STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) Breakdown | Easter Eggs, Hidden Details, Making Of & Ending Explained. In this video, we break down Starship troopers. This is a deep dive into the first installment of the series to break down all the Easter Eggs, Hidden Details and Things you Missed throughout the Movie. Released in the year 1997 and Directed by Paul Verhoeven, we go through all of the things that went into making this amazing movie.
Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down Starship Troopers.
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Released in 1997 this was a big staple of my childhood with the movie becoming one of my favourites from the decade. I loved the over the top action, insane space moments and the coming of age story about our hero Johnny Rico. Now at the time the subtexct completely went over my head and when watching it as an adult I realised there was a completely different layer to the movie that my 9 year old brain didn't pick up on. Paul Verhoeven is a master of satire and for me this rivals his classic Robocop in terms of subtext and parody.
What I love about the movie is that you can enjoy it as an over the top action flick or watch it for it's more cerebral and metaphorical comments. Playing up the glorification of war, propaganda and a society centred around military rule this movies aged excellently and there's so much to unpack from it.