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  • @1ButtonDash
    @1ButtonDash 2 года назад +359

    I saw this as a kid in theaters in 97. The visuals at the time blew us away, everyone was talking about how good they were.... and TBH they still hold up REALLY WELL!

    • @jmag579
      @jmag579 2 года назад +18

      I was 17 when this came out and I worked at a movie theater as an usher. I watched this for free like 3 times back then 😆

    • @bdawg5855
      @bdawg5855 2 года назад +2

      I was about 16-18 when this came out and I watched it, gave me the chills

    • @Сайтамен
      @Сайтамен 2 года назад

      I guess rating system was nothing back then...

    •  2 года назад +2

      The visuals at the time? Still hold up? There still no film surpassing this one on animation, the art of movement.

    • @pustulio81
      @pustulio81 2 года назад +1

      I was 16 when this came out!!. My friends and I liked it so much that we decided to sneak in and watch it again. We slipped into another movie and waited until the next showing, then snuck back over lol

  • @mickmartin4681
    @mickmartin4681 2 года назад +12

    I love it when the cameraman just keeps filming as his boss gets eaten

  • @DocuzanQuitomos
    @DocuzanQuitomos 2 года назад +9

    "What the hell is going on!?"
    I love when people feel like that with the film XD. The movie is a very free version of a novel with the same name that takes place in a more militaristic society than the real world. The society division (citizens and civilians) and the military training is partially inspired in how old cultures like the romans or the greeks/spartans organized both around the concept of war and of discipline. The use of bugs allows the plot to be more graphic against the enemy in some sort of "sandbox"; if you were to do half of what they portrayed with human or humanoid enemies... it would be even weirder.
    "Why bugs!? Why there are so many?"
    While the main reason is to have an enemy you can freely turn to pulp without remorse, it's also an interesting concept of science fiction: as the biology teacher explains, we think of our species as the most advanced in all fields... but if there is life out there, there will be other forms of life with other shapes, other skills, other cultures and moralities that will have more advantages over us in some ways. Bugs are seen, mostly, like a nuisance in our world; but if the had evolved like that... they would be an even more serious threath: they reproduce in numbers, they have skills that seem supernatural, and habits that would look grotesque in bigger sizes (yeah, they don't shoot plasma or napalm exactly... but there is a bug that can shoot something closer to acidic boiling water). Yup, as long as their nest is not destroyed, it doesn't matter how many times they blast the surface, they have means to recover from the damages.
    "It feels... like a parody"
    To an extent; any space film that came after Star Trek and Star Wars will be compared to them (while the novel was written before those franchises were general pop culture references, if I'm not mistaken; all the visual effects, designs and references were done for the movie). And the plot was made to skid along the line the gruesome of the war (most of the militaristic elements can be related to real war stories) and this kind of sci-fi spirit that lets it get a bit away with all the blood, sex graphic violence and nods to totalitarian images (it makes the "good mood" work even if you spend two hours on the verge of vomiting XD). That "this is serious... but not that kind of serious" needed to be there or this was going to be unwatchable.
    "This is the weirdest we have seen in the channel"
    And I guess it's not the worst you'll ever see XD. Starship Troopers is a little classic that's well done in the own limits of its stablished univers and I think I like it for that (there are two sequels, but they were released years later, and with limited reach to actually consider studios made Starship Troopers with the hopes of being a franchise). They made a bet with one weird film just hoping it worked as it was designed, and it did; that's why it's so effective and memorable.
    And that would be it, it was nice to see you suffer/enjoy it; you may torture your friends later making them go thorugh the same trip XD. Until the next time, happy holidays :).

  • @k3n12ock
    @k3n12ock 2 года назад +4

    "WHAT IF.... they made Starcraft"

    • @parker469a
      @parker469a 2 года назад +2

      You know, when Thor: Ragnarok came out and I saw Hela my first take was they took heavy influence from Kerrigan : Queen of Blades.

  • @j.s.9536
    @j.s.9536 2 года назад +15

    Actually it is a satire with a deep meaning, that most people didn´t get when it was released. Mainly about fascist structures (for example a lot reminds of Nazi propaganda movies) and excessive militarism. The bugs stand for the dehumanization of opponents in wars, which is often used.

    • @yodieyuh
      @yodieyuh 2 года назад +2

      It's less people don't get it and more the film doesn't do well satirizing it. The bugs are meant to stand for dehumanization, but the film doesn't humanize them and in the real world every human kills actual real world bugs. We have entire industries dedicated to producing and administering pesticides.
      Paul needed more than aggression and fear to make common movie-goers feel like they aren't just bugs.
      Similarly, he needed to show the ways this heightened Fascism is bad.
      Show us legislation the Citizens passed that has a serious negative effect non-Citizens.
      Show us how people are being oppressed.
      Show us protests and how they are being shut down.
      Show us climate catastrophe.
      Show us war on earth between the Gov and rebels.
      Show us bigotry.
      Show us something.
      But Paul shows us a voluntary military, non-Citizens who are successful and outspoken with their disdain for Citizens and voting, races and sexes being equal, military leaders taking public responsibility for military failings, unedited front line war coverage, and no bad things happening with the people on Earth because of the Government.
      The three surviving protagonists succeed in their respective careers and end the movie happy and arm-in-arm.

    • @DeliberateContrarian
      @DeliberateContrarian 2 года назад +3

      @@yodieyuh Verhoeven doesn't satirize it well because he didn't understand what Heinlein was talking about. He even said so himself. He thoughts the concepts Heinlein was discussing were boring, so he just made space Nazis.
      All the problems you brought up weren't any more prevalent than in other advanced societies. Citizens didn't oppress civilians. Everyone had the right to become a citizen through service. The government had a responsibility to find a way for you to serve, even if you had disabilities.
      Citizens weren't some aristocracy. They were held responsible for their failings.
      They weren't bigots. As evidenced by a white male Marshall being replaced by a black female. They were meritocratic.
      They weren't fascists. Civilians had the right to engage in free enterprise.
      They were free individuals in a free society were people were responsible for their own actions and everyone was treated equally. If you commit a crime, you are imprisoned. That isn't oppression, it is the adequate consequence of your decisions.
      You don't really seem to understand the points Heinlein was making either. You just see Verhoeven's SS like uniforms and say "Oh, these must be supposed to be bad guys."

