Starship Troopers [1997] Space, Sci-fi, Cult, Action

[This is the entire movie -- also on Netflix in HD]

For the nuanced genre of what it is: 8.5/10

Compared to like other good movies: 4/10

Utterly. Fucking. RIDICULOUS!

The movie is something I never expected. It's a gore fest, comical, politically progressive, rated-R shit show-and-a-half cluster fuck of awesomeness. Don't go into this expecting a profound narrative, or anything of the sort. This is an absurdest movie, though it does have character arcs, it still sequences them through the utmost of absurdities (giant bugs invading!)

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Start to finish, this is a balls to the wall action flick. Instant classic. This movie is certainly 90's but actually comes off as an earlier period piece. There are some extremely memorable scenes throughout, partly because they're just so unique and ironically progressive. The football scene is ridiculous. He does a front flip over people, and in this universe girls play on the team right beside the guys. In fact, sex and gender seem to be totally meaningless in this universe, which I think works to its benefit. I wonder how many snooty tight asses got butthurt about the nude co-ed shower scene.

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Personally, I loved it. The entire thing. Neil Patrick Harris is in this, so that's pretty awesome. Honestly, the entire cast is pretty much perfect. There is something about the tone that makes this more of a genre piece than anything else of its type from the 90's. Remember, this came out just 1 year before stuff like Armageddon, American History X, and Saving Private Ryans, yet it feels like it could have easily been a decade earlier.

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The antagonists in this universe are formidable to say the least! Although the realism of this universe is totally suspended within the first 10 minutes of the flick, these bugs seem menacing as fuck. They have razor sharp appendages, and suck brains out to read minds O_O There are billions of them and they make our Troopers look like the ants!

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I really liked the strange and comical overtones of the "would you like to know more" advertisements that play throughout the film and the [CENSORED] that was used as comic accent to the entire thing.

Overall, this movie is an obscenely high-caliber and presumably budget space adventure that you should not watch sober. It's the dopest shit ever, yo. They'll keep fighting. AND THEY'LL WIN!