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Starship Troopers
A movie
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. InStarship Troopers, … see full wiki
Cast:
Neil Patrick Harris,
Michael Ironside,
Brenda Strong,
Marshall Bell,
Clancy Brown,
Dina Meyer,
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Director:
Paul Verhoeven
Genre:
Sci-Fi,
Fantasy
Release Date:
November 7, 1997
MPAA Rating:
R
5 reviews about Starship Troopers
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Ho hum, another space movie where humans have to kill things that look like bugs. But why should any one watch? Nearly everyone is pretty and the way Neal Patrick Harris is cast must be seen to be believed. There's worse ways of spending 100 minutes.
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review by DavidLeavitt.
December 01, 2009
A few hundred years from now Earth is on the brink of war with an alien race known as the Arachnids, or the "Bugs." Shortly after high school friends John D. (Caspers Van Dien), Carmen (Denise Richards), and Carl (Neil Patrick Harris) decide to join the military so that they may become "citizens," Buenos Aires is hit with an asteroid that originated from the Arachnid home world, and all war breaks out. Starship Troopers is an over the top top ten futuristic … more
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Starship Troopers is a big budget action film set in a science-fiction based future where most of society is military based, and to be considered a citizen you must serve in the Terran Mobile Infantry. This is of course based on the classic sci-fi/military novel written by Robert A. Heinlein nearly fifty years ago, which was under the same name. The name is pretty much where the similarities between the movie and the book end. The plot to this film adaptation of this sci-fi … more
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Many punters watching Starship Troopers will miss Verhoeven's point. Rather than being a slightly post sell-by date space action flick, it's a spoof in the tradition of Zucker & Abrahams, although the slapstick is very deeply submerged in good old fashioned sci-fi hokum: Planet earth faces a barrage of asteroids being flung at it through hyperspace from a species of arachnids inhabiting a planet the far side of the galaxy, but the humans refuse to conceive that the bugs might be sentient, and (repeatedly) … more
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review by abhaille.
May 13, 2000
Pros: Fun, action adventure Cons: GORE extraordinaire I really had no great expectations for this movie. I knew the era that the novel emerged from. We're not talking deep, philosophical fiction here, we're talking pulp sci-fi from the heyday of pulp-sci-fi. Starship Troopers could have been a comic book, but Robert Heinlein turned it into a novel. I was excited when I heard about Starship Troopers. I thought "this will … more
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