But that was the roadblock, not the imagery itself. They set up the intended imagery to give themselves as good a chance of realism as they possibly could. It might hold up better than you realize. Most people completely missed the satire when this came out, even critics, and focused on how well the effects worked. I believe the consensus then was that the practical effects and dialog were the parts that let the movie down, but that the digital effects were largely seamless. Many gung-ho, rah-rah types who loved this movie, specifically loved it for all the detail and "realism."
It's easy to forget because of how the movie starts, but in boot camp they were training to be soldiers. They had no idea who or what they would be fighting.
The director Paul Verhoeven grew up in Nazi occupied Netherlands in fact his house near a military base. This imparted a deep dislike of militarism, fascism, and conservatism. When offered the script for the film, he tried to read the original Robert Heinlein book but found it to be a militaristic, chauvinistic, and fascist book that he didn't care for in the slightest.
So he decided that in adapting the book, he would parody and skewer its world view. Which I think is for the best. The book might be all those things but its also just boring and Verohoeven's approach makes it both prescient and pretty timeless
All time best line in an action movie: Michael Ironside inspects a dead body, looks over his shoulder and breathes "They sucked his brains out!"
I always wonder if Carmen bumping her ship into that asteroid sent it on a path to Earth and she was directly responsible for Buenos Ares being destroyed or if it was a different asteroid that just coincidentally happened to hit after the ship incident took place.
that is a long talked about theory. and parts of the theory hold up parts don't. I think it is just another layer to the whole story for sure
It seemed obvious to me on my first watch of the movie, already. The dialogue of that scene makes it clear that the asteroird was set off course. It's also logical that the fascist propaganda blames the aliens for what was the catastrophic result of the military staff's (Carmen's) misjudgment. A welcome pretext for war. There's lot of subtext to be found in this movie. It's cleverly obfuscated by all the emotional stuff that's going on, meanwhile.
Love this movie! My Mom’s friend’s husband took me to see it in theaters when I was a kid. He sadly had HIV before there was a cure and passed when I was a teen :( He was my sudo Father figure. He taught me how to be a good man and how to fish, drive off road, camp, shoot, responsibly, respect, safety, how to talk to girls, and much more. This movie always reminds me of him :) RIP Bill, thanks for everything brother!
I think you'd really love, Time Bandits! Directed by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python member) and includes other Monty Python alum.
Prob sounds great!
@@holddowna i'd add Baron Munchausen alongside Time Bandits too. Another Gilliam 'kids' film thats bat-crap crazy! (and has a pretty star-studded cast for such an overlooked film)
@@holddowna See Brazil from the same director - incidentally, Gilliam is the Bridgekeeper who asked "WHUT is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow", and also the guy clacking the coconuts - he also did their animation, and then later became a major director in his own right, known for the surreal and often satirical humor of his films, but IMO Brazil is his masterpiece - Monty Python meets 1984
The way he says Zegema Beach always cracks up
I AGREE
Paul Verhoeven is a master of Satire and over the top violence! I love what he chose from Robert A Heinlein's novel.
That's called "ruining" a novel, written with serious intent, by a master of scifi.
You can't "choose" from a book you didn't read
@@docsavage8640 Nice.
I forget, how far did he get before he threw the book away? Was it, like, three chapters?
This was actually one of the funnest movies I've ever seen in the theater. The place was erupting throughout the whole film
At least you realized it was a satire by the end! Director Paul Verhoeven was surprised that so many people missed the social satire in "Robocop," so he went even more over the top in this movie by making the heroes into literal imperial fascists with Nazi-like uniforms. And yet some people still missed the point entirely.
How many times are you going to cut and paste the same thing?
This came out before I was in high school, had to stay with my grandparents for a weekend and they didn't have a computer. Grandma said if I got the homework done on Friday she'd take me to a movie. I don't think she ever really forgave me. As a child I loved the action, as an adult I loved the satire. Great reaction as always
Yes, maybe it's pretty dad gum silly But it is excellent satire on what happens to a society that blindly follows any government ..... The book was of course ten times better
The book isn't satire, though. It actually buys into this stuff.
@@Argumemnon It's just the stuff in the book is not the same stuff movie is on about. [Edit out an overly excited "Not" :)}
Verhoeven almost accidentally made a satirical masterpiece of a movie whilst trying to work through his real life issues from his memories of what the Nazi's did in Holland - not that that there is anything the slightest wrong with being anti-Nazi of course ... but, as noted, that isn't what the book is about.
By all accounts, Verhoeven never read beyond the first chapter, so that's why the great film and the great book don't match up.
The book plays it straight
As others have said, the book isn't satire, but the political system in the book also isn't the one that's represented in the movie. But, yeah, the book is almost just straight political theory in places.
@@dallassukerkin6878 I mean, it wasn't "almost accidentally". Verhoeven knew exactly what he was doing and was very deliberately creating a satire from the off (in the same style as e.g. "Robocop", just with a different target).
This is a little bit like the schools of the 1960's when we disected frogs, played with lawn darts, and drank from the garden hose.
In the book the bugs have lasers.
and starships.
"I had no idea this was a satire"
We can tell.
I still regret not going to be an extra in this. I was living in Boulder when they filmed this and the Klandathu battle scenes were shot up in Wyoming. There was no pay but you got to keep your M.I. gear.
Fun film fact: The bug biology teacher was played by Rue McClanahan aka Blanche from the Golden Girls.