    • @CxOrillion
      @CxOrillion 2 года назад +3

      I don't think that Heinlein was specifically trying to make points. It's speculative fiction. What would make a society like this work? This book is the answer. It's just that when you actually list things out it sounds really fascist, so Paul Verhoeven beat you over the head with the comparisons
      Citizens absolutely were an aristocracy, just not a hereditary one. They were a group of people who operated with a wholly different, expanded set of rights compared to civilians. They absolutely were bigots and intensely militaristic and expansionist. However their militarism and bigotry were focused outwards from humanity. Or do you not recall them raiding the "Skinnies" (there's a stand-in for a racial slur)? Go look back on the motivation for that raid. It basically boils down to "Because we wanted the land."
      Fascism has nothing inherently to do with free enterprise. It has to do with the supremacy of the state. In the case of the Federation: Serve the state, get more rights. It's that simple. YOU certainly don't understand the points that Verhoeven was trying to make. But that's mostly because you obviously don't understand what fascism is.

    • @thissailorja
      @thissailorja 2 года назад

      @@CxOrillion 1000% nailed it!!! Or tell the difference between far Left and far Right ideologies.

    • @Billmaster115
      @Billmaster115 2 года назад

      Killing nearly 10 million people in response to a private human venture into unknown territory that had nothing to do with the Federation isn’t justified. We know the bugs are intelligent at least proximal to humans, so it was a wilful act of murder.

  • @renegade7357
    @renegade7357 2 года назад

    If Aliens (especially the special edition version) is an acid trip,
    then starship troopers is rehab!

  • @ashchbkv6965
    @ashchbkv6965 2 года назад

    Zim later became a detective and partnered with an Android.

  • @taags
    @taags 2 года назад +560

    A movie made in 97 has better effects than many movies made today.

    • @aventidblechchlatechipfrap7465
      @aventidblechchlatechipfrap7465 2 года назад +29

      not like today where everything has CGI and looks like an Instagram filter

    • @JabbaNoFatta
      @JabbaNoFatta 2 года назад +24

      Models always look like they have "weight" compared to CGI because of the detail of the model and the way models are lit with real light. And the BUGS, that were CGI, were a work of art that not only looked real but moved well and to generate so many of them was crazy..

    • @MysticalJessica
      @MysticalJessica 2 года назад +20

      movies today suuuuck! Politics has stomped creativity to sell propaganda!

    • @leonides06
      @leonides06 2 года назад

      🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @KurNorock
      @KurNorock 2 года назад +1

      Ok hipster.
      Yeah the effects were decent but lets not kid ourselves into thinking they hold up to today's standards by any measure.

  • @bikingchupei2447
    @bikingchupei2447 2 года назад +187

    the special effects in this movie looked better than all it's sequels.

    • @ryannguyen8383
      @ryannguyen8383 2 года назад +3

      So true

    • @renji90998
      @renji90998 2 года назад +17

      Well the first one had a theater budget and the rest were straight to DVD. Still impressive that it holds up.

    • @muscledoggs566
      @muscledoggs566 2 года назад +4

      We don't like to acknowledge the existence of the sequels. That being said, Casper Van Dien (not sure on spelling) is pretty much synonymous with the Starship Trooper universe.

    • @h.c4898
      @h.c4898 2 года назад +1

      Let's say the sequels are straight-to-DVD "canon." The original awaits for a proper sequel. 😄

    • @bikingchupei2447
      @bikingchupei2447 2 года назад +2

      @@h.c4898 maybe the sequels to the original were the starcraft games.

  • @MC-yi8ij
    @MC-yi8ij 2 года назад +182

    Yeah, Starship Troopers is a very cool and somewhat over-the-top violent film. Well violent enough to where it's almost cartoony. But the movie is a cult classic. And if you notice, there was a lot of underlying themes. Like those propaganda ads or the way the good guys dressed. (The SS vibe) This director has made several classic films. You should check out his other popular films which are also classics, Robocop and Total Recall. Thank you for your reactions. This was fun to watch with you....
    ...Would you like to know more....

    • @mrs7195
      @mrs7195 2 года назад +16

      The director lived through the Nazi occupation of the Betherlanfs as a child, if I remember correctly. So there is definitely a sarcastic, ironic subtext in the movie.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 года назад +15

      @@mrs7195 Yes, it’s very ‘tongue in cheek’ in the way it presents itself. Unfortunately, it seems like the majority of moviegoers, at least in the US, didn’t catch the obvious nature of the film. Or maybe they did & didn’t like what it was saying about them.

    • @Usernumber777
      @Usernumber777 2 года назад +2

      Director Albert Verhoeven , he made basis instinct.. enough said ..

    • @mandalore1089
      @mandalore1089 2 года назад +16

      @@nateman10 Libertarians =/= awesome.

    • @paulluna8099
      @paulluna8099 2 года назад +10

      @@nateman10 The author was not at all libertarian at all. I suggest you do some research about Libertarian views because it is evident no idea what you are talking about.

  • @crewchief5144
    @crewchief5144 2 года назад +96

    My favorite part is that SGT Zim DID bust himself to PVT so he could fight in the war. I feel that.

    • @rastiga9196
      @rastiga9196 2 года назад +6

      Ditto, he made a dream reality lol

    • @zairac2564
      @zairac2564 2 года назад +14

      Could have happened after he was observed destroying official documents. Two for one.

