Starship Troopers (1997)

Wikidata Q478626, film, IMDb tt0120201, TMDB 563: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Neil Patrick Harris as actor (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang); 2 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

The Rewatchables' awards

Picked in other episodes

Double feature (pick) for RoboCop (1987): Another Verhoeven movie to pair with this one. unknown · 1:47:08

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: 2 lines theme ×1 contrast ×1

contrast (inversion): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers ends with bug-hatred propaganda, whereas Nausicaä realizes the bugs are just trying to survive and approaches them with empathy.
“reading the mind of the bug and cheering the fact that they're afraid because it's all about propaganda.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:43:58 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Paul Verhoeven: 1 line industry ×1

industry (industry): Paul Verhoeven → Starship Troopers. He pitched Starship Troopers with a VFX demo of a bug killing a cow.
“It was all VFX of like a bug killing a cow.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Ready Player One: 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Ready Player One → Starship Troopers. Ready Player One will be competent Spielberg but is no Starship Troopers.
“It's no Starship Troopers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

RoboCop: 1 line career ×1

career (career): RoboCop → Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers is the most extreme form of the deconstruction-as-entertainment approach.
“Starship Troopers is sort of the most extreme version of it where they're like, we won.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang, first at 0:38:03, 3 times
compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood, first at 0:13:48, 3 times
passing in The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:04:03, 2 times
passing in The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons, first at 0:19:17, 1 time
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014), first at 1:06:41, 1 time
anecdote in Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free), first at 0:06:43, 1 time
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free), first at 2:44:26, 2 times
compared in Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free), first at 1:43:12, 2 times

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

career (career): RoboCop → Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers is the most extreme form of the deconstruction-as-entertainment approach.
“Starship Troopers is sort of the most extreme version of it where they're like, we won.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

contrast (inversion): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers ends with bug-hatred propaganda, whereas Nausicaä realizes the bugs are just trying to survive and approaches them with empathy.
“reading the mind of the bug and cheering the fact that they're afraid because it's all about propaganda.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:43:58 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Ready Player One → Starship Troopers. Ready Player One will be competent Spielberg but is no Starship Troopers.
“It's no Starship Troopers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (industry): Paul Verhoeven → Starship Troopers. He pitched Starship Troopers with a VFX demo of a bug killing a cow.
“It was all VFX of like a bug killing a cow.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (premise comparison): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Starship Troopers. Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs.
“Like this is his people versus Bugs movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

None.

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.

Paul Verhoeven: director (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Flesh+Blood)
Paul Verhoeven: director (Blank Check — Patreon, RoboCop (2014))
Neil Patrick Harris: actor (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang)