Little late in the week sure but I have a few reviews I wanna get through. So lets start of with
Starship Troopers 3:
Marauder
Starship Troopers 3 is a direct to DVD release and therefore has no Box Office numbers. Though I wouldn't imagine them very high if they did.
Starship Troopers 3 takes place eight years after the events of the first film and bring us back to John Ricco, who must save an important man in the Federation from yet another new bug... But this time, he has some new equipment.
I would like to say I have never read Starship Troopers the book, but absolutely adore the original movie. The mix of action fluff, Science Fiction, and tongue in cheek social parody was all just brilliant. I am suprised, though, that such a simple formula cannot be captured again in any sequel.
The movie just seems to fail at capturing what was great about the original movie... The propoganda intels seem less social parody and more plot exposition, each character is rather bland and flat most of which seem to try and be sympathetic at the same time as being a moralless ass. The only character that really has any sort of character is John Ricco and thats only because the character was made ten years ago.
Ricco, by the way, really feels underused in this... He does great in the first scenes of the movie, then is held back to simply stand around for the rest of the movie until the end.
The problem with the Starship Troopers movies is the failure to grasp the scale of war... In this and the second one it was a handful of people facing off against an army of bugs (or themselves)... The first movie showed hundreds of people being mauled by bugs, it really gave it the perspective of a galactic conflict.
The movies religious aspects, while I assume they were in attempt to be parody, simply grained on my nerves... We see throughout the film the blind faith as the characters cling to the crazy Sky Marshal, and yet at the end the surviving woman still 'gets fath'.
The movie is simply not worth it. If you're a die hard Starship Trooper fan it'll simply let you down, if you're not a fan it won't entertain you much at all. Pass it by when you see it on the shelf.
Marauder
Starship Troopers 3 is a direct to DVD release and therefore has no Box Office numbers. Though I wouldn't imagine them very high if they did.Starship Troopers 3 takes place eight years after the events of the first film and bring us back to John Ricco, who must save an important man in the Federation from yet another new bug... But this time, he has some new equipment.
I would like to say I have never read Starship Troopers the book, but absolutely adore the original movie. The mix of action fluff, Science Fiction, and tongue in cheek social parody was all just brilliant. I am suprised, though, that such a simple formula cannot be captured again in any sequel.
The movie just seems to fail at capturing what was great about the original movie... The propoganda intels seem less social parody and more plot exposition, each character is rather bland and flat most of which seem to try and be sympathetic at the same time as being a moralless ass. The only character that really has any sort of character is John Ricco and thats only because the character was made ten years ago.
Ricco, by the way, really feels underused in this... He does great in the first scenes of the movie, then is held back to simply stand around for the rest of the movie until the end.
The problem with the Starship Troopers movies is the failure to grasp the scale of war... In this and the second one it was a handful of people facing off against an army of bugs (or themselves)... The first movie showed hundreds of people being mauled by bugs, it really gave it the perspective of a galactic conflict.
The movies religious aspects, while I assume they were in attempt to be parody, simply grained on my nerves... We see throughout the film the blind faith as the characters cling to the crazy Sky Marshal, and yet at the end the surviving woman still 'gets fath'.
The movie is simply not worth it. If you're a die hard Starship Trooper fan it'll simply let you down, if you're not a fan it won't entertain you much at all. Pass it by when you see it on the shelf.
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