I'm doing my part.

We’re doing our part to stay golden!

I'm doing my part, too!

​@@jasonmcewen436 😂

The only good kind of video is a watched video!

This is a fun fact 😁, I’m sucker for love stories.

So kids, did you know that I blew off dad's brain out in a movie?

I wonder if they still talk about it. " i met her when she shot me in the head"

so he lost his head over her....

Let's just say she got a good look at him during the shower scene

Because it was his biggest movie and he hasnt done any decent movie since so obviously he tries to milk it as much as possible lol

Him and his daughter, Grace, came to a local convention last year and apparently they were so incredibly friendly and awesome! Didn't get a chance to meet them myself, but it looked like they were having a great time meeting with their fans!

Saw him at a convention, Jake Busey was there too. They really appreciate the fanbase.

And to hear him and Paul Verhoeven both talk about the book, it's pretty clear that Casper Van Dien is the only one who actually read it, lol

@@garyv83 Grace is also an actress, she was the cheerleader in stranger things who was Vecna's first victim

That's probably why the film kinda bombed at the time of release, because there was a nagging feeling something was wrong with it, but they couldn't pinpoint what made them uncomfortable.

Nice! That would've slayed!

Fantastic idea!

omg that’s genius haha

​@@NatalieGoldReacts you could re upload it with that edit

​@@zhorenloggKZfaq doesn't allow creators to edit videos, so reuploading means deleting the video and uploading a new one, which breaks all the links, discards all the views, and these comments. It's really a "break glass in case of emergency" situation only, for that reason.

Took the book to war, back in the late 1900’s, I grok

@@toddnesbitt3113 That sounds strange....

I was about to comment something like "The tone is Verhoevenesk" but you beat me to it 😋

Satire is the tone.

​@@CalciumChiefDidn't do it very well.

Have you seen the fat electrician video on Dan daily? If you haven't, you should. I think it's called "the most gangster marine of all time" or something.

Diz best girl.

Her in Johnny Mnemonic too...

She is equally cute and badass in Dragonheart.

Dina smolders in everything (except maybe 8 Legged Freaks). She does so much work with her eyes.

@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps yeah, i loved her in that film as well, but it was more her just being a badass? not so much a smoldering declaration of sexuality. Jade was just a really fun and awesome character. She had her hotness yes, no doubt, but....I dunno....Dizzy was on another level to me.

Also the voice for Darkseid from the Justice League cartoon!

Aye. He even makes things, that should be terrible, watchable and 'cult'. A secret sauce actor indeed.

@@dallassukerkin6878 “V”: The Series was good, but the Michael Ironside episodes were SPECTACULAR.

@@randallwright1973Yeah- and don’t forget The A Team!!

He was the voice of Sam Fisher the protagonist in the game Splinter Cell. He is one of the Greats for me.

My favorite dichotomy is that he’s the head guard from Shawshank and Krabs from SpongeBob

@@hopsonkim4952 Lex Luthor in STAS

Clancy Brown is always fun to watch. He was wonderful in HBO's Carnivale series. Just too bad they never finished it.

And to add to that, Michael Ironside who played their teacher Rasczak played the villain in Highlander 2.

He is also the voice of Mr. Krabs.

Only the Mobile Infantry (though we do not know where Rue McClanahan served). Fleet does the flying, MI does the dying 🤕 One assumes generally because ship crews either live or die - space is unforgiving and escaping a damaged ship while injured seems less likely than being pulled from combat by a squaddie.

'mobile infantry made me the man i am today' gets a deeply dark laugh outta me every damn time lol

In the book the public servants disfigurement are prominent showen. But at the end of the day, they put on advanced prosthetics which perfectly replaced their injuries.

It's not a gag. It's done on purpose by the military to discourage people from joining. They only want people who want to be there.

And yet they're all proud of their service. I appreciate Verhoeven for not being one sided in his work.

Seriously... so many ppl twist themselves into pretzels over this movie

The problem is that Paul didn’t read the book. And other then how they are dressed their is no fascism.

@@stdamonsbeard bro you are bad at reading comprehension

@@israfel070 Did Paul read the book or not?

