Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles

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The Complete Campaigns is a four-disc compilation of the Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles series that was originally released on eight DVDs: The Pluto Campaign, The Hydora Campaign, The Tophet Campaign, The Tesca Campaign, The Zephyr Campaign, The Klendathu Campaign, Trackers (including the four bonus episodes), and The Homefront Campaign. While Paul Verhoeven's dark, satirical adaptation of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers seriously strayed from the novel, this Verhoeven-produced TV series--part sequel, part remake, all CGI animated--hews closer to the spirit of the novel, a space-age twist on a World War II battle adventure. Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles is a series of military skirmishes and assignments on a variety of fronts, such as Bug City, water-dominated Hydora, the desert planet Tophet, the jungle planet Tesca, fiery Klendathu, and good old Earth.

The episodic nature works perfectly within this framework, and the mix of Marine grit ("No retreat, no surrender!"), military jargon, and understated melodrama give a feel somewhere between the steely seriousness of an old-fashioned war comic book and the spectacle and romance of a Japanese anime space opera. The CGI animation is less ambitious than in such feature films as Toy Story, but it's one of the most impressive examples of the animation made for TV. The detailed designs, rich textures, 3-D modeling, and awesome sense of scale (not to mention the pumped-up action and whiplash speed of the bug army) give it the look of an impossibly sophisticated video game, with the rat-a-tat editing and soaring camerawork of a Hollywood movie. The budgetary shortcuts are evident in moments of blurring and jerking, but overall it's startlingly effective. The PG-level violence may not be appropriate for younger viewers, but it's aimed at an older crowd and has won a loyal adult following.

The packaging is very convenient (a shelf-space-friendly four discs in Thinpaks), but unfortunately, serious Roughnecks fans will want to hold onto their old discs. Cramming the eight discs of content plus bonus episodes (granted, Trackers was a short disc) onto four single-sided discs apparently left no room for the producer/technical commentary tracks that accompanied most of the previous discs. The only bonus features are photo galleries and a fold-out illustration. --Sean Axmaker, David Horiuchi

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Good CG for the day bad dialogue.......2007-08-23

That sums up most of my feelings towards this rewrite of the Starship troopers universe. It didn't have the harshness or brutality of Heinlen and lacked to proactive scenery and violence of the movie (I know it is a cartoon) additionally all the stories wrap up to neatly to early and the ending to the series is nonexistent, 1 more hour and the show could ahve finished but instead you are left with a cliffhanger.

Better than the movie(s) by far............2007-08-06

Had they actually completed the last 4 episodes, this would have gotten 5 stars.

I feel this treatment of the excellent Heinlein novel is more "accurate" than the two movies. We get the bugs, the Skinnies, and some decent storytelling as well.

The technical presentation is good. Clean images and sound throughout.

If you've seen the movies, but haven't read the original novel, you should. I'd bet you'll like Roughnecks a great deal afterwards.

Only lost one star since the series NEVER ENDED - they stopped 2 episodes short and quit making them.......2007-07-04

I own this and frankly it is pretty good if you liked the starship troopers movie (first one primarily since it follows that line, not the second and pretty cool one in the fortress).

This is very well animated, and the HUGE and ONLY problem is that the series never finished - the plug was pulled TWO EPISODES SHORT OF THE END. The bugs get to earth and start attacking, then we find out that they are taking over people, and we just found a way to strike back and BAM job's done series over.

I would recommend renting - this is not the kind of series you will watch over and over, or buy and resell, but it is worth the watch and is very good overall.

Awful animation, poor physics shouldnt be allowed!.......2007-07-04

Like my title says, even when the technology was new, this looked god-awful. I'm a hardcore fan of the books as well as the movies, but this is just garbage. No extras, nothing. Plus you have to watch these guys and other objects bounce around, defying all physics. It looks worse than Captain Planet (the late animated crap)

Great.......2007-06-27

This is a great DVD box set. It has the whole season including some of the extra shows that were created when the series was taken off the air. If you liked the show you will love this collectible box set. Just be aware that if you buy the box set you will not get the extra behind the scenes footage found in the individual campings found on DVD. If you like me and just enjoy the show, this box set is one easy payment and is one nice box set!

