高尚な批評家の方々からはネオナチ礼賛映画だと評価されたらしいけど、自分のような酒とツマミ片手に映画見る人間にとっては最高の映画だった。
『もっと知りたいですか?』
スターシップ・トゥルーパーズ [Blu-ray]
フォーマット | 色, ドルビー, 字幕付き, ワイドスクリーン, 吹き替え |
コントリビュータ | キャスパー・ヴァン・ディーン, ジェイク・ビジー, ニール・パトリック・ハリス, ディナ・メイヤー, ポール・バーホーベン, デニース・リチャーズ |
言語 | 英語, 日本語 |
稼働時間 | 2 時間 9 分 |
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価格 | — | ¥1,018¥1,018 |
製品仕様 | Blu-ray | DVD |
発売日 | 2010/12/22 | 2006/1/25 |
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- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 言語 : 英語, 日本語
- 製品サイズ : 25 x 2.2 x 18 cm; 68.04 g
- EAN : 4959241712080
- 監督 : ポール・バーホーベン
- メディア形式 : 色, ドルビー, 字幕付き, ワイドスクリーン, 吹き替え
- 時間 : 2 時間 9 分
- 発売日 : 2010/12/22
- 出演 : キャスパー・ヴァン・ディーン, ディナ・メイヤー, デニース・リチャーズ, ジェイク・ビジー, ニール・パトリック・ハリス
- 字幕: : 英語, 日本語
- 言語 : 日本語 (Dolby Digital 5.1), 英語 (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- 販売元 : ウォルト・ディズニー・ジャパン株式会社
- ASIN : B00472MESI
- ディスク枚数 : 1
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 33,544位DVD (DVDの売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 770位外国のSF映画
- - 2,824位外国のアクション映画
- - 3,475位ブルーレイ 外国映画
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4 星
ファンなら買い
映像は中々の印象。フィルムグレインは適度に出ています。フィルムライクな質感が出てはいますが、全体的にノイジー。一部シーンでは気になるレベル。輪郭は丁寧に出ていてシャープネスですが、こちらもシーンによるバラツキがある。全体を通して画質が安定していなく、高画質な箇所、気になる箇所が点在しています。他のBD作品と比べると中々綺麗なレベルではないでしょうか。作品の年代を考えると満足できるレベル。音も中々よい。重低音の響きがよく迫力があります。高音の伸びも悪くないです。効果音が盛り上げてくれる作品なのでよい。広がりの面でやや物足りなさがありますが、サラウンド感も適度に感じられる。セリフ部分はクリアとまではいきませんが許容範囲。ストーリーは昆虫相手のSF戦争映画。とにかく娯楽作品。グロテスクなシーンも多いですが、ノリがよい。SF映画としての完成度は高く世界観の構築ができています。今見るとややチープに見えるCGシーンですが、それでもすごさが伝わる。非現実的ながら妙にリアルに感じる質感も楽しい。笑えてしまうようなそれでいて真剣で残酷な宇宙戦争です。個人的にはどうこう深く考えるような作品ではないと思います。SF好きにはたまらない娯楽作品。何度も観ている作品ですがやはりおもしろい。特典はSD画質で未公開シーンやメイクングなどそこそこ。個人的には全体的に及第点以上で満足感がありました。
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
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怯えているぞ!で爆笑した
脳吸いのバグが見れて良かったけど、あんな感じで脳を液状化させて吸い込んでもただのタンパク質ですから…
そもそもバグが隕石投げてる設定もどうかしてるし、色々とツッコミどころが多い映画
壮大なスケール感で描かれるグログロな戦闘シーンが、兵士たちの無策さと戦争の理不尽さ、バカさ加減を浮き彫りにしている
白兵戦やらなくても空爆だけでよかったんじゃないか?うーん
途中途中で挟まれるプロパガンダCMが演出的にはとても良くて、あなたも兵士になりましょう!いえお断りさせて頂きます、という気分になってくる
バグの無慈悲な感じも良かったなあ
最近になってバーホーベン監督の映画をちょいちょい見てるんだけど、この人の作品は厚みがあって好きだ
人間のわからなさを描けているのが素晴らしい
脳吸いのバグが見れて良かったけど、あんな感じで脳を液状化させて吸い込んでもただのタンパク質ですから…
そもそもバグが隕石投げてる設定もどうかしてるし、色々とツッコミどころが多い映画
壮大なスケール感で描かれるグログロな戦闘シーンが、兵士たちの無策さと戦争の理不尽さ、バカさ加減を浮き彫りにしている
白兵戦やらなくても空爆だけでよかったんじゃないか?うーん
途中途中で挟まれるプロパガンダCMが演出的にはとても良くて、あなたも兵士になりましょう!いえお断りさせて頂きます、という気分になってくる
バグの無慈悲な感じも良かったなあ
最近になってバーホーベン監督の映画をちょいちょい見てるんだけど、この人の作品は厚みがあって好きだ
人間のわからなさを描けているのが素晴らしい
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本当は字幕版が欲しかったのですが売ってなかったので……。
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1997年に1億500万ドルの製作費で製作された、ポール・ヴァーホーベン監督の思いっ切りひねくれた、尖りまくりの反戦映画を是非とも楽しんで下さいませ!傑作は1作目だけですよ!
