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Post by Marcus on Nov 1, 2007 6:58:43 GMT -5
I've heard they are going to be making another sequal to Starship Troopers.
This sequal has the main star (I forget his name) returning, Set a few years later, he's now promoted up to general.
That's about all I know of it.
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Post by Noel on Nov 1, 2007 11:33:54 GMT -5
The official title is "Starship Troopers : Marauder", and it's in post-production. It's been directed by the guy who wrote the first two (and RoboCop), and it is indeed going to star Casper Van Dien but nobody else from the previous movies.
I never bothered with the Starship Troopers 2 as it went straight-to-DVD and sounded pretty bad. I'm guessing this one will probably be the same, but it might be worth watching since it has Van Dien.
Whatever happened to that guy? From the looks of it he's appeared in nothing but TV movies since his 1999 role in "Sleepy Hollow". Although to be fair he's always seemed quite comfortable as a B-movie actor.
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Nov 1, 2007 13:11:21 GMT -5
I wasn't even aware there was a Starship Troopers II  |
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Post by dedwyre on Nov 1, 2007 14:32:03 GMT -5
Starship Troopers had a 3D animated cartoon show at one point. It was kind of cool, since you got to see the army-dudes-fighting-giant-bugs thing without all the sex and nudity.
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Nov 1, 2007 16:35:48 GMT -5
I love Starship Troopers. A fabulously daft and entertaining romp with stunning FX from that mad dutch geezer, Paul Verhoeven ;D
I saw ST2 on dvd and it was small, dull and cheap. No reason to expect ST3 to be any better. Just coz Caspers in it doesn't mean anything. He works for food nowadays.
Having said that, I'll probably watch it if it comes on telly.
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Post by Werewolf on Nov 2, 2007 3:25:02 GMT -5
I was never really keen on the first one. I'm not a big fan of all that macho bullshit! So i didn't really start to show an interest in the film until they we're actually out there fighting. Parts of it made me really shudder. The brainbug  scary! |
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Nov 2, 2007 9:13:55 GMT -5
I was never really keen on the first one. I'm not a big fan of all that macho bullshit! So i didn't really start to show an interest in the film until they we're actually out there fighting. Parts of it made me really shudder. The brainbug scary! I find the macho bullshit hilarious. The movie is part piss take on fascism and militaristic jingoism partially drawn on Verheoven’s own experiences as a child living in Nazi occupied Netherlands and seeing the death and carnage wrought by allied bombings. However, as I understand it Robert Heinlein wrote the original novel to big up the military and to put forward his different ideas on philosophy and how society should be run. One of his big ideas is the interesting concept of people having to earn certain rights rather than just being born with them. The great Michael Ironside as Mr Rasczak outlines this in the movie. Not something I agree with, but interesting nonetheless. |
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Post by Noel on Nov 2, 2007 16:59:49 GMT -5
Yeah, the movie basically took the subject matter and made it ironic, which in a sense makes it less challenging. Still a good movie though.
I wish they'd kept the power suits from the novel, it seems kind of dumb that they'd just send poorly-armoured light infantry to fight against giant bug-monsters.
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Nov 3, 2007 11:14:04 GMT -5
That's right! I used to see the last couple of minutes of it, since it was on before "Family Guy".
Gotta love Paul Verhoeven...or any other Mad Dutch Geezers for that matter, I would know wouldn't I? ;D
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Nov 5, 2007 19:08:11 GMT -5
Yeah, the movie basically took the subject matter and made it ironic, which in a sense makes it less challenging. Still a good movie though. I wish they'd kept the power suits from the novel, it seems kind of dumb that they'd just send poorly-armoured light infantry to fight against giant bug-monsters. Power suits would have been cool, but the mobile infantry being lightly armoured plays in to the movies ironic spoofing of the miltary. The gung ho jingoism where they continually underestimate the enemy just thinking that they themselves are so wonderful and invincible. Just think of the controversies around the often dodgy gear and lack of proper equipment supplied to UK forces in Afghanistan and Iraq over recent years. |
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Post by ukgoths on Mar 13, 2008 13:08:48 GMT -5
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Post by Werewolf on Mar 14, 2008 3:54:57 GMT -5
Looks very similar to the first film.
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Mar 15, 2008 15:05:31 GMT -5
Oh, so this is what Jolene Blalock has been up to since Enterprise finished.
Looks cheesy in a cheesy and not ironic way. At least they have upped the scale from the last one. The cgi bugs look ok, but no where near as good as in the first one. Looks like a few re-used shots from the first movie too.
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Post by Werewolf on Mar 15, 2008 15:35:16 GMT -5
Couldn't be as bad as number 2!
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Mar 15, 2008 19:32:12 GMT -5
Couldn't be as bad as number 2! Agreed  |
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scary!
