[Star Dragon]

Go HERE! http://www.starshiptroopers2.net/ie/bindex1.html

   They need to work on the website a little but hey they got some good preview info..

   OMG! Jim Ellison (The Sentinel) is the new hero!
   
   "Hey Jim, how many bugs around the corner?"
    (Jim uses his Sentinel hearing)
   "5, four are shredding a body and one is playing with a pulse rifle"
   

[aldo_14]

Straight to video.

[Flipside]

That never bodes well

[aldo_14]

I have to be honest and say it looks utterly awful...a cast of cheap-TV only actors, set in a planet of duststroms and darkness to reduce the effects budget and remove location costs (no view distance), plastic looking sets & props......IIRc it's being made by the SFX company repsonsiblew for the original, which doesn't exactly bode well when it comes to storyline, acting, production or anything beyond, well, sfx.

[J3Vr6]

the first one sucked.  That was one movie I wanted to see and they pooped out a turd.  I don't even think I finished watching it.

[an0n]

I liked the first one.

Though the Roughneck Chronicles were better.

Shame they iced them to make way for crap like Max Steel.

[aldo_14]

The first hour or so of the movie was ****, though - we almost walked out the cinema.  Latter half, when stuff started being killed, was much better.

I think i saw the Roughneck chronicles a few times on sky.... they seemed to be crippled by the fact it was a kids show, so you can't show blood and guts.... which kind of ruins the whole point of having big stabby bugs.

[an0n]

Yeah, that was a little sucky, but it followed the original Starship Troopers tale far more faithfully than the movie.

[diamondgeezer]

A sci-fi movie with Jennifer Ellison in it? My God... this will quite possibly be the greatest moving picture of all time

*is deeply in love with Jennifer Ellison*

EDIT: Who whoa whoa. I see no Jennifer in the cast list. You best not be pulling my plonker Star Dragon

[aldo_14]

Jim Ellison

[diamondgeezer]

God dammit on a pogo stick with dancing elephants in pink tutus

[J3Vr6]

I think I stopped watching it when they were still training (when someone get's blown up with a grenade or something?)

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by J3Vr6
I think I stopped watching it when they were still training (when someone get's blown up with a grenade or something?)

It gets much better after the training bit.... not classic, granted, but pretty entertaining.  

Everything before that, though, is utter pish.

[an0n]

I'll remind you of the shower-scene.

*hands aldo a gun*

Now, go punish yourself for forgetting about it.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by an0n
I'll remind you of the shower-scene.

*hands aldo a gun*

Now, go punish yourself for forgetting about it.

Oh, come on.  We have the internet nowadays for that sort of thing, so it's no longer that important in judging flims.

[diamondgeezer]

Dude, boobies are important. It doesn't get much more important.

[J3Vr6]

Too bad it's not worth renting and I doubt I'd see it on cable.

[adwight]

I'm gonna see it, am I one of the only ones that liked the first one?

[diamondgeezer]

ST ruled. It had space ships, giant bugs, hi-tech soldiers, orbital drops, massive explosions and boobies. There is nothing else I could want in a movie with the possible exeception of Terminators. Not to mention the fact that the effects remain utterly fantastic (they owned on the big screen)

[Dr.Zer0]

for some reason, SST was much better as a Duke Nuke 3D modification
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