ちなみに製作費700万ドルの2作目と、製作費2000万ドルの3作目、そして4作目、さらに日本人スタッフによって製作された5作目は、時間をムダにしたい方だけご覧ください・・・って、きっと好きな方もいらっしゃいますよね。申し訳ないです。あくまで個人的意見です(^.^;)
ついでに個人的意見をあとひとつ。73歳になる現在まで数多くの映画で名脇役として引っ張りだこのマイケル・アイアンサイド。当作品公開当時47歳で演じたジーン・ラズチャック先生役がダントツでかっこいい!とワタシは確信しております!!(^o^)v
ちなみに製作費700万ドルの2作目と、製作費2000万ドルの3作目、そして4作目、さらに日本人スタッフによって製作された5作目は、時間をムダにしたい方だけご覧ください・・・って、きっと好きな方もいらっしゃいますよね。申し訳ないです。あくまで個人的意見です(^.^;)
ついでに個人的意見をあとひとつ。73歳になる現在まで数多くの映画で名脇役として引っ張りだこのマイケル・アイアンサイド。当作品公開当時47歳で演じたジーン・ラズチャック先生役がダントツでかっこいい!とワタシは確信しております!!(^o^)v
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B級?スペオペ。でもお金かかっているように見えます。
昔TVの深夜番組で放映していたのを見て、なんか気になっていたのでブルーレイを購入。
内容は大したことが無い映画と思うのですが、不思議にまた見たくなるのは何故?
熱烈なファンがいるというのも頷けます。
プロジェクターの大画面で見て、画質は良いです。
昔TVの深夜番組で放映していたのを見て、なんか気になっていたのでブルーレイを購入。
内容は大したことが無い映画と思うのですが、不思議にまた見たくなるのは何故?
熱烈なファンがいるというのも頷けます。
プロジェクターの大画面で見て、画質は良いです。
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ロボコップと根底に流れているものが共通する。流石Pバーホーベン!
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まずなによりもテンポの良さ、展開が早いので最後まで一気に観れる。合間に流れる「地球連邦軍」のCMも
遊び心がある感じがして好き。
25年も前の映画にしてはそんなに古さを感じません。
これからも何度も見ると思うのでBlu-rayに買い替えました。
遊び心がある感じがして好き。
25年も前の映画にしてはそんなに古さを感じません。
これからも何度も見ると思うのでBlu-rayに買い替えました。
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Jessica Salguero Espinoza
5つ星のうち5.0
Buena peli
2024年1月16日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Llego a tiempo

CIBERPACO
5つ星のうち5.0
Película de culto.
2023年11月29日にメキシコでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
La remasterizacion en 4k simplemente genial. Muy buen producto que vale la pena.

Andries Munnik
5つ星のうち5.0
For the Connoisseurs
2017年5月28日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I am going to assume that most of you who are reading this want to know about this blueray's contents and technical merits.
There are at the time of writing this 4 ways of obtaining this movie on blueray here on Amazon:
- the one I own and am reviewing here, call it the "Three Heads" version, apparently produced in 2008, the main feature starts up with the "Tristar"-logo. Starship Troopers [Blu-ray] [1997] [US Import ]
- the version seen about most often, call it the "Ochre" edition, I own it too and my copy does not have a product date on it, the main feature starts up with the "Buena Vista International"-logo. Starship Troopers [Blu-ray ]
- the steelbook limited collectors' edition, I have no further info on it. Starship Troopers - Limited Edition Steelbook
- the "triple box set" of the three live-action movies in the franchise, which I also do not own. Starship Troopers 1-3 [DVD] [2008 ]
Note that in the Amazon description of the Three Heads version there is talk of it being a DVD. It is NOT a DVD, it is a BlueRay disk.
I am going to talk about the Three Heads version and how it differs from the Ochre version.
TLDR; if you want to own the movie for the extra's, get the Three Heads, if you don't care about extra's and want a version with more audio and subtitle-options, get the Ochre. The Three heads differs mainly from the Ochre in that it has great menu's, the documentary 'Death from Above', FX- and Storyboard-comparisons and most importantly 2 commentary tracks that are simply a must for anyone who likes this movie.