  • @alanicolas2510
    @alanicolas2510 2 года назад +195

    I am also from Buenos Aires and I like the reference that this film has to my province, when I was a child I also wanted to kill those bugs for what they did to us hahaha 😂

    • @acfan8253
      @acfan8253 2 года назад +17

      @AB Buenos Aires has always been more European than "latina", Argentinians are mostly comprised of Italians, British, Germans, Irish and Eastern Europeans then some Spanish and Portuguese. Is probably the whitest country in South America

    • @luissalas2845
      @luissalas2845 2 года назад +5

      @@acfan8253 es una verdad a media que somos el pais mas "europeo "o mas blanco ya que el mestizaje y la mezclas de la diferente etnias provenientes de paises limítrofes en las ultimas décadas( a groso modo a partir de los 80 ) se a reducido el porcentaje de caucásicos en argentina

    • @nomad_effect
      @nomad_effect 2 года назад +6

      Cuantas copas tienen bichos? 🇦🇷🇦🇷

    • @acfan8253
      @acfan8253 2 года назад +3

      @@luissalas2845 si, pero hasta finales de los 90s era mas caucásico, especialmente la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Mira los programas de tv de los 90s, los actores y las modelos eran mayormente blancos caucásicos.

    • @alanicolas2510
      @alanicolas2510 2 года назад +2

      @AB I don't know why in movies high school kids are overdeveloped people 😂

  • @-Jumper-
    @-Jumper- 2 года назад +27

    I´m from Buenos Aires and I love this movie

  • @Ahairinthegate
    @Ahairinthegate 2 года назад +167

    "A jaw-dropping experience" - Los Angeles Times
    "Fun and shocking" - San Francisco Chronicle
    "What is going on with this movie? It's disgusting. Fucking Hell" - Ellie

    • @SaRENRampaiger
      @SaRENRampaiger 2 года назад +10

      Michelle,"cocktail sucking brains, dunno why but I like it!"

    • @Melanrick
      @Melanrick Год назад +4

      😂

  • @mattyjay1711
    @mattyjay1711 2 года назад +51

    17:06 "Lick my What?"
    Also, fun fact, Drill Instructor Zim is the guy who voices Mr. Krabs on Spongebob Squarepants

    • @erickknutz5599
      @erickknutz5599 2 года назад +8

      Interesting that you pointed out he is Mr. Krabs, rather than choosing to say he is The Kurgan in Highlander!! =p

    • @JRcomments
      @JRcomments 2 года назад +4

      @@erickknutz5599 and hardly ever the Chief Guard in Shawshank Redemption.

    • @tarmaque
      @tarmaque 2 года назад +3

      @@erickknutz5599 And "Rawhide" in _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension._

    • @kirbysmith882
      @kirbysmith882 2 года назад +1

      He's from my hometown and my brother used to run around with him.

    • @JustinChristopher-ov7gw
      @JustinChristopher-ov7gw Год назад

      He's also the worn-down cop in Detroit.

  • @xeres14
    @xeres14 2 года назад +228

    I didn't realize watching Elle being grossed out for an hour would be so entertaining. But it was.

    • @jeffburnham6611
      @jeffburnham6611 2 года назад +13

      If she had gotten any closer to Michelle, they would have become just one person lol.

    • @darthken815
      @darthken815 2 года назад +16

      Medic!

    • @P-M-869
      @P-M-869 2 года назад +13

      I like how expressible her face is, besides being cute as a button.

    • @leonides06
      @leonides06 2 года назад +1

      XD

    • @Сайтамен
      @Сайтамен 2 года назад

      @@P-M-869 Button?

  • @zzzkoszzz
    @zzzkoszzz 2 года назад +86

    Despite its quirkiness this is one of the best war movies made.
    ~It covers everything from relationships, love, psychology, propaganda, gore, trauma, missing in action, heroism, heroes, legends, teachers, veterans, you name it..even Military Intelligence and grand policy is included. Almost every other war movie focuses on only a few of those.

    • @3dGMX
      @3dGMX 2 года назад +3

      Or needs three and a half hours to cover all those things

  • @warre1
    @warre1 2 года назад +97

    It broke my heart when Dizzy said about her dying: -But it's OK, because I got to have you.

    • @DavidMyrmidon
      @DavidMyrmidon 2 года назад +13

      I honestly tear up every time I see that.

    • @barret-xiii
      @barret-xiii 2 года назад +27

      Never stop saying it: The wrong girl died!

    • @wildmike85
      @wildmike85 2 года назад +8

      Dang at least she was able to get down with him.

    • @PaperbackWizard
      @PaperbackWizard 2 года назад +22

      I always hated that. She told Johnny she loved him and he didn't say it back. He didn't deserve her.

    • @popculturewatch8689
      @popculturewatch8689 2 года назад +10

      That would never happen today. It would make her look too weak to feminists

  • @3monthbender
    @3monthbender 2 года назад +36

    When they released her body into space, it's roughly equivalent to burial at sea during the age of sail.

  • @JabbaNoFatta
    @JabbaNoFatta 2 года назад +15

    37:16...Michelle's " That's a lot of MotherF**king Bugs!" gave me Samuel L. Jackson vibes how it rolled off her tongue :)

  • @JoshuaC0rbit
    @JoshuaC0rbit 2 года назад +35

    I was lucky enough to support the computers used to render this movie as my first job out of high school. When they told me what I was working on I thought it sounded ridiculous but now I've seen this movie a dozen times and read the book.

  • @dr.burtgummerfan439
    @dr.burtgummerfan439 2 года назад +26

    Best line I've heard in a Starship Troopers reaction: "That vagina bug just Capri Sunned that man!" (Just Summ Reactions)

    • @tonycardone990
      @tonycardone990 2 года назад +3

      That's all I can think of whenever I see these reactions now also.

