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Starship Troopers Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences. **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail** 28 ratings, but no new mail or reviews. Starship Troopers Based on the 1959 Book of the same name by Robert Heinlein (Hainlain) and Rated R for intense sequences of strong graphic violence throughout, sexuality/nudity and language Directed by: Paul Verhoven (who also directed Robocop, killer 80's movie) Starring Casper Van Dien, Dian Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown and Michael Ironside, no mention of Robert Patrick Released November 7, 1997 Budget: $105M ($172M in 2021) Box Office: $54.5M Domestic ($89.3M 2021), $121.2M Internationally ($198.6M today) Nominated for the academy award for best visual effects (up against the Lost World: Jarassic Park and Titanic. Titanic won). Ratings: IMDb 7.2/10 Rotten Tomatoes 65% Metacritic 51% Google Users 92% While it received mostly negative critical reviews when originally released, more recently has received more favorable reviews due to its political satire. Plot: We open to propaganda like commercial urging people to sign up for the mobile infantry, with everyone doing their part, and that service guarantees citizenship. Then we're shown where the bugs have sent a meteor towards earth, which is blown up, next, we're shown Klendathu, the bugs home system, and how the bugs have an endless supply of meteorites to hurl at Earth and must be destroyed. We're then taken live to the invasion. The presenter is eaten by a bug, and two other army guys. It cuts to black, and we're shown 1 year earlier. In a classroom Rico is caught drawing and we hear some history, the failure of democracy and how social scientist brought the planet to the brink of collapse, veterans took control, imposed stability. Only citizens are allow to vote. Voting is exorcising political violence and violence is the supreme authority from which all authority is derived. They're in high school. They c
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