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You were actually right. The director specifically stated that he chose a cast of very beautiful young people for specifically this reason.

Starship Troopers sequels? There are no sequels. That's just a collective hallucination. Yes. That movie is amazing and so iconic.

The director absolutely has stated he chose various actors and actresses for the roles because of how conventionally beautiful they were, driving the point that joining will make you a gorgeous hero of the federation just like they are. It’s why all of the military scenes are shown specific ways and the soldiers and commercials up until exactly at the 1 hour mark, which is exactly when they land on Klendathu and the entire tone of the film shifts. Genius work.

They wasn’t celebrating Neil Patrick Harris being able to tell the bug was afraid, they were celebrating that they now knew bugs could feel fear.

Remember when the teacher said that the bugs have no fear during the dissection scene? That's why Neil Patrick Harris says it's afraid it is really significant. They believed that the bugs couldn't fear humans, which made them a more affective army.

The reason why they avoided ground vehicles, if I recall correctly, was because 1. the vibrations would be dead givaways of their positions and that the bugs would swarm or trap the vehicles in ground traps anyway, rendering them inefficient in terms of costs and materials, and 2. the terrains on most bug planets were too bad and hard to maneuver around with ground vehicles. Would you like to know more?

Someone probably said this already, but the line "Come on, you sons-o'-bitches, do you want to live forever?" comes from the battle of Belleau Wood where the Germans had basically just went around French defenses through the woods. Two-time medal of honor awardee Dan Daily yelled the line as he led US Marines into battle against the overwhelming German assault. Just thought it was a cool nod to a real historical event that has taken on mythic proportions in the US Military

The opening classroom scene isn't about the benefits of violence, it's about the reality of violence.

The fact the bug was "afraid" was a huge deal. At the time everyone thought the brain bug was the highest in the chain, the fact it was scared would impact all the versions it controls via the hive mind ( again, who they thought ran shit lol)

Just automatically flagging 1 star reviews on weapons for "treason". That's just an awesome way for the game to stay in character I love it

My brain canon is that the movie is an actual in-universe movie to sell the legend of Johnny Rico.

Clancy Brown is a National Treasure.

So, no Liber-tea?

The actors were chosen because of their looks. It was too portrait the idealic world it was. That it was perfect.

My dad took me and my brother to see this in theaters back when I was 12 years old and my brother was 9. The ticket person was like.... are you sure you want to see this movie...? You're kids look young. I loved the movie, my brother as well

The "Its AFRAID" scene is important because they never found a bug before that could have fear. As you said yourself in the video, they were assumed to be perfect soldiers.

The instructional video on how to kill a bug (performed in a completely controlled no-risk environment) is a nice ironic commentary on - well - commentary; "Why didn't the characters in these insane life-threatening situations not behave like someone NOT in these insane life-threatening situations?"

Ever since I saw SST in middle school circa 2003, I've used "I'm doing my part!" an innumerable amount of times.

9:49 In the book, this is easily explained by the mobile infantry actually having advanced exosuits that allow them to basically hop around incredibly quickly. My guess is ole Paul just took this and ran with it because having a bunch of extras in costume running around honestly looks more impressive and is probably a lot cheaper.

I like how Helldivers 2 got more recognition and player base than the actual Starship Troopers games

The animated sequel was the best sequel, for what it's worth

3:29 it is, in the commentary the director said it’s propaganda that’s why everyone is so pretty.. it’s building a fantasy so you’d join. It’s all deliberate

I like how Michael Ironside's character from Total Recall loses his arms (See you at the party, Richter!). In Starship Troopers, he loses his legs.

The opening scene isn't about the benefits of violence, it's about violence as the primordial force that gives space for the other kinds of force we follow.

Special shoutout to Starship Troopers 1988, which is a 6 part anime and has a really good soundtrack.

In the book they had powered suits, with y rack atomic missile launchers on their shoulders. They could boost and jump around like armored core kinda, had flamethrowers on their hand units.