    • @tonycardone990
      @tonycardone990 2 года назад +6

      And Burt Gummerfan has to be one of the best names I've seen.

  • @DanielWatches
    @DanielWatches 2 года назад +74

    Such a great film! You should check out Robocop too! Same director!!

    • @goochdawg
      @goochdawg 2 года назад +9

      The oldschool 1980s Robocop?

    • @amandacogger3075
      @amandacogger3075 2 года назад +5

      @@goochdawg is there any other?

    • @goochdawg
      @goochdawg 2 года назад +2

      @@amandacogger3075 Lol yeah remakes.

    • @Texy88
      @Texy88 2 года назад

      @@amandacogger3075 There was a remake in 2014.

    • @amandacogger3075
      @amandacogger3075 2 года назад +1

      @@Texy88 I did see it and it really didn't do it for me like the original. Very annoying when that happens at least for me

  • @Brainreaver79
    @Brainreaver79 2 года назад +6

    as much as i like that movie,.. i still claim the wrong girl died... if they had to have to remove one of the trio,... it shouldnt have been her

  • @michaelbuick6995
    @michaelbuick6995 2 года назад +29

    I remember when this came out (I was 13) I had to get my dad to rent it for me from the video store because I was too young. Did not expect the violence but damn; ultra gory, and Dizzy gets her tatas out? Yeah 13 year old me was in heaven and 24 years later I still love this film.

  • @Subjectivity13
    @Subjectivity13 2 года назад +62

    Paul Verhoeven's movies always feel like parodies. He had a very unique style. I can't believe they gave him such a big budget for this. It was my favorite movie when it came out.

  • @barrykeleher2659
    @barrykeleher2659 2 года назад +22

    Michelle: “Ohhhh, this is Astro-Titanic” 😂😂😂

  • @totomomo18
    @totomomo18 2 года назад +18

    Great movie. You should also watch Robocop and Total Recall from the same director. Also watch Highlander with the guy who plays Sgt. Zim as the bad guy.

  • @cajunsushi
    @cajunsushi 2 года назад +21

    Don’t let the Bugs bite.Good one.😂

  • @bfahren
    @bfahren 2 года назад +5

    "...disgusting..."
    You'll never become citizens with that attitude.

  • @MrAshwinChauhan
    @MrAshwinChauhan 2 года назад +7

    "Don't let the bugs bite"
    Haha. Brilliant ! 😂😂😂

  • @apollo4657
    @apollo4657 2 года назад +10

    “Lick my what?”
    “ Astroid Titanic”
    You’re on a roll. 😂👊🏻👌🏻

  • @jammerc64
    @jammerc64 2 года назад +35

    Movie is satire (that's probably the word you were looking for) on overmilitarized society and its almost Nazi or Soviet like propaganda. Great contrast between soldier's naive hero drive and brutal reality of battlefield.

    • @Alte.Kameraden
      @Alte.Kameraden 2 года назад +4

      Ya, Nazi Germany and the USSR took a lot of ques from eachother. It's shocking how similar they were. One being Racial focused while the other Class. Both tried to build a State for the Social Group that dominated their supposedly People's States. The level of Nationalism in both were crazy at times. It's terrifying when you see that they even copied eachother's Propaganda posters. The history tuber named TIK did some great videos on the subject, similarities and difference. Interesting enough NS Germany was more like the Marxist Soviet Union than it was to Fascist Italy yet the NS are called Fascist. It's why he refuses to call them Fascist, nor Marxist. They were their own thing influenced by both but took their own road.

    • @nerokota
      @nerokota 2 года назад +5

      Believe it or not, it was 1990s USA the inspiration for Verhoeven (or more accurately, what he feared of the USA evolution).

    • @markhamstra1083
      @markhamstra1083 2 года назад +1

      @@Alte.Kameraden You’re missing a fundamental difference between Nazism and Marxist-Leninism. While you are correct that they often used similar methods and tactics, the bases of their philosophies and rhetoric were quite separate and distinct. Nazism was ultra-nationalist, seeing one nation-state and culture as supreme over all others and demanding total allegiance to that one nation’s government and its interests. Marxist-Leninism, on the other hand, is based on ultra-internationalism (e.g. “workers of the world, unite!”, not workers of one nation, and the emphasis on the Communist International) and, at least nominally, does not demand allegiance to one nation or culture over all others. That is what aligns Nazi authoritarianism with Italian and other forms of nationalism and fascism more than with Soviet-style Marxist-Leninism.

  • @erb1211
    @erb1211 2 года назад +9

    This movie never gets boring!!! A classic.

  • @notsureyou
    @notsureyou 2 года назад +15

    I can just imagine Michelle: "I'm tired of these motherfreaking bugs, on this motherfreaking planet"

    • @DoctorDewgong
      @DoctorDewgong 2 года назад

      Kinda crazy how the propaganda in the film even got to a viewer of the movie. The two reactors in this video both assume the pro-imperialist, anti-foreigner stance just because they're told do. Honestly scary af

  • @gregoryfloriolli9031
    @gregoryfloriolli9031 2 года назад +76

    Starship Troopers is one of my top “guilty pleasure” movies. It’s so silly and campy but so damned good.

    • @davida7153
      @davida7153 2 года назад +4

      Its like a parody of the book. And its very good.

    • @DoctorDewgong
      @DoctorDewgong 2 года назад +2

      Its supposed to be silly and campy. Its trying to show how ridiculous and stupid fascism looks in practice

    • @travisfoster1071
      @travisfoster1071 Год назад

      ​@@davida7153odd since Veerhoven only read the first two chapters.