Extra's:
The BlueRay features an interactive game which is reasonably fun. There is also a "Fed-Net Mode" where you are presented, during the movie, with a small Picture-in-Picture image of behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast & crew. And although at least a good part of this info is reiterated from some of the other extra's, they are presented here at their relevant moments during the main feature.
Aside from the Fed-Net mode there is also the Blu-Wizard mode, where you can select which of the special features footage you want to start running automatically at their respective moments during playback of the main feature. I guess it's similar to the Fed Net mode, but it's presented in full screen, plus you cannot as far I can see watch the Fed Net mode material outside of the Fed Net mode, if that makes sense.
Death from above is a pretty exhaustive 30-minute mini-doc on conception, production and all that jazz with interviews with cast and crew. The model-shop is visited, as well as the practical effects shop where the life-sized bugs and gore were created. There are even a few minutes with Denise Richards which is nice, since she's semi-privately stated she did not like the production or the final product.
The FX-comparisons are a blast, where you are presented with full screen "raw-footage" of 9 different scenes with a small picture-in-picture bottom-right displaying the final scene as it is in the movie, all synced up.
The StoryBoard-comparisons are done in the exact same vein and very nice too, although I would like to know if the SB-drawings we see in the main screen are by the designated SB-artist or buy Mr. Verhoeven himself, who reportedly story-boarded the movie as well, sometimes while on the set.
The "scene-deconstruction with Paul Verhoeven" is also done in the same vein, although this time unshaded pre-viz animation replaces the storyboards.
Where the extra features shine most however, are in the commentary-tracks. The actors and director track was recorded, if I deduced correctly, in the year 2007. It is clear that all participants are having a blast while sitting in the same room reminiscing anecdotes, jesting with each other and occasionally calling each other out on some event that happened during the shoot. Great stuff for lovers of the story and the characters, though I'd have loved Mr. Busey to have been present as well. The commentary track by Mssrs. Verhoeven & Neumeier caters more to those interested in the backgrounds of the production itself, but lacks not in the fun-department. There are no subtitles for either of the commentary tracks
Lastly: the often maligned BD-Live functions that were more prevalent in the early days of the medium than they are now. Short story: they don't function for my hardware at least. My guess is that this service has been withdrawn from the servers.
Presentation:
The menu is simply gorgeous, with a hilarious animation of a warrior bug loosing it's front-palps between sliding doors shutting. The chapter selection menu offers custom bookmarks for your convenience. There is an in-movie menu-bar that lets you jump directly to the special features menu, unlike in the "Ochre" blueray which has atrocious navigation. The chapters are lain out differently between the two versions, so I guess that these were chosen somewhat arbitrarily during the mastering process. I give the Ochre versions a point for putting the credit-roll in a chapter of its own.
Technical:
Whereas this disk only has Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (tm), I suppose that's the best version to have for those who have a compatible system. I do not have such a system, but never noticed anything wrong or missing with the sound playing through my TV's speakers. The Ochre disk has more sound-options, but lacks TrueHD.
Picture-wise both versions feel identical. Subjectively, I had a slightly more "cinematic" feeling with the Three Heads disk, whereas the Ochre one felt a bit more "crispy", if that makes any sense. Again, I think this was subjective. They are fine transfers and the actors even comment on this during the commentary track.
Packaging:
The version I got from a vendor in Canada has a bilingual front- and back cover and is in a slimline case with a latch for secure closing. As said: the artwork is horrible and seems Photoshopped by a very incompetent 10-year old (at no point in the movie does Carmen Ibanez wear infantry armor). What it does have however is decent art on the reverse side of the cover insert, visible through the translucent blue plastic case when in place.
The Ochre Edition only differs positively with:
- Movie Showcase: direct links to 3 of the movies most iconic scenes,
- end credits have a separate chapter,
- Teaser Trailer included (Three Heads has no Starship Troopers trailers at all, why?)
- extra audio language: Spanish
- extra audio options: 5.1 dolby & 5.1 DTS for all three audio languages
- extra subtitles Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
Conclusion:
If you want an as complete an experience as possible but only want to buy the movie once, get this one, the "three heads" bad photoshop cover, as contradictory as that sounds. If you are a true fan, get both the Three Heads and the Ochre, buy an empty dual disk BR case and insert the Ochre artwork over the three heads artwork. There: your personal "Ultimate Edition", at least until the the 25 or 30 year anniversary edition comes out :) (please Denise, give this movie some love when that time comes!)