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A subtle satire of the novel
This time the Nazi win
"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should..."
Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book.
It stands alone its not Heinlein

Starship Troopers
Starring: Casper Van Dien , Dina Meyer , Denise Richards , Jake Busey , and Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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Release Date: 1998-05-20

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In the first and finest RoboCop movie, director Paul Verhoeven combined near-future science fiction with a keen sense of social satire--not to mention enough high-velocity violence to satisfy even the most voracious bloodlust. In Starship Troopers, Verhoeven and RoboCop cowriter Ed Neumeier take inspired cues from Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel to create a special-effects extravaganza that functions on multiple levels of entertainment. The film might be called "Melrose Place in Space," with its youthful cast of handsome guys and gorgeous women who look like they've been recruited (and in some cases they were) from the cast of Beverly Hills 90210. Viewers might focus on the incredible, graphically intense action sequences (definitely not for children) in which heavily armed forces from Earth go to off-world battle against vast hordes of alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. The attacking bugs are marvels of state-of-the-art special-effects technology, and the space battles are nothing short of spectacular. But Starship Troopers is more than a showcase for high-tech hardware and gigantic, flesh-ripping insects. Recalling his childhood in Holland during the Nazi occupation, Verhoeven turns this epic adventure into a scathingly funny satire of fascist propaganda, emphasizing Heinlein's underlying warning against the hazards of military conformity and the sickening realities of war. It's an action-packed joy ride if that's all you're looking for, but Verhoeven has a provocative agenda that makes Starship Troopers as smart as it is exciting. The DVD includes an above-average commentary by the director and Neumeier, several deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary and promotional featurette, cast bios, production notes, and more. --Jeff Shannon

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A subtle satire of the novel.......2007-08-24

This film may in the end prove to be almost as controversial as the novel on which it was based. Robert Heinlein's novel, written in 1959, has been reviled as fascist propaganda, with its glorification of militarism. While Heinlein denied this, the world he depicts - a military elite holds political power, and wages war against enemies viewed as sub-human - bears an uncanny resemblance to Nazi Germany. The film sides with the novel's critics. Earth is portrayed as authoritarian, although not entirely totalitarian, while military leaders are portrayed as thugs. In contrast to the novel, war is depicted as brutal. The brave young soldiers who are inspired by civic duty do not achieve glory, but rather die in droves and end up as decomposing corpses. All in all, the film is a subtle satire of the novel.

This time the Nazi win.......2007-08-15

The first time I saw this movie I was completely shocked. Were we supposed to cheer for these cute little Nazis? But I watched it again, and now with the Iraq war on my mind, I see that no we are not supposed to like them. At best they are puppets, at worst they are just blood thirsty frat boys. It is pretty obvious that the bugs have no control over the asteroids that are hurtling through space. It also pretty clear that if you want to kill off the bugs for whatever reason, it would be easier just to nuke the planets. But that would not achieve the goals which seem to be endless propaganda and an outlet for all that pent up hostility that seems to running rampant in this futuristic society. I really feel sorry for the bugs. So OK, I finally got it. I am afraid though that lots of folks don't get it though and think it is just a rolicking good time. That actually disturbs me more than seeing Doogie Howser channeling Mengele.

"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should...".......2007-08-13

Another in a long line of movies I didn't expect to like, but liked a lot. Starship Troopers has the feel of the best of 1950's Saturday matinee sci-fi serials, updated for the 1990's. It is an interesting movie, has a good plot, has enough action to hold almost anyone's attention (in fact I'm informed Starship Troopers has more shots fired in its run-time than any film ever made...) and is enjoyable end-to-end. As someone told me and as I put in my title up there, if you haven't seen it, you probably should.

Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book........2007-08-01

I like this movie. You can't take it seriously though. It is extrememly corny in a lot of respects but is fun to watch. However it does not hold true to the book hardly at all. I would recommend watching the movie first, then read the book. If you do it the other way around you will probably hate the movie. The book is very good in the sense that it is a lot "darker" than the movie. It explains "Rico's" physical and mental torment during training, and in the life of a combat soldier. There is very little contact between both sexes in the book as opposed to the movie in which they all live and "shower" together. Neither the book or the movie are a waste of time. I recommend both definately.

It stands alone its not Heinlein.......2007-07-31

While I am proud to see some of his books made into movies, myself as an avid Heinlein collector finds fault with the straying from the storyline.

As a standalone picture I enjoyed it, but it was not to me Heinlein's vision in the book he wrote. The focus on family was taken aside to focus on some girl, the focus of maturity was made to be a coming of age item and love interests.

Don't get me wrong I like the film, but it was not Robert Heinlein's book.

