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Whistle Stopper - Starship Troopers
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List Price: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304913178
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6304913176
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 1998-10-06
Running Time: 129
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Summary: Best of the Series
Comment: For the Starship Troopers movie series, this is the best of them. This is a great action film, though do not look for any quality acting. This is an enjoyment only type movie.
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Summary: Good transaction
Comment: I bought the DVD of Starship Troopers for my wife (believe it or not). She had a video tape of Starship Troopers but the VCR ate it and I am surprising her with the DVD for Christmas. I am very satisfied with the price and the shipping time was ok.
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Summary: Complete Crap
Comment: The polar opposite of the book in so many ways - from the political themes to the weapons and combat.
The combat scenes are a terrible joke. I'd like to think that if we can transport troops to other planets, we could arm them with something better than a current 5.56 rifle. And, maybe arrange for a few mortars or artillery.
Just an awful movie based on one of the greatest military sci-fi books ever written.
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Summary: Has its moments, but doesn't really deserve the title
Comment: 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 classic is not handled very respectfully, Director Paul Verhoeven's sense of satire coming across as being very out of place when I first saw the film. I was wondering if whoever owned the rights to the book knew what they were doing to the material, because I'm sure Heinlein would NOT have approved of the end result.
I've come to accept the satirical aspects of this film, but I don't understand why they'd mock the book, as opposed to making it into an actual movie. I get laughs out of this movie, the action is fun, though simplistic, but as an adaptation of the novel it fails on multiple levels. I put the novel down feeling it was one of the best books I'd ever read. When I left this film it felt like I did after every B-action film you see on an average basis; just nothing that left an impact on me like the book did.
Total Recall and RoboCop were both handled better in regards to mixing action, sci-fi, and satire. Starship Troopers tries hard to be those films, but ultimately fails. Even if it wasn't supposed to be an adaptation of that novel, it still doesn't have the charm of those previous Verhoeven films. They made us laugh at the depictions of society, as well as draw us in with engaging characters. You don't care about any of the characters here, because they're all cardboard cut-outs and clichés, not worth anyone's time. Out of all the movies disappointed me, this one is up there as one of my biggest let-downs.
I really have nothing much left to say, other than I was incredibly disappointed by Verhoeven, and the production team for not providing a better film.
6/10 stars
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Summary: Mocks the book on which it was based.
Comment: This movie is the liberal reaction to the book. This can especially be seen in the short films that litter the story. It makes fun of Heinlein's "militarism" by turning him into a jingoistic straw-man, following the well worn Hollywood groove of hating the armed forces and pretending that war is a silly game played by overgrown 9 year old boys.
Here is a little Latin from Napoleon for you Hollywood:
Si vis bellum para pacum.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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