Oh, Starship Troopers — it had plenty of exploding bugs for when you’re feeling dumb, sharp satire for when you’re feeling smart, and boobs for whether you’re feeling smart or dumb. Why am I going on about Starship Troopers? Because it’s going to be remade!
Re-making a movie that’s only 15-years-old just seems weird. The main reason you remake an old action movie is so you can add a bunch of fancy new CGI effects to a proven concept, but Starship Troopers was already a CGI-heavy modern action movie. Aside from maybe somewhat improving bug carapace textures there’s literally nothing a remake can do that the original didn’t.
According to producers Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe (the guys behind enduring classics like xXx and Stealth) the plan is to strip out any satire, comedy or anti-fascist messages and go full on patriotic. Oh, and the R-rating is hitting the scrap heap too, so say goodbye to co-ed shower scenes and graphic brain-suckings. But there’s going to be more CGI, so don’t worry!
Eh, if we’re going to remake a Paul Verhoeven movie, I say Showgirls is the way to go. CGI might not have improved all that much, but today’s ex-kids show stars blow Elizabeth Berkley out of the water.
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How about a Starship Troopers that’s faithful to the book?
I know, I know, Hollywood heads would explode from the effort.
AMEN!
I’d like to invoke Sircar’s Corollary to Godwin’s Law….
Powered armor or GTFO.
“An M.I. man lives by his suit the way a K-9 man lives by and with and on his doggie partner. Powered armor is one-half the reason we call ourselves ‘Moblie Infantry’…”
Yeah the original movie was pretty much a complete POS in my mind, as it discarded everything that made the book interesting and unique. Not saying this new one is going to be great, but just hearing that they’re not planning to make it a retarded fascist satire is a step in the right direction.
If I recall the entirety of the book discussed military hierarchy and the mental state of a futuristic soldier…no one could have predicted the phenomenon that is Casper Van Dien but even this is a bit silly.
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I was really disappointed in the original movie. I had waited since I was 5 for a starship troopers movie and it was almost nothing like the book other than character names and abridged dialogue. It was decent in its own right, but I would have rather Verhoeven just make his own movie with its own title and story to give his satirical take on war and the military. This new one seems like it will miss the mark as well. The book is violent and people get off’d on just about every jump. Maybe someday people will make a proper adaptation. I don’t even want to see what Hollywood would do to Stranger in a Strange Land.
}}}} Aside from maybe somewhat improving bug carapace textures there’s literally nothing a remake can do that the original didn’t.
While I wasn’t as disappointed in the movie as some, there are certainly some aspects of it that fell short — the nearly complete lack of the armored suits would be the obvious one, as well as the rather blatantly Nazi-esque interpretation of the civil society in question (RAH’s society was a much more *libertarian* society than libtards often interpret it as being. RAH simple felt that the power to direct the State should require a clear willingness to weight the well-being of the State — in the sense of the PEOPLE, not the government — above your own immediate interests, an easily defended viewpoint)
So a reboot, since it would likely be 2-4 years to complete and possibly more, would make it 17-19 years older than the original… Which isn’t THAT much worse than “Total Recall”.
Sorry but it would be more like 26-28 years because the original was in 1988. The first remake was in 1995 so you are correct with 17-19 years if we go from that one.
PS the first one was an anime
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Why should it be made? Because it will make money. The book is the perfect young teen movie, for guys anyway. Thus perfect vehicle for a PG action movie – just be faithful to the book.
Shoot, if they make enough, perhaps it will help get them off the dime and actually make Ender’s Game.