starship troopers 3 (2008)

dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2008-07-27 09:54am

Words can't describe it watch the trailer at your own risk.

the horror

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2008-07-27 10:08am

I just watched this movie actually. It's probably the best feel good comedy of the summer because you'll be laughing the whole way through. Seriously though, this movie skips the entire second film and picks up were the first one left off. The CG looks a little cheaper this time around and most the Verhoeven wit is back. Rico has lost his Aryan superman blond hair and at one point he was dating Vulcan Tits aka Jolene Blalock. The movie has a weird religious bent running through it with people "finding faith" and praying to God. At the end the Federation accepts God claiming "he's on our side, he hates bugs, and he hates peace!" Also the titular Marauders are these silly Battlemech things that are vaguely like the proper powered suit.

A movie that ends with a wedding can't be all bad.

He's so dreamy.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-07-27 10:12am

At the end the Federation accepts God claiming "he's on our side, he hates bugs, and he hates peace!"

Is it done in a Verhoeven-deliberate-irony style, or as a serious plot point?

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2008-07-27 10:23am

It's sort of a weird plot point. Basically the brain bug they captured in the first movie used its weird psychic powers to turn Sky Marshall Anoke into a religious freak who is loyal to the bug god which is a giant bug that is as big as a continent. The Sky Marshall is now a traitor and sabotages lots of things in order to get himself and Vulcan tits to the bug god's planet. There's also this blond chick who has religion and Vulcans tits hates her for most of the movie because of the annoying "God talk." Blond chick and the Anoke are all chatting up about God and stuff which makes it super funny at the end when she finds out her worships a different god. As the bug god is getting ready to eat the two women, they start praying to god when Rico descends upon the battle with his Marauder squad and they proceed to kill all the bugs and rescue the women. The rest of the movie plays out as a propaganda piece.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-07-27 10:39am

VF5SS wrote:It's sort of a weird plot point. Basically the brain bug they captured in the first movie used its weird psychic powers to turn Sky Marshall Anoke into a religious freak who is loyal to the bug god which is a giant bug that is as big as a continent

...

We Worship His Shadow.

PREDATOR490 · Post by **PREDATOR490** » 2008-07-27 10:41am

I would lean towards serious plot point myself.

Character starts blabbing about how faith in God will save them as they prey and the battlemechs sweep into save the day at that moment. This is followed by the Federation accepting God so I got the impression it was being serious and it irked me to no end.

The CG is extremely poor compared to the first and half the stuff dosent even look right. The sets looked poor and the guns looked unusually large when people were holding them. Rico really isnt the same and the acting was pretty poor. It took me until they actually called him Rico to figure it was the same guy from the first movie and his attempts to shout orders were equally shit.

Overall, it's a really cheap movie just like the 2nd. The only difference being this one at least attempted some resemblence of continuity with the first.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2008-07-27 10:51am

The guns looked like props from a Halo movie. Probably the best part of the move is in the opening when one guys gets impaled by a flying shovel. Also Sky Marshall Anoke's song about how it's a great day to die. Pure John Ashcroft style singing!

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-07-27 12:00pm

NecronLord wrote:
VF5SS wrote:It's sort of a weird plot point. Basically the brain bug they captured in the first movie used its weird psychic powers to turn Sky Marshall Anoke into a religious freak who is loyal to the bug god which is a giant bug that is as big as a continent

...

We Worship His Shadow.

.... And Pray That He Doesn't Roll Over And Crush Us All.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2008-07-27 12:42pm

Where is your god now?

Oh yeah, they crack the planet with a Q-bomb.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-07-27 01:37pm

VF5SS wrote:Where is your god now?

Oh yeah, they crack the planet with a Q-bomb.

If that bug was really the size of a continent, then there is no way it can have a head that small.

Darth Onasi · Post by **Darth Onasi** » 2008-07-27 01:42pm

Looks like they still employ the "let's fly in as close as possible so we have no room to maneuver against the slow ass bug-plasma shots, get blown up and our debris hit other ships" fleet formation.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2008-07-27 03:36pm

Enigma wrote:
If that bug was really the size of a continent, then there is no way it can have a head that small.

That was just the head. The rest of it was below the planet. It was spread all over the area with pincer traps disguised as rock formations.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2008-07-27 05:38pm

Heh, to be honest, it actually kind of looked to me like "Starcraft: The Movie" if they only had the Mobile Infantry guys in heavier looking armor.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2008-07-27 06:02pm

It could be a Battletech movie, or an Aliens movies, or even a Warhammer 40k movie with all the religion. The funny thing is, it's trying to be everything but a Starship Troopers movie. It's like GENERIC SCI-FI the film.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2008-07-27 09:30pm

NecronLord wrote:
VF5SS wrote:It's sort of a weird plot point. Basically the brain bug they captured in the first movie used its weird psychic powers to turn Sky Marshall Anoke into a religious freak who is loyal to the bug god which is a giant bug that is as big as a continent

...

We Worship His Shadow.

Where are Kai and the Brunnen G when we need them?

Pelranius · Post by **Pelranius** » 2008-07-27 09:37pm

Apparently the planned Red Dawn remake has given other people ideas as well. Let's all hope that John Travolta is wearing cement undergarments in an aquatic environment.

Swindle1984 · Post by **Swindle1984** » 2008-07-27 10:33pm

Oh gosh, don't even get me started on all the ways they'll fuck up a Red Dawn remake.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2008-07-27 11:15pm

Swindle1984 wrote:Oh gosh, don't even get me started on all the ways they'll fuck up a Red Dawn remake.

It might turn out all right...we still have the Chinese to be our Commie Boogie Men (sorry, just pictured a bunch of dudes in Tiannaman Square boogieing). And the Cubans are still there.

Or! It could be a Green Dawn, and we'll have MUZLIM TERRISTS as the enemy.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-07-27 11:47pm

Fuck Verhoeven and his crappy little attempt at satire, fuck whoever had the idea to steal the title of a halfway-decent Heinlein book and prune out everything that made it even remotely entertaining, fuck the assholes who decided to further rip off Starcraft by making a different bug for every possible situation (anti-starship bugs? Fucking really?).

Oh, and fuck Verhoeven again for being indirectly responsible for the trailing pieces of shit that have followed the first turd, which somehow have managed to surpass the original in shittiness.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-07-28 12:33am

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Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2008-07-28 01:09am

Hey Uranium! Can a kid be allergic to chicken?

Peptuck · Post by **Peptuck** » 2008-07-28 01:27am

Uraniun235 wrote:
Molyneux wrote:A BLOOOOO BLA BLOO BLOO BLOOOOOOOO

I am laughing way, way too hard at this.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-07-28 02:17am

Ender wrote:Hey Uranium! Can a kid be allergic to chicken?

Oh uh no Ender can't nobody be allergic to chicken

It is one of the Basic meats
Of no offense to anybody

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-07-28 03:32am

Okay, I watched it. It was fucking great. It had satire of religion("It's the wrong god!"), powered armour, singing, komedy(Mk 1 Shovel a.k.a "Doug"), and as if that wasn't all enough, we got to see tits! And Casper Van Dien is well hung(as if we didn't all guess).

I look forward to a repeat viewing soon. Hell, why not right now?

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2008-07-28 05:15am

American directors don't seem to get Paul Verhoeven's satire