"Starship Troopers 3"

[Dr Mordrid]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844760/

When: 2007

Director/Writer: Edward Neumeier (writer Starship Troopers 1/2, RoboCop 1/2/3)

John Rico: Casper Van Dien

http://www.moviehole.net/news/20061129_neumeier_on_starship_troopers.html

Was just having a chinwag to my old bud, Ed Neumeier, who says Sony are about push the greenlight on his “Starship Troopers 3”.

“Looks like - fingers crossed - Sony is moving forward”, Neumeier, who will write & direct the film, tells Moviehole. “Plans are afoot to shoot next year. Casper Van Dien will be back as Colonel John Rico. There'll be a new bug or two. Also draft riots. Religion makes a comeback. And the Federation has a new weapon.”

[Jessterw]

I remember Dan and I renting the second film because we both liked the first and it looked like it might be a good, darker sequel...

It has to be one of the worst films I've seen in a long time; definitely the worst sequel for what was a good movie.

It'll be amusing to see how many people never realized there was even a second film given what I can only assume was its direct-to-video nature.

[Elie]

I agree, the second movie was a complete disaster if you ask me, it looked as if it was filmed in one location, and that Sepia was the only colour they could afford lol.

Anyway, I hope they do better in the third installment.

If I were the troopers, I would order the planet be nuked from orbit, saves everyone the hassles lol.

Cheers,
Elie

[lowlifecat]

??? there was a number 2???

[Admiral]

Yup, there was, and I'm glad I didn't see it till the end.

The first one reminded me of Star Craft: Brood Wars (terrain campaign). Not sure which came first, Starship Troopers or Brood Wars.

[Dr Mordrid]

Starship Troopers was a 1959 novel by the great sci-fi writer Robert A. Heinlein (please read "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress").

That part of Brood Wars was, like a lot of other similar story lines since 1959, a Starship Troopers knock off.

[Jammrock]

I'm still shocked there was a second one. I never knew. ANd if I didn't know, it couldn't have been any good.

[Jessterw]

It wasn't. It was horrid. All the things that made the first movie so great were nowhere to be seen. Well, there were a couple things, but they must have been put through a meat grinder and then shat out.

I almost wish we'd watched it in Japanese or something...

[Sasq]

the second one ranks up there with Highlander, thefuxythingthatIdontwanttoremember, and highlander 3

[schmosef]

It wasn't. It was horrid. All the things that made the first movie so great were nowhere to be seen. Well, there were a couple things, but they must have been put through a meat grinder and then shat out.

I almost wish we'd watched it in Japanese or something...

The "good things from the first movie" were literally scenes from the first movie spliced into the second movie and presented as new action.

[KeiFront]

The original Highlander was good the sequels where bad. The same goes for Starship Troopers the first one was a good sci-fi action flick, the second one was a very very awfull B-movie, avoid it at all costs.

[Umfriend]

I remember Starship Troopers as fascist propaganda. Never read the novel nor seen (or been aware of) a sequel.

[Dr Mordrid]

Fascist might be a reach; pro-military might be a better term. Since Heinlein was a graduate of the US Navy Academy at West Point and had served 6 years as a Naval officer that is IMO understandable.

In the novel Juan Rico (a Filipino & not an Argentine as in the movie) evolves from naive kid to hardened Federal Service officer as in the movie, but with much more depth (of course).

Heinlein uses him to explore issues like war, capital punishment and civic responsibility in terms of a society organized along military lines; not unlike that at West Point.

Politically Heinlein is best described as a Libertarian, a system which blends both liberal and conservative beliefs.

The late Nobel Prize winning economists Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek are also generally considered to be economic Libertarians.

Many observers see the US populace as becoming more and more Libertarian, though not necessarily calling themselves that.

[Evildead666]

The second starship troopers looked like it was shot on a VHS camera.
It cost THAT much to make....

Bloody awful...

The first one though, very hard to beat...

[TnT]

I thought the first one sucked monkey nuts... but that's just my opinion.