Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating:  List Price: $ 89.95 Price: $ 41.49 |
Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: List Price: $ 89.95 Price: $ 41.49 |
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Review by Moonlight Graham for Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
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This is the only way to pick up the entire trilogy on Blu-Ray. At this point, I’m going to guess that you, like me, loved the first film. If not, why are you even considering buying a box set featuring three films, two of which were direct-to-video? So, I’ll skip over the original and assume you’re already sold on it.
The second film is a pretty low-budget film, and it’s not very good and doesn’t even really fit in with the other two movies. So, I think the term “trilogy” is applied pretty loosely here. Still, despite its low budget, it did do a few things right and isn’t completely a waste of time. The transfer isn’t that great as the picture is quite grainy. I haven’t seen it on DVD. Just judging from the Blu-Ray, there shouldn’t be a big jump in quality from the DVD to the Blu-Ray. I doubt they spent much time upgrading the quality of the picture and sound, if at all.
Starship Troopers 3 is more of a sequel to the first film, and it was pretty average. It’s nice that they were able to get Casper Van Dien back; it definitely helps out the film. The scope of this film is more limited than the first, and it’s a little goofier, campier, and just plain weird. The CGI is not very convincing at times. This film isn’t all bad, though. The picture and sound quality are pretty good, especially considering this was straight to video.
I’d recommend renting the second and third films if you have any interest, and then determine if you want to buy it.
Review by AMP for Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
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Starship Troopers (4 stars out of 5)
Bucketloads of bloody fun…literally. This first film is very fresh, original, and unique (as it is with all of Paul Verhoven’s films). It’s also very gory, gooey, and gross (sure to scare away the squeamish). Has some interesting satire throughout. The story is engaging. The characters (and thus the acting and writing) are good. The action and special effects are awesome, even by today’s standards. Highly reccomended for all sci-fi fans who don’t mind some gnarly parts.
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (1.5 out of 5)
Very bad on all levels. Bad story, photography, writing, acting, and production value. Even the special effects are substandard. Very dull all around.
Starship Troopers 3: Maurader (3.75 out of 5)
Good, especially when compared to the second one in the series. It retains the same style, sense of action, and attitudes of the first film. Storyline is allright, and the characters are good. Has stronger political and religious themes and content. Still less than par, but nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be.
The first film in this series is most worthwhile watching; the other two are kind of a hit-and-a-miss. The second film suffers tremendously, but could still be good if you want to see a mindless B-rated flick. The third one is great, but most people will hate it if they didn’t like any one of the others. But for most sci-fi fans, it’s a great series.
It may also be good to note that these films are probably not true to Robert Heinlein’s original novel.
The Blu-Ray discs have really great video and sound quality for the most part. The second film doesn’t have perfect video quality, but is mostly good. The third film doesn’t have perfect sound quality, but is still watchable. All discs have a good array of special features (especially the first film, which includes all of the original features from the 2-disc DVD set (featurettes, deleted scenes, screen tests, and more!) plus brand-new featurettes and special Blu-Ray stuff).
I’ve added another star to this rating, for the quality of the discs and the fact that they’re a whole lot of fun. If you’ve found this review unhelpful, feel free to leave some feedback so I can improve this and future reviews.
Review by Johann Lyewsang for Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
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I have never had a high opinion of Direct to video movies or sequels. I used to watched them often yet only a few managed to shine in a pile of wasted effort.
I really like the Starship Troopers movie, so I decided to support the Tippet artists and bet all three. What I got was an experience that was varied yet still felt complete. Even as such though because of the camp and the tone of the movie I can still only recommend this for fans of the original.
The focus is different but still feels apart of the universe. In the first film we get a glimpse at the entire war from a very wide scale in addition to the POV of the main characters. The second brings you back into the war but with a much closer and intimate view of a particular squad. The claustrophobic broken down outpost that the main characters bunker down in, is surrounded by bugs. This only helps to heighten the tension of the second film. The last film is a more personal journey again but is a bigger scale than the second film. We get to see the long standing effects this war has had on the people and troops and more information is given to us about the bugs that lead to a satisfying conclusion.
I recommend this for fans of Starship Trooper and Sci fi alike but if you are not into either one, then these movies might not fit your tastes.
Review by Jon A. Underwood for Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
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First I would like to say that there is a place in the SCIFI Genre for this type Movie. I enjoyed #1 and #3. Number 2 was a joke, what??!?!!? we have cloning tech now so the Captain of the Roger Young survived getting cut in two be a blast door and is now a Sgt in the second film? They could not find someone else to play the part? That being said, The third movie was a really well done movie, but there was a little bit too much about religion in it for my liking….I know thats the type movie it is, but as a former Soldier, I dont care who you is, and what you say when your smoking and jokin with your bro’s, when the bugs start coming, you start praying… The premise of the movie was good and it is a worth while movie to watch…
They need a 4th movie, the need to finish it. Now that they have a planet buster, I would say it would be off to Klendathu and deal with big K once and for all. $45-50 for 3 movies, good to go and have a great time…
Review by D. M. McElhinney for Starship Troopers 1-3 (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
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My husband likes these movies so he bought the 3 disc set. Unfortunately, disc 1 wouldn’t play on our Panasonic BD35. So he contacted Amazon and they sent a replacement. (Thank you, Amazon!) Well, when we got the replacement, disc 1 still wouldn’t work. That’s when I got on Amazon and saw the previous review stating that someone else had a problem with disc 1 and their Panasonic player.
So I did some research online at Blu-ray.com and found someone there with the same problem. Fortunately for us, someone had figured out the solution to our problem. For some unspecified reason, disc 1 needs to write to memