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Starship Troopers
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs." From TMDB
292 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 61 | 6 | 190 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| TMDB reviews * | 5 | 0 | 2 |
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Starship Troopers is a 1997 adventure action thriller film, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer and Denise Richards.
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60 of 292 · most liked firstAny fans of the 1997 movie Starship Troopers?
neutral · AI labelView post →i want to say "the director adapting a book should like and understand that book" but Starship Troopers is a perfect film largely because Verhoeven refused to read it so i actually take nothing away from this at all
positive · AI labelView post →I don't mention it much, but I'm also an avid movie fan! 📽️ Some favs: -Blade Runner (OG & 2049) -American Psycho -Memories of Murder -Cure -Empire Strikes Back -Starship Troopers -Dark Water -Kairo -Glengarry Glen Ross -Pacific Rim -Ghostbusters -The Crow -Terminator 2 -Aliens How about you? 🤔
positive · AI labelView post →The new space force uniforms are directly inspired by the uniforms from the Starship Troopers film...which were inspired by the uniforms of the Nazis that Paul Verhoeven saw occupying the Netherlands during WWII
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you watch R rated movies before you were 17? If you did, do you remember what your first R rated movie was? Mine was Starship Troopers. Not sure exactly how old I was but I couldn't have been older than 11 based on where we lived
neutral · AI labelView post →The point of the movie Starship Troopers is that Paul Verhoeven gets the audience to support the soldiers before slowly revealing to the audience that they’ve been duped into cheering for Nazis. Costumes play a huge role in this, providing a signifier that the humans might be the villains. 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →New ‘Starship Troopers’ film is in development at Sony • Neill Blomkamp is directing • Will be a faithful adaptation of the novel (via THR)
neutral · AI labelView post →I can’t believe how well the Starship Troopers movie holds up. Rewatched it last night and it’s still fantastic.
positive · AI labelView post →I felt a need to watch this lol. Yep it's Starship Troopers time. Movie is a blast don't care what anyone says #filmsky #starshiptroopers
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Starship Troopers (1997) By Neil Davies
neutral · AI labelView post →We have successfully recreated the Starship Troopers from the famous movie "Don't Recreate The Starship Troopers"
neutral · AI labelView post →Verhoeven is the cultural ref point for Starship Troopers ,here describing his intention. "I borrowed from Triumph of the Will in the parody propaganda reel that opens the film. I was using Riefenstahl to point out ... that these heroes and heroines were straight out of Nazi propaganda."
neutral · AI labelView post →All Quiet On The Western Front: "Don't listen to your teacher, this war shit is fucked" Starship Troopers: "Don't listen to All Quiet On The Western Front, go kill bugs with your teacher." Starship Troopers (movie): "Do not listen to Starship Troopers."
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah, Starship Troopers, a film whose message is famously well understood.
neutral · AI labelView post →Obama: Starship Troopers is an ironic critique of fascism. Glenn Kessler: False. Starship Troopers is a patriotic film with many characters declaring they want to ‘do their part’ in defeating the alien race they call bugs.
neutral · AI labelView post →STARSHIP TROOPERS was released 27 years ago this week. Among the most popular films of director Paul Verhoeven, and a classic sci fi/action satire, the making of story is as outrageous as the film. Would you like to know more…? 1/69
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War and... this one makes me sad. As a fan of the movie, I loved the concept for Bug War and was very excited. Sadly, it's a whole lot of potential and very little of anything else. Read here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/starshi...
negative · AI labelView post →Didn't know John Cunningham was the Starship Troopers "Would You Like To Know More" announcer. Had way bigger accomplishments in theater, film, and TV, but holy shit, he's the "Would You Like To Know More" guy! Rest In Peace. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →President Trump shared an AI-generated mockup for Space Force uniforms inspired by "Starship Troopers"—a 1997 sci-fi satire steeped in Nazi imagery. Director Paul Verhoeven previously called it a film “about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism.” You can’t make this stuff up.
neutral · AI labelView post →*references Robocop dick shotting the guy* *watches sci-fi movie that was heavily influenced by Robocop and whose director is a fan* *listening to the Robocop theme* ...yeah, you know what movie I've got a hankering to rewatch again. (...Starship Troopers.)
positive · AI labelView post →just saw someone claim that Verhoeven‘s Starship Troopers is a bad movie and if you believe that you are wrong.
positive · AI labelView post →11. The Verge reported that “the world of Helldivers — which evokes Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers and the subsequent movie — concerns fascism thematically” and “developer Arrowhead has characterized it as a satire where players fight for a fascist state.”
neutral · AI labelView post →If I saw this exact segment in a 1990s film about a dystopian future I would immediately dismiss it as too corny and over the top in its depiction of military propaganda. Unless that film was Starship Troopers, of course. Then it would be spot on with the conceit.
