Yeah, I am really surprised Starship Troopers is rated so low too.
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Starship Troopers just got a massive viewership bump with the launch of Helldivers 2.
Just curious, as someone who hasn't looked up much about it, does Helldivers 2 have the satirical themes as Starship Troopers, too? Or is it just about fighting bugs in space?
The game is about spreading Managed Democracy to protect our way of life, with tip screens like "If an alien ever attempts to engage in negotiation, SHOOT THEM. We mustn't believe their lies," and "Helldivers who fail an objective do not get sent to freedom camps. This is merely a dissident rumor," and "Remember: FREEDOM!"
There's an entire mission objective based on raising a flag while you salute it, with cameras recording it for the millions of innocent civilians back home you're protecting with the gentle outreach of an iron fist.
While spreading peace through the galaxy, your character will shout things like "Say hello to democracy!", "Freedom never sleeps!", "How about a nice cup of liber-tea?!", "How do you like the taste of FREEDOM?!", and "You'll never destroy our way of life!"
The PA on the ship announces things like "Every bullet fired is a freedom seed planted in the hearts of our enemies," and "Do not think of rebels as human. If our views are alien to them, they are alien to us."
That summary and game trailer is beautiful and hilarious lol. It totally brings me back to Starship Troopers. I want to play it even more now lol.
Yep, it's heavily inspired by starship troopers.
Oh yeah. And you need to lean it to it. Democracy and Freedom are practically deities in the game. You'll hear young men and women shout about democracy while commiting interplanetary war crimes, and pleading for liberty to save them when one of their limbs get blown to hell.
Omg this sounds amazing actually. I kind of want to play it now lol.
It's excellent. Easily worth the 40 or so bucks. The community is pretty solid, although there are a lot of whiners who complain non-stop about how they can't solo the hardest objectives on the toughest difficulty in a game designed around 4 person co-op. Honestly, the dev has been doing a great job of making all the tools viable and rewarding under the right circumstances. I find myself trying to equip for the mission and my team instead of just take "the best meta loadout".
Starship Troopers is a good rewatch every few years. I don’t see myself ever having the desire to watch Napoleon again.
The directors cut might make it a decent movie though, just like with Kingdom of Heaven. Why they don't just chop the movie into two parts but elect to bring out a turd followed by the complete movie a year later is anyone's guess.
Money?
I'm so sick of this. I'm not giving you money twice just because you feel like releasing a bad version first. In fact, I'm not giving you any money if you do that.
I thought Napoleon had some hilarious shit in it. I want to drunk watch it one day
Having watched Napoleon yesterday, I'm not surprised at all. Starship Troopers is the better movie by a good margin.
honestly, i didnt like phoenix in naploeon. i seem to be in a minority with that opinion though.
why does a frenchman have an american accent?
especially when everyone else had british accents. the inconsistency bugged me throughout the film
why does a frenchman have an american accent?
Because a bad impersonation would be worse?
i would prefer better casting. there are 32 million frenchmen
Yeah, House of Gucci would like to have a word. Couldn't even finish that movie because of the ridiculous accents.
For me the awful accents is what made the movie fun to watch
Napoleon's first language was Italian, and he spoke French with a Corsican accent. France conquered the Corsican Republic in 1768, Napoleon was born in 1769 to a line of minor Italian nobles (not that Italy was an actual thing yet)
TL;Dr he shouldn't have a French accent because he didn't have one
Was the Corsican accent closer to an American accept though? Otherwise the point still stands
Then the chuckleheads would complain that they got some Italian guy to play him.
That bothered me severely in the first Wonder Woman movie. Wonder Woman and her actor friend can speak like every language, which is demonstrated on screen, but the Germans speak English. There was not so much German talk in the movie that it could not have been in German.
Sweet liberty! I would like to know more
Just as a warning, don’t watch Irish Wish.
It’s fucking awful.
A Netflix seasonal Romcom is awful?! It cannot be! (Lol, I appreciate the warning, friend!)
My wife thought it would be funny to watch Lindsey Lohan. There was only pain.
😂 😭