-the head military trainer was played by Clancy Brown, best known for playing The KURGAN and *voicing Mr Krabs.*
-The cast refused to do the nude shower scene unless the director got naked, in hopes of getting it cancelled... He got naked and it got filmed.
Me and my friends went to see this when it first came out. Damn that was a long time ago now, but the movie holds up amazingly to this day. Unlike the sequel.
Ahh dang the did a sequel this movie doesn’t need that!
Lucky! Though I had the good fortune of having this movie etched into my late-childhood nostalgia.
I'm old as hell so did see this in the cinema in 1997. It was insane and awesome then and still holds up now. The early scenes were shot like a 90s soap opera in the vein of Beverley Hills 90210 which made it all the more joyous when the young and beautiful cast were ripped apart by massive space insects!
"We will meet this challenge with our valor, indeed with our very lives. To ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and ALWAYS!"
They may be space nazis, but i love that line from the Skymarshal! Best delivery in the whole movie 😄
the paul verhoven trillogy of robocop, total recal and starship troopers is a great way to spend an evening.
Worst part is that we actually started the fight with the bugs we are the bad guys
Excellent lighting. Great colors for this movie. And very flattering. Win/win.
I'm doing my part: subscribed!
Aims, I knew you would love this one. Its so much fun.
I just rewatched a Stallone movie called Cliffhanger, you should check it out too!
I saw this in theaters when I was 12 years old, and I loved it. To this day I still love it. Ironically my family planned to do spaghetti for dinner the night we saw this in theaters and my dad, brother and I were the only ones that ate that night LoL. Good times.
1:46 You know her from her being my Hollywood girlfriend since BH 90210. 🥰
Ooooooo!!!
42:20 "Yes I'am" Immaculate brain bug voicework
If you like science fiction, I recommend two great films about the future of man. “Idiocracy” and "Soylent green".
+1 for Idiocracy!
I know this! Soylent Green is… 😂
I’m not gonna do it, though I had someone ruin the movie for me that way! 😢
"this guy," the drill sergeant, is the actor who does the voice of Mr Krabs 🤣
@@micfail2 also the brutal prison screw Byron Hadley in Shawshank Redemption.
The book is a libertarian paradise. The director couldn't keep his own politics out of it and turned it into... this.
A libertarian paradise lmao , note it's a work of fiction
Because a libertarian paradise won't EVER exist
that wink at the start...heart-melting. 😍
Who's doing their part as well?
I'm doing my part!
I'm doing my part, too!
I liked and subscribed! I'm doing my part!
@Holddowna Yup, this is a gem for anyone who loves science fiction. Fun romp which had no right being this wonderful an cheesy
Siege of Jadotvile
😁
I had this movie on VHS in the 90s. Watched it numerous times.
I agree!
The gore is fun, the satire is fun, the hammy acting is even fun. And the CGI holds up pretty well.
All in all, a fun and funny movie.
It was considered a box office bomb back in the day when it came out because back then, most people thought it was a pro-war propaganda film, but didn't recognize the satire laced throughout the film. As a veteran of the US Army, it was obviously sarcasm, and if you look the the director, he was a child in Sweden during the invasion by Nazi Germany back in the early 40s. I love this film so much and was so happy to see that you, too, recognize the satire, and to be fair, most people do now.
Paul Verhoeven is very much Dutch...
He also did Showgirls, Robocop, Basic Instinct and Total Recall in the 90s'.
Sweden was neutral in WW2 and never invaded by the Nazis. Verhoeven is Dutch.
Director Paul Verhoeven was surprised that so many people missed the social satire in "Robocop," so he went even more over the top in this movie by making the heroes into literal imperial fascists with Nazi-like uniforms. And yet some people still missed the point.
I'm glad you enjoyed this. It is a satire and with all the desert and mountain fighting we were doing at the time the settings are also a part of the satire. One thing though...... this movie has almost nothing in common with the book as written by Robert Heinlein other than the title and the name of the bug enemy. The book has an all male Infantry, other species as allies and as enemies and the infantry actually behaves like a military force and not an undisciplined mob. The men wear powered armor and fight with 1/2 mile spacing. Rico actually goes to Officer Candidate school after several promotions and he also meets his father later in the story rather than him being killed. It is a good story and worth the read and afterward you will see how little this resembles the story.
Ames, please read or listen to the audiobook. While we love this movie it is a hatchet job on the book. The director by his own admission didn’t bother reading more than one chapter of the source material.
Ames, do *not* bother reading the book.
I saw this in theaters when it came out then proceeded to bring all my friends to see it too.
I ended up seeing it on the big screen 4 times.
Even yelled "CARNAGE!" once & got a packed theater bawling with laughter.
Good times.
I saw the 5th Element 5 times in a similar fashion.
I used to be a hardcore ciniphile.
Now most modern movies suck so I watch others watch my old faves.
The book is quite different but the same lol. About lashing fun fact : the british army did it back in the day. One american who was a freaking legend during the revolutionary war got 400 lashes from the british... and survived. The sick thing about lashing... at least 3 countries still do it... Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan... because of course... aint islam great?
It's was actually 500 lashes and during the French and Indian war. His name was Daniel Morgan and he ended up becoming a general during the revolutionary war.
I saw this movie twice in theaters in 1997, and was going to see it a third time, but sadly it was pulled before I could. While it isn't a perfect movie by any means, it still is my favorite movie!