Things You Only Notice In Starship Troopers As An Adult
A satirical slap in Heinlein’s face, a love triangle that doesn’t exist, and a seriously gutting “happy” ending. Maybe the bugs were the real heroes after all.
#StarshipTroopers #SciFi #Satire
Paul’s movie vs. Robert’s novel | 0:00
Nazi imagery | 1:17
Carmen | 2:08
Gender-neutral showers | 3:08
Lacks racial diversity (but that’s the point) | 4:00
An inside job | 5:08
Good bugs | 6:18
Rico’s teachers | 7:24
An unhappy ending | 8:10
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@Looper
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
What was your impression of the "Starship Troopers" movie when you first saw it?
@thatsthat2612
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
More of a love square than triangle
@Icneumone7
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
You kill the bugs or the bugs will kill you. it really is that simple.
@JoeseyDixon
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
wouldnt it be a love square if ur talking about diz, rico, xander and carmen – cuz thats 4 people not 3
@DecentFellowship
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Excellent analysis! I rewatched this one recently and it is the humans who are truly chilling.
@FucTrump
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Fun, fun, fun fact: A bunch of actresses voiced that they were really uncomfortable having to be completely naked during the coed shower scene, so to break the tension and make it less awkward, Paul Verhoeven striped down and directed the scene naked. Mission accomplished no doubt😂😂😂
@ron6625
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Lets be real though guys. The line at the beginning of the movie "Violence is the supreme authority under which all other authority is derrived" is one of the most based statements of all time. Everyone has to remember it, no matter how much we wish it isnt true. You cant protect against that reality if you pretend it doesnt exist.
@kevinmerrell9952
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
I hope that director smokes a turd in Hell for this monstrosity of a movie.
@davidhughes4689
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
if you pay close enough attention you realize that the humans/military leaders/government actually started the war.
@jacobtrolo2310
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Am I the only one who thinks the point of Denise Richards character is that she was taught to prioritize service to the state over her personal life? I never got strong independanr vibes from that character.
@hectordaltro
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
I love that they make the film to criticise a sistem but… In the end you just want to join in and kill some bugs!
@Sonicplayz-e1y
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Heinlein was anti war WTF? 1/2 the book was anti war, the first part kicks ass though!
@CollaborativeDataAccounts
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Verhoeven is also a European, which means he is, at this core, a degenerate form of life and being Dutch, he comes from very weak and cowardly stock which made them easy to defeat.
@Fokas-n8t
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
The most funny thing of this film which was made supposedly as a satire is that most of the audience by-passed the satire, watched it unapologetically and were rather charmed by the fascist aesthetics as well as the political organization shown, i.e. that only people who enlisted in the army were considered citizens and had voting rights. People may ignore it but true Democracy in its original format as ancient Greeks had encapsulated it, was all about that : soldiers voting (well it was more than that, they were voting on decisions, not just electing people). There is a reason that today several people use Starship Troopers as a positive image, completely unapologetically, even adopting the "fascist" title (without really harking back to 1930s historical fascism), as a means to counter "progressivism", "socialism" and ironically even "feminism" (though the fascist society in Startship Troopers happens also to be perfectly feminist as well.
@sussy_baka999
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Sooo this is the universe if Hitler and the nazis won WW2 and conquered the whole world together and than in the future nazis made fast space rockets and than decided to colonize other planets and this happened and Rico is a perfect Aryan .
Edit: F i now realized they speak English my theory wrong.
@briansmith4983
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Dina Meyer, nude. The rest was just filler 😅
@CarolBethCobun
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Where did you get the idea that the bugs were the victims? Nothing in the book about that. And nothing in the movie about that. And of course the brain bug is going to be scared. It was just captured by it's enemy. Just as a human is scared when they become a POW no matter whether they fight on the 'right side' or the 'wrong side'
@annander1979
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Now i want to rewatch starship troopers….
@simonatchison639
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
The bugs were evil
@chrisJMerics-n2d
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Starship Troopers Sucked.
Mad Dr.Doogie Knew
How2 Kill The Bugs.
Not The Marines
That Fought Bugs
Not In Formation
On The Front Line
The Bard of Alamo
@sofiakschmidt
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Holy shit this is like the hamas thing
@jongault7527
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
The book storyline was much better.
@FastEddy1959
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
As far as I recall, in the movie there are only two clues as to what kind of society they have: the fact that “citizenship” is restricted, and the idea that having a child requires a license.
@Nonononono12345-o
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
There is no totalitarianism in the movie or book.
@kenhubbard3795
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Do you want to know more 😏
@JonathanHancoc
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Would you like to know more?
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