Starship Troopers (1997)
Hell of a movie this week. STARSHIP TROOPERS. It's a mystery to us why this didn't get the credit it deserved when it came out, but people are hip to it now. Your ABZ got pretty delirious recording this one - so all bets are off. This was recorded late. This was recorded remote. This was recorded as quarantine-madness is beginning to set in. The episode may not be good but at least it's long. Just remember that "violence, and naked force have settled more issues in history than any other factor" and "the only good bug is a dead bug!"
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Incidental Charlotte's Web talk reminded me of this. https://pbfcomics.com/comics/harlots-web/
Am I the only one who recognized the dark haired guy as Jeff, the man who stole Kelly from Zach on Saved by the Bell?
There goes Gabrus again sucking off Haley Joel O. Casey we’re gonna have to edit that out, retroactively not looking too good
Rico, you know what to do.
Hell yeah
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Ironside is based on that South African special forces driver, but it's one of those situations where the real person is better looking than the actor. Ironside: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_lSzhjggxjI/maxresdefault.jpg Prinsloo: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f51b78e1544e0e241d336cacf82bf38d?width=650
Badlands Chugs slammin' a glass boot full of bug quim.
Was reminded of the SNL sketch where Farley rushes the space ship. Found clip, not whole sketch but the best part at least; https://youtu.be/dcZ_yL6GOGE
It was so dark in Glasgow’s Laser Quest that I managed to both run face-first into a wall hidden by dry ice and spending a couple of minutes battling myself in a mirror.
That guy in the mirror was really good at anticipating moves.
Can’t tell if Stanger is way too low in their headphones/the mix, or if they’re just ignoring his questionable jokes. Very funny regardless
Nothing questionable about quality. Stanger is batting a thousand with this guy.
Ahh Q-Zar. I can still smell the mold and bleach. Fond memories of seeing my name on the bottom of the leaderboard because my fucking gun never fucking worked.
Amy the gorilla voice is so fucking funny
My nephew had a cool laser tag party, this place bought old police training laser tag guns. It’s just the gun and if your gun gets shot it becomes disabled till the next round so you can’t cheat
I was getting some Mr Show vibes during a certain part of today’s show: https://youtu.be/mhVbLJvYP8s
I think the way they were able to portray the emotion of fear from the captured brain bug was amazing. Also the book is worth a read!
Could argue his passion project was the one before this, he got forty five million to finally make a musical and was sleeping with Elizabeth Berkeley while making It.
The character, Barney ('How I Met Your Mother'), was based on the Neil Patrick Harris character from 'Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle' He was only added to the cast because of it, I overhead in sauna.
Yes, I hadn’t seen him for years until that film.
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 11 years old. It blew my mind as a kid just because I was like, "wow cool action...the bugs look awesome. Also boobs!" And like the Boyz as I got a little older I picked up on the satire more. I did go to a screening of this at the Aero Theatre something like 9 years ago and it had a Q&A with Verhoeven afterwards and he did talk about the casting of the movie and how he wanted dumb sexy people.
So excited! Been waiting for the Boyz to do this movie. My boss built all the spaceships! Practical effects in this movie still look great.
The Sauna Talk for this movie is absolutely insane, and a good deal of it is written in "My friend" cadence. "More ammunition was used in this film than in any previous movie. " "Macauly Culkin favorite film." "Dina Meyers said she was jacked up for this movie. "
I hope we get another celebrity party once quarantine is over to celebrate 3000+ patrons
I mean I'm obviously biased here, but an all voicemail / answering-machine episode baby! Bruce Wayne needs his antibody scan.
Never noticed the Mazzy Star song in this movie until yesterday. Verhoeven is a madman.
I played this movie for my ex several years ago. When we got to that scene she was like, "Mazzy Star??????"
I think the Blur ‘Song 2’ trailer set expectations that helped to people miss the satire at first. I know my brother and I were expecting something a lot dumber and more ‘fun.’ I was also 12 so a little young to really get it anyway.
Hey Boyz. I'm barely into this episode, but I have to point something out. Nazis loved South America - particularly the southern cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay). Germany had colonies there before the war ended and many Nazis fled there. So yes, Verhoeven knew what he was doing with the extremely white cast.
Yup- this is deliberately a ‘these are the descendants of Nazis’ detail.
Hey Janelle, whats wrong with TJ Laser?
Alright! Been waiting a while for this one. The satire was completely lost on me when I saw this as a kid: I liked the sci-fi action and violence (at least what made it through to the TV edit), but I couldn't understand why everyone was such a macho bully, and wait... did they just say that we were the ones who invaded the bug planet?
I’m just here for Hulk Hogan doing Jesse Ventura and Macho Man......
"Were coming up on 2 hours and were at laser tag" 5 stars.
Been waiting for this one. The Verhoeven/cast commentary track was great. I love how excited he gets discussing his own films.
Oh boy
Anybody else here think about fucking that brain bug? I think about it. I think about it a lot.
Gape Bugs
Story-time; back in ‘98-‘99 a friend of mine was working retail in a bookstore in London. Casper Van Dien comes up to the counter to pay for a bunch of books and my friend has the usual ‘I don’t want to bother you but I love Starship Troopers’ chat. Casper is super nice and chats to him for a couple of minutes and is just generally a great guy. My friend is like ‘alright, let’s ring through these books’.They were all self-help books. There is an awkward moment. Casper says, unconvincingly, that they were ‘for a role’. My friend then felt sorry for him. End of scene.