The time is the future. Johnny Rico joins the military after graduation to become a citizen and for the love of his high school sweetheart. In the war against the bug aliens of Klendathu, the military is a very dangerous place to be. Johnny works his way through several battles and with the help of his friends and comrades, helps turn the tide of the war, and save the human race. Set on the future earth, Johnny rico is a young student dating a girl named Carmen. When Carmen decides to join the military in order to become a class citizen (citizenship is only achieved through serving your country), Johnny follows and joins as well. He soon realizes that he joined for the wrong reasons but just as he is about to quit, an asteroid that originated from the orbit of planet "klendathu" hits Buenos Aires (his home town) and kills his family. Johnny and his fellow troopers set out to destroy the planet's inhabitants: a type of deadly and very large scaled space bugs. Through a seemingly ordinary action flick, director paul verhoeven creates a subtle anti-war theme, that shows us a fascist and military world far more frightening than WW2's Germany, Italy or Russia, the kind of world that is actually functioning. If you didn't like the movie at least its not the book. I know that is not how I should rate this but I am. I saw this twice at the show way back when it came out. I didn't want to but was asked "pretty please with sugar on top" I never liked it the first time and the second time took any suspense away from the movie entirely.<br/><br/>Technically its OK. Acting is below average from everyone, but mostly because of clunky writing. Who ever designed the helmets should have been shot. At least size it to the actors head. In at least 3 scenes, any number of actors can be seen trying to push the helmet back on top of their head instead of in their eyes, or dangling off to the side awkwardly.<br/><br/>You know how I mentioned the writing was bad-dialogue wise-its not nearly as terrible as the book. I sat down and started reading this recently and had to come here to re evaluate this movie. While I thought it awful before, it is better than its source material. Yes it should have had the power armour. Course then it would have looked worse than Robot Jocks(that one was sooo bad) But the book is just awful. Boring, no plot, no character development, bad descriptions and worst of all preachy militaristic fascism philosophy. So its hard to imagine the movie being better than the source but it was.<br/><br/>See how bad the book must be if this only rates a 5. At least you had some action here. There was a half hearted attempt at developing the characters. And some of the technical staff did a good enough job for this to pass as better than DTV quality. Hey look a plot, not just marching. So grudgingly I had to bump it from 3 to 5. Almost a 6 because the book was just so bloody boring and they tried to make it work. So good effort, but still falls short.<br/><br/>There are already plenty of reviews that detail the movie, so I won't bother. I just want people to know this movie is STILL better than the book so don't be dumb like me and go reading the novel thinking it will be better. It isn't.<br/><br/>See Aliens for a good alien vs infantry movie. Or Forever War for a better novel. Hope this helps. Aside from the obvious Nazi symbolism there are lots of interesting parallels to 1930s Germany even before the main characters join the federal service. We can see that violence and domination is endemic in the system through education and sport and that the populace is completely under the thrall of state propaganda.<br/><br/>Any doubt whether this is just a dumb movie or a satire is dispelled with some great scenes such as the finale of Doogie Howser reading the bugs mind then declaring "it's scared" which prompts a victorious cheer from the crowd and the handling of humanitarian values - "my mother told me that violence never solves any problem"- being dismissed outright and condescendingly by Ironside.<br/><br/>I thought Van Dien and Meyer put in good performances with appropriate levels of cheese added.<br/><br/>And the gore shots were cool too (especially the decapitating winged bugs!! The word "arachnid," as it's said so contemptuously in the movie, begins to sound suspiciously like "Iraqi," and indeed, we soon see the elite bugs are hunkered down in their desert fortress, resisting the mighty air assaults of the Federation. The conclusion of our story involves unearthing the chief bug. There are two songs, both performed by Zoe Poledouris (daughter of the film score's composer, Basil Poledouris). First, "Into It" was composed by Poledouris herself, and is available on the Starship Troopers soundtrack CD. The second song is a cover version of David Bowie's "I have not been to Oxford Town", with the word "paradise" instead of "Oxford Town". Zoe's version is unavailable; Bowie's original version is on his album "Outside". The Workprint is a pretty final cut of the movie. Some scenes, which focus on Carmen's love life have been removed for the Theatrical Release. In the Workprint it is clear that she sleeps with Rico, but after his supposed death shares some intimate time with Zander and finally gets back to Rico at the end. These scenes were removed because they caused a lot of animosity towards Carmen during test screenings(according to Paul Verhoeven, some viewers even asked him to "kill the slut"). Otherwise there are minor extensions/alternate scenes. Yes, Rasczak's provocative dialogue about Hiroshima has been cut out. Yes, and <a href="/name/nm0000682/">Paul Verhoeven</a> proudly confirms this fact on the commentary track of the dvd, saying that "everything you've heard about this scene is true".<br/><br/>Verhoeven wanted to show that equality between men and woman in the military had come to the point where they even shower together. For realism, he therefore demanded that the actors leave their modesty behind, and do the scene together and completely naked. However, the actors kept stalling and when Verhoeven kept insisting, they dared him to do the same. Without hesitation, Verhoeven and director of photography <a href="/name/nm0005911/">Jost Vacano</a> undressed and the scene was filmed. Yes and no. It is true that <a href="/name/nm0000682/">Paul Verhoeven</a> was interested in doing a sequel, so leaving the movie open-ended was partially intentional. However, Verhoeven intended the sequel to be a big-budget movie comparable to the original. Due to the somewhat disappointing box office result of <a href="/title/tt0120201/">Starship Troopers (1997)</a>, this idea was scrapped; the two sequels that have since been released were produced for the direct-to-dvd market on a significantly lower budget.