"Where are all the tanks?" Elvis, it's called the mobile INFANTRY lol

when zim starts training the cadets and yells "this is a live fire exercise" the way he says it has been stuck in my head since i was 7 years old (im now 30) haha love the first movie so much

Helldivers and starship troopers are amazing

I literally watched "starship troopers" for the first time yesterday

Firefly reused the armor from Starship Troopers. Imagine Jane and Rico teaming up. :D

Paul Verhoven is the man. Robocop and total recall kick ass too

Elvis, ever heard of "Feeders?" It will challenge you on a first watch, but then you and your wife will watch it every year multiple times like my wife and I do. You're welcome, sir.

Not even a mention of the cartoon Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles. It was much better than it had any right to be.

Ordered to have fun….. Oh yes. I remember my unit had “Mandatory Fun Day” in Iraq. It sounds like I’m joking, but I’m not. Our unit actually had a day where if we weren’t on a specific duty like gateguard or some other duty required for security and function of our FOB, you were to be in your company’s area participating in whatever events they were holding. My company, since we had a pool, had lazing around in the pool. We had volleyball, cards, domino tourneys, or just sitting and doing whatever you wanted as long as you were in the company area. When I was a kid watching this movie, I was like “No way that happens.” After my time in the Army, I don’t even think twice about it.

The first Star Ship Troopers film is a classic. Never saw the others.

YODA SAYING "BEEAATCCH" GOT ME LMAO!!!

Starship troopers is one of my fave movies, I honestly refuse to watch the sequels out of fear they’ll ruin the original for me lol. Excited to watch you do it for us 😂

Fun fact about Starship troopers. It's reported that the US military was looking for a new primary assault rifle to equip troops with. A gun specifically was liked very much by the Heckler & Koch company. But the military said something along the lines of " Make it look more like Starship troopers" And this is how we got the Heckler & Koch XM8. Which was never actually adopted by the US military. But is seen a lot in video games. Just another thing that Starship Troopers managed to influence.

NPH's line about the brain bug being afraid was a call back to the biology teacher saying how bugs were perfect in that they do what they are told without fear. So NPH revealing that the bugs can be afraid was showing that the bugs were not invincible.

It's crazy that earlier this morning, I discovered that there was more than just the one Starship Troopers movie. Now coincidentally, Elvis posts a video covering most of the Starship Troopers movies. This man is looking out for us for real.

Dan Daly USMC The "you wanna live forever" quote comes from 2 time Medal of Honor recipient Dan Daly. It was when the US was in WW1, Daly's unit was in the Battle of Beleau Wood while the frontline didn't move for either side for months. Apparently, without orders to advance, he stood up and said "come on, you sons of bitches! Do you wanna live forever?" before charging bayonet first at the German line. His men, naturally took the hint and followed.

I still have to a plaid whoever decided to put the guy who directed Robocop in charge of adapting Starship Troopers. Absolutely insane idea that worked out great.

I watched Starship Troopers a few weeks ago and I really enjoyed it, the next day I watched the second one as well. After seeing Starship Troopers 2, all I could think was ". . . that was just among us." This is a testament to my brain rot more than anything

The first film was just an icon from my childhood. One of my favorite movies of all time. Whenever it came on, I stopped what I was doing and watched it. I tried to get into the second one, but between it being nowhere near the caliber of the first film and just how different the tone was, I just couldn't.

7:55 I believe the Starship Trooper battle uniforms/gear were also used in several episodes of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, which given the heroes of that show were also fighting giant alien bug monsters, it fits thematically I guess.

Starship Troopers has been one of my all time favorite movies since I was a kid❤️ ✨️The others do not exist✨️

Can't believe Elvis didn't mentioned the actual Starship Troopers game released before Helldivers 2

Never Been this fast on a Elvis videos

I appreciate the Helldivers strategem on the thumb nail Elvis. Good work!

The day Helldivers 2 kids discover Earth Defense Force they're gonna be mindblown.

The box art with the slightly tilted helmet of Starship Troopers 2 tells you all you need to need to know. I saw it at Blockbuster and LMAO right on past it.

The mixed showers scene is great, it's the one aspect shown in this universe that's a benefit due to human advancement: social progress has advanced to the level where gender, race, etc no longer matters, and they can legit shower between men and women with 0 sexual element, it shows how a common enemy can push humanity to come together progressively... at the cost of intense hatred for an alien race and a nearly fascist approach to politics and the military

The Roughnecks Chronicles was a really good series.

my headphones are too good. I had this video on in the background and at 11:38 I legit thought someone had just KNOCKED on my 2nd floor window. I completely freaked out. The bass was so heavy it sounded completely real.

