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  Salon | Melrose vs. the monsters
More than half of the original "Starship Troopers" is devoted to accounts of Johnny's training -- first in a brutal boot camp that takes in soft kids and turns out killing machines, and later in an officers' program that teaches him how to be a leader of men.
The "Starship Troopers" screenwriter, Ed Neumeier, who also collaborated with Verhoeven on "Robocop," rewrites Heinlein's spare, male-dominated story, embedding an unabashedly formulaic romantic plot in the story's brutal heart: Ace fighter Dizzy (Dina Meyer) loves Johnny, but Johnny loves crack pilot Carmen (Denise Richards), but Carmen's kinda more into her co-pilot, Zander (Patrick Muldoon).
Nothing in "Starship Troopers" carries the conviction of the Force or even "Independence Day's" rah-rah-for-mankind idealism; the movie can't commit to the militarism it inherited from Heinlein, and it never finds a different ideal to substitute.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/11/07starship.html   (1030 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Starship Troopers is a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein first published in 1959.
The animated series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers (released in 2000) was closer to the events of the book, such as including the war with the Skinnies, and included more of the characters.
Starship Troopers clearly influenced many later science fiction stories, setting a tone for the military in space, a type of story referred to as military science fiction.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/st/starship_troopers.html   (701 words)

  
 Starship Troopers Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Starship Troopers is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published (abridged) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October, November 1959, as "Starship Soldier") and published hardcover in 1959.
Starship Troopers was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October and November 1959 as a serial called Starship Soldier.
Starship Troopers was also adapted into a series of comic books by Dark Horse Comics in 1997 and 1998 and although it was explicitly based on the films, the later issues featured a suit of powered armor similar to that of the book.
www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Starship_Troopers   (7052 words)

  
 Starship Troopers Hands-On - Single-Player - PC News at GameSpot
Starship Troopers is a first-person shooter that's based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic 1959 sci-fi novel about humanity at war with a race of insect-like aliens.
Starship Troopers offers bugs, bugs, and even more bugs for you to battle.
Starship Troopers is currently in the final stages of development, and it's scheduled to ship next month.
www.gamespot.com /pc/action/starshiptroopers/news.html?sid=6135445&mode=top   (1036 words)

  
 Preview - Starship Troopers // PC /// Eurogamer
Releasing a game adaptation of Starship Troopers some eight years after the movie might not seem like the smartest commercial decision ever, but as far as '90s sci-fi action goes, Paul Verhoeven's movie was definitely one of the most memorable of its time.
While subtlety certainly isn't Starship Trooper's strong point, action certainly is. Whether or not the game's weapons and enemies do more to impress is rather up in the air at the moment.
Starship Troopers is due to be released some time in October.
www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=60762   (1034 words)

  
 Starship Troopers (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Based on the famous Robert A. Heinlein novel, Starship Troopers is set in a world of the future where militarism is the norm, largely because we've discovered alien civilizations of huge insect-like creatures and we're at war with them.
Starship Troopers is both a tongue-in-cheek satire of society and an intense sci-fi/action/war film filled with horror-like insect monsters and a healthy dose of graphic gore.
This is not to say that Starship Troopers is a rip-off of any other movie.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0120201   (659 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire: "Starship Troopers" review
"Starship Troopers" is a disaster of proportions that "Showgirls" naysayers could only imagine before now.
After each battle, "Troopers" stops to take stock of who is alive and where their sexual relationships stand, giving the women in the cast another chance to strip.
If "Starship Troopers" is a success, it will be an indication that name stars are not needed to buoy one of these hollow "event movies," and that may open the floodgates for tidal wave of starless, plotless effects flicks.
www.splicedonline.com /97reviews/starship.html   (660 words)

  
 Starship Troopers (1997)
Audiences are greatly conditioned to see films such as Starship Troopers in very fl and white, good guys/bad guys terms, and the film rarely does anything to escape those boundaries.
Starship Troopers is a generally entertaining and exciting film, but it lacks an emotional depth that more effective movies possess.
Starship Troopers appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
www.dvdmg.com /starshiptroopers.shtml   (2560 words)

  
 SF REVIEWS.NET: Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein
But what makes Starship Troopers such an important book is its pioneering approach to dramatizing military themes in an SF context.
I wasn't around at the time, but unless I miss my guess, Troopers was the first SF novel in which military life was depicted in a manner believable to readers who had actually served.
In Starship Troopers, the idea that has taken the most heat over the years is that full citizenship, including the right to vote, ought to be a privilege reserved solely for veterans of public service, most commonly military.
www.sfreviews.net /starshiptroopers.html   (1000 words)