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From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director PAUL VERHOEVEN crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic sci-fi adventure. CASPER VAN DIEN, DINA MEYER, DENISE RICHARDS, JAKE BUSEY, NEIL PATRI

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Release Date: 2005-06-28

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Starship Troopers PSP UMD Movie MODEL- 11800 VENDOR- UMD MOVIE FEATURES- Starship Troopers PSP Movie STARSHIP TROOPERS charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side-by-side in the ultimate intergalactic war... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost. Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Total Recall) reunited many from his 1987 Robocop team for this $100- million science fiction adventure, adapted from Robert A. Heinleins 1959 novel, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November, 1959). After graduation, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) volunteers for the Mobile Infantry to do his Federal service -- but also to win over his girlfriend, Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards), who has signed with the Fleet Academy to become a starship pilot. Johnny joins other boot-camp recruits -- Dizzy Flores (Dina Meyer), who has had a crush on Johnny since school, and Ace Levy (Jake Busey). Ace and Johnny become pals, and Johnnys abilities earn him the squad leader position. A training accident occurs on Johnnys watch, and he is about to resign when Earth is attacked by alien insects intent on eradicating all human life. Johnnys home, Buenos Aires, is no longer on the map. Horrified, he chooses to stay on and fight to destroy the insect threat. The Mobile Infantry travels to the planet Klendathu to battle the warrior bugs, a ruthless enemy with

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Love the PSP.......2007-02-13

I really enjoyed watching this on my PSP. My daughter had friends over and they were playing nintendo on the big TV so I watched this on my PSP, the clarity is unbelievably good, and I love this movie.

Heinlein Is Hard to FIlm (UMD Mini for PSP).......2006-09-11

This movie takes one of Robert A. Heinlein's books and attempts to translate it into film. This film follows the general precept of the book that mankind is in a war with a race of insect-like creatures that have various castes. As with the book the movie does not attempt to resolve the war, but does intend on providing some hope.

Heinlein has been called the Dean of Science Fiction. Because of his phenomenal success he was able to write beyond the boundaries of many of his contemporaries to express his viewpoints regarding society. The novel on which this movie was based was laced with several political viewpoints as well as predicting a future for the military that we can be seen as the trend of our military today.

When Heinlein wrote this novel in 1959 he tried to convey the simple concept that citizenship in the most free society on earth was taken for granted. Heinlein thought that perhaps one way of changing the definition of citizenship was to require that it be earned. Thus Heinlein advocated that all citizens should give two years of public service. Some people have narrowly construed this service to mean military service, but in his book Heinlein clearly stated that the service was governmental service and did not specify the type of service. In any case, earning the right to vote was central to the book. That concept was minimally discussed in the movie in favor or making an action-packed military monster movie.

Heinlein's future military was focused on the individual, with incredible weapons and training. Interestingly, our military continues to rely on ever-better weaponry with the individual soldier wielding ever more power and hopefully having better training as time passes. Again, the movie threw out this concept in order to make the movie move faster with multiple rescue scenarios. While Heinlein's bugs were not sympathetic, by having the bugs callously destroy a chunk of Earth real estate enables the audience to loathe them even more.

After throwing out two of Heinlein's key concepts, the result is a B science fiction movie with lots of gore and action. However, even with traditional science fiction themes, I liked this movie. The acting is only fair, much of the movie is "golly gee whiz" and salute the flag, and the plot has more holes than cheesecloth, and for all that it is a fun and exciting movie that I have watched at least four or five times. Some of the scenes are dramatic and scary, such as when the flying bugs attack and when the ground bugs spear people. The scenes with the tanker bugs are incredible. I have spent too much time trying to figure out how their burning dissolving fluid works.

There are places in the movie that are likely implausible, and yet, maybe not. When Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards) pilots a huge spaceship out of dock she does it by eye and barely keeps from damaging the ship and the dock. Clearly not standard operating procedure and had the ship been damaged she would have been fried (or should have) by her boss. However, she is cocky and overconfident and takes responsibility and authority, all traits that we try to cultivate in our military within the framework of standard military discipline. So perhaps parts are a bit far-fetched, but maybe not too far-fetched.

One aspect that I think Heinlein would have approved is the brutality of military training. People broke bones and suffered pain, just as they would in actual combat, though situations that cause death are clearly unacceptable. While the scenes of injury in training are initially shocking, medical technology in this future has the capability of repairing such injuries and being capable of handling the shock of seeing those injuries or withstanding them could give a soldier a combat advantage in the field; gruesome, but effective scenes.

