Starship Troopers – RAW

Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 10:25 pm

RAW is right. watch Starship Troopers as Heinlein wished it were imagined for the screen in the first place. Here we have a fun action adventure with all the usual sci-fi craziness that you would expect from hunting down large disgusting BUGS without all the silly love interest and cheese. A tightly paced war movie! Awesome.

entertainment 5/5
fanediting 5/5
video 5/5
audio 5/5
original 3.5/5
fanedit 4.5/5

5/5!

This was an interesting fanedit. Starship Troopers is such a great guilty pleasure movie for me, I thought it was terrible when I first saw it but as I got older I understood satire better and now I think it’s pretty brilliant. But with this edit, it takes away everything that was brilliant. It’s a terrible terrible movie now. Narratively speaking, it’s a piece of shit. Entertainment-wise it’s still a whole hell of a lot of fun to watch. (Not quite on par with Saving Private Ryan, I must say.)

AV Quality - 8
Editing - 9 visual, 8 audio
Narrative - 5
Enjoyment - 8 (original 9)

Recommended drink: Moonshine