Well, it's about bloody time that I finally mentioned this movie. I have to admit, the first time I saw it, I was awed by the effect and the wonderful action scenes. They were done so well, that in fact I overlooked the seemingly rampant lack of a real plot line and the fact that this was basically a Beverly Hills 90210 in the 26th century. I really do love this movie though, I think that the Arachnids were remarkable and the battle scenes were absolutely amazingly well done. There was a completely useless co-ed shower scene with lots of tits, and there is a bit of romance too (referring back to the 90210 reference) and hot chicks who cause good looking guys to get into bar fights because of broken hearts and new bed partners.
All in all, this was a real fun movie, and if you are looking for any great shakespearean acting, then get off my website!!!!
I will make this simple and break this movie up into 3 elements, The Good, The Bad and, The absolutely horrid.
The Good:
The special effects were amazing, and Carmen and Diz are both babes, and Diz has great tits, and the Arachnids masacre thousands of people and we get to see lots and lots of limbs and gore fly around. If you are also a fan of shitty TV soaps like 90210 or Party of Five or anything else like that, then you should also enjoy the rather tacky interactions among the main characters in the first half hour of the movie (which is the supposed setting and plot builder for the movie). The rest of the movie consists of excellent fight scenes and gore and pointless nudity. And to top it all off, there is the too cool scene where Zander get's his brains sucked out with a huge needle that punctures his skull and you see all that grey matter get sucked through a transparent tube. *smiles*
So all in all, Starship Troopers has something that can appeal to almost everybody.
The Bad:
You never get to see Carmens tits. *pouts* The fact that they even tried to put in a sensual plot line after the entire school settting of the movie ended. I mean, once you get into the fight scenes you don't want to see the characters interact with each other because it's just the same old same old. The fact that in the original book Dizzy was a guy (wouldn't THAT surprise Rico in the tent eh?). The fact that Carmen dumped Johnny to sleep with Zander, then once Zander got his brains sucked out, Johnny took her back like nothing was ever wrong. I mean, how flakey can we get????
The Absolutely Horrid:
The fact that in the first battle scene on Klendathu a single Arachnid warrior took 7 marines constantly firing for a solid 2 minutes to be killed, whereas at the end of the movie a single crippled soldier holding the assault rifle one handed with a huge ass cut in his chest with his guts spilling out could hold off a horde of 50+ Arachnid warriors to let his buds escape. Then to add insult to the injury, the nuke that this crippled warrior held detonated, but the explosion moved fast enough to catch up with our retreating heroes until the camera went to a behind view of them again. Then when we got to see the explosion coming up behind, they had managed to gain a good 50 feet on it and it was having trouble keeping up. And finally, our convenient batch of rocks that fell in a single clump just barely missing our heroes and managing to block a nuclear explosion from tearing our heroes into little itty bitty pieces.