The film was intended to be shocking, and it succeeds. This movie is not for children. I would not let anyone under the age of 14 watch this movie, even though there are a few video games with similar levels of violence. I think the movie is too violent for even young teenagers, and it deserves its "R" rating. There are a few scenes involving nudity and one involving sex that again may be shocking, but given the equality of men and women in this army of the future, the scenes make sense.

I have read the book and I still like the movie. This movie is not going to win any awards, but who cares? I think this is a great bowl of popcorn movie action film where you can relieve some stress as thousands of bugs are gruesomely terminated. There are times when you really want to root for the human race, and this one allows you to do so without guilt.

Starship Troopers... great UMD fun.......2006-02-26

Hi... I'm new reviewing articles here in Amazon, so i hope to give good advice to anyone interested.
The movie is some kind of Platoon meets Starwars plus Sweet Valley high story. Althought at first, after the short introduction of Klendathu the movie slows down quite a bit during the high school part, but fortunately a few minutes later it gets speed again and don't lose it until basically the end of the show.
About the disc, the picture quality is great, and the sound is quite enjoyable, strongly recommended to have a good set of earphones to appreciate the real deal of the music and sound effects.
In a few words.... Great portable movie to go everywhere.

starship troopers ( umd mini for psp.......2006-02-25

yes!!! i review the starship troopers umd mini for psp.

Not another bug movie!.......2005-08-30

In defense of our world, school kids from Argentina join the military upon graduation. Military service is required for full citizenship. During their term they learn their new environment and grow together or apart as they battle big bugs from outer space.

Yep it is another bug movie. And the bugs are big. Too bad for the people that read the book. There is no way to justify this movie to you.

However this is a great parity on military types with the grunts being boxy shaped faces and bodies to match, the elite having pointy accouterments. And the gung-ho getting their brains sucked out. This looks like a pilot for a TV series. Male associate soldiers from the book were replaced with female soldiers who improved the shower scenes.

If you just have to take the 'Fascist Utopia' thing seriously then watch a serious movie where there is still a Paul sucked into the same situation by his teacher and others in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930).

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A subtle satire of the novel
This time the Nazi win
"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should..."
Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book.
It stands alone its not Heinlein

Starship Troopers (Special Edition)
Starring: Casper Van Dien , Dina Meyer , Denise Richards , Jake Busey , and Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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Release Date: 2002-05-28

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From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director PAUL VERHOEVEN crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic sci-fi adventure. CASPER VAN DIEN, DINA MEYER, DENISE RICHARDS, JAKE BUSEY, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, PATRICK MULDOON, and MICHAEL IRONSIDE star as the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.

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A subtle satire of the novel.......2007-08-24

This time the Nazi win.......2007-08-15

"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should...".......2007-08-13

Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book........2007-08-01

It stands alone its not Heinlein.......2007-07-31

Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation

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Lets talk rip-offs.
Nevermind the bug, kill this DVD!
A Heinlein Classic ripoff
underappriciated
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Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation
Starring: Billy Brown (II) , Richard Burgi , Kelly Carlson , Cy Carter , and Tim Conlon
Director: Phil Tippett
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Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable sci-fi action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars, and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meager budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bugfights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity, and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favor: TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon

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Lets talk rip-offs. .......2007-09-07

Scenes: clips taken both in its entirety and other scenes that were just superimposed onto new backgrounds.
Special effects: Guns require no reloading, (apparently because of advanced technology), and have no moving parts and no recoil. This compounded with a unoriginal story line, poor acting and reused sound effects attributes to a rip-off of my time.
And another thing, isn't the main theme of this movie a rip-off of the 'Iron Chef' theme on the food channel?...I think it is...

Nevermind the bug, kill this DVD!.......2007-08-26

There are a great many movies that should never have sequels. This is a case when a sequel to one of these films is made anyway. The results are.....er.....rather disastrous.

I will admit that I would have had no interest in seeing this movie, save for one fact. According to Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked, the stunning Kelly Carlson appears in the buff in this film. The good news is, she does! The bad news is, the lighting for the scene is horrible, due to the fact that they try to make the set dark & spooky like Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition). There are two problems with this. First, ALIEN was a pretty spooky movie, whereas I yawned at the stuff that was supposed to be frightening in this flick. Second, it watered down the #1 selling point of the whole movie, which is Ms. Carlson topless!