It’s not a weasel! He’s a Trash Panda and his name is Rocket. The one that scares Carl’s Mom is a ferret and his name (or her we don’t know) is Cyrano. Love this movie. I saw it in the theater when it came out with my Mom and we both love Sci-Fi. We came out the movies screaming “Would you like to know more?! YES”

As somebody who has yet to play helldivers 2 (mostly because I don't have a new gaming system) that quirk of it where you get in-game reviews and the one-star reviews get [redacted] is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard of. Whoever came up with that is a genius 😂

I have been waiting to see Elvis talk about Starship Troopers! OOO RAHH !!!

Would definitely enjoy you talking about those 2 animated movies. I really liked the first animated Starship Troopers movie so I am particularly interested in what you think about that one. As far as other video ideas go, how about being silly and shark movies (that aren't Jaws movies) or a video looking at those awful VS giant animal direct-to-dvd movies. Those could be fun.

Elvis! There's a series based off Starship Troopers called 'Roughnecks' as well. I won't lie, the 3D animation hasn't aged well, but it's closer to the books and, personally, I like it more than the movies. There's more ground warfare (actual planning and tactical thinking rather than "everyone run and shoot the bug"), mechs, more psychic people/powers, going to different planets, different and smarter bugs, different story arcs and characters have their own arcs, and because of the armor they wear everyone looks like Master Chief. Plus there's an alien going "WAAA WA WA WAAAAA" at a couple points, so it's pretty cool

I also watched the first Starship Troopers when very young. I was 6 lol. Had an amazing exprience and I absolutely loved it.

Starship troopers is one of the greatest movies ever made.

The fascism on display in this movie is purely surface level. Veerhoven tried to paint the Terran Federation as a fascist government, but never showed the Federation doing anything that actually qualifies. These movies are great. Even the terrible ones. Love the vid, Elvis!

I feel like for a lot of this we’re overlooking the genuinely fun Starship Troopers Extermination adaptation. A fps released the same year with Helldivers II. You want the genuine realest starship trooper feel, I’d recommend

You had me at ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

I assumed them finding religion in the 3rd one was satirical. Like we know for a fact that Rico dropping at that moment they're praying was a coincidence. And making Rico, the dude who at the end of the third movie was going right down the path of fascism a saving angel fits the satire style of the first movie nicely.

A noble sacrifice! When duty calls we pay the price, for the federation I will give my life!!

The director for Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven, was born in 1938 in Amsterdam. When he was 5yo his family moved to "The Hague", which was where the Not-See (I know its not spelled correctly. I'm avoiding the YT algorithm) Germans were headquartered in The Netherlands. He grew to hate the Not-Sees. The movie has a lot of Not-See imagery in it. For example, when the soldiers are all saying "I'm doing my part", this comes from a propaganda film from Not-See Germany called 'Triumph Des Willens', or 'Triumph of the Will' in English. They had the German line "I'm doing my part" in that movie, which is why you see it in this movie. As for the casting of Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards, Paul Verhoeven wanted the actors to look like the people in Leni Riefenstahl's movie 'Triumph of the Will.' That film was supposed to show the "superiority" of the Not-See party and the Aryan race. Verhoeven wanted "an exaggerated look that ended up making the actors look more like caricatures than real flesh-and-blood soldiers". I wish you would've done a little more research here. I know its really popular nowadays for white people, especially white content creators, to bash on almost anything white and play the white guilt card. You've been conditioned into believing that if you say the wrong thing you'll be "cancelled", or you'll alienate the weak-minded amongst the UKposts fandom and lose viewership. At the same time you'd never make a big deal or complain about a minority actor being cast for an originally white character. Which is always what proves the motivation behind the faux outrage. At least try to be accurate when you do this.

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This is one of my fav movies by far ITS a master piece thats surprisingly still fun to watch several Times and hast really good effects for ITS time

That thumbnail joke is on point.