There are at the time of writing this 4 ways of obtaining this movie on blueray here on Amazon:
- the one I own and am reviewing here, call it the "Three Heads" version, apparently produced in 2008, the main feature starts up with the "Tristar"-logo. Starship Troopers [Blu-ray] [1997] [US Import ]
- the version seen about most often, call it the "Ochre" edition, I own it too and my copy does not have a product date on it, the main feature starts up with the "Buena Vista International"-logo. Starship Troopers [Blu-ray ]
- the steelbook limited collectors' edition, I have no further info on it. Starship Troopers - Limited Edition Steelbook
- the "triple box set" of the three live-action movies in the franchise, which I also do not own. Starship Troopers 1-3 [DVD] [2008 ]
Note that in the Amazon description of the Three Heads version there is talk of it being a DVD. It is NOT a DVD, it is a BlueRay disk.
I am going to talk about the Three Heads version and how it differs from the Ochre version.
TLDR; if you want to own the movie for the extra's, get the Three Heads, if you don't care about extra's and want a version with more audio and subtitle-options, get the Ochre. The Three heads differs mainly from the Ochre in that it has great menu's, the documentary 'Death from Above', FX- and Storyboard-comparisons and most importantly 2 commentary tracks that are simply a must for anyone who likes this movie.
Extra's:
The BlueRay features an interactive game which is reasonably fun. There is also a "Fed-Net Mode" where you are presented, during the movie, with a small Picture-in-Picture image of behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast & crew. And although at least a good part of this info is reiterated from some of the other extra's, they are presented here at their relevant moments during the main feature.
Aside from the Fed-Net mode there is also the Blu-Wizard mode, where you can select which of the special features footage you want to start running automatically at their respective moments during playback of the main feature. I guess it's similar to the Fed Net mode, but it's presented in full screen, plus you cannot as far I can see watch the Fed Net mode material outside of the Fed Net mode, if that makes sense.
Death from above is a pretty exhaustive 30-minute mini-doc on conception, production and all that jazz with interviews with cast and crew. The model-shop is visited, as well as the practical effects shop where the life-sized bugs and gore were created. There are even a few minutes with Denise Richards which is nice, since she's semi-privately stated she did not like the production or the final product.
The FX-comparisons are a blast, where you are presented with full screen "raw-footage" of 9 different scenes with a small picture-in-picture bottom-right displaying the final scene as it is in the movie, all synced up.
The StoryBoard-comparisons are done in the exact same vein and very nice too, although I would like to know if the SB-drawings we see in the main screen are by the designated SB-artist or buy Mr. Verhoeven himself, who reportedly story-boarded the movie as well, sometimes while on the set.
The "scene-deconstruction with Paul Verhoeven" is also done in the same vein, although this time unshaded pre-viz animation replaces the storyboards.
Where the extra features shine most however, are in the commentary-tracks. The actors and director track was recorded, if I deduced correctly, in the year 2007. It is clear that all participants are having a blast while sitting in the same room reminiscing anecdotes, jesting with each other and occasionally calling each other out on some event that happened during the shoot. Great stuff for lovers of the story and the characters, though I'd have loved Mr. Busey to have been present as well. The commentary track by Mssrs. Verhoeven & Neumeier caters more to those interested in the backgrounds of the production itself, but lacks not in the fun-department. There are no subtitles for either of the commentary tracks
Lastly: the often maligned BD-Live functions that were more prevalent in the early days of the medium than they are now. Short story: they don't function for my hardware at least. My guess is that this service has been withdrawn from the servers.
Presentation:
The menu is simply gorgeous, with a hilarious animation of a warrior bug loosing it's front-palps between sliding doors shutting. The chapter selection menu offers custom bookmarks for your convenience. There is an in-movie menu-bar that lets you jump directly to the special features menu, unlike in the "Ochre" blueray which has atrocious navigation. The chapters are lain out differently between the two versions, so I guess that these were chosen somewhat arbitrarily during the mastering process. I give the Ochre versions a point for putting the credit-roll in a chapter of its own.
Technical:
Whereas this disk only has Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (tm), I suppose that's the best version to have for those who have a compatible system. I do not have such a system, but never noticed anything wrong or missing with the sound playing through my TV's speakers. The Ochre disk has more sound-options, but lacks TrueHD.
Picture-wise both versions feel identical. Subjectively, I had a slightly more "cinematic" feeling with the Three Heads disk, whereas the Ochre one felt a bit more "crispy", if that makes any sense. Again, I think this was subjective. They are fine transfers and the actors even comment on this during the commentary track.
Packaging:
The version I got from a vendor in Canada has a bilingual front- and back cover and is in a slimline case with a latch for secure closing. As said: the artwork is horrible and seems Photoshopped by a very incompetent 10-year old (at no point in the movie does Carmen Ibanez wear infantry armor). What it does have however is decent art on the reverse side of the cover insert, visible through the translucent blue plastic case when in place.