@@stdamonsbeard he didn't finish it. And, having read it... he didn't need to.

"make it 20" .... also a good one ;)

You mean lex luthor

Was it the full crew? I knew that Verhoeven did that but didn't ever hear about the rest of the crew joining in. Still, great move by him to let them know it's not meant to be gratuitous or anything (well, it's VERY gratuitous, so I guess it's more "not meant to be titillating").

@@JeffKelly03 Verhoeven, Lights crew and cameraoperaters^^ The actor didn't expect they would do it, but they did. Their only only comment was to shrug and say: "europeans" XD

@@JeffKelly03 Eh, I don't think it's gratuitous at all. The depiction of a shower room full of hot people completely naked and yet the complete absence of sexual arousal or tension is very deliberate to portray them as little more than little military drones who know nothing but how to do their jobs.

The other interesting thing about the scene is that all the characters that reveal their ambitions fail to achieve them. They either die, wash out or abandon their goals for the machine. Rico joined 'for a girl', Dizz joined for Rico and died the day after she got with him, Ace gave up his goal to be an officer amd even turned down squad leader, the politics girl dropped out and everyone else died. Military industrial complex consumes all, including their recruits humanity.

It was Verhoven and one other person, not the entire crew. Do you really think the entire crew would do that? Get your facts straight.

Just to clarify: he won his second Medal of Honor before World War I, while fighting in a conflict in Haiti. His actions at Belleau Wood (during which the "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" quote was born) got him nominated for an unprecedented THIRD Medal of Honor, but he was instead awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and Navy Cross. Then a law was passed that nobody could win more than one Medal of Honor. Dan Daly was such a badass, they had to discontinue first place for him. He was a First Sergeant at the time, and retired as a Sergeant Major (the highest rank for enlisted men in the Marines) in 1929.

@@TheLanceUppercut I stand corrected, you are correct of course he won his second MoH in Haiti. And I learned something new, I didn’t know he was recommended for a third MoH.

@@TheLanceUppercut They changed the rules during WW1 when the military was trying to truly establish the MoH as the highest military award and were partially afraid that by giving it out multiple times to the same people it would diminish it's prestige. At this same time the military reviewed all past MoH recipients and revoked 900+ of them because based on the new rules they would not have been awarded it. A lot that got revoked made sense but not all. It was just bad timing that they were changing who the MoH should be awarded too that Dan Daly deserved a 3rd one.

Though, it's been argued that the quote comes from Frederick The Great from the 17th-18th c. when he was calling out to his soldiers that were just standing than actively fighting

A quote that ironcially is why his name will live forever

I think his performance in "V" is underrated.

Watch the documentary The Frankenstein Complex. Starship Troopers is mentioned in it among a bunch of others. And it is talking about the transition from practical to cgi. Pretty awesome documentary.

It's seriously amazing vfx

Phil Tippett is one of the main SFX supervisors. He started out doing stop-motion animation (including the chess game in Star Wars and the ATATs in The Empire Strikes Back), which gave him an understanding of skeletons, musculature and animal movement that many CGI technicians lacked at the time. Bloody genius.

@@ocelotsly5521 Phil was also the Dinosaur Supervisor on Jurassic Park and look what happened there. The were dinosaurs all up in the kitchen. So much for supervision.

The main warrior arachnids have always strongly reminded me of the Shadows from Babylon 5.

It's Doogie Himmler. I don't know where you got Heimler from.

What about "Heil Patrick Harris"?

@@robertcampbell8070 yea hes a moron

That's hilarious!!!😂❤

Fixed the spelling. Thanks for the kind reminder.

If you open on the high school and also end the movie on some ska music, you get a coming of age teen movie from the late 90s, early 00s'

You're right, much of this cast started by working for Aaron Spelling and one of his shows.

Slightly fascist & non Democratic Beverly Hills 90210 = best Beverly Hills 90210 . Unfortunately some of the most important dialogue in the movie is said during the introduction of The Pretty People in the class room ... , so 90% of the audience doesn't really have any idea of what this movie is about . Natalie just exemplified this sad truth .

