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List Price: $26.95 | | Label: Columbia TriStar
Salesrank: 67557
Released: August 5, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
PURE PERFORMANCE The Superbit™ Collection will set a new benchmark in high resolution DVD picture and sound creating the ultimate in home entertainment. Superbit™ DVDs utilize a high bit rate digital transfer process that optimizes video quality and offers both DTS and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. Use your existing home theater equipment to its optimal performance.From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga with its sweeping galactic views to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu teeming with shrieking fire-spitting brain-sucking special effects creatures acclaimed director PAUL VERHOEVEN crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein s classic sci-fi adventure. CASPER VAN DIEN DINA MEYER DENISE RICHARDS JAKE BUSEY NEIL PATRICK HARRIS PATRICK MULDOON and MICHAEL IRONSIDE star as the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.System Requirements:Running Time 129 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: R UPC: 043396012271 Manufacturer No: 01227
Description of Starship Troopers (Superbit Collection):
In the first and finest RoboCop movie, director Paul Verhoeven combined near-future science fiction with a keen sense of social satire--not to mention enough high-velocity violence to satisfy even the most voracious bloodlust. In Starship Troopers, Verhoeven and RoboCop cowriter Ed Neumeier take inspired cues from Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel to create a special-effects extravaganza that functions on multiple levels of entertainment. The film might be called "Melrose Place in Space," with its youthful cast of handsome guys and gorgeous women who look like they've been recruited (and in some cases they were) from the cast of Beverly Hills 90210. Viewers might focus on the incredible, graphically intense action sequences (definitely not for children) in which heavily armed forces from Earth go to off-world battle against vast hordes of alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. The attacking bugs are marvels of state-of-the-art special-effects technology, and the space battles are nothing short of spectacular. But Starship Troopers is more than a showcase for high-tech hardware and gigantic, flesh-ripping insects. Recalling his childhood in Holland during the Nazi occupation, Verhoeven turns this epic adventure into a scathingly funny satire of fascist propaganda, emphasizing Heinlein's underlying warning against the hazards of military conformity and the sickening realities of war. It's an action-packed joy ride if that's all you're looking for, but Verhoeven has a provocative agenda that makes Starship Troopers as smart as it is exciting. --Jeff Shannon
Starship Troopers (Superbit Collection) Reviews:
Great Movie 
2009-12-07 - On the surface this is a sci-fi action movie with awesome special effects. Below the surface, it's a great piece of social commentary. A gory inter-galactic war movie pitting humans against a race of advanced insects, this film focuses on the idealistic aspects of youth and the role of gung-ho attitudes and propaganda in military recruiting. As well as themes of social responsibility, sexual equality and high school relationships. Sound like a head rtrip? It is!
Ultra-violent, funny and well acted (for the most part), you must see this film are a critically thinking adult who doesnt mind gross-out humor. As an added bonus, you get to watch Gary Bussey's (sp?)son, Jake Bussey who looks and acts much like his dad!
As adolescent as it is in parts, it is absolutely not for kids!
The DVD looks great, but this version is light on the special features. There are a blue-million DVD versions of this out there though (I was replacing an old full-screen version I had with all the special feature documentaries).
If youve never seen this before, you must.
A parody on American, militarist propaganda
2009-10-17 - When I saw "Starship Troopers" the first time, I was appalled. It looked like a (really bad) fascist propaganda movie. The fascism was so overt, that I started wondering why nobody else was reacting the way I did!
It's because it's parody, stupid.
"Starship Troopers" is nominally based on Robert Heinlein's famous novel, but in reality it's a parody, criticizing Heinlein and his bizarre vision of a society in which only war veterans have full citizenship rights. In the process, the movie also makes fun of American militarist propaganda, and indeed militarist propaganda in general. In many ways, "Starship Troopers" is a deliberate turkey. It looks like the worst Nazi movie ever made, but it's supposed to look that way.
"Starship Troopers" is actually quite intellectual!