  
 Review: Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is his third science fiction endeavor, following in the footsteps of Robocop and Total Recall.
Much of Starship Troopers is presented tongue-in-cheek, and the level of violence and gore (bodies being ripped limb-from-limb and so forth) is so extreme that viewers will quickly become desensitized to it.
Starship Troopers is essentially an old-fashioned war movie in a science fiction setting, and the film makers adhere to many of the conceits of that genre.
www.reelviews.net /movies/s/starship.html   (1085 words)

  
 Starship Troopers 1UP - Find Articles
Starship Troopers is in development and according to our exclusive interview, it's not going to suck.
After the disgrace that was Terran Ascendancy, fans of the gore laden sci-fi flick Starship Troopers all but gave up hope for an interactive war against the soulless Arachnids.
In addition to there having been a short-lived CG television show, Roughnecks, there is also a live action sequel to Starship Troopers in development.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zd1up/is_200401/ai_ziff117307   (792 words)

  
 Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (US - DVD R1) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
It has since grown to become somewhat of a cult favorite (due largely to the fact that it was one of the first movies to be released in the DVD format).
Directed by Phil Tippett (the man responsible for the special effects in the original film), Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation tries to retain just enough of the original to be called a sequel.
Although it has Starship Troopers as its parent, what is left is really more a third cousin of an Aliens or The Thing film.
www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/starship-troopers-2-hero-of-the-federation2.html   (1566 words)

  
 Starship Troopers
Well by the end of Starship Troopers, the new film from Paul Verhoeven, they hope that you can tell what the difference is between "citizen" and "civilian".
There are a lot of subplots to Starship Troopers but the meat of the film is in the effects.
With Starship Troopers having a young cast of virtual unkowns when it comes to big budget, high profile films they seem to be taking a gamble.
www.ticon.net /~bugzy/mr0064.html   (830 words)

  
 Starship Troopers: Review -- Strategy Informer
Shockingly rendered, Starship Troopers is reminiscent visually of what might happen if Doom got really drunk and threw up everywhere.
The characters share faces a little too often to be entirely comforting (it’s a little like fighting with an army of extremely bad clones), and many of the environments are simply confusing to be in.
Starship Troopers does provide some multiplayer capacity, but you’re highly unlikely to find anyone else willing to expose themselves to that kind of torture.
www.strategyinformer.com /pc/starshiptroopers/review.html   (670 words)

  
 GameSpy: Starship Troopers Review
The problem is that the twelve levels of Starship Troopers are mostly a snooze; a few fun moments are overwhelmed by endless repetition and tired design ideas.
The game's main catch is supposed to be that it throws dozens and dozens of bugs at you at once, yet Starship Troopers rarely manages to create even a modicum of excitement or terror from the huge hordes of foes it drops on you.
Starship Troopers is great if you have any urgent daydreaming to catch up on.
pc.gamespy.com /pc/starship-troopers/675889p1.html   (517 words)

  
 Starship Troopers
Bring your adventures in the Starship Troopers universe to vivid life with this superbly illustrated series of landscapes.
The Games Master’s Screen for Starship Troopers: The Roleplaying Game is packed with the information and tables from the main rulebook, all collated into one easy-to-use screen, helping you to preside over your own Starship Troopers missions quickly and efficiently.
In this adventure a group of relatively green Mobile Infantry troopers are assigned to Lockwood’s Lions, a squad that suffered heavy losses during the events of the second Pluto campaign, colloquially known as Operation: Pest Control.
www.gameslore.co.uk /acatalog/Products_Starship_Troopers_332.html   (1058 words)

  
 Starship Troopers [PC] > Starship Troopers : La chasses aux bugs, dans tout les sens du terme...
Starship Troopers : La chasses aux bugs, dans tout les sens du terme...
Starship Troopers est un film de science-fiction réalisé par Paul Verhoeven et sorti en 1997.
Starship Troopers est l'exemple même du jeu qui a les capacités d'être une bombe interplanétaire et qui rate tous les virages au passage...
www.puissance-gamers.com /ArticleView.php?type=2&id=429   (1182 words)

  
 Starship Troopers
This first-person shooter version of Starship Troopers is set eight years after the events of the movie.
This 2nd demo for Starship Troopers drops you into the 2nd half of "Plasma Mountain".
Patch version 0.3.2.77 for Starship Troopers (EU) fixes crashes, adds a graphics time-out feature, a pair of gameplay tweaks, and a sizable number of bug fixes.
www.playwhat.com /GameDetails/strangelite/sstroopers.html   (210 words)