The visual effects are so good. This was the end of miniature work and it's a process that perfected at this point. GCI was new but was used really wisely. The spaceships look so great in this first movie.

so shit on a shingle is what my mom calls toast with the gravy you use for biscuits and gravy. You pour the gravy on top of the toast and it resembles bird poop. hence the name shit on a shingle.

I liked part three very much. Of course it won’t live up to the original but that was a fun movie. A guilty pleasure

It's also inspired by Heinlein. We know this because of the constant "managed democracy" refrain. From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress a book that involves the 1960's version of AI, written less than 4 years later. “A managed democracy is a wonderful thing… for the managers… and its greatest strength is a ‘free press’ when ‘free’ is defined as ‘responsible’ and the managers define what is ‘irresponsible’.”

The difference between starship and helldivers is that the bugs are actually a threat in starship rather than just being livestock in helldivers.

holy shit lmfao i knew that there was a bad sequel but i didn't expect there to be 4 of them

Everyone just forgetting that the dev team for Squad has been working on Starship Troopers : Extermination for about a year a fully licensed game. I play Helldivers2 its good fun but when you want the licensed its a bunch of fun as well.

What’s crazy is how no one talks about Starship Troopers Extermination but everyone knows Helldivers 2

I was almost 14 when this movie came out and I remember absolutely loving it.. but no one I knew at the time liked it and I thought everyone was crazy.. I recommend everybody watch this movie. It totally holds up over time. The effects are incredible for being over 25 years old and the characters and acting are great.. awesome video!

“Why we fight” is a perfect song

I could watch most horror movies and not get scared, but someone knocking on a door can make me hop right out of my seat. God damn!

I think Rico was called the hero of Planet P because he went on a rescue mission and discovered the brain bug and then completed his mission allowing Zim to capture boss bug

Just to point it out, in the book, they are called mobile infantry because the use mobile suits, Powerarmor like an Ironmen suit.

I remember watching this movie as a kid, and it's one of the most graphic action films ever made. Despite all of its satire and comedic tones. It still delivered such a powerful message about people joining the army, and ending up being traumatized of the horrors of war.

Im convinced Gonna Watch the first one fully for 1st time

I read the starship troopers book on delpoyment and passed it around to the rest of the guys and we started saying "on the bounce" to each other all the time

Also when you see the scene where they nuke the shit out of the bugs, you realize that the war is meant to keep their population focused on a common ennemy to divert their attention. They have no reasons to send millions of young people with bad armor and nerf guns getting shredded by bugs, but they do it anyway. The humans litteraly have space travel, they can easily kill every single bug in these planets.

A lot of people think the bugs are a very sympathetic race, but they’re just as bad as the humans if not worse.

Starship koopas when

Funny story, that quote "come on you apes, do you wanna live forever?" is actually paying homage to Dan Daly, a legendary US Marine who said the following at the Battle of Belleau Wood in WWI: "Come on, you sons-o'-bitches, do you want to live forever?" Adds another layer of epicness that I appreciate.

You should absolutely talk about more games dude! I was so invested in your short talk on HD2 that I forgot the actual video for a minute.

Reminder that the director didn’t even read the book and the bugs were a highly advanced technological species along with the book having nothing to do with fascism. The director also has no real idea what fascism even is considering theres basically nothing in the movie that shows the government is even fascist.

Part 2 just tried to be a straight up horror movie instead of a heavily-satirical sci-fi adventure and honestly that was a really weird choice.

Watching these as a kid were wild. Definitely nostalgic.

Love Starship Troopers. I've only seen the first movie though, and maybe that's a good thing. :P I like the book too, but for different reasons. While the movie is basically Verhoeven's childhood trauma response (and I totally respect that), the book delves into questions about rights and responsibilities.

Infantryman here. This movie is so clearly satire and yet it was one of my inspirations for joining the army as combat arms. Sort of the downside of making something too cool for younger audiences. 😂 Even if you blatantly show the ways in which it might not be cool as well.

Reported this propaganda to my local democracy officer 🔥

From my time on the internet (but mostly youtube) there's seems to be two main groups of fans for this film. And they don't have much in common besides the film itself. The first group are best summed up as "I saw this film and heard it's message so loud and clear I not only went on to read the book, but also signed up for service to my country!" The second group are best summed up as "You saw this film and then joined the military? Wow, its message flew right over your head...."