The Ochre Edition only differs positively with:
- Movie Showcase: direct links to 3 of the movies most iconic scenes,
- end credits have a separate chapter,
- Teaser Trailer included (Three Heads has no Starship Troopers trailers at all, why?)
- extra audio language: Spanish
- extra audio options: 5.1 dolby & 5.1 DTS for all three audio languages
- extra subtitles Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
Conclusion:
If you want an as complete an experience as possible but only want to buy the movie once, get this one, the "three heads" bad photoshop cover, as contradictory as that sounds. If you are a true fan, get both the Three Heads and the Ochre, buy an empty dual disk BR case and insert the Ochre artwork over the three heads artwork. There: your personal "Ultimate Edition", at least until the the 25 or 30 year anniversary edition comes out :) (please Denise, give this movie some love when that time comes!)


Andries Munnik
2017年5月28日に英国でレビュー済み
There are at the time of writing this 4 ways of obtaining this movie on blueray here on Amazon:
- the one I own and am reviewing here, call it the "Three Heads" version, apparently produced in 2008, the main feature starts up with the "Tristar"-logo. [[ASIN:B000UAFDP2 Starship Troopers [Blu-ray] [1997] [US Import]]]
- the version seen about most often, call it the "Ochre" edition, I own it too and my copy does not have a product date on it, the main feature starts up with the "Buena Vista International"-logo. [[ASIN:B000R3431M Starship Troopers [Blu-ray]]]
- the steelbook limited collectors' edition, I have no further info on it. [[ASIN:B00FIELNTK Starship Troopers - Limited Edition Steelbook]]
- the "triple box set" of the three live-action movies in the franchise, which I also do not own. [[ASIN:B001CD3PCY Starship Troopers 1-3 [DVD] [2008]]]
Note that in the Amazon description of the Three Heads version there is talk of it being a DVD. It is NOT a DVD, it is a BlueRay disk.
I am going to talk about the Three Heads version and how it differs from the Ochre version.
TLDR; if you want to own the movie for the extra's, get the Three Heads, if you don't care about extra's and want a version with more audio and subtitle-options, get the Ochre. The Three heads differs mainly from the Ochre in that it has great menu's, the documentary 'Death from Above', FX- and Storyboard-comparisons and most importantly 2 commentary tracks that are simply a must for anyone who likes this movie.
Extra's:
The BlueRay features an interactive game which is reasonably fun. There is also a "Fed-Net Mode" where you are presented, during the movie, with a small Picture-in-Picture image of behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast & crew. And although at least a good part of this info is reiterated from some of the other extra's, they are presented here at their relevant moments during the main feature.
Aside from the Fed-Net mode there is also the Blu-Wizard mode, where you can select which of the special features footage you want to start running automatically at their respective moments during playback of the main feature. I guess it's similar to the Fed Net mode, but it's presented in full screen, plus you cannot as far I can see watch the Fed Net mode material outside of the Fed Net mode, if that makes sense.
Death from above is a pretty exhaustive 30-minute mini-doc on conception, production and all that jazz with interviews with cast and crew. The model-shop is visited, as well as the practical effects shop where the life-sized bugs and gore were created. There are even a few minutes with Denise Richards which is nice, since she's semi-privately stated she did not like the production or the final product.
The FX-comparisons are a blast, where you are presented with full screen "raw-footage" of 9 different scenes with a small picture-in-picture bottom-right displaying the final scene as it is in the movie, all synced up.
The StoryBoard-comparisons are done in the exact same vein and very nice too, although I would like to know if the SB-drawings we see in the main screen are by the designated SB-artist or buy Mr. Verhoeven himself, who reportedly story-boarded the movie as well, sometimes while on the set.
The "scene-deconstruction with Paul Verhoeven" is also done in the same vein, although this time unshaded pre-viz animation replaces the storyboards.
Where the extra features shine most however, are in the commentary-tracks. The actors and director track was recorded, if I deduced correctly, in the year 2007. It is clear that all participants are having a blast while sitting in the same room reminiscing anecdotes, jesting with each other and occasionally calling each other out on some event that happened during the shoot. Great stuff for lovers of the story and the characters, though I'd have loved Mr. Busey to have been present as well. The commentary track by Mssrs. Verhoeven & Neumeier caters more to those interested in the backgrounds of the production itself, but lacks not in the fun-department. There are no subtitles for either of the commentary tracks
Lastly: the often maligned BD-Live functions that were more prevalent in the early days of the medium than they are now. Short story: they don't function for my hardware at least. My guess is that this service has been withdrawn from the servers.
