Starship troopers

its still one of my top movies, no idea why, the acting is pretty damned awful, almost as bad as the troopers aim, Rico's chisel chin does my head in every time i see it, but it just....kinda works.


oh and the boobies shown have no bearing on my opinion of the movie.....really it doesnt....ok just a little :<


p.s the music is awesome, almost as good as the music in the charge scene at the beginning of gladiator.
 
shifty_uk said:
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mmmm Dina Mayer... much nicer than that caterpillar browed tart deinse richards (gah - wikipedia says she has her own reality tv show - 'denise richards - it's complicated' oh dear).

as for the book, robert heinlein wrote some great science fiction.
 
firstly its a b movie, and a very good one at that when you watch it for what it is, plus as said Denise Richards.....

But, your actual questions, why should bugs, massive, massive massive bugs not take loads of bullets to die, they are huge, bullets are small, not sure what makes that completely unbelievable. LIkewise on tactics, on some of the planets its just baren landscape, nothing to hide behind, not sure what else they are supposed to do exactly?

Plus, when you have mini nukes you probably have the right to run in a bit trigger happy.


But the film has a sliding vagina for a bug leader, why take it seriously.

One last thing worth mentioning, compared to the follow up films, its triple aaa blockbuster quality movie. 2nd has some nice boobs iirc, the 3rd is a complete and utter joke. Jolene Blalock(chick from the Enterprise series) is so embarrasingly bad in it, it makes casper van dien in the first seem like the De Niro of his generation.
 
For an action sci-fi B movie it's not bad (certainly no worse than pretty much any other summer action film in terms of stupidity of tactics etc).

However it's not a patch on the original book.

With regards to the number of bullets needed to kill the bugs, the bugs are huge things with what are effectively suits of armour and relatively tough to kill even once you get through the armour, cue lots of bullets, not to mention that one of the basic themes behind summer action movies tends to be the use of massively over the top fire power and incredibly stupid tactics ;)
 
I remember I was in high school when the original was released into cinemas, and one day our English teacher (a rather animated American woman) told us not to go see it. She recounted the "Brain Bug" scene, saying how terrible it was and that you could see the pain and horror on the dude's face as his brains were sucked out.

We were like "Hell yeah! We're seeing it this weekend!", and she wasn't impressed.

It also made me laugh how the cinema run classed it a 15, however by the time it was on video it had become an 18 instead.
 
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