I will admit that Richard Burgi is solid as the heroic space marine who tries to save the universe. And, there are a few other hot babes besides Kelly Carlson in the movie. However, the only reason that I rated this film 2 stars instead of 1 star is because of Ms. Carlson. She is kind of like Atlas holding up the world just to propel it to 2 stars! Too bad she's only in about 15 minutes of the movie.

For anyone who still wants to buy the film, I would recommend you skip ahead to the scene where she walks out of the shower. Watch the 90 seconds or so of footage, then put the DVD on your shelf & call it a day. As for not seeing the rest of the movie, let's just say you haven't missed much!

A Heinlein Classic ripoff.......2007-07-05

Starship Trooper2 (DVD)

The Federation's best Mobile Infantry (MI) is back into action.This time the Bugs are waiting for them with a new type of Bug.

It's easy to see how John Ringo modified the Mobile InIantry outfit into an even better Amored Combat Suit (ACS)in his (Posleen War Series #1) Hymn Before Battle. Actually Ring rstored some of what Hollywood took away from the book. Ringo `s Posleen's blood is yellow, the Bugs' blood is green. Both come at you in uncountable hordes. Maybe it is a metaphor for Radical Islamic Terrorist, you just have to kill them faster than they can reproduce.

It is my understanding that Tom Kratman has a new series coming out that is loosely based on Heinlein's Starship Trooper called Carnifex, oh goody, I've pre-ordered my copy have you?!

I guess all good Science Fiction is based on the shoulders of the Giants. I wonder where Heinlein got his ideas? E. E. Smith?

Anyhow this movie is a cross between Starship Trooper and Aliens. Not as good As either. Sort of a cheap sequel wriiten by a Stephen King type.

Gunner July, 2007

underappriciated.......2007-06-16

Most people did not like the sequal to Starship Troopers but i think it really makes sense, i mean, the first film was and action horror and the second is just plain psychological horror. its really re-invents the series and its based on another Robert A. Heinlein Book "Puppet Masters". so if you expect to see the sequal to be like the original, you will be dissapointed, but if you just see it as another horror movie, you will surely enjoy it.

Just Comments.......2007-05-18

This is one of my favorites movies, resolution is very good, and quality of product is excellent (Zero Damage).

The bad point is that in Amazon.com there's not info of languages for this item, so I'm from El Salvador and it doesn't have Spanish Subtitles.

In overview this was a great purchase.

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A subtle satire of the novel
This time the Nazi win
"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should..."
Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book.
It stands alone its not Heinlein

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Release Date: 2007-06-12

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Starship Troopers charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side-by-side in the ultimate intergalactic war... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.

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A subtle satire of the novel.......2007-08-24

This time the Nazi win.......2007-08-15

"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should...".......2007-08-13

Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book........2007-08-01

It stands alone its not Heinlein.......2007-07-31

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A subtle satire of the novel
This time the Nazi win
"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should..."
Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book.
It stands alone its not Heinlein

Starship Troopers (Superbit Collection)
Starring: Casper Van Dien , Dina Meyer , Denise Richards , Jake Busey , and Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
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A subtle satire of the novel.......2007-08-24

This time the Nazi win.......2007-08-15

"If Ya Haven't Seen It, Ya Prolly Should...".......2007-08-13

Enjoyable movie, but is way off from the book........2007-08-01

It stands alone its not Heinlein.......2007-07-31

Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles - Trackers

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Trackers
exploits the success of the others
Disappointing Filler
to short for what i paid
A VERY SHORT piece of a great series..

Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles - Trackers
Starring: Nicholas Guest , Clancy Brown , Tish Hicks , Thomas Wagner , and Irene Bedard
Director: Andre Clavel (III) , Sean Song , David Hartman (III) , Alan Caldwell , and Jay Oliva
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ASIN: B0001XAOKC
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Trackers.......2007-02-28

The Best Anime I have seen. Wonder why they stopped making anymore series. I hope they make these more.

exploits the success of the others.......2005-09-18

Unfortunately this disk is just one short espisode between the ones previously covered by other roughneck DVDs. Unless ofcourse my DVD is faulty and is only showing the first episode of many (I hope this is the case, and its not just producer greed).
The specials show additional footage that was not shown previously.
If the company that is producing this fabulous story is testing the waters before producing another episode. Ummm. Just do it!
Cheap work ups like this turn off fans, not inspire them.
I wanna buy more Roughneck episodes. One more cheap shot like this and you can kiss all my future $$$$ goodbye.