I have this movie called 'Melrose Space'

It was never made clear how the asteroids were necessarily connected with the bug race. It was just assumed that it was the bugs and how the human race needed to collectively wipe them out. That seems to naturally fit the satire that they were quick to go to war.

@@neil2444 Carmen adjusted the route of the Rodger Young, thinking she could outsmart Xavier's maps. That caused the Rodger Young to hit the asteroid, sending it on course to hit Earth. The bugs had nothing to do with it.

@@wolfofthewest8019 Is that official canon? I always assumed the asteroid was a false flag operation by Earth Gov to reignite patriotism and to silence political dissidents and rebels. Even the combat tactics the recruits are trained in look more like urban warfare then for fighting bugs.

@@chiggnBS it is basically canon considering that it's what we saw actually happening in the movie, the Federation simply used a natural disaster as a way to start a new war. Aka they got lucky and didn't need any false flag, would also be quite hard even for the future humans to send such an asteroid with such a precision to hit earth.

@@chiggnBS The first one is an accident used as a false flag, the second one is a deliberate false flag. The second one appears to be some random asteroid they blew up and just said was a "bug asteroid" on course to Earth.

Would've been hilarious if he'd replied, "I only need 5!"

and nearly fatal to poor Nat!!!

Between Ace and the Lieutenant, best wingmen ever.

"No I'm... doesn't"

Hate to break it to you, but "I'm not as think as you drunk I am" was old when P!atD's grandparent's met for the first time.

​​@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Nothing you said disputes anything they said. It IS a P!atD line, and that commenter DIDN'T say that P!atD invented it. Your comment was less than useless.

@@ghostofyourmom Still better than yours.

@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t That doesn't make sense, but okay 👍

He was so good back in the 80`s in "V"...

@@ca9968 And Top Gun, Total Recall, etc. The first time I saw Scanners, I was stunned by him.

"They sucked his brains out" got an appreciative laugh when I first saw this in the theater. (Which now that I think about it was at the Cinerama Dome in L.A., and Tim Allen & his entourage were seated a couple rows ahead of us.)

Michael Ironside is amazing. Love him in every film

@@jayhegener3028 Him as Viper in Top Gun

Usually it changes color (purple for Firefly) but the helmet and vest are very iconic.

I will forever regret missing the props auction where they were sold off en masse originally, as I wanted one for myself. They went dirt cheap originally, and they had SO MANY of them.

Including _Power Rangers Lost Galaxy_ of all shows.

And what exactly is dystopian about ST? A democratic state with minimal government, where polithical authority is perfectly gatekept from sleazy polititians, and irresponsible morons, but everyone is otherwise free to do what they wish, no one is forced to serve, but no one can be prevented from it either (unless they are physically unable to understand the oath), and you can resign at any time? Also - low crime rate, and a system that is meticulously fair, and responsible almost to a fault.

@@jakubfabisiak9810 Can't tell if serious or trolling

@@AmorphisBob I am serious. People who accuse ST of being fascist have no idea what fascism is, because there sure as hell isn't any here. The Federation is literally a democracy, not restricted by race, gender, or creed. The only requirement is that to be allowed to vote (and thus have the power to exert influence over the state), one must accept responsibility for the state, and the manner in which the power is utilized.

@@jakubfabisiak9810 I never said they were fascist but a society that functions solely because they are perpetually at war and uses propaganda to brainwash its children to jump into the meat grinder is by definition dystopian, fascist or not.

@@jakubfabisiak9810 Yeah but Paul Verhoven says it’s fascist satire, so it must be. (It’s an argument i’ve seen many people use)

Lt. Winters went from 1st Lt to major in about 8 months; normally that would take years.

@@oldfrend yeah, that's what I mean. but you really only see winters and later lipton get promoted, they never really touch on all the NCOs getting promotions etc.

WW2 US army is also a bit of a special case since it went from a small army of under 200,000 in 1939 to around 8 million by 1945 with several million of them deploying to Europe, you need quite a few promotions to fill all those spaces.

It really depends on the war and how how prepared vs willing to throw human bodies away your country is. I mean this isn't how the current US military operates, but there are a lot of similarities with WWI in therms of lives lost and how dispensable higher command considers the grunts.