  
 Starship Troopers: Special Edition (1997)
Starship Troopers appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
This area adds the promo for Troopers as well as clips for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, and Resident Evil.
If you don’t already own a copy of Starship Troopers but would like one, the SE is the way to go.
www.dvdmg.com /starshiptroopersse.shtml   (3964 words)

  
 Starship Troopers Feature
Empire has been quiet of late but Starship Troopers has been receiving plenty of positive media acclaim for what’s shaping up to be a superb FPS game in the making.
The appeal of the ‚Starship Troopers’ film is a large part of why we set out to make this game.
Unlike the rest of the Starship Troopers games that have (and haven’t) made it to the shelf we have developed technology specifically to achieve the vast numbers of bugs that are required to get across the panic and mania of the film.
www.totalvideogames.com /articles/Starship_Troopers_Feature_8002_4912_0_0_0_0_20.htm   (880 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Starship Troopers: Books: Robert Heinlein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I first read Starship Troopers when I was 16, and since then I have always come back to it.
Starship Troopers is a thoughtful exposition of Heinlein's views regarding freedom, natural rights, social responsibility, and the necessity of violence in defense of civilization.
In addition to the exposition, Starship Troopers is a slam-bang action novel that hovers on the more realistic fringe of space opera, and is responsible for introducing some of the things we now consider standard concepts, like personal battlesuits.
www.amazon.ca /Starship-Troopers-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441783589   (1610 words)

  
 Starship Modeler: Starship Troopers Model Portfolio
This page is dedicated to the studio models used in filming the movie STARSHIP TROOPERS and is intended as a guide for hobbyists who wish to model the vehicles seen in the film.
The bulk of the Starship Troopers models were created by the crew of the Thunderstone Model Shop in Culver City, CA.
Starship Troopers names, characters, images, and all related indicia are © Sony Pictures Entertainment.
www.starshipmodeler.com /Other/stroop.htm   (1219 words)

  
 IGN: Reader Review of: Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers places you in the midst of the war against the bug-menace, approximately five years after the second movie (10-13 years after the first movie), as a member of the Mobile Infantry’s special forces division, the Marauders.
Starship Troopers was released with both single-player and multiplayer components and Strangelite has announced that they will continue development on the multiplayer portion of the game.
Chatter heard from other troopers include despair at the seemingly impossible odds, grumbling during downtime, awe at the sight of your special forces character, and screams of near-insanity as they stare down hundreds of approaching arachnids.
rr.pc.ign.com /rrview/pc/starship_troopers/568303/56209   (1169 words)

  
 Starship Troopers Review - PC
Starship Troopers is an adequate entry into the FPS genre.
Starship Troopers offers a fun chance to explore the setting of the book and later movie.
Starship Troopers allows several ways to cooperate and compete with other players.
pc.gamezone.com /gzreviews/r24478.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Starship Troopers by Karen Kwiatkowski
Robert Heinlein was truly gifted, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that Starship Troopers, first published in 1959, is a handbook for the present.
Her survival amongst the arachnid horde, and her gallant rescue by fellow troopers, is a befitting story for the folks back home.
Their experiences ought to be highly informative and educational to the masterminds of war and conquest and propaganda in Washington and New York, who incidentally never served in wartime, and in almost all cases have never worn a uniform, nor are parents of children who have ever or will ever wear a uniform.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/kwiatkowski1.html   (737 words)

  
 Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers for review, a wave of apprehension hit me. I shied away from the major motion picture that it’s based on, primarily because of my bug phobia.
Starship Troopers packs some serious fun into its package, with large, challenging missions and lots of customization; it’s a direct hit.
Even though there are lots of little details added to help distinguish between levels--like seeing your trooper’s breath in cold levels and watching dust kick up as they move on desert level--on the whole, the levels are unimaginative and fail to impress after a couple of missions.
www.gamesfirst.com /reviews/van/Starship/troopers.htm   (1496 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Starship Troopers: DVD: Casper Van Dien,Dina Meyer,Denise Richards,Jake Busey,Neil Patrick Harris,Clancy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Starship Troopers is now available to download for $9.99 from Amazon Unbox.
In Starship Troopers, Verhoeven and RoboCop cowriter Ed Neumeier take inspired cues from Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel to create a special-effects extravaganza that functions on multiple levels of entertainment.
Starship Troopers is a big movie that I have watched and enjoyed over and over again.
www.amazon.com /Starship-Troopers-Casper-Van-Dien/dp/0767802659   (2136 words)

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