Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starship Troopers is basically two movies - one is standard sci-fi fare about destroying colonies of gigantic space bugs. the other involves the sly observation that much of our education and athletic training can easily be used in the service of killing things.
One of the best parts about Starship Troopers is that its exposition is hidden inside a fascistic 'newscast' which always manages to sound chipper and stoic even when it's reporting bad news. The entire world of Starship Troopers is never quite explained - for instance, we never know why there's now a worldwide government or why humanity is at war with giant space bugs. It's a welcome change from films that try to overload with exposition, so as to assure the viewer that the 'good guys' are definitely in the right (or perhaps the wrong, e.g. District 9).
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