In this one it's because their military is literally a propaganda driven meat grinder.

1987 Robocop that's important. We DON'T what her or anyone else to suffer through the 2014 one, that come to think of it, doesn't exist.

Better yet, watch the Paul Verhoeven trilogy, Robocop, Starship Troopers and Total Recall.

@@edu_moonwalker 😉Don't forget *Showgirls.*

@@edu_moonwalker Why do people call it the "Verhoeven trilogy" He's made many legitimately great movies before and since. Shouldn't it be "Verhoeven's Hollywood action trilogy"?

@@Melancthon7332 I suspect it's called the 'Verhoeven trilogy' because these three specific movies share a number of similar themes and situations that the other films don't: - big institutions using tailored media and repetition to persuade and brainwash ordinary people into thinking a certain way; - societies run by people with an absence of wisdom, governed purely by 'base' functions of sacrificing others in exchange for the money, power and perks of a handful of leaders; - places that have had their souls sucked out of them, where people are so ugly (inside and often outside) that we wouldn't want to live with them, or bring children into that world; - a world where you can't trust your senses or your mind, so you don't know what is real and what is illusion (Is Murphy the Robocop human enough, or not? Are Quaid's memories and 'good guy' character real, or not? Do humans deserve the moral blame for starting the war with the bugs, or not?)

I think I liked him best in "Buckaroo Banzai".

Highlander

Same applies for Jake Busey. His goofy grin made him perfect for his role.

@@timmooney7528 he’s good in this, but I think he’s better in the frighteners

Clancy Brown is ridiculously good.

Robocop is a much watch, Very similar in style to Starship Trooper.

Yup. He went out on top with this one. All satirical, bloody, classics.

I'd definitely watch those videos. Gonna need a whole lotta editing and censor bars, though, lol

WTH are you talking about with trilogy and last and went out. PVH went on to make Show Girls, Black Book and Benedetta. He’s still going strong

@@riChchestMat Yes he is still going strong. But the trilogy I am speaking of are the satirical movies about facism

The other being Smedley Butler.

Eren Jaeger be like:

After seeing what remakes did to Robocop and Total Recall, I really, really, really don't want to see the upcoming Starship Troopers remake. Just like the other two, it's going to strip away all of the satire, sense of humor, fun, and basically everything that's good about the original, and replace it with "awesome" action CGI spectacle, with an ugly, washed-out color palette and a more serious tone. And it's going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

@@jawbone78 That's why I specify originals. I think the only 90's camp remake that is worth watching is Dredd

@@jawbone78 I don't forget a PG-13 rating.

​@@borjaescobarsuarezDredd isn't a remake of the Stallone 90s movie. They're both just adaptations of the Judge Dredd comics.

What are your thoughts on the book vs the movie?

@@Melancthon7332I was disappointed in the film because I wanted the book visualized in a serious way. But if you pretend it is its own thing it is fun.

@@Melancthon7332 the book is definitely more serious, Heinlein didn't really do comedy, so Verhoeven decided to mock the fascist style of the story. Both are still fun though.

@@discocorpse I read the book after I saw the movie, and IMO say that the book and the movie elevate each other. The movie is so good, it's a masterpiece of 90's action movies (and it still holds up!). The book is also one of my all time favourites, but for very different reasons. It's an exploration of a military industrialist-fascist utopia. They're nothing alike, but they are both so good.

then watch it again, and realize the subtext is bullshit, because Verhoven didn't read the book, and tried to show the federation as fascist, when it is, in fact, a polar opposite of fascism.

​@@jakubfabisiak9810 Verhoeven wasn't trying to recreate the book. He was doing his own thing and, arguably, spitting in the face of the book. I think there is an argument to be made that the book was fascist, or at least extremely pro-military/jingoistic.

@@kylehurlburt6114 Yeah the book was super Pro-Fascist. Verhoevan did an amazing job of depicting a globalist view of Fascism as opposed to the European version he grew up under.

