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Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Wicker Man posted:

Much like how a poo poo-headed sniper gets paraded as the greatest hero ever, the boobs in this movie are constantly brought up as some great thing.

Flap-jack-titties.

agreed and this is from somebody that likes the itty bitty titties!!!

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eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Rahns posted:

The book was better.

Incorrect

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

appropriatemetaphor posted:

i like when the guy says joining the marines made him the "man" he is today, but like he doesn't have any arms or legs and he just sits at a desk so what kind of man is he anwya?

The movie is also filled with great political commentary such as this.

Rahns posted:

The book was better.

lolnerd

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
What if Paul Verhouven directed Edge of Tommorow makes u think

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:
sorry robocop is better

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 253 days!)

hell chud ii was better

psyman
Nov 1, 2008
The lack of power armour was a real waste of potential. It would have made for even more awesome action scenes, and fit with Paul Verhoeven's robot trend. It's weird that was left out.

Also note the lack of any armour, artillery or aircraft other than the one-use dropships and the brief bombing scene. It's pretty underplayed military sci-fi, part of why I always wanted the Halo film to get off the ground. We still have not had a proper future military war film, even Edge of Tomorrow just followed the worn-out Vietnam style of only choppers + full-auto infantry.

psyman fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 2, 2015

Pierat
Mar 29, 2008
ASK ME ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE THE BNP
Starship troopers rips off so much stuff from recent tarantino but is way more heavy handed about it. not enough subtlety much?

Stryder
Oct 3, 2002
Best part about that shower scene was that the cast all got together and said, "We'll only do this if the director gets naked too," so Verhoeven calls that bluff and walks out to the director's chair with nothing on but a grin.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
more like calls that buff

eh?

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


Beige posted:

There are literally animes better than Starship Troopers.

heres a good 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfbBcrGetVg

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here
How the gently caress does Paul Verhoeven direct Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and then go on to make god damned Hollow Man?

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Bluemillion posted:

How the gently caress does Paul Verhoeven direct Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and then go on to make god damned Hollow Man?

he flew too close to the sun

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
really any movie you watch after Starship Troopers is going to be a let down

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost
I liked the scene where that guy got his arm burned off by huge bug snot

SHARTING BEAR
Sep 27, 2004

West SAAB Story posted:

Scientology? SIGN ME UP!

What are you talking about?

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Volume posted:

really any movie you watch after Starship Troopers is going to be a let down

Unless it's Total Recall. The set of boobs in that movie is better than any in Starship Troopers. Fifty percent better.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Bluemillion posted:

Unless it's Total Recall. The set of boobs in that movie is better than any in Starship Troopers. Fifty percent better.

Also similar to Basic Instinct, good reminder that Sharon Stone was smoking hot back in the 80s.

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Dizzy please marry me or gently caress me (before you die).

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Decrepus posted:

Dizzy please marry me or gently caress me (before you die).

little late for that

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich
i kinda get the feeling that neil patrick harris was one of the only cast members who understood the movie was a satire

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



You got the right director, OP, but

A misanthrope posted:

sorry robocop is better

Yeah

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

i kinda get the feeling that neil patrick harris was one of the only cast members who understood the movie was a satire

he was like 19. I'm not sure he knew it was satire.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

i kinda get the feeling that neil patrick harris was one of the only cast members who understood the movie was a satire

gotta tell yourself something if you're stomping around in an SS outfit

Boinks
Nov 24, 2003



Rahns posted:

The book was better.

Amen.

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

i kinda get the feeling that neil patrick harris was one of the only cast members who understood the movie was a satire

Haha no and gently caress you.

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 253 days!)

SHARTING BEAR posted:

What are you talking about?

scientology wtf r u talkin bout

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

West SAAB Story posted:

scientology wtf r u talkin bout

prob. confused with Battlefield Earth I guess

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Otisburg posted:

You got the right director, OP, but


Yeah

I watched the robocop remake last night and it sure was bad.

It seemed sort of clueless what it was trying to do whether to be whining about NSA police state or the evils of corporate controlled technology.

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 253 days!)

Excelzior posted:

prob. confused with Battlefield Earth I guess

no they were both poo poo for retrd white nrds

but enough about scntgy

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

etalian posted:

I watched the robocop remake last night and it sure was bad.

It seemed sort of clueless what it was trying to do whether to be whining about NSA police state or the evils of corporate controlled technology.

They could have made a satire movie about both. Not surprised they couldn't pull the trigger on either.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
We already had this thread.

SHARTING BEAR
Sep 27, 2004

West SAAB Story posted:

no they were both poo poo for retrd white nrds

but enough about scntgy

how much have you had to drink, sir?

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 253 days!)

SHARTING BEAR posted:

how much have you had to drink, sir?

gently caress u ur not my dad

also, not enough

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot

withak posted:

We already had this thread.

can never have it enough imo

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

EngineerSean posted:

can never have it enough imo

starship troopers is a good book and movie

Lil Bit O Vitriol
Jan 10, 2010
Starship Troopers is a great movie because Verhoeven understood that the book was just a lovely fascist manifesto so he made the Federation and the Mobile Infantry into Nazis

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

when i was a kid the titties in this movie blew my mind

Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

i like the crazy superman football they play in the beginning, i think it probably inspired the xfl

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Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

back in the old days of byob some guy called piperifle made a play by play of this movie and it was pretty good. it prob used waffleimages tho knowing my luck

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