positive · AI labelView post →Blur turned down a fortune to license this song for the U.S. military but they let Verhoeven use it to promote Starship Troopers (it’s not in the movie)
neutral · AI labelView post →sometimes, online, I'll see someone going, "The makers of the Starship Troopers movie didn't UNDERSTAND the book they were adapting" and no buddy, gonna stop ya there, they do understand, they just hate it
positive · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers movie ass reality
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997). I forgot how awesome & ahead of the curve this movie was. Verhoeven is a mad genius. #FilmSky #Horror #SciFi
positive · AI labelView post →STARSHIP TROOPERS was released 28 years ago today. Among the most popular films of director Paul Verhoeven, and a classic sci fi/action satire, the making of story is as outrageous as the film. Would you like to know more…? 1/69
neutral · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers was the movie that made me change from thinking that satire only works if it it’s possible to misread it to thinking it only works if it’s actually misread
positive · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers is a flawless movie, so this seems like a challenge.
positive · AI labelView post →However, it should be noted that in the case of Starship Troopers, the film improved upon the book by satirizing it.
positive · AI labelView post →Being an enlightened centrist I would've said "Starship Troopers" and fail to clarify if I meant book or movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Robert Rodriguez introduce a double feature screening of Robocop and Starship Troopers today and before Starship Troopers he video called Casper Van Dien and just held a microphone to his cellphone and asked him questions about the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers Is the Perfect Movie for the Trump Presidency. > You get the same sense of disorientation from the United States’ latest war against Iran, which has lasted either 47 years or 38 days, depending on who’s counting and which constitutional deadlines they’re worried about. If, indeed, there even is a war, as the Vice President recently mused aloud during an unusually hair-splitting press conference. In any case, it was certainly started by Iran, which has been inches away from a…
neutral · AI labelView post →seeing Starship Troopers in the theater and man this movie has aged terrifically
positive · AI labelView post →Watching good movie Starship Troopers with my amazing husband
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatching Starship Troopers and remembering why I always loved this film... 🍑
positive · AI labelView post →New Starship Troopers film is happening at Sony Pictures, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9). ➡️ deadline.com/2025/03/star... The new film will go back to the 1959 source material by Robert A. Heinlein and not be based on the 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Video of Hollywood movie clips exulting in destruction, freedom and victory, here. I’m reminded that the movie Starship Troopers is best understood as a propaganda/recruitment film made by a fascist regime that’s badly losing a war of conquest that it started itself.
positive · AI labelView post →(See the movie Starship Troopers is about fascism, which means this post has levels.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Accidentally stumbling on Starship Troopers being broadcast: possibly the most perfectly casted movie of all time. Everyone in it is perfect for the role.
positive · AI labelView post →I kinda slept on Mickey 17 but this movie rules. Bong Joon Ho for the Starship Troopers/Dune crowd (me) with a lil Multiplicity Pattinson style
neutral · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers is a film about the importance of debugging your system
positive · AI labelView post →Pete Hegseth is someone who watches Starship Troopers without realizing the movie is mocking him, specifically.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wouldn't a Helldivers movie just be Starship Troopers?
neutral · AI labelView post →Elon is the type of guy who would think Starship Troopers was just a patriotic movie about killing space bugs.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Starship Troopers, just got to "We can ill afford another Klendathu" and clapped right along with the people in the movie
positive · AI labelView post →"I'm doing my part!" -- Starship Troopers movie
neutral · AI labelView post →He didn't originate it but had a choice on the treatment. Starship Troopers the movie mocks the original book's fascism, 300 leans in haaaard.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it is necessary for people write about Nazis and Nazi-likes in a controlled and focused purpose, without glorification, ala the Starship Troopers film adaptation, HELLSING, and other works -
neutral · AI labelView post →there's a power Starship Troopers has over me where, way more often than any other movie, i think about Starship Troopers for one second and now it's Starship Troopers time and i go, Starship Troopers Time, and then i am watching Starship Troopers. don't even remember putting the disc in
positive · AI labelView post →“I’m doing my part!” - Starship Troopers kid from the satirical science fiction movie Starship Troopers
neutral · AI labelView post →Patrick Muldoon Dead: 'Days Of Our Lives', 'Starship Troopers' Actor.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week I've been watching a 1988 anime adaptation of Heinlein's Starship Troopers. I knew it wasn't a parody like the Verhoeven movie, but surely it couldn't be sincerely fascist like the book, so what did they do? Well, they tried to strip out the politics, and what's left is really boring!
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II. Greetings, fellow Helldivers! Do you love Democracy? Freedom? Liberty? Are you willing to do your part in the service of Super Earth? Then join the Helldivers today! And let FREEDOM "rain" from above! ...Would you like to know more?  Sorry, I couldn't resist. The game franchise HELLDIVERS takes the campy pro-military satire from the film *Starship Troopers…
neutral · AI labelView post →God, I love Starship Troopers (the film) It's one of the smartest big dumb action movies ever made. It's so genuinely clever, so pointed, so well made, so full of subtle and genius details.
positive · AI labelView post →Monster Hunter Lore find of the day: Ceanataur and Shogun Ceanataur's designs were based on the alien bugs from the 1997 film "Starship Troopers". via Monster Hunter: Principles of Creativity 2 - pg. 198
neutral · AI labelView post →"STARSHIP TROOPERS: THE MOVIE" is not an instructional manual
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Verhoeven should direct an Atlus Shrugged film and pull a Starship Troopers with it lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Starship Troopers (1997) By Roger Motzkus
neutral · AI labelView post →
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