@@kylehurlburt6114 there really isn't. The accusations of militarism are simply because it's written from the perspective of a soldier fighting in a war. But the core principle is that power, and responsibility must be equal. Watch Massad Ayoob's "judicious use of deadly force" - he makes the same argument about power/responsibility when talking about using deadly force in self defense. Starship Troopers is literally a book about gatekeeping people from having authority unless they accept responsibility equal to that authority.

Yeah. I saw this in theaters when I was in high school. And then in America 911 happened a few years later and I felt like this went from satire to a tragic reality. And yeah... more real than ever these days.

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@@noahcody2655 I did my part

I'm doing my part

For democracy

Sweet liberty. I am proud of you cadets

Shame that Verhoven was full of crap, though. There is literally nothing fascist about the Federation - it is a democracy, unrestricted by race, gender, or creed - the only requirement (and the reason it works to create the utopia you see in the film) is that the UCF is adamant that authority must be equal to responsibility - to wield the ultimate authority (in the form of sovereign franchise), one must accept the ultimate responsibility. Ironically, Michael Ironside's performance is indeed great, because everything he says is objectively true.

@@jakubfabisiak9810 Verhoven didn't read the entire book. He read enough to adapt an existing script to make a parody of WWII era propaganda films.

Michael Ironside bears a resemblance to a young Jack Nicholson. This is especially notable in TOTAL RECALL by the same director.

​@@jakubfabisiak9810i love it when people effortlessly prove the "war makes fascist of everyone" concept like here.

@@trulybtd5396 silly concept, tbh. Once the war machine gets rolling, people will galvanize. Look up the white feather campaign in ww1 britain.

and so many oepole think they "get it" only to reveal they are just as clueless as Verhoven.

@jakubfabisiak9810 Comment all you want, you’re not fooling anyone with an iq above room temperature

His satire got increasingly more sophisticated and less obvious. It's completely in-your-face in Robocop and Total Recall but by the time he gets to Troopers and Showgirls everyone thinks it's just a bad movie. What's crazy is that before "Showgirls" bombed, "Basic Instinct" was a hit despite how bad-on-purpose it was and despite nobody "getting" that the whole thing was a joke.

@@chrisleebowers nah. Robocop is pretty obvious, but ST fails as a satire - not because he made the UCF awesome, but because he forgot to make them fascist. Ironically, by ST3, the UCF is portrayed the way Verhoven wanted, by breaking with the book completely.

Eh, it is a truly great film, easy recommend for top 100. Top 10.... not so much. Have you seen Robocop? It is basically this but better.

I'm curious, what "nuance" went over your head? The only "nuance" in this film is that Verhoven didn't have a clue what the book is about, and tried making a satire of fascism out of something that is a polar opposite of fascism.

​@@jakubfabisiak9810thank you 😂 I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows how Verhoven bastardized the book

Oh my god, who the fuck cares about the book. The movie is a satire of imperialistic fascist idealogies, that's what it is. The book and movie can both exist and have different points and meanings.

@@Edhelvar true, if you were talking about Starship Troopers 3, which does make the Federation very different, than ST1. Thing is - the movie fails as a satire, because Verhoven didn't read the book, and it went completely over his head. As a result, he tried to make the Federation fadcist, but the details that were included from the book completely undermine that.

@@jakubfabisiak9810 Awww, another book fan got their fefe's hurt. Cope harder, dingus. Great directors take novels and adapt them how they please. Given that Verhoeven literally grew up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, I think he knows Fascism when he sees it better than you do. If you were smart, you'd say "the book and movie have different messages" and leave it at that, but so many of you Heinlein fans get butthurt and emotional. It's sad, but also very funny.

I spent all 4 years of high-school just after 9/11.. us & the recruiters totally jokes about this movie & their job

This film fails at satire

​@@leonrussell9607 can you elaborate on that claim a little more than you did?

@@mycroft16 verhoeven wanted to make a satire of fascism yet the federation are not fascist at all

@leonrussell9607 whoa there son... yes, it very much is. It literally follows the tactics and behavior of every fascist government in Earth's history. While they may seem nice by letting people work and all like Johnny's parents... but ALL of the benefits of being a citizen are controlled and withheld by the government unless you join the military machine. Which you aren't likely to survive. Notice that the teachers are vets, often disfigured (the biology teacher wears dark goggles to hide her eyes), and they all teach via propaganda. Ironsides' character even states that violence is the only option. That is a fascist cornerstone. As is demonization. A tactic used by every single fascist state in history is to scapegoat all of societies problems onto a group of people and repeatedly make that group inferior and eventually subhuman. Almost every time words like infestation, invasion etc are used. Infestation especially, implying that this group of people are vermin or insects to be exterminated. In the film Verhooven literally has bugs. Literally punching you in the face with the fascist tactic. Even though there are dissenters with opposite opinions they are shouted down and made to look like idiots, further reinforcing the propaganda. The reporter who talks about differing opinions is interrupted by Johnny himself who rattles off the literal state line, kill them all. He has been so indoctrinated by that point. The talk show cuts from the dissected being mocked and called offensive immediately to propaganda commercials of children stomping on bugs. Children being given ammo and holding guns while parents and soldiers support and glorify this. Violence and militarism completely permeate all of society. The only oath to citizenship is through militarism. Even in the military, all decisions are made in terms of extermination. Even in defeat, the propaganda shows it as wins. North Korea does the exact same things, indoctrinating their people about their superiority and how they strike fear into their enemies, how their citizens have it the best, despite all of that being lies. They are cut off from all actual information. In the federation, everyone gets all of their info filtered through and sanitized by the federal government. And even the death penalty being carried out is broadcast live on all channels, violence glorified, also, see what happens when you defy the federal government. Yet another tactic used by real world fascist states. Promotions in service come at a break deck pace because the whole thing is just a meat grinder to support the military industrial complex. Neil Patrick Harris is high up in leadership in the intelligence division within a year or two. Rico is promoted rapidly and leading. And we see kids serving, literal kids, from the very start of the film as part of propaganda, but making the points, and at the end, actual kids in Rico's new recruits. The film does its job so well many people don't even notice the fascism, just as the characters subjected to the constant 24/7 propaganda do t understand it. Even having kids is regulated through citizenship. Rico's family is clearly well off which probably allowed them to fast track a bit. But as the one recruit explains in the shower, service makes it almost guaranteed to get a license. Having babies, voting, participation in society ALL goes through militarism and being indoctrinated. So by them time you are able to receive those benefits, you are solidly part of the state. Comrade Rico. Destined for high party service. Karl, literally wearing an SS uniform, already high among the generals and able to IMPLANT IDEAS DIRECTLY INTO people's minds. I mean, can this movie possibly get any more directly in your face? Karl is the living embodiment of propaganda. It blows my mind how many people watch this and actually believe the internal propaganda of the film. A testament to the terrifyingly insidious nature of fascism. Which never starts out as fascism. It has almost always started out as populism. Appeals to saving the country, saving the rights of the people, protecting them from the vermin. We're here to fix all the things that have gone wrong because of these invaders taking away our way of life, our values. Every. Single. Time. So frequently has it happened that James Madison, the literal architect of our Constitution, the man who wrote the first draft of it for the Constitutional Convention of 1787 (The Virginia Plan), dedicated his first public essay in the public debates over voting in fa or or against it, to the extreme dangers of populism and how the Constitution would protect against them. How tyranny always starts out "paying obsequious court to the people" and quickly transitioning to outright tyranny once popular support is gained. Others have stated that when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a Bible. This would apply to any country. Fascism uses the symbols of patriotism, but NEVER actually espouses what patriotism actually is. It's about how big your flag is rather than standing for what the flag actually represents. It's about being seen with your Bible rather than actually living by what it teaches.

Just watch it AT work... tell the boss you're having stomach problems and just chill in the bathroom. You'll be fiiiiiine I'm sure of it

@@quoththekraven5911 lol I totally would have, but unfortunately I largely drive for a living. On the bright side, now I have some quality content to enjoy while I eat dinner!

@@TheLegendOfRandy There ya go. Enjoy!

Maybe Carl put it there...

@@LordVolkov 🎶 *X-Files theme* 🎶