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Rating:  -
I remember back in 1997 how surprised I was that the original Starship Troopers was getting panned by movie goers and critics alike. I thought Starship Troopers was awesome and it remains on my Amazon Listmania List of 'impressionable" movies.
On the other hand, last night after checking out Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (ST3:M), I am NOT surprised to see the low ratings that it is getting. ST3:M was fun to watch, but if you're not a fan of the original, you'll really hate ST3:M.
ST3:M Writer Ed Neumeier reunited with Director Paul Verhoeven 10 years after working together on Robocop in 1997 to create the original Starship Troopers. But for ST3:M, a seasoned director like Verhoeven is no where in sight, and in fact, Neumeier takes the director's chair himself...for the first time in his career.
I'm no filmmaking expert; I'm just a knucklehead that spends too much time writing reviews for no pay. But my guess is that a seasoned director might shut down some of a writer's ideas that might not translate well to film. But if the director is also the writer, the "bad-idea-filter" is by default removed, no? And based on how much punishment the critics are laying on ST3:M, I'd say one too many of the "bad ideas" made it into this film.
But I liked ST3:M. Oh, yes indeedeedo, I saw the "bad-ideas" pretty clearly. And the visual effects were surprisingly not on par with the original. But the action was great. And to Neumeier's credit, he did get the actors (including a return by Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico and a visit by Jolene Blalock from Enterprise) to take their roles seriously among some over the top situations and satire.
One really cool thing that Neumeier did was to insert the robotic bio-armor that was popular in the wickedly cool 1999 animated series Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles.
So, all in all, I was entertained. But I'm afraid that I may be in the minority, and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder will ultimately "bug" more people than it pleases.
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Not as good as the first installment but vastly superior when compared to the disaster that the second title was. Number two was so bad, I would not even view it as part of the Starship Troopers adventures. But let's discuss the Marauder episode.
The good:
- Johnny Rico is back. 10 years later, now a colonel, he's still doing a pretty good job commanding his 'apes'. Outstanding!!
- The social critique is still part of it but a lot less subtle than what we have in Episode One. Of course, our own social reality is assuming an increasingly cartoonish or comic nature so, maybe, the not-so-subtle references at today's moronic-fascist leanings are appropriate.
The not so good:
- The Blu-ray treatment does not seem to add much to the visual expression.
- As incredible as it may seem, the first ST, made more than 10 years ago seems to have better special effects and a more polished look than today's Blu-ray episode. You can almost see the blue or green screens and, from time to time, I was surprised to see the actors walking on what appeared to be 'real' sand instead of a computer artifact.
- There is no Denise Richards.
- The Blu-ray 'live' part is so poorly implemented, I am persuaded to call it 'a disaster' One of the 'features' promises to allow you, the viewer, to paste your own face into the action by ways of uploading it via the internet. Surprisingly, the interface does not support the 'letter' keys on my PS3 keyboard. The backspace and the 'enter' keys seem to be recognized but not the letters, so you have to pick letters from some stupid on-screen keypad to create your own account. There's a lot of typing expected because you are asked to enter a name, a password, an email address, you need to retype the password. The reward is supposed to be an email telling you how to upload your face and how to play the movie with you as the hero. By the time we were half-way into this exercise, we hit the wrong hey and EVERYTHING we typed disappeared. We gave up. There is a 'picture-in-picture' feature, called 'the marauder mode' which we didn't try yet.
Overall: unlike 'episode two', this one CAN be accepted as a member of the Starship Trooper series but it's a poor second to the masterpiece that the first one was. The overall feeling is 'cheap' but some of the social-critique humor really hits the spot. Worth watching but don't expect a masterpiece.
Rating:  -
The worst of the three. Even Jolen Blalock could not carry this movie.
It was very poorly written. The special effects were less than they should have been. A waste of time.
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Spoiler alert. But think of this as me saving you some time.
Well it started off great. Johnny Rico imitating Ironside's character from the first movie and leading an entire base. Lots of violence and slaughter ensue. Then one of his friends ends up marooned with some other characters on a bug planet and need rescue. I'm wringing my hands in anticipation of the upcoming confrontation...
and then it all falls apart.
Ok, I realize this is a B movie so I'm not too picky about the acting. Suffice to say they did an ok-to-good job with what they were given. But what they were given was a slow devolution from a fine sci-fi action movie into an irritating, weepy, whiny, idiotic religious PR piece. WTF?! I thought I was watching Johnny Rico kill bugs, not Jimmy Swaggart spewing the Lord's prayer. This was total false advertising.
The montage of the two girls praying overlaid on the final battle is absolutely stupid. So you're praying and your guys happen to win. That means God is on your side, right? Wrong, idiot! You wore underwear too, and the bugs don't wear underwear, so that must mean underwear helped you win the battle, too. "YAY God, YAY underwear!!" Morons.
The writer/s of this piece of crap needs to go reread the source book from Heinlein. Though the original movie strayed from it too, it was still a much better portrayal.
The battle suits, AKA Marauders, show up for less than 5 minutes. Really? Aren't the Marauders part of the main title of the movie?! This was like watching a Batman movie where Batman doesn't show up until the last 5 minutes. And then clutter those minutes with a bible study.
And what's up with Jolene Blalock's lips? The wife commented that her character should be renamed from Captain Beck to Captain Collagen. Totally distracting.
The guns are comically unrealistic. The special features say they're AK47's with extra stuff on them. Yeah, about 5 lbs of cheap looking plastic stuff. Lame.
So since the directors wanted this to be a religious piece, let me proclaim myself the cinematic Christ. I saw this pile of trash so you won't have to.
Rating:  -
I had high hopes for this 2nd sequel attempt. There were a few good moments but unfortunately they were all in the (almost) satirical news and recruitment inserts. A limited budget and second-rate acting and scripting is painfully apparent. If you, like me, have a guilty pleasure in liking the original, than your best bet is to ignore the 2 uninspired sequels and find instead 'Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Complete Campaigns' which is available for purchase on Amazon.
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