• @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Starship Troopers. Yes it’s worth watching. It’s both an excellent satire of a society dominated by its military (it’s portrayed as if it’s an in-universe propaganda film) and an extremely well crafted action film.

      It was directed by Paul Verhoeven, the same guy who directed RoboCop and Total Recall.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      If you play Helldivers, you have to watch Starship Troopers.

      HD takes its tone, premise, and many more things from that movie (and a bit from the book the movie satirizes).

    • lad
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      152 months ago

      It’s Starship Troopers, one of the inspirations for Helldivers, afaik

      It was good when I last watched it, but that was quite a while ago, the movie is from 1997, after all

      • BruceTwarzen
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        152 months ago

        That movie holds up really well imo. The sequels were never great. I don’t want to shit on them too much, because they were basically very low budget and it seems like they tried