Starship Troopers 3: Trailer
The new trailer for Starship Troopers 3: Marauder tells us quite a few things: First, that 'thinking woman's Vanilla Ice' Casper Van Dien is back as Johnny Rico. Second, that the effects budget for the movie doesn't seem appreciably higher than it was for the lamentable Starship Troopers 2. Third, that this thing looks like a riot.
At last humanity decides to deploy some WMDs to combat those persistent bugs: "Let's go crack a planet" is sure to be catchphrase of the year but there are still plenty of scenes of troopers packed suicidally close together and hosing down monster cockroaches with assault rifles.
The trailer does its best to capture original director Paul Verhoeven's mock-totalitarian irony, and is full of preposterous action. There's still no sign of the power armour from Robert Heinlein's original book but the movie still looks like an essential guilty pleasure treat for fans of sci-fi action. It's direct-to-DVD, so no-one will spot you in the cinema queue.
Isn't this thing dead anymore? Who cares?!
Posted by: Johnnie | 27 Feb 2008 16:21:33
How is it possible than 100 years in the future and two sequels later, we're able to fly across the universe at light speed but we still have to kill bugs with machine guns?
Posted by: Stuck in the 80s | 27 Feb 2008 20:04:24
Looks like a pile of worthless, ultra-violent poo.
Posted by: stuart | 27 Feb 2008 22:12:38
Ha, direct to DVD? Five are bound to show it in about six months at some ungodly hour, like they did with ST2...
And unless there's a really good reason (ie. bit of plot) why not just nuke the planet from a geostationary orbit or sumpfink?
Posted by: Salty | 28 Feb 2008 09:19:39
I *really* liked the first movie. It was over the top and ridiculous. This looks like the right attitude but way too much of the same.
It can't be long before a live-action TV show is developed, eh?
Posted by: Rick Sparks | 29 Feb 2008 17:51:10
I think we might have already had that show - Remember 'Space Above & Beyond?
I loved it, so obviously it was cancelled after one season.
Posted by: Michael Moran | 29 Feb 2008 18:35:49