  • @PelosiStockPortfolio
    @PelosiStockPortfolio 2 года назад +5

    This movie should have won oscars

    • @zbynekurbanek3345
      @zbynekurbanek3345 2 года назад +3

      Oscars are beneath this movie. Award great enough for it doesnt exist :D

  • @jonasfermefors
    @jonasfermefors 2 года назад +23

    Michelle: "Are they evolving or what?"
    Ellie: "WHAAAT!"
    It's what I call accidental creationism.

  • @joshuawells835
    @joshuawells835 2 года назад +6

    Of the films in this series, this was the best. It's sort of the opposite of Star Trek in that the odd numbered films are better.
    Also, the armor of the Mobile Infantry is one of the most overused props in Science Fiction. It is used in Firefly and even Power Rangers.

  • @tioluna
    @tioluna 2 года назад +3

    Omg... This is an awesome movie!!! Now you should watch TREMORS!!!? is an old classic and awesome movie!!! Please!!!

  • @j.scottvanlester4584
    @j.scottvanlester4584 2 года назад +29

    Love this movie! At the time nobody got that it is a satire and people lost their minds over it. Great reaction, the look of horror on your face at the ultraviolence. XD Skip the second film, but the 3rd film is more like the books and brings back Rico a good 20-30 years later.

    • @porflepopnecker4376
      @porflepopnecker4376 2 года назад +3

      I totally got it. "Entertainment Weekly" magazine didn't, though!

    • @markhamstra1083
      @markhamstra1083 2 года назад +2

      “Nobody got … it” is a huge overstatement.

    • @travisfoster1071
      @travisfoster1071 Год назад

      Second film... total trash.

  • @SirsMadamsEntertainment
    @SirsMadamsEntertainment 2 года назад +13

    best reaction yet in many ways... Michelle's "what the F*&%$" at the end grabbing the mic had me rolling.

  • @bdbaggett1643
    @bdbaggett1643 2 года назад +32

    The perfect Christmas movie. Excellent reaction, ladies!

  • @timothyhedrick5295
    @timothyhedrick5295 2 года назад +73

    This movie, which is obviously very much a parody at certain points, is actually based on a book by the very famous science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein. I believe he wrote it way back in the 1950s. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers). It obviously poked some fun at some of the Cold War propaganda-ish films and slogans of that time period. He actually took a bit of heat over it for some of the themes back then like, citizenship based on military service, men and women serving together in the military, free/casual sexual behavior. Things that make us blink a lot less today but were pretty controversial in the 1950's. The book really doesn't have much of a comedic flavor to it at all. I read it as a teenager in the 1970s.
    Michelle at 37:15 "That's a lot of mother----ing bugs.." and earlier "Did he say 'lick his navs?' "Lick his navs" = "beat his navigation." Lol!

    • @johnmiller7682
      @johnmiller7682 2 года назад +11

      Allot of people didn't understand the book either. They thought he was promoting Fascism and nationalism. When, in reality, the book was a critique of both.

    • @jeffburnham6611
      @jeffburnham6611 2 года назад +8

      @@johnmiller7682 The book was so much better. The Mobile Infantry troopers were very heavily armed and the drops were done wearing an specialized exo-skeleton, and not some type of troop transport.

    • @P-M-869
      @P-M-869 2 года назад +5

      It wasn't necessarily military service, But you had to serve the nation.

    • @steriopticon2687
      @steriopticon2687 2 года назад +5

      @@P-M-869 Not the worst idea...

    • @flaysol7719
      @flaysol7719 2 года назад +1

      Not a book a comic book

  • @jamespg6133
    @jamespg6133 2 года назад +12

    Sooo, we CAN, all agree they Carmen is such a bad character. Forget Carmen. Lmfao

    • @Annonymous0283745
      @Annonymous0283745 2 года назад +1

      she's almost as repulsive as Jenny from Forrest Gump

  • @notsureyou
    @notsureyou 2 года назад +11

    That look of sadness on Michelle's face when everyone is making fun of Rico's Math score :-(

  • @KHAOE1
    @KHAOE1 2 года назад +5

    27:32 You nailed it Perfectly. The director of this movie (Paul Verhoeven) used a lot of graphic violence and political satire in his films (see Robocop). And 37:17 had me CRACKING UP laughing!! 🤣🤣

  • @komolhuq8752
    @komolhuq8752 2 года назад +7

    This was easily one of the funniest reactions to anything I’ve seen. Squirming at the bugs and gore. Not knowing when this shit is serious and when it’s joking. Getting emotionally attached to characters whilst being aware how dumb the story is. This movie is the good kind of bad. And you smile, as much as you get sad, as much as you cringe, as much as you laugh. It’s the weirdest experience and this reaction was great.

  • @BrianR246
    @BrianR246 2 года назад +6

    This was the ultimate science fiction movie of the late 90's. From my childhood this movie holds a special place in my heart.

  • @mhlevy
    @mhlevy 2 года назад +30

    The story behind this movie was from a book called "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, published in 1959. Heinlein was one of the greatest Science Fiction writers in the US during the 20th century, along with Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov. The movie itself was meant to be something of of an anti-totalitarian rant by the director, partly because he admitted to never having read the book. Anyone who is familiar with the book can agree that this is a fun movie to watch, but it really has nearly nothing to do with the book, and in many ways, is antithetical to the book. In fact, when Virginia Heinlein, his widow, screened to movie, she threatened to sue the studio if they didn't remove his name from the project.

    • @tarmaque
      @tarmaque 2 года назад +10

      Yeah, as a fan of the book I found this movie to be a travesty. I hated it. Verhoeven exploited the book's popularity to make his own movie, which ignored all the points in the book that Heinlein was trying to make. Heinlein has been accused of promoting fascism in the book, but those who make those accusations obviously haven't read it. It can be looked at as a critique of communism, but the society he describes is nowhere near fascism. It can't even be called militarism since no one in his society can vote, or be a part of the government while they are still a part of the military. It's a thought experiment about personal responsibility and its relationship to societal responsibility.
      This movie is basically _Alien v/s Baywatch_ with a buttload of anti-fascist propaganda.

