Starship Troopers may win the war, but looses the battle.
As Reviewed by James Brundage
Lets
take movies from the side that they really are. The side that
almost no one ever sees that isn't in the business. The side that
lacks the glamour of the interest or the entertainment. The side
of a bunch of lawyers, CPAs and rich kids all gathered together
to make more money. Its a side that doesn't really have much to
show, that isn't anything more than people in Armani in a room
deciding the entertainment of a nation.
Think of them as car dealers, brokering to you a beat up Pinto that's been repainted and is going for pretty cheap, and you have a good idea of what Starship Troopers is like.
Picture the conversation : "What does this movie have to offer you? Its fun, its sci-fi. The human race fighting for survival, that sorta thing. It has relationships. Its based on the 1959 classic. Its has something for everyone."
Okay, you think, the movie sounds okay so far, but what about when he begins the next bit, talking to you dressed in a cheap suit and a K-Mart tie, arms spread out in a hug and pot belly accented.
"And, free of extra charge, we've got some goodies for you. It comes with plenty of violence for all you gore-hounds out there, with a human and alien body count close to 5,000 shown. And, of course, millions more die behind the scenes. We torture one scared alien. Like unnecessary nudity? We've got that too.
"And we've got this wonderful old-fashioned new negative utopia angle for you to try. You have to serve in the military to be a citizen. We've got a bug shooting things out of its but. We've got cockroaches being smashed to little-itty bitty bits for all those city-dwellers. We've got psychics for all those watches of the Sci-Fi channel. We've got cheap relationships for you who don't want to get too deep into the movie. But, for those who try to get deep into the movie, we try (no promises) to give you a nice bit of humanity with our impossibly drawn-out death scenes (but they're terribly faked for all you conservative parents). Not a lot of profanity, but, hey, you can't win them all.
"So, do you want to take it for a spin?"
Movie Reviews by James Brundage