YES, I DID SPELL IT PROPERLY!
SST; THE MOVIE, i must say i did enjoy.
got my huge bucket o' warm carmel pop corn, and my giant glass of southern
style (as in TEXAS) sweet ice tea, turned off my brain and went OUT THERE....
i ignored a lot of the things that ate other folks shorts up, enjoyed the
barracks and troop transport sex, the battle scenes, and the low key but
incredibly funny comedy that ran through out the movie.
slowly scope out panoramic scene where in hordes of MI encounter hordes of bug
warriors for the first time! both battle lines have an invisble balloon
floating ovr them with "HOLY SHIT!" written inside of them..
. .
and where else can you see HUMAN scientists administering the DREADED RECTAL
PROBE to a brain bug?
it is one of my favorite Hollyweird Sci-fi epics!
DAWGIE
Almost makes me want ot go see it for ther first time... but I'll need more
then one positive review before I would spend the money. Maybe I will have to
get a (cheap) rental version of it.
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:25:15 -0600 (CST) DAWGFACE47@webtv.net writes:
> On 15 Feb 2004 at 11:25, DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
> SST; THE MOVIE, i must say i did enjoy.
You know, I did too. I figured that Verhoeven knew _exactly_ what he
was doing. There's a scene when some characters are in the foreground talking
and some soldiers are in the background firing at a bug. The bug is in the
middle of a circle! It should have resulted in a lot of friendly fire, but it
didn't... and it looked just like what I thought it was: comic relief. I'm
almost certain that Verhoeven knew it was farcical. His tongue was firmly in
cheek.
G'day Glen,
> Almost makes me want ot go see it for ther first time... but
I've never read the book so no high expectations, it was a decent
B-grade light relief film. Don't go in with high expectations,
appreciate "cool" bugs when you see them and gung-ho boys own action and
you won't be disappointed;)
I did like the animated Roughnecks series more mind you;)
Cheers
Yup. Take SST as a satire of, or commentary on wartime 'propaganda' films and
you'll enjoy it. It's got a lot of Robocop in it, which is a good thing from
where I sit.
> Allan Goodall wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2004 at 11:25, DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
From: <Beth.Fulton@csiro.au>
> G'day Glen,
> Subject: Re: STARSHIP TROUPERS!
I thought it was fun. Other than a few names, lines of dialogue and some very
generalized ideas (humans fighting bugs who drop rocks...) the movie
has little-to-nothing to do with the book, but I don't go into the
frothing fits that some hardcore SST(the book) fans have when discussing the
film.
As Beth pointed out, it's a fun B-movie with some good special effects,
cool scary bugs, and as DAWGIE pointed out a great big "HOLY SHIT" factor in a
few scenes. The girls are cute, the spaceship scenes were cool, and while
there are plenty of holes big enough to drive a tank through in the plot and
the "science", who cares? It's a B movie...
If you're a rabid SST(the book) purist, it might bother you, but as (Allan?)
said, just forget about the book when you sit down to watch it and you might
have fun.