So we go into the audio chat and then you tell us where/how to watch the movie?

For the action/storyline I do agree that StarShip Troopers is horrid, but I find the changes in society to be the truly fascinating part of the movie.
For example: Towards the beginning the professor speaks of the downfall of democracy and how they instituted something far less "Refined" than how we would see it in this day and age.

Further more, it demonstrates how the government stepped in to make decisions for its citizens. Like in the shower scene when Rico first gets into boot, one of the women explained her reason for joining was to make it easier to get a license to have children.

Hell, even how the television programs are entirely propaganda-based. The scene with the children stomping on the insects with the woman cheering gleefully.

It's almost as though they reverted to a sort of 1950's America mindset, but at the same time mixed it with a logically "equal" sense in terms of gender. IE: Seemingly complete gender equality with female marines showering/fighting along side male marines. Even more surprising was the way the genders regarded each other, no gawking at the nudity or discrimination, but they treated them just like another person.

While the latter part of my point seems to betray the 1950's "Perfection" mindset, the aspect of government punishing the aberrations in society reminds me a enforced ideal of squelching immorality/oddities to make a perfect society.

What is to take from all of this? That I completely over-thought that film.

No, actually I didn't.

I feel obliged, in almost a humanitarian sense, to warn you about this flick. Unless you mentally prepare yourself for it, you WILL come out dumber on the other side. It is that bad. You cannot fathom how bad this movie is. It goes to the point of being so bad its ridiculously funny, and then keeps going - past absurdity, past disgust, straight into the depths of hell itself.

Its a shame. The first one really wasn't that bad.

Yeah, if you want to check it out Abberant, the author's name is Robert A. Heinlein. He wrote a ton of sci-fi stuff in fifties. I suggest you check it out.

i typed this last week, but i'm pretty sure it got buried.

can dtoid movie night be like my fight club and happen twice a week. i love movie night, but my tuesdays as of late have been filled with spending time with the lady friend. and since dtoid doesn't sleep in the same bed as me {read: this is me declining any offers} i keep missing it.

I'm sure it would be too hard to pull all you guys away from the real work twice a week, and really too hard to organize one day a month be different, i'll just hope that next tuesday she has to work. {man i'm going to get in trouble just for thinking that.}

i cant wait!

yeah the first one was actually pretty sweet but 2nd was a BIG disappointment.

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PLEASE WATCH Demon Hunter next week!!!

That movie is NOTHING!!!!!!!! compared to the original! I do love how they reuse the bug CG from the first movie though...

Oh damn, my bad.

best shitty movie night ever.
we ended with at least half the people we started with, and the movie didn't even finish.

I can't believe I missed this. This is pretty much THE shittiest movie you could ever do. How will this be beaten? HOW?!

Actually, to think about it, I know lots of films to add to the list of horrible movie night!

A Gnome named Gnorme
Snakes on a Plane
Battlefield Earth
The Blair Witch Project
Star Wars: Episode I
Basically ANY Cheech and Chong Film
Judge Dredd
Any of the latest dated Jaws films (the first one was good)
Mars Attacks
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
Dungeons and Dragons
Spice World
Titanic (3 hours to sink a fucking boat!)
Beetlejuice

Lord I could make this list longer, but I have to get ready for work =p.

Starship Troopers is an underrated gem.

The sequel? Not so much.