    • @wintermagebarthow8481
      @wintermagebarthow8481 2 года назад +3

      I do not have a problem with the directors slant on the movie. Now mire than ever we needed a slap in the face to wake us up from the slide to fascism. We are on the precipice even now.

    • @boypebenito9165
      @boypebenito9165 Год назад

      So gross!!!😝😝😝

    • @boypebenito9165
      @boypebenito9165 Год назад

      Yikes! So gross.😝😝😝

  • @samanderson7745
    @samanderson7745 2 года назад +3

    I remember ditching a high school cross country team awards banquet after we won state to go watch this in the theater (we were all excited because part of it was filmed at Hells Halfacre in Wyoming and that's where I'm from). To this day I still feel we made the right choice, haha!

  • @greeneyesinfl9954
    @greeneyesinfl9954 2 года назад +8

    Great as always ladies, do you recognize the drill instructor? He was the main prison guard in Shawshank Redemption.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 года назад +4

      He also intimately familiar with the phrase, “There can be only one..”

  • @Chivaltic
    @Chivaltic 2 года назад +6

    This movie is a cult classic. I remember having it on VHS and loving it :)

  • @locutus9956
    @locutus9956 2 года назад +19

    The whole point of Starship troopers is it IS a parody, not of sci fi and movies but of the whole idea of nationalism and jingoism running wild. It's a friggin masterpiece, the cringyness is entirely by design :)

    • @nonconsensualopinion
      @nonconsensualopinion 2 года назад +6

      Yeah, I did not realize that until I was an adult. It makes much more sense after realizing that.

    •  2 года назад

      It never has been a parody and it plays the book concept's template very well, written by sciFi master Robert A. Heinlein (1959).

    • @CxOrillion
      @CxOrillion 2 года назад +4

      Exactly. It's also worth noting that Paul Verhoeven was a child during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the 1940s, and lived under fascist rule during his childhood. He has very anti-fascist, anti-corporate messages in most of his films, with the big 3 being Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable 2 года назад +4

      @ It's a satire on militaristic societies, probably too subtle for a lot of Americans.

    • @lich109
      @lich109 Год назад +3

      @ The movie literally is making a mockery of a fascist society, the director even said as much when he did a pre-show, including talking about how the society uses Nazi imagery (something that nearly got cut from the film).

  • @jacfalle27
    @jacfalle27 2 года назад +6

    “They’re shooting them with their shits.” 😂😂😂
    That had me laughing so hard because I had the same thought when I first saw it as a teen.

  • @jasonprestonATX2140
    @jasonprestonATX2140 2 года назад +5

    Nice!!! This one of my childhood favorites awesome!

  • @Wizastudios
    @Wizastudios 2 года назад +3

    Michelle is too hot. Just saying.

  • @TheMocholoco
    @TheMocholoco 2 года назад +2

    Did they watch the director's trilogy? -Robocop, Total Recall and this movie? Corrupt politics, people oppressed, success through violence. Those were the times.....lol

  • @matt_canon
    @matt_canon 2 года назад +5

    Also the parody style is similar to the first Robocop movie (maybe the 2nd one also)

    • @rastiga9196
      @rastiga9196 2 года назад +1

      The same director soooooo/

  • @RustyDust101
    @RustyDust101 2 года назад +4

    Paul Verhoeven's movies are never without political commentary, often in the most over-the-top sarcastic way possible.
    Robocop, Starship Troopers, they are all one of a kind.

  • @jean-paulaudette9246
    @jean-paulaudette9246 2 года назад +10

    I suggest a couple others along these lines: the movie "Ender's Game," and the 25-episode t.v. series, "Space: Above and Beyond."

    • @r.howardlawrence3527
      @r.howardlawrence3527 2 года назад

      The book Ender's Game, the movie is a very pale shadow.

    • @jean-paulaudette9246
      @jean-paulaudette9246 2 года назад

      @@r.howardlawrence3527 Agreed, but as with many adaptations, they can inspire one to read more, to discover the 'real' story.

    • @r.howardlawrence3527
      @r.howardlawrence3527 2 года назад

      @@jean-paulaudette9246 My loss was to have read the book decades before the movie.

    • @jean-paulaudette9246
      @jean-paulaudette9246 2 года назад +1

      @@r.howardlawrence3527 If it was a loss...I 'suffered' the same.

    • @dallassukerkin6878
      @dallassukerkin6878 2 года назад +1

      Space: Above and Beyond should have been a much bigger hit than it was - another one of those series that the suits mistreated and let wither despite good writing and a good cast. And Kristen Cloke certainly made an impression as I still recall her nearly thirty years on :)

  • @jmag579
    @jmag579 2 года назад +2

    Today is Dina Meyer’s (Dizzy Flores) 53rd birthday too 🎉😆

  • @mamarre25
    @mamarre25 2 года назад +3

    Your reactions makes me smile 🥰🥰🥰🥳🥳🥳 grettings from Guatemala

  • @jahrolo
    @jahrolo 2 года назад +10

    Like "Demolition Man" a very frightening dystopian future. But still funny to watch though :D

    • @Zero11s
      @Zero11s 2 года назад +5

      we are already in a very frightening dystopian future

    • @jahrolo
      @jahrolo 2 года назад +2

      @@Zero11s at least I don't have to travel to another planet to kill giant bugs to get citizenship. Yet.

    • @Zero11s
      @Zero11s 2 года назад

      @@jahrolo "another planet" earth is not a planet, gas cannot exist in a vacuum

    • @zbynekurbanek3345
      @zbynekurbanek3345 2 года назад

      @@jahrolo and why would you want to have a citizenship in Henleins world? Ricos parents didnt have citizenship... and they lived rich and happy lives... hmm?

