Why Is Starship Troopers SO AWESOME?!

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“Hear me out, I’m no bug sympathiser… ” : Seems like something a Bug Sympathiser would say 🤨

"I'm doing my part" "I'm doing my part" My brain I DIDNT DO FUCKING SHIT!

Man this movie rings so true with my own military experience. Some buddys and I put this movie on in our barracks room one night, we loved it but it definitely made us reflect on our own decisions

"I'm no bug sympathiser" Do you hear treason? I hear treason.

"We have no info on their culture, their history or what they look like. But we do know this: they stand for everything we don't stand for! Also, they said you guys look like dorks!" - Major General Zapp Brannigan

I got Starship Troopers on VHS as a birthday present when I was 10. Might be the best gift I've ever got.

Watched just a few mins of your video before I had to put the movie on for my 74yr old father that has never seen it. He loved it and it remains one of the best, great breakdown Act Man

Having Clancy Brown aka The Kurgan and Mr.Krabs as the Drill Sergeant is a definite plus of this film. "Now, who has what it takes to knock me down?"

That "The mobile infantry made me the man I am today" scene is something I think about often.

“Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream. To kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things.” - Rear Brigadier Zapp Brannigan

I love how the "Its afraid!" Always gets misinterpreted like theyre barbarians, in reality theyre in the brink of defeat and just knowing that theyre enemy is also afraid gives them hope for victory. Also, read the book my man, like it or not, its so worth it.

"Violence is the supreme authority, from which all other authority is derived." This statement is undeniably true. It isn't saying that "Violence is the only answer to any problem," it's saying that behind every law, edict, or position of authority is the barrel of a gun to enforce it. Without violence to back up, any form of "authority" is hollow.

Movie: "Violence isn't the answer... it is the question... AND THE ANSWER IS YES!!!"

"Dean Norris is in this movie too" - Shows a different Micheal Ironside.

One interesting aspect from the original book (I own a copy of the novel and have read the entire thing) is that Federation service wasn't strictly a military service like the movie makes it. In the book, a term of service could be spent doing ANYTHING the Federation gives to you, even counting the hairs on caterpillars. Also interesting is that in the book, Johnny Rico's real name is JUAN Rico, a play on the term "Johnny Rich Boy". Also, he is Filipino and he even speaks Tagalog as his native tongue, although this detail is only revealed later in the novel when he reunites with his father. For its time, the Starship Troopers Novel was quite progressive.

Paul Verhoeven is an absolute genius. His films have that certain brutalist depressing quality to them but manages to make every singe scene captivating and enjoyable. Not to mention all the one liners 😂

Casper Van Dein is just as much of a fan as we are He even reacted to HD2 and said it was exactly like Starship Troopers

They filmed starship troopers in my hometown when I was a little kid. All of the battle scenes were filmed in a dried out lakebed called Hell's Half-Acre, in Wyoming. A lot of the people around town too were cast as extras and theres so many stories about all the drills and training they had to go through to realistically make the movie. Some people still have body armor and guns too. They realistically made 1000 sets of body armor and uniforms, and then I cant remember how many they made but the Morita Assault Rifle was actually designed as a real rifle. Obviously it fired blanks not bullets, but its why a lot of the effects look so good. Its not CGI laser guns they are shooting, it pushes the line as close as possible to a real war movie. Also different movie, but one of the big actors from Paul Verehoeven's Movies named Michael Champion (Old guy with White Hair and Aviators from Total Recall, he was chasing Arnold as Michael Ironside's partner). Mike spent the rest of his life in my home town. My friends and I signed up for a boxing class like 10 years ago, and we were watching Total Recall before class one night when I realized Mike was the guy from the movie. I ran to class that night like OMG YOU WERE IN TOTAL RECALL! Mike just goes OMG I KNOW. I short circuited, I wasnt prepared to be right about any of this as I grew up in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. XD Everyone around Paul Verehoeven though has so many stories though, and holy crap are they all so badass.

The fact that the whole video has SC soundtrack made it even better! Amazing job