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In Reply to: Movies You Hate To Admit You Like posted by highendman on April 04, 2002 at 18:46:13:
the flat out most brilliant american movie of its year and perhaps, for its genre, decade.
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Good grief! Remember the scenes of horrible slaughter, where after a while the camera would draw back so that on-screen we could see that we had been watching the action over a video minitor? And remember what the prompt on the bar said? "Do you want to see more?"NO THANK YOU!
I laughed out loud.
Similarly the scrubbed appearance of most of the characters... It had to be satire!
What *I* don't understand, is wanting to own it on DVD, Superbit or no. That's ridiculous! Rent it once, maybe...
clark
so delectable were the nationalistic (geolistic?) convictions of the youngsters working through the recruiting and testing system...neil patrick harris as a telepath along with denise richards in Hans Solo mode was just over the top indulgence. my favorite line (so many gems to pick from!) is Jake Busey with "Hey, shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you get a lot of dead bugs."he who must go out and purchase today,
chiggy
It's not exactly Heinlen's book, but Verhooven's interpretation does convey the fascist overtones in the original novel. It's amazing that he does this without manipulating the audience with artificial appeals to patriotism (i.e., like Pearl Harbor) but rather by sculpting a brilliant satire on the vapidness of any society which closely alligns militarism with citizenship.The standard release of Starship Troopers on DVD is already demo quality eye-candy so the Superbit version should make bug-juice out of lesser significant bits of fluff like Moulin Rouge.
Yep, as bug movies go, ST rules! Ironically, the filmed version of Starship Troopers comes much closer to recreating the visions depicted on the infamous Topp's "Mars Attacks" cards than the silly movie of that name which botched the concept a few years ago.
I pre-ordered my Superbit copy of ST a couple of weeks back; BTW, did you reserve your copy from the "shark" too? :o)
Cheers,
Audiophilander
I do own a copy, got it as part of my sign up with Columbia House. I remember reading the R. Hienlien book "Starship Trooper" as a young teen.
Why not just stand off at a safe distance and nuke the place to a cinder rather than reenacting the D-Day invasion? After all they weren't interested in conquering territory, just killing all the bugs, which could have been done a lot more efficiently than shooting them one by one with small arms.Oh, right...there'd be no movie if the soldiers didn't land.
If their primary goal and motive was to capture a Brain Bug, the only way to do that would be to send in the troops. But in Hollywood, why worry about things like that (if the audience wants to think, they should just go out and read the book....)
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It's such a vapid piece of junk...what did they do, cast every beautiful looking and stupid actor in LA, for this picture ?
At least Casper Van Dein got to feel up Denise Richards in the outtakes on the DVD. I may be old and married, but I'd take an acting class or two to do that to her!!!
Geez, I'm a Dirty ol' Dman sometimes!
The only thing remotely sexually stimulating was the massive bug carnage.You will get to see more sex in the DVD...the 2DVD set...talk about floor scrapings!!!! It doesnt even rate a DVD release to me.
Starship Troopers is an EXCELLENT film, well worth the Superbit treatment. No offense, but you should probably just stick with art house fare and leave the action and science fiction genres to those of us who appreciate them.Audiophilander
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