Starship Troopers Vs. King Kong (2005)
 

My buddy and I have a bet as to which is a crappier movie. I know the movies are very different but vote on the movie you dislike more.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you got hardcore leveled by Starship Troopers.

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Starship troopers was awesome. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Starship troopers was awesome. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?

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The whole thing kinda' makes me mad but I'll tell you my opinion tomorrow. I loved one movie and absolutely hated the other.

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Starship troopers was awesome. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Any movie with a naked Dina Meyer is awesome.

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Anyone voting starship troopers please post so i can add you to my ignore list ala clarkmeister.

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The whole thing kinda' makes me mad but I'll tell you my opinion tomorrow. I loved one movie and absolutely hated the other.

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You must like Starship Troopers, no one could "love" king kong. It was an ok movie, not bad but not great.

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Anyone voting starship troopers please post so i can add you to my ignore list ala clarkmeister.

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You're some sort of big, fat, smart bug, aren't you?

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It sucked his brains out!

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Did you really say King Kong sucked? Are you serious? That movie had Kong fighting not one, not two, BUT THREE [censored] T-REX's AT ONCE. What more could you possibly want from a movie?!

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WTF King Kong was sweet. HE FOUGHT DINOSAURS. HE RIPPED ONE OF THEIR JAWS APART.

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Your poll is irrelevant

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Starship Troopers was awesome ridiculous.

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Jean Rasczak: You got 10 minutes to get ready and go.
Johnny Rico: Yes sir.
Jean Rasczak: Whos's in there with you?
Dizzy: Flores, sir.
Jean Rasczak: Make it 20.
Johnny Rico: We can do it.


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Starship troopers was awesome. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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lol i loved starship troopers, then again i was like 14 when i first saw it.

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It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first.

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I read the book. Starship Troopers was still [censored] awesome.

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It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first.

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In lieu of making the hilarious sarcastic comment I was originally going to make here, I'm going to actually be serious and point out that the movie was meant to be a satire of the book and the militarism Robert Heinlein espoused in it.



Would you like to know more?

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At first I agreed with stabn that anyone voting for Starship Troopers was retarded. But King Kong fighting 3 t-rex's and ripping their jaw apart is starting to make me wonder...

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starship troppers is awesome.

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Starship troopers was awesome.

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It makes me sad that someone didn't get Starship Troopers.

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It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first.

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In lieu of making the hilarious sarcastic comment I was originally going to make here, I'm going to actually be serious and point out that the movie was meant to be a satire of the book and the militarism Robert Heinlein espoused in it.



Would you like to know more?

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Why? It is still one of the worst movies I've every watched.

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I read the book. Starship Troopers was still [censored] awesome.

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Starship Troopers is great. Remember, this is from the director responsible for "Showgirls". He can do no wrong.

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starship troopers swept the academy awards if i remember correctly... most respected film critics cite it as the greatest movie ever made. king kong is just a monkey trying to [censored] some girl and eat jack black, or some [censored].

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This poll is terrible. Neither movie absolutely sucked, and Starship Troopers was actually pretty good.

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Starship Troopers was [censored] awesome.

I didn't know it was satire, but it is kind of obvious that it was obviously on purpose over the top.

favorite scene:

[Ace is having difficulty with throwing knives]
Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. What goods' a knife in a nuke fight? All you have to do is press a button, sir.
Career Sergeant Zim: Put your hand on that wall trooper. PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL!
[Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand pinning it to the wall]
Career Sergeant Zim: The enemy can not press a button... if you have disabled his hand. Medic!

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Starship Troopers pwns.

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It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first.

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In lieu of making the hilarious sarcastic comment I was originally going to make here, I'm going to actually be serious and point out that the movie was meant to be a satire of the book and the militarism Robert Heinlein espoused in it.



Would you like to know more?

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Why? It is still one of the worst movies I've every watched.

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Haha, someone didn't get the fact that it was intentionally satirical.

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I thought both of these movies were Kool, although KK is an hour too long and needed more violence, nudity and profanity.

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I thought both of these movies were Kool, although KK is an hour too long and needed more violence, nudity and profanity.

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I wish you were an executive producer for this movie.

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I remember reading an LA Times article when Starship Troopers that pointed out the satire aspects of the film (according to this link it was by Jon Zelazny). A couple of the points:

- Paul Verhoeven grew up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during his childhood. There were a bunch of similarities between Starship Troopers and the WWII-era Nazi propagnda films.

- The initial scene describing why the humans started attacking the bugs was that the bugs hurled asteroids at Earth killing a bunch of people. But does that really make sense? At any point in the film, do the bugs show even tool-making capabilities?

- Verhoeven also said in the DVD commentary that it was a take on American militarism. Plus, those propaganda-like news pieces that appear in the film make it look like satire.

It was a pretty controversial film when it came out, Kenneth Turan called it complete fascism and recommended it at the same time. I thought it was good, but I'll admit it wasn't exactly high brow cinema.

All that said, I've never seen King Kong so I can't vote. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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It makes me sad that someone didn't get Starship Troopers.

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I didn't think anybody got Starship Troopers. Glad to see otherwise.

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Well, it seems pretty obvious now but I loved Starship Troopers and hated King Kong. I didn't think enough happend in King Kong. Waiting 1.5 hours for the big monkey to show up was bad but when he started doing Kung-Fu against 3 T-Rex's I wanted to shoot myself.

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How can anyone not like the work of Paul Verhoeven? The guy's a sick genius.

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wtf starship troopers was amazing

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You and your buddy both suck if you think Starship Troopers was a crap movie. It was awesomenous personified. In fact this thread has inspired me to go find it and watch it this afternoon in front of the fire on the couch with the rain pouring down outside, a six pack and some snack food by my side.

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It would be interesting to see how many people who don't think Starship Troopers was the biggest pile of [censored] every put down on film actually read the book first.

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You ever talk about a movie with someone who read the book? They're always so condescending, "Ah, the book was much better than the movie." "Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie? No reading. It only took two hours, and then I could take a nap."