Presentation:
The menu is simply gorgeous, with a hilarious animation of a warrior bug loosing it's front-palps between sliding doors shutting. The chapter selection menu offers custom bookmarks for your convenience. There is an in-movie menu-bar that lets you jump directly to the special features menu, unlike in the "Ochre" blueray which has atrocious navigation. The chapters are lain out differently between the two versions, so I guess that these were chosen somewhat arbitrarily during the mastering process. I give the Ochre versions a point for putting the credit-roll in a chapter of its own.
Technical:
Whereas this disk only has Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (tm), I suppose that's the best version to have for those who have a compatible system. I do not have such a system, but never noticed anything wrong or missing with the sound playing through my TV's speakers. The Ochre disk has more sound-options, but lacks TrueHD.
Picture-wise both versions feel identical. Subjectively, I had a slightly more "cinematic" feeling with the Three Heads disk, whereas the Ochre one felt a bit more "crispy", if that makes any sense. Again, I think this was subjective. They are fine transfers and the actors even comment on this during the commentary track.
Packaging:
The version I got from a vendor in Canada has a bilingual front- and back cover and is in a slimline case with a latch for secure closing. As said: the artwork is horrible and seems Photoshopped by a very incompetent 10-year old (at no point in the movie does Carmen Ibanez wear infantry armor). What it does have however is decent art on the reverse side of the cover insert, visible through the translucent blue plastic case when in place.
The Ochre Edition only differs positively with:
- Movie Showcase: direct links to 3 of the movies most iconic scenes,
- end credits have a separate chapter,
- Teaser Trailer included (Three Heads has no Starship Troopers trailers at all, why?)
- extra audio language: Spanish
- extra audio options: 5.1 dolby & 5.1 DTS for all three audio languages
- extra subtitles Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
Conclusion:
If you want an as complete an experience as possible but only want to buy the movie once, get this one, the "three heads" bad photoshop cover, as contradictory as that sounds. If you are a true fan, get both the Three Heads and the Ochre, buy an empty dual disk BR case and insert the Ochre artwork over the three heads artwork. There: your personal "Ultimate Edition", at least until the the 25 or 30 year anniversary edition comes out :) (please Denise, give this movie some love when that time comes!)
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Thomas M. Sipos
5つ星のうち5.0
9/11 Satire -- Shot Pre-9/11
2006年4月25日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Bedtime story, from Papa Bush to his young 'uns: Once upon a time, a long time from now, there was a United Earth. A New World Order of peace, prosperity and freedom. Everyone was clean and pretty and healthy. Good genes, all around. Black people too. And the streets were clean, and the environment, and the trains ran on time. Then one day, bad monsters attacked Earth, because the monsters were evil and ugly, and looked like giant bugs (because they were giant bugs), and they hated anybody lucky enough to have so much peace, prosperity and freedom, and who were so good-looking.
But luckily for the happy people of Earth, their world government had the bestest military in the universe, with lots of gnarly weapons and way cool uniforms. So everyone enlisted like crazy to fight the ultimate war between good and evil. The politicos and top brass called it the Bug War -- but for the young recruits, it was the kick-ass adventure of a lifetime!
The bugs never had a chance. The end.
No, not a bedtime story, but Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, a dead-on satire of post-9/11 war hysteria -- astonishing because it was released in 1997!
The film's satire was originally aimed at its source material: Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel, Starship Troopers (condemned by some critics upon publication as "fascistic"). But like humor-impaired Trekies, many Heinlein fans remained clueless and unamused. They complained that the film had replaced Heinlein's socio-political military philosophy with mindless bug battles. Few realized the joke was on them. Verhoeven didn't so much ignore Heinlein's philosophizing as lampoon it.
Heinlein's novel paints a future Earth in which everyone enjoys equal rights and liberties -- except to vote and hold office, which are reserved only to those who complete military service. Enlistment is voluntary and non-discriminatory; any sex, any age. Blue-haired grannies can sign up. But no special treatment. Many softies die in the sadistically brutal boot camps. (However, you can quit anytime, without reprisal). Another rule: everyone fights. Cooks, supply clerks, nurses, medics, privates, generals. No paper pushers or desk warmers in Heinlein's military.
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers parodies Heinlein's romanticized military culture by trivializing and sanitizing war. Soldiers are sexy and clean even after battle, ready to party hardy. Ready to die. Dina Meyer's deathbed speech satirizes an old war film clich?: while reaffirming her love for her main squeeze, she nobly adds that she has "no regrets" about her sacrifice.
For "red shirt" soldiers, death is less sentimental. Quick -- and quickly forgotten. After shooting a captured soldier (to prevent a painful bug death) Michael Ironside curtly informs his platoon: "I expect you to do the same for me." Which they do.
