Films » Starship Troopers
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Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico’s military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as “the Bugs.”
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Starship Troopers
I’m not sure how young I was when I last watched this, but apparently too young to understand a lot of what was going on. I mostly just remembered it as a funny sci-fi action flick.
It still is a funny sci-fi action flick, but I think I actually appreciate it more now that I can see the (very obvious) message Paul Verhoeven was making about fascism, propaganda, and war.
It’s very much a b-movie. Some of the acting, especially in the action sequences, is wooden to say the least, but it sort of adds to the overall cheesy charm.
The one thing I didn’t really like this time through (that I was again blissfully unaware of last time) was how much the female characters served solely as love interests rather than people in their own right.