The funny thing is that many people just don't get it. Some love the movie precisely *because* it looks like a militarist propaganda movie. Others hate it for the same reason. Still others, i.e. the most devout Heinlein fans, see "Starship Troopers" as a walking insult to Heinlein's great novel, which some people treat almost as a second Bible. (Prediction: soon, somebody will point out that Federal Service is broader than the military.)
The plot of the film doesn't deserve closer scrutiny. "The Federation" (spouting an eagle as symbol - the American eagle? Or a Nazi eagle?) is under attack by a race of monstrous, intelligent spiders from the mysterious planet Klendathu. A group of beautiful, perfect and young adults, fresh out of high school, decide to volunteer in the military. Their leader is a completely crazy old vet. Curiously, the fascist military dictatorship is multi-racial and gender-blind. When the attack on Klendathu fails, the White male dictator resigns, being replaced by a Black female. Ironically, this "political correctness" is freely based on Heinlein, who was indeed anti-racist, but real American propaganda movies can also be multi-racial ("Iron Eagle" comes to mind). Later in the movie, the beautiful Nazi kids finally put their act together and manage to defeat the bugs on another planet, where they are promptly joined by a team of SS-looking scientists. There, the movie ends, inconclusively. Along the way, we are treated to some really hefty special effects (naturally, the bugs are much larger and even more "alien" than in the novel).
Strange fact: shortly after the premier of "Starhip Troopers" in Sweden, a new Swedish translation of Heinlein's original novel was published...with a picture from the movie on its front cover!
That's almost postmodern. The parody is used to sell the thing parodied. Gee, what a mindjob.
Naturally, I have to give this ridiculous Nazi slapstick five stars.
Starship AWESOME!!!
2009-10-14 - I love this movie. If it hadn't been for titanic and Jurassic Park being on everyone's mind, this would have won an assortment of awards for sound FX and SFX.
Three citizens 
2009-09-29 - I saw this movie in the theatre 12 years ago. What I rememeber the most were the three friends . The jock the tecky and the intellectual.The jock becomes a grunt, the tecky becomes a pilot and the intellectual joins some CIA type organization.Three friends three separate lives. The jock and the tecky I don't mind but its the intellectual who BUGS me. These are the types who manipulate society and indiviuals from behind the sccenes.They are the real BUGS.
The best, bad movie I've ever seen
2009-08-17 - Starship Troopers, a movie based off of a book, oh joy. Now I've never read the books myself, but from what I know about them the movie is very different, so if you're a crazy person how can't stand a movie deviating from the books, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. But for the rest of you who are looking for a decent action flick, you should enjoy it.
Basic Plot: A race of space aracnids the size of cars want to kill us so we try to kill them first. It's around (My guess since they never say) 200-300 years in the future, and follows a group of space marines as they blow the living crap out of said giant bugs.
The Good bits: The action in this movie is fantastic, although it is pretty gorey so be warned if you have a weak stomache. The CGI looks great some of the best I've seen out of a 90s movie, the bugs look like thay're actually there most of the time (Something I can't quite say for other giant bug movies) they actually look like and behave like bugs (Swarming tacktics and such). The plot is decent enough, but alot more could have been done with it.
The Bad Bits: The acting at some points is a little flat, there are some plot holes that don't really make sense, (Example, who did the scientists get live Aracnid Warriors into those facilities? Also around 70% of the main cast is from Buenos Aies, and have Hispanic names {Flores, Rico, Ibanez, ect} but none of the actors even affect an accent, but that might just be me nitpicking). Most of the humor is absolutly horrendious (In my opinion at least), and alot of what seemed to be some sort of political commentary seemed forced (Sorry I turned my brain off for this movie so I'm not sure).
Overall: a good action movie, not big in the story department, could've been a lot better then it was. I think it's a good movie with a lot of faults and wasted potential, it's a good time if you want a things nice and shooty, but not if you're looking for something to analize and challange your brain.