Disappointing Filler.......2005-03-03

The Roughnecks series is, in general, a very high-quality production. Trackers is disappointing not only because the disc contains only a single new episode, but even more so because the production quality of this episode is not nearly as high as it has been for all previously released campaigns/episodes.

I enjoyed watching the episode as a filler episode to fill us in on what happened in between the Klendathu and Homefront campaigns. But the animation is simply not up to standard I've come to love and expect from the Roughnecks series.

I sincerely hope that, whenever Sony finally gets around to having the final episode finished and released, it will be of much higher quality than the Trackers episode. It has been a while since the Roughnecks series was first produced and aired, and with advances in computing power it is reasonable to expect the final episode to look at least as good as the episodes that have been released previously.

to short for what i paid.......2004-11-05

I paid for a full lenght dvd this was like a mini dvd. can i get my money back

A VERY SHORT piece of a great series.........2004-10-14

In alot of ways, the animated Starship Troopers show was better than the movie. What is disappointing about this DVD is that it is only ONE episode from the series; not an entire campaign like all the other DVD collections. Why? Who knows, buy the othe Troopers DVDs so you get your money's worth.

Starship Troopers / Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation (Special Edition Two Pack)

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Bugs and more bugs
starship troopers 2 its not pretty, what a waste
Two very different movies about the same thing
The Most Pathetic Film Ever Seen.
Vive la difference!

Starship Troopers / Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation (Special Edition Two Pack)
Starring: Billy Brown (II) , Richard Burgi , Kelly Carlson , Cy Carter , and Tim Conlon
Director: Phil Tippett , and Paul Verhoeven
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
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Starship Troopers
In the first and finest RoboCop movie, director Paul Verhoeven combined near-future science fiction with a keen sense of social satire--not to mention enough high-velocity violence to satisfy even the most voracious bloodlust. In Starship Troopers, Verhoeven and RoboCop cowriter Ed Neumeier take inspired cues from Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel to create a special-effects extravaganza that functions on multiple levels of entertainment. The film might be called "Melrose Place in Space," with its youthful cast of handsome guys and gorgeous women who look like they've been recruited (and in some cases they were) from the cast of Beverly Hills 90210. Viewers might focus on the incredible, graphically intense action sequences (definitely not for children) in which heavily armed forces from Earth go to off-world battle against vast hordes of alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. The attacking bugs are marvels of state-of-the-art special-effects technology, and the space battles are nothing short of spectacular. But Starship Troopers is more than a showcase for high-tech hardware and gigantic, flesh-ripping insects. Recalling his childhood in Holland during the Nazi occupation, Verhoeven turns this epic adventure into a scathingly funny satire of fascist propaganda, emphasizing Heinlein's underlying warning against the hazards of military conformity and the sickening realities of war. It's an action-packed joy ride if that's all you're looking for, but Verhoeven has a provocative agenda that makes Starship Troopers as smart as it is exciting.

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable sci-fi action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars, and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meager budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bugfights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity, and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favor: TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon

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Bugs and more bugs.......2005-06-08

Starship Troopers (1997)

In defense of our world, school kids from Argentina join the military upon graduation. Military service is required for full citizenship. During their term they learn their new environment and grow together or apart as they battle big bugs from outer space.

Yep it is another bug movie. And the bugs are big. Too bad for the people that read the book. There is no way to justify this movie to you.

However this is a great parity on military types with the grunts being boxy shaped faces and bodies to match, the elite having pointy accouterments. And the gung-ho getting their brains sucked out. This looks like a pilot for a TV series. Male associate soldiers from the book were replaced with female soldiers who improved the shower scenes.

If you just have to take the 'Fascist Utopia' thing seriously then watch a serious movie where there is still a Paul sucked into the same situation by his teacher and others in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930).

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Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation (2002)

Hold your breath and close your eyes. This movie hits the deck running. Shooting and running and shooting some more.

Once again the troopers find themselves hopelessly surrounded by bugs. There does not seem to be any way out. Then they find an abandoned outpost and make a heroic stand.

We have one of every stereotype trooper in the book. And it does not take long to figure out the insidious bug plot. The question is will it succeed?