Starship Troopers was no big hit in 1997, but it has its fans, many of whom -- judging by review postings on Amazon.com -- confuse the film for a serious sci-fi epic with a "war is hell" message. (Not surprisingly, post-9/11 postings are more likely to "get it".)
Those who doubt the film's satirical intent should consider one hero's uniform, which can best be described as neo-Third Reich. Clearly, Verhoeven's film was not informed by Heinlein's libertarian fans, but by those critics who interpreted the novel as fascistic.
Also noteworthy, the film's stars are all strikingly attractive with well-chiseled Aryan features.
However, their SS physiques are not part of the plot, but merely a hint at the film's underlying satire. Plotwise, Federal Service (as it's called) is open to all, and the Aryan protagonists warmly welcome their sidekicks of color. In one brief scene, a dumpy black female is appointed as the new Sky Marshall, promising to "take the war to the bugs."
However, because many moviegoers confuse fascism with racism, and because most of them were unfamiliar with the novel, the film's satire was lost on many. For most moviegoers, the film was just vapid soldiers shooting giant bugs. Further obscuring the satire, the soldiers were just too damn sexy, the bugs too mean and ugly. We humans are inclined to sympathize with attractive people, which is why satirists often paint their targets in hideous garb (communists as pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm, and as grotesque vampires in my own Vampire Nation).
Starship Troopers takes the opposite tact, painting globalist fascism as imagined by globalist fascists. Everyone is healthy and happy and sexy. The satire is in the exaggeration of fascist ideals (as in Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream). With unwavering fortitude and unshakable confidence in Earth's inevitable total victory, Denise Richards flashes her Pepsident smile throughout the film. In hairy battles, her mouth may turn sexily pouty, but her brilliant teeth soon return, vast and blinding, equally at home on a TV commercial and an SS recruiting poster.
Want to laugh out loud? The funniest scenes are the recruiting ads and "news" propaganda bulletins. One "news" item features warmly grinning soldiers distributing bullets to the delighted squeal of eager schoolkids. (How clueless do you have to be to post reviews at Amazon praising the film's "war is hell" message?)
But the clueless are out there. Unfamiliar with the book, smitten with the sexy stars and repelled by the bugs, many didn't "get" the jokes. In practical terms, until 9/11 Starship Troopers was a satire without a target. The war hysteria following 9/11 provided that, the players and events stepping tailor-made into the film's sites with amazing prescience, granting the film a powerful resonance that was lacking when it was first released.
All the parallels are present. The enemy -- the Bugs -- are pure evil. The military, the news reports, the war, the government, are all beyond question. If they make a mistake, they can be trusted to correct it. United Earth we stand.
The Bug War begins with a Bug attack on a city. In the film's eeriest scene, a burning building's framework resembles the Twin Towers. Also remarkable are the many random jokes that find a target post-9/11. In adapting a 1950s book to a 1990s sensibility, Verhoeven tossed in some contemporary satirical barbs unconnected to the book, or even to much of anything in 1997 -- but which eerily resonate with our post-9/11 war culture.
There is the film's black female Sky Marshall, a kooky but satirically pointless joke in 1997. Yet it's a role tailor made for Condoleezza Rice. There are the TV war correspondents, absent in the book, but today stationed in Iraq. They pester the soldiers in battle, don't appreciate the threat, and are killed by the bugs. There are the TV pundits who would understand the bugs, woolly and ineffectual as seen through the film's fascist prism (the New World Order likes to see itself as tolerant).
Starship Troopers is a penetrating satire of post-9/11 war hysteria as might be imagined by an idealistic New World Order fascist. It's hard to believe it was made pre-9/11; impossible to think it could be made post-9/11. Starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey, and Michael Ironside.
But luckily for the happy people of Earth, their world government had the bestest military in the universe, with lots of gnarly weapons and way cool uniforms. So everyone enlisted like crazy to fight the ultimate war between good and evil. The politicos and top brass called it the Bug War -- but for the young recruits, it was the kick-ass adventure of a lifetime!
The bugs never had a chance. The end.
No, not a bedtime story, but Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, a dead-on satire of post-9/11 war hysteria -- astonishing because it was released in 1997!
The film's satire was originally aimed at its source material: Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel, Starship Troopers (condemned by some critics upon publication as "fascistic"). But like humor-impaired Trekies, many Heinlein fans remained clueless and unamused. They complained that the film had replaced Heinlein's socio-political military philosophy with mindless bug battles. Few realized the joke was on them. Verhoeven didn't so much ignore Heinlein's philosophizing as lampoon it.
