I saw Starship Troopers again yesterday, and quickly remembered why I loved it in the first place. It was bold, gory, fun and original. The special effects were great for it's time (1997), and while the acting was a bit dry, the characters were likable.
Then someone thought it would be funny to ruin it with a pathetic sequel. When I sat down to watch this film, I had high hopes. I knew that it wouldn't compare to the original, but I expected to see another story about humans battling giant bugs on some desert planet. What we got was a stupid rip-off of Alien/s.
The film started promising, once more with an advertisement to join the Federation in it's war against the bug and the glory of war, and then quickly change to soldiers being ripped apart by giant alien insects, but then went straight into a story about a bunch of people trapped in a building of some sort with bugs that eat peoples brains and take over their bodies and pick the characters off one by one. Not surprisingly, the hero is a woman (like Riply in Alien) whose lover becomes the victim of the bugs and has to fight him, which she finds hard with his predictable "Join us" and "There's no escape" dialog.
The characters are 2-D, the actors are wooden, the SFX are awful and the story is a huge let down (compared to the original).
All director listen up: If you want to make a sequel to film that didn't need one, at least do something that hasn't been done 400 million times before. Keep it fresh and original or, failing that, don't make the film at all.
Then someone thought it would be funny to ruin it with a pathetic sequel. When I sat down to watch this film, I had high hopes. I knew that it wouldn't compare to the original, but I expected to see another story about humans battling giant bugs on some desert planet. What we got was a stupid rip-off of Alien/s.
The film started promising, once more with an advertisement to join the Federation in it's war against the bug and the glory of war, and then quickly change to soldiers being ripped apart by giant alien insects, but then went straight into a story about a bunch of people trapped in a building of some sort with bugs that eat peoples brains and take over their bodies and pick the characters off one by one. Not surprisingly, the hero is a woman (like Riply in Alien) whose lover becomes the victim of the bugs and has to fight him, which she finds hard with his predictable "Join us" and "There's no escape" dialog.
The characters are 2-D, the actors are wooden, the SFX are awful and the story is a huge let down (compared to the original).
All director listen up: If you want to make a sequel to film that didn't need one, at least do something that hasn't been done 400 million times before. Keep it fresh and original or, failing that, don't make the film at all.