    • @jahrolo
      @jahrolo 2 года назад

      @@zbynekurbanek3345 didn't say or meant it that way. Just to have the opportunity is a bit weird.

  • @TheNightOwl11683
    @TheNightOwl11683 2 года назад +5

    Gotta love how they made the gore look so realistic using mostly practical SFX. Didn't have CGI doing most of the work back then like they do these days. SFX personnel really earned their pay in the late 90s.

  • @jacoblofthus7908
    @jacoblofthus7908 2 года назад +2

    I have some suggestions for you guys:
    Tremors
    Species
    Deep Blue Sea

  • @aj897
    @aj897 2 года назад +6

    9:35 "Hit 'em girl!" *Proceeds to ignore the part where she's getting choked out*

  • @KierrokCyclone
    @KierrokCyclone 2 года назад +2

    The part of the ship they lost 18:10 was the communication tower. It's why one of the crewmen mention a moment later that comms were down. They couldn't warn Earth about the asteroid that destroyed Rico's home. Carmon and Zander are responsible for millions of dead people, all because they were horny for each other.

  • @Darkswordz
    @Darkswordz 2 года назад +4

    I would like to know more!

  • @ComputerLearning0
    @ComputerLearning0 2 года назад +2

    Her reaction at 52:23 when they stuck a probe up that aliens orifice... lol

  • @Tonyblack261
    @Tonyblack261 2 года назад +2

    Carmen's permanent grin is annoying.

  • @StanleyKuo184
    @StanleyKuo184 2 года назад +2

    One of the best reactions to a movie I considered one of my all-time favorite Sci-Fi movies ever. Love you girls.

  • @albeirozuluaga93
    @albeirozuluaga93 2 года назад +6

    48:00 This is the best part of this reaction lol! The "Bug Brain"is simply fascinating and disgusting at the same time, the director Paul Verhoeven show us one of the most bizarre things of the scifi (Ridley Scott in Prometheus did something similar with the trilobite too). I love starship troopers, this movie its an amazing example of satire and action. 50:34 Michelle Rocks lmfao. And remember "dont let the bugs bite".Greetings girls you gonna have nightmares with this creature!!

  • @johnkillingsworth5135
    @johnkillingsworth5135 2 года назад +2

    "This is AstroTitanic", perfect name for that moment lol

  • @alfreddaniel1994
    @alfreddaniel1994 2 года назад +5

    This movie is my little guilty pleasure. I will always love "Starship Troopers".

  • @-M0LE
    @-M0LE 2 года назад +2

    You guys should watch
    PITCH BLACK with
    Vin Diesel

  • @Flastew
    @Flastew 2 года назад +5

    Love watching your reactions, you guys are just to cool. You always make rewatching movies so much fun. Thanks for sharing.

  • @andylikesstuffchannel
    @andylikesstuffchannel 2 года назад +3

    Can't help but laugh Ellie is crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @innocentbystander1853
    @innocentbystander1853 2 года назад +1

    Please watch and react to Jojo Rabbit

  • @kenadams4319
    @kenadams4319 2 года назад +12

    Great film. Puts humans in our place. A “cat” is a “monster” to a mouse. Humans are, “unfortunately,” to used to being the cat.

    • @royroland3884
      @royroland3884 2 года назад

      Yep. That analogy was used in "jurassic world."

  • @tednorberto3086
    @tednorberto3086 2 года назад +2

    Read the book while assigned to HMX-1. Our CO had us read as part of our required reading for our Marine Corps values. Long live the human race.😉

  • @SAtownMytown
    @SAtownMytown 2 года назад +5

    Glad you liked it. One of the reasons why it had such a strong following was that it was a switch from the usual, 'aliens invade earth' movies. In this one, we the humans had to go to the bug planet and invade them, to keep them from launching asteroids that can blow up whole cities, like Buenos Aires.
    That's the difference between this movie and your standard, aliens vs earthlings.
    Keep on keeping on, homies!!! ❤

    • @Yggdrasil42
      @Yggdrasil42 2 года назад

      The movie implies (quite strongly) that the asteroid was actually launched by the humans themselves, to force them into war. We're invading the bugs' territory, they're not invading us. It's a parody of a heroic propaganda film from the humans point of view. The bugs would view us quite differently.

    • @markhamstra1083
      @markhamstra1083 2 года назад

      @@Yggdrasil42 Yes, humans “had to go to the bug planet and invade them” the same way that Nazi Germany had to go to Poland and invade them.

    • @SAtownMytown
      @SAtownMytown 2 года назад

      @@Yggdrasil42 I don't know anything about the implications. I'm just talking about the difference between your standard alien invasion movie and this one.

    • @SAtownMytown
      @SAtownMytown 2 года назад

      @@markhamstra1083 Whoa! Most war movies have an anti-war sentiment to them. You're taking it a little too far, seeing as how this is just a scifi. Calm down please.

    • @markhamstra1083
      @markhamstra1083 2 года назад

      @@SAtownMytown Heinlein didn’t generally write conventional stories or “just a sci-fi”, and this is certainly true of Starship Troopers. He wrote it in response to specific contemporary political events, and he very much meant it to be taken as a serious exploration of ideas in political philosophy.

  • @Super_9000_Deluxe_Ultra
    @Super_9000_Deluxe_Ultra 2 года назад +2

    Blair Witch Project Pls

  • @cottonysensation3723
    @cottonysensation3723 2 года назад +3

    Starship troopers was a sci-fi book that was extremely different than the movie. The movie was an attempt to refute the book that failed and accidentally validated the book, which is why it seems like parody in some places because in a way it is. The book and the movie are both fantastic though.

    • @rastiga9196
      @rastiga9196 2 года назад

      The book was kind of a parody of both fascism and capitalism, the author was Jewish and lived through the German occupation. The book wasn't over the top but it was for the time it was published.