Heinlein's novel paints a future Earth in which everyone enjoys equal rights and liberties -- except to vote and hold office, which are reserved only to those who complete military service. Enlistment is voluntary and non-discriminatory; any sex, any age. Blue-haired grannies can sign up. But no special treatment. Many softies die in the sadistically brutal boot camps. (However, you can quit anytime, without reprisal). Another rule: everyone fights. Cooks, supply clerks, nurses, medics, privates, generals. No paper pushers or desk warmers in Heinlein's military.
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers parodies Heinlein's romanticized military culture by trivializing and sanitizing war. Soldiers are sexy and clean even after battle, ready to party hardy. Ready to die. Dina Meyer's deathbed speech satirizes an old war film clich?: while reaffirming her love for her main squeeze, she nobly adds that she has "no regrets" about her sacrifice.
For "red shirt" soldiers, death is less sentimental. Quick -- and quickly forgotten. After shooting a captured soldier (to prevent a painful bug death) Michael Ironside curtly informs his platoon: "I expect you to do the same for me." Which they do.
Starship Troopers was no big hit in 1997, but it has its fans, many of whom -- judging by review postings on Amazon.com -- confuse the film for a serious sci-fi epic with a "war is hell" message. (Not surprisingly, post-9/11 postings are more likely to "get it".)
Those who doubt the film's satirical intent should consider one hero's uniform, which can best be described as neo-Third Reich. Clearly, Verhoeven's film was not informed by Heinlein's libertarian fans, but by those critics who interpreted the novel as fascistic.
Also noteworthy, the film's stars are all strikingly attractive with well-chiseled Aryan features.
However, their SS physiques are not part of the plot, but merely a hint at the film's underlying satire. Plotwise, Federal Service (as it's called) is open to all, and the Aryan protagonists warmly welcome their sidekicks of color. In one brief scene, a dumpy black female is appointed as the new Sky Marshall, promising to "take the war to the bugs."
However, because many moviegoers confuse fascism with racism, and because most of them were unfamiliar with the novel, the film's satire was lost on many. For most moviegoers, the film was just vapid soldiers shooting giant bugs. Further obscuring the satire, the soldiers were just too damn sexy, the bugs too mean and ugly. We humans are inclined to sympathize with attractive people, which is why satirists often paint their targets in hideous garb (communists as pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm, and as grotesque vampires in my own Vampire Nation).
Starship Troopers takes the opposite tact, painting globalist fascism as imagined by globalist fascists. Everyone is healthy and happy and sexy. The satire is in the exaggeration of fascist ideals (as in Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream). With unwavering fortitude and unshakable confidence in Earth's inevitable total victory, Denise Richards flashes her Pepsident smile throughout the film. In hairy battles, her mouth may turn sexily pouty, but her brilliant teeth soon return, vast and blinding, equally at home on a TV commercial and an SS recruiting poster.
Want to laugh out loud? The funniest scenes are the recruiting ads and "news" propaganda bulletins. One "news" item features warmly grinning soldiers distributing bullets to the delighted squeal of eager schoolkids. (How clueless do you have to be to post reviews at Amazon praising the film's "war is hell" message?)
But the clueless are out there. Unfamiliar with the book, smitten with the sexy stars and repelled by the bugs, many didn't "get" the jokes. In practical terms, until 9/11 Starship Troopers was a satire without a target. The war hysteria following 9/11 provided that, the players and events stepping tailor-made into the film's sites with amazing prescience, granting the film a powerful resonance that was lacking when it was first released.
All the parallels are present. The enemy -- the Bugs -- are pure evil. The military, the news reports, the war, the government, are all beyond question. If they make a mistake, they can be trusted to correct it. United Earth we stand.
The Bug War begins with a Bug attack on a city. In the film's eeriest scene, a burning building's framework resembles the Twin Towers. Also remarkable are the many random jokes that find a target post-9/11. In adapting a 1950s book to a 1990s sensibility, Verhoeven tossed in some contemporary satirical barbs unconnected to the book, or even to much of anything in 1997 -- but which eerily resonate with our post-9/11 war culture.
There is the film's black female Sky Marshall, a kooky but satirically pointless joke in 1997. Yet it's a role tailor made for Condoleezza Rice. There are the TV war correspondents, absent in the book, but today stationed in Iraq. They pester the soldiers in battle, don't appreciate the threat, and are killed by the bugs. There are the TV pundits who would understand the bugs, woolly and ineffectual as seen through the film's fascist prism (the New World Order likes to see itself as tolerant).
Starship Troopers is a penetrating satire of post-9/11 war hysteria as might be imagined by an idealistic New World Order fascist. It's hard to believe it was made pre-9/11; impossible to think it could be made post-9/11. Starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey, and Michael Ironside.