Mean time this movie is much better than the first. As the first was a corruption of the book; this insulted the readers. It was also more cartoonist and insulted sci-fi movie goers. This movie "Starship Troopers 2" does not pretend to be anything but a shoot-em-up movie. Don't think just wince.

starship troopers 2 its not pretty, what a waste.......2005-04-27

troopers 1 is ok
troopers 2 is not.
do not buy troopers 2 rent it.

what a muppet i am for buying this rubbish,
must look on amazon first before purchasing !!!!

First the good points:
the digital effects are good,im pleased shots actually splatter the bugs a big improvement on the first movie that bit.
the actors have flashes of talent, i liked the hero tough guy.
the plot does kind of make sense, perimeter guard tower all good.

but

the camera framing, quality suck. The gore fest sucks. The production quality is just not there, how to totally screw up a good franchise. Forget trying to ape the horror movies. Try something original, and have clever solutions rather than arbitary deaths everywhere, its tired its been done and its not good enough.

The film careered around genres trying to grab anything it could, but taking the worst bits of those genres, so very sad.
third rate horror, third rate porn.

As for the second rate soft focus almost porn(there is no actual porn, before some sad case buys it for that), i was almost expecting some seventies funk music,
dont waste actors talents like that its criminal. It didnt quite plunge the depths but it came real close.

I cant believe i wasted my money on this.
(slaps head repeatedly)

Two very different movies about the same thing.......2004-08-05

The first of these two movies, Starship Troopers, is a stunningly amazing achievement in both visual effects and political satire. The movie is funny yet very graphic in its violence. For those with a strong stomach and a soft spot for dark humor, this is a film that will entertain again and again.

On the other hand, the second movie, Starship Troupers 2, is everything the first movie isn't. This movie takes various elements from the first movie and screws them all up.

The first thing that you'd notice about the second film is the obvious lack of a budget. The film is on a much smaller scale than the first. That alone doesn't make it a bad movie; but the bad acting, half-witted story and poor lighting make it a film with almost no redeeming value. It's like a made-for-TV movie with some nudity.

If you are considering getting the two pack, I would suggest getting only the first (Starship Troupers) instead and skip the second altogether. There was 1 1/2 hours of my life that I'll never get back. Don't make the same mistake I did.

The Most Pathetic Film Ever Seen........2004-06-19

One of the worst films I've ever seen in the history of science fiction or film ever. The scenes are choppy, the acting is second rate at best; I can see why this movie never went to the theatres, it would have lost the company millions. What was the budget of this thing, a $1.00? The plot is synonymous with a 1960 black and white sci-fi monster flick. If that's your objective for some random violent and blood/sex flick, I'd recommend Starship Troopers II. Otherwise save your money on the rental or purchase and let the original be the measurement of what Starship Troopers is.

Vive la difference!.......2004-06-16

Some of the negative reviews of the second movie do strike me as rather unfair, as the reviewers are hung up on the fact that Troopers 2 is a very different type of movie to the original.

The original certainly took more than a few liberties with Heinlein's classic novel, but still conveyed a very powerful and enduring image. Truly awe-inspiring special effects, human interest - love rivalry, jealousy and courage, all interlaced with a hefty dollop of dark ironic humour made this a hugely enjoyable spectacularly epic experience. The DVD presentation is superb, with a genuinely interesting commentary and some fascinating deleted scenes. I love it!

Then, with a budget slashed to the bone, what could poor Phil Tippett do to satisfy the punters demanding a second installment? The answer is to do his very best.

If the original was similar in respect to the zap-em-away-with-machine-guns action of Aliens, Starship Troopers 2 is more of a conventional horror movie in similar vein to the gothic claustrophobia of the original Alien movie. I found something truly compelling in the few terrified human survivors holed up in this abandoned tower, surrounded by countless thousands of bugs. The tension builds with desperate attempts to secure the entrance and get the comms online. The perimeter forcefield (hat tip to Forbidden Planet?) was a nice touch too, subtly highlighting the isolation of our heroes. Without giving any spoilers, the main theme of this new form of bug attack is a very interesting one (if not 100% original) and provides a suitable framework for Tippett to give us some real gross-out gore. Adequate extras on the DVD too. I love it!

Troopers 1 was epic all-out war between two species. Troopers 2 appears on the surface to be merely a minor aside in the war on some isolated backwater of a planet, but the implications for a human victory are every bit as significant.

This is a good-value two-movie set. Just go with the flow and enjoy the contrast here.

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