<br/><br/>But more importantly, on the dvd commentary, Verhoeven explains that the final scene was primarily intended as a very cynical coda: it shows that Johnny Rico has become a full-blown mindless war machine just like Lt. Rasczak (he has even copied his war cry "Come on, you apes, you wanna live forever?") and that mankind still thinks they can win this war through superior firepower. In this context, the final tag line 'They'll keep on fighting' can be read as 'They still haven't learned anything'. Verhoeven admits that many viewers and critics entirely missed this subtext of the movie, and misinterpreted the final scene as a statement of militarism, or a simple allusion to a sequel. <ul><li>The novel features an all-male Mobile Infantry and very little actual combat is described, while the film focuses on heavy action scenes and the love triangle between Johnny, Dizzy and Carmen. The romantic subplot does not appear in the novel; The Mobile Infantry is an all-male unit and the character of Dizzy Flores is a male trooper who dies in the first chapter.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The novel is told exclusively from Johnny's point of view, describing his hero's journey from indifferent high school student (Appreciation of Television is listed on his transcript) to elite cap trooper, and details the maturation process that entails. The film changes point-of-view focus between Johnny and Carmen (who in the novel never had any relationship beyond friendship).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The absence in the film of the power armor that was a central plot device in the novel, and had an entire chapter devoted to its description and use (the power armor was eventually used in <a href="/title/tt0844760/">Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)</a>).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>While the original novel has been accused of promoting militarism, fascism and military rule, the film satirizes these concepts by featuring news reports that are intensely fascist, xenophobic and propagandistic. Verhoeven stated in 1997 that the first scene of the film (a conscription advert for the mobile infantry) was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene from Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" (an outdoor rally for the Reichsarbeitsdienst). Other references to Nazism in the movie include the Gestapo-like uniforms of commanding officers, Albert Speer-style architecture and the propagandistic dialogue. (Violence is the supreme authority!)</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The Bugs in the film are portrayed as generally mindless insectoid beings, ruled and organized by an extremely intelligent overmind. However, at the beginning of the film, when Rico and Carmen dissect Arkellian sand beetles, the biology teacher states that the Bugs have millions of years of evolution behind them and are, in the case of survival capability, the perfect species. They have the ability to colonize planets "by hurling their spore into space" and possess a social structure which fits their mental capabilities. In the novel, it is established that the Bugs have spacecraft, beam weapons and other advanced technology, far from the mindless insects of the movie. The book also describes them as looking like "a madman's conception of a giant, intelligent spider." Interestingly, the book also reveals that the Bugs "see by infrared:" though pitch dark to human eyes, the underground corridors of a Bug colony are well lit when viewed by the infrared "snoopers" used by the Mobile Infantry. Bug society is based on a caste system in both the films and the book. In the book, the "Worker Caste" and the "Warrior Caste" are both mentally controlled by the "Brain Caste", which works on behalf of the "Queen" of each Bug colony.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Johnny Rico (Juan) is Filipino in the book, although this isn't clarified until the final chapter. He specifies his native language is Tagalog and he suggests that there should be a starship named after Raymond Magsaysay (former President of the Philippines) due to his actions clearing Japanese soldiers from the Philippines in WWII.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The characters of Mr. Dubois (one of his high school teachers) and Lieutenant Rasczak are separate individuals in the book (Mr. Dubois was a former MI Colonel before becoming a schoolteacher and at some point lost one of his arms; Lt. Rasczak is an able-bodied commander that leads Rasczak's Roughnecks before being killed in action).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Many elements from the book were used in the film, sometimes in a different context or way. These include: the book also opens in the middle of the story, and then makes a flashback to the beginning; Johnny's father disowns him after Johnny enlists in the army; school teachers trying to discourage students from enlisting in the army (a tactic to scare off applicants without sufficient conviction; Johnny Rico getting flogged as punishment for making a tactical mistake; Buenos Aires getting destroyed in a bug attack (which is a culmination of a string of earlier incidents with the bugs); Johnny's mother dying in the attack (but not his father, as is implied in the movie - in the book it turns out later his father also joined the MI following the destruction of Buenos Aires); the defeat at the battle of Klendathu.</li></ul> Its revealed later when Johnny, Dizzy and Ace are in the Roughnecks that Lieutenant Rasczak, who was Johnny's high school teacher, saved him, as Corporal Birdie says to Rico: "Who do you think saved your ass"? he was mistakenly listed as KIA (Killed in Action) as he didn't return with his unit during the general retreat. The card face up is the ones trying to guess. The card that flips over is his guest ( you can see him hit a pad when he says "Ace of Spades") Rico is trying to use mental powers to guess the card that is face up (which he can't see as he has his back to it) and (presumably so the computer can track his results better) he makes his choice on a keypad, which also turns out to be wrong. a5c7b9f00b Download hindi movie UselessStrong movie in tamil dubbed downloadThe Guardians movie hindi free downloadthe The Matrix Reloaded full movie download in hindiManifesto tamil dubbed movie torrentNatural Order movie download in hddownload full movie Locket in hindiBlind Spot movie download in hdThe Follow in hindi free downloadRadioactive Dreams 720p
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