Nice, Starship Trooper clips too!

Robert H. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land, or maybe Starship Troopers.

You're laughing now... but I've seen Starship Troopers, I know where this leads.

I'd vote just because I love Muse, but the new Star Trek...and Starship Troopers? They should burn in hell for what they did to Heinlein's book ;(

Alien was a B-movie. Starship Troopers was a B-movie. The Happening was shit. Complete and utter shit.

>> ^spoco2:
Starship Troopers I loved at the time, but increasingly like less as it's very pro military (And I know that people hate the interpretation compared to the book, but I haven't read it)


You should, it is classic science fiction in it's purest form. The troopers actually use these armored battle suits (WAAAAAAAAAAY before Manga got a hold of them) where they "jump" into a target area from miles away, drop a pocket nuke, then jump away just before it blows. The movie was a complete cock-up.

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@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/spoco2" title="member since August 21st, 2006" class="profilelink">spoco2, I don't think Starship Troopers is pro-military or meant to be. The entire premise mocks it with its absurdity. I think that makes it the best parody of big military.


Yeah, in a number of ways it does read that way, which is how I originally took it... but then you look at the character of Johnny Rico, and it shows that he becomes 'all he can be' via joining the military, and it glorifies the 'grunts'.

The whole final act is showing how Johnny comes into his own and becomes the teacher that taught him. And also that the military was indeed who 'saved the universe'.

I still enjoy it... but being that I detest the insane amount of money that is spent on militaries around the world, it just annoys that it really could be used as a recruitment video for the army.

@spoco2, I don't think Starship Troopers is pro-military or meant to be. The entire premise mocks it with its absurdity. I think that makes it the best parody of big military.

Verhoeven is a real hit and miss director for me. Robocop was an out of the ballpark classic homerun. No doubt there. Total Recall less so, but still a damn awesome film (Quaaaaaid).

Starship Troopers I loved at the time, but increasingly like less as it's very pro military (And I know that people hate the interpretation compared to the book, but I haven't read it).

I can't really recall my reaction to Basic Instinct and have never seen Showgirls

But Robocop... true classic

text mtv.com:

A lot of things come to mind when the name Paul Verhoeven comes up. "Starship Troopers." "Total Recall." "RoboCop." "Basic Instinct." "Showgirls."

One thing that does not associate instantly with the talented filmmaker in my own mind, however, is Jesus Christ. And yet that's exactly who is the subject of Verhoeven's new book, "Jesus of Nazareth." The book takes a look at Jesus the man, considering how his words have been appropriated over hundreds of years. Verhoeven stopped by the office last week to chat with MTV's Josh Horowitz about the book and where it fits into other recent pop culture treatments of Jesus Christ. Check out video from the interview below then head over to MTV.com to check out the full report.

I may have just missed it, but "They sucked his brains out." from Starship Troopers should surely be in there.

I will admit that the bubblegum quote should qualify as cheesy. Somehow though, Rowdy Roddy Piper just seems to makes it work. If, for instance, Arnold Schwarzenegger (hey... that's in my spellcheck!) had said it, I probably wouldn't stop laughing for a week, but in a mean way.

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Jeeeez ant, what were you looking for when you found this?...and who but a wonderful geekazoidinal freak would do this to their coworkers, forever burning the image into their worker-bee consciousnesses??? That guy needs to ask for a raise or look for another job, however it went over that fateful day back in awt-nine at office 6Z7469 Core-Quadrant Tango.


I used to work with him.

Lyrics:
Intro
First off - let me make a short introduction
I'm the space 5.0, keeping EVE from destruction
Guard is the name, Lead master of the game
Top dog in the gamemaster hall of fame

Im chillin at my desk with two girls and one pimp cup
Sippin champagne, reading mails checkin what's up
Isk spamming scum bags disturbing the peace?
WOOP WOOP its the sound of space police!

Every day is a fight, there's no room for bloopers
Bugs coming at us like in Starship troopers
We help when we can, every child, every man
Treat the boogie man to a permanent ban!

CHORUS x2

We're CCP! We march on fearlessly!
Excellent is what we strive to be!

If you're going to follow us to the top

HARDEN THE FUCK UP!

You best watch out bitch if you're an exploiting scammer
Guard will gank you in the face with his big ban hammer
Remove all your Isk , throw your ass in the slammer
Make you share a cell with a manic ISK spammer

Like a never ending spam thread on racist biking
This song has something for everyone's liking
Holy shit I see local spiking

...ladies and gents, its techno Viking!

Chorus x2

Ever flowing - never standing still
We roll with the punches, move in for the kill
The competition ends up six feet in the ground
With fists full of awesome we go round after round

United we stand never ever growing weary
We cannot fall cause gravity is just a theory
We reach higher than the giants in operations
Patience soon well be crip walking in stations

We're more agile than a president dodging a shoe
We need three continents for our massive crew
From Atlanta to Shanghai to the Icelandic nation
Throw your hands up for World Domination!

Chorus

The two books I Amazoned are recommendations (Return of Depression Economics, and Starship Troopers). If you like Heinlein, I'd hit Starship Troopers after you're done with Stranger in a Strange Land, because you'll be somewhat shocked that both are from the same author. I read a lot of other books by him, but I think those two are the best (and most well-known). The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably the only other one I'd consider a "must read" from him. If you're not sick of him after that, there are a handful of others, but I eventually got tired of how many Jubal Harshaw-type characters he uses.

Return of Depression Economics is actually the last book I finished (and would recommend to anyone), and right now I'm kinda-sorta picking at Taking on the System by Markos Moulitsas, which I would not recommend to people who aren't both liberal and into electoral politics.

I also found that copy of Woken Furies I mentioned the last time we had a thread about books, and I may read that after I'm done with 'System.

Robocop. Starship Troopers. Yeah, these are awesome guy movies. All of the Sean Connery Bond movies. Evil Dead (1&2) and Army of Darkness.