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dpanter
Brilliant satire, great action and actually the only movie ever where Casper Van Dien is tolerable. Do you want to know more?Jonathan_Hutchings
Paul Verhoven: one of the most misunderstand directors around.Outcaster
Awesome satire about militarism & modern United StatesEarring72
Satirical war movie. Hadn't seen it in 10 years, still holds up.....just don't take it seriouslyLarkspire
As a not-too-serious lowish-budget sci-fi, this is fantastic. It has everything from actually-alien aliens, to heroic sacrifice and kickass battles (as satiric as the latter two are).As an adaptation? Well, there's a few changes I wish that they hadn't made (the whitewashing of Rico, for one), but that's always the case. As a movie in itself, it's amazing... If you're okay with the style and satire.
MrGoodcat
If you're going into starship troopers expecting it to be 100% faithful to the original novel then you must be living under a rock.It uses the license as an excellent spring board to jump off and delve into the whole idea of propaganda in war. And the entire movie is basically a newsreel that you would've seen during world war two. Its a statement about american macho jingoism and gusto. And satires how the news and media twist and and distort what happens in reality with the horrors of war, as we see these young american teenagers signing up and wanting to kill as soon as possible without really knowing what exactly they're getting into. It also has some of the best use of miniature models and CGI for a sci fi action movie and still stands well on its own legs today when compared to new release movies. Its also a statement on foreign policy and conflicts like the iraq war or the vietnam war that didn't have the clearest of objectives and how a government/military like the US gets involved, and how it had immoral or unethical intentions. It raises questions like what is a real war or at what line are willing to go to war over. Is every war justified. How many casualties does a war need, is there such thing as too many casualties in a war.
Its also a balls to the wall action movie.
DisneyStitch
I found it very, very entertaining. If you had to sum up what it is trying to satirize in only a few words I guess it would be classic gung-ho machoism that plagues our idealized fantasies regarding warfare. On that note, I think it succeeds rather well, albeit I don't think it is too ham-fisted about it. Many critics have simultaneously thought that it was against fascism while others think it very pro-fascism. I guess you glean what you want from it. Definitely worth a watch and the CGI is impressive for 1997. This was made only 4 years after the revolutionary accomplishment that was Jurassic Park yet it feels like a full decade later.IreneAdler
Very particular movie :)Loved the FX, the bugs looked great. The satirical elements concerning militarism were great. Definately not a movie you can take seriously; just a great comedy/satire.
Ezio
Fucking awesome!TechnoFAN
Great Sci-Fi !Kursplode
Also this movie is amazingThief
Kick-ass film. One of my favorites action films ever.attie pattie
great!just don't take it to seriously.
demagogo
In some way, this movie is a proof of how ridiculous is Full Metal Jacket's ambition of impartiality (i.e. the "oh, look at our troops, they may be dehumanizing motherfuckers, but the poor things got feelings, too" discourse) when presenting the US marines. And excuse me for liking more the director of Showgirls over Kubrick, but this is also way, way smarter and entertaining.dream_tiger
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