    • @cottonysensation3723
      @cottonysensation3723 2 года назад +3

      @@rastiga9196 Heinlein was born in Missouri and was not Jewish….supposedly his ancestors had fought in every war the USA fought going back all the way to the revolutionary war.
      Likewise the book was not parody, Heinlein used his science fiction writing to express and push his political ideology after his failed attempt at political office, and his books mirror his real life beliefs. The book itself isn’t even about Fascism, it’s about the world vs communists (the bugs) as well as a criticism of what he saw as moral decay taking root in the USA as a result of a lack of discipline.
      The society portrayed, while militaristic (as Heinlein was) was ultimately intended as a democratic republic that was a highly disciplined meritocracy. There existed a constitution and guaranteed rights and freedoms for civilian and citizen alike and the only distinction between the two closes being the right to vote or hold office. Anyone who wanted to become a citizen had a constitutionally protected right to earn that responsibility, otherwise the society as a whole was extremely libertarian.
      I mean I could go on and on but if you had an hour and a half to kill and are so inclined you should watch the politics of starship troopers by Sargon of Akkad ruclips.net/video/kVpYvV0O7uI/видео.html
      It’s a fairly decent analysis.

  • @JCResDoc94
    @JCResDoc94 2 года назад +1

    *27:30** YES, THATS IT! you got it.* it intentionally walks the line, it is a recruitment add for a fascist Gvt. the whole film. it is not a parody, but not "real" either. it is a comment on how quickly & easily these things make the turn. & how close our own media already is. the guys a genius (yes, including show girls). gr8 vid. -JC

  • @elyjoseputignano9701
    @elyjoseputignano9701 2 года назад +6

    I saw this movie when I was 12 years old, I never got over that Rico had the blonde in the friend zone, she was so beautiful and faithful while Carmen was an unfaithful bitch, but Rico was always in love with Carmen

    • @mikehawkhovers9872
      @mikehawkhovers9872 2 года назад

      fr

    • @goodkrypollo1706
      @goodkrypollo1706 2 года назад

      But Carmen is obviously 100 times more attractive. That actress is unbelievably gorgeous.

    • @dggydddy59
      @dggydddy59 2 года назад +1

      People are so often attracted to what they can't have. Diz was a hottie and willing and Carmen was a selfish little shit.

    • @elyjoseputignano9701
      @elyjoseputignano9701 2 года назад +1

      @@goodkrypollo1706 yes it is true it is but she was not faithful for a serious relationship the woman needs to be faithful to her boyfriend or husband

  • @SaRENRampaiger
    @SaRENRampaiger 2 года назад +1

    Pvt Ellie and Pvt Michelle, welcome to Rico's roughnecks!! Hooaah

  • @flaysol7719
    @flaysol7719 2 года назад +5

    This film is better than any starwars ever made. Its more realistic too... You wanna know more? Lol

  • @Christobanistan
    @Christobanistan 2 года назад +2

    I was in U.S. Marine recruit training in 1997 when this came out. Our drill instructors would scream at us all day, but whenever they could catch a minute for themselves, they talked about this movie NON-STOP like a bunch of little girls talking about Titanic. It was hysterical, but we dared not laugh lest they squash us like one of those bugs! 🤣

  • @Tarantula_Fangs
    @Tarantula_Fangs 2 года назад +4

    Hahaha, I NEVER would have thought you guys would have reacted to Starship Troopers! It's a good film, It's funny, creative, and entertaining. So glad to see you guys reacting to this film. If you guys haven't seen it, I recommend Armageddon (1998).

  • @victornewmanforever
    @victornewmanforever 2 года назад +2

    Basil Poledouris' music is fantastic. Too bad it's copyrighted.

    • @bfahren
      @bfahren 2 года назад

      The Klendathu track is just spectacular.

  • @IanJenn356094
    @IanJenn356094 2 года назад +3

    Great satire of fascism. Love this movie

    • @zbynekurbanek3345
      @zbynekurbanek3345 2 года назад

      theres nothing fascistic in the Starship troopers society. On contrary it is the most free utopic society imaginable. Everything is voluntary there. Nothing is voluntary in fascism. btw almost nothing is voluntary even in our society...

  • @IronicTonic8
    @IronicTonic8 2 года назад +2

    I'm doing my part!

  • @rosshall6475
    @rosshall6475 2 года назад +3

    I love this movie. Did the bugs attack Earth? I know that is what the government said. The one that uses all of those propaganda videos. Would you like to know more?

    • @rastiga9196
      @rastiga9196 2 года назад +1

      Those damn Mormons colonized a bug planet. What did earth except? Them to just roll over?

  • @loganwagner1816
    @loganwagner1816 2 года назад +2

    I'm doing my part!

  • @HemlockRidge
    @HemlockRidge 2 года назад +3

    Love your hair, Michelle. There are many of us veterans who believe that citizenship SHOULD be earned by service. If you don't serve, you haven't earned the right to vote.

  • @shakawhenthewallsfell8570
    @shakawhenthewallsfell8570 2 года назад +1

    You can skip part 2 and 3, they sucked. I do recommend the CGI Starship Trooper movies:
    Starship Troopers: Invasion.
    Starship Troopers: Traitors of Mars.

  • @stevendyhdalo2490
    @stevendyhdalo2490 2 года назад +2

    This is one of my all time favorite 90s films. Also, Ellie's reactions are great lol.

  • @caseybourne4115
    @caseybourne4115 2 года назад +1

    Director Paul Verhoeven also directed RoboCop, hence the TV commercials…

  • @damianwilder5009
    @damianwilder5009 2 года назад +1

    Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤ to you and your family 👪 ❤ and Friends 👋 ❤ 💙 ♥ 💕 💖 👋.