Ah, so much to say about this film I don't know where to begin. Like, I was only 17 when I first saw this and I was young and impressionable, and well, it looked very honourable to join this cause -- not to mention that I was a little sozzled at the time on vodka.
But I did watch it a second time, and well, it gave me these feelings:
The first thing that I noticed in this film that our Uniforms very much resembled the 1939 style Nazi Uniforms. Not that matters of course, it's now 80 years later and we're well away from the second world war but I think when film makers try to make a point then they usually drive home some visuals, which in this case may have been the uniforms earth forces were wearing.
Also, there were several things that didn't add up in this film. Like we were told that the bugs propelled a massive meteoroid which smashed most of Brazil, but we were not shown how they did it, or even how they were capable of such a thing -- I mean the bugs were not spaceflight ready. They were able to fight space flight of course, but they weren't in space.
So how could they actually propel the meteoroid to Earth? It makes you wonder. We have been known to false flag ourselves in the past to create wars and a ready and willing population to fight.
Notice also that when filmmakers have wanted to create a fascist utopia then they've always made the TV adverts appear a certain way. Robocop was quite the fascist utopia where the Police were working for massive global corporations and their TV advert style was not unlike the advertising we saw in Starship Troopers.
I could be thinking too deep into it though, and it could have just been a really good film, and it was good mind you, I thoroughly enjoyed the get up and go style of the movie. Maybe I'm just a conspiracy theorist at heart.
The plot goes something like this:
We start off with the young Juan Rico, a young hopeful who's not really that good at school. His high school sweetheart, Carmen, is trying to get into flight school, to which she needs top maths grades to get in. Unfortunately Juan, although incredibly sporty is nowhere near the maths nerd his girlfriend is and is on his way to flunking high school.
But that doesn't stop him. Young and in love he follows his High School sweetheart into the army hoping to be closer to her. Sadly, with his low scores in almost everything, he gets sent straight to the infantry front line. Miles away from his pilot girlfriend and almost certainly on his way to sure doom.
The film really gets going when Juan Rico is on the phone to his parents and their connection is cut short after they tell him that they are proud of him when he hears that a massive meteoroid has struck Puerto Rico and killed many people, including his parents. He watched them die in almost real time.
And that's where the fun (or excitement) begins.
Quite the watch this film. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Even after the second time when I was conspicuous if we were the invading party and the bad guys, rather than the saviours as the press were trying to make it out.
I thoroughly recommend this film, and it's almost challenges your perspective on good and bad when it comes to the military and our worldview currently.