Starship Troopers (With Digital Copy) - Sci-Fi / Fantasy Classic Movies on DVD (1997) Starring Casper Van Dien; Dina Meyer & Denise Richards; Directed by Paul Verhoeven; Sony Pictures : OLDIES.com

Starship Troopers

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Starring: Casper Van Dien; Dina Meyer & Denise Richards Director: Paul Verhoeven Rated:

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Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

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Item Number:
CTR 26920D

DVD Features:

Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85

Audio:

Dolby Digital - English, French'
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish

Entertainment Reviews:

Sight and Sound - 01/01/1998

"...Fascinating....Featuring astonishing effects and some of the most harrowing battle scenes in movie history..."

USA Today - 11/07/1997

"...Director Paul Verhoeven is back in his subversively nimble ROBOCOP groove with the uproariously cheeky STARSHIP TROOPERS" -- 4 out of 4 stars

Entertainment Weekly - 05/15/1998

"...A letter grade would do a disservice to a movie that sees relentless entertainment and brilliant pop-culture fraud as two sides of the same media coin....The Most Ironic Hollywood Blockbuster Ever Made. See it for yourself and decide..."

New York Times - 11/07/1997

"...The film's main events are its wild bugfights, with hordes of extraordinarily dynamic special-effects creatures....These bizarre marauders are really something to see..."

Box Office - 01/01/1998

"...Entertaining, engaging, exciting....With game, energetic, winsome performances...and effects that live up to the hype..."

Product Description:

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (TOTAL RECALL, ROBOCOP) mixes big budget bug bashing with twisted satire of old Hollywood movies in this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel. It's the future, Earth is at war, and the kids are all going off to fight giant killer bugs on the remote planet of Klendathu. Casper Van Diem, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, and Patrick Muldoon play some of the blandly attractive young recruits who engage in soap-opera style love triangles as they toughen up and learn to fight (and die) like soldiers. Michael Ironside is their gung-ho, one-armed leader. The real stars though, are the superbly animated bugs. Packed to the rafters with jaw-dropping special effects and insane violence, the film managed to be a box office hit though it undoubtedly left some audiences confused at Verhoeven's slyly deadpan humor. By the time Neil Patrick Harris (TV's Doogie Howser) starts marching around in a Gestapo-style uniform, for example, it will be apparent this isn't STAR WARS. What it is however, is a rousing experience for mature viewers in the properly ironic frame of mind.

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Exerpts:

"Would you like to know more?" -- a slogan that appears frequently in newreel clips

"Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is mearly wishful thinking at its worst!" -- Rasczak (Michael Ironside) to his students

"Everyone fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself." -- Rasczak to his troops

"You see a bug hole, you nuke it!" -- Rasczak to his troops

"M.I. does the dying. Fleet just does the flying." -- Rico (Casper Van Dien) referring to the downside of being in the mobile infantry

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer & Denise Richards
Directed by		Paul Verhoeven
Produced by		Jon Davison & Alan Marshall
Edited by		Mark Goldblatt & Caroline Ross
Screenwriting by		Ed Neumeier
Composition by		Basil Poledouris
Special Effects by		Tippett Studio, Banned From the Ranch Entertainment, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Visual Concept Entertainment, Boss Film Studios, Amalgamated Dynamics & Industrial Light and Magic
Costume Designer by		Ellen Mirojnick
Director of Photography		Jost Vacano
Production Design by		Allan Cameron
Story by		Robert A. Heinlein
Performer		Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Seth Gilliam, Patrick Muldoon, Michael Ironside, Rue McClanahan, Marshall Bell, Eric Bruskotter, Matt Levin, Blake Lindsley, Anthony Michael Ruivivar, Brenda Strong, Dean Norris, Christopher Curry, Lenore Kasdorf, Tami-Adrian George, Teo, Steven Ford, Ungela Brockman, Curnal Achilles Aulisio, Greg Travis, Bruce Gray, Denise Y. Dowse, John Cunningham, Julianna McCarthy, Timothy McNeil, Robert David Hall, Brad Kane, Amy Smart, Timothy Omundson, Patrick Bishop, Hunter Bodine, Travis Lowen, Patrick Wolff, Mara Duronslet, Dale Dye, Michael Stockey, Tyrone Tann, Matt Entriken, Eric DaRe, Ronald L. Botchan, Walter Adrian, Stephanie Erb, Alexi Lakatos, Nathaniel Marshall, Austin Sanderford, Rhiannon Vigil, Mylin Brooks, Armand Darrius & Kai Lennox

DVD Details:

Label: Sony Pictures
Originally Released in: 1997
Number of Discs: 1
Rated:
Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Video: Color
Release Date: August 5, 2008
OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 94,626
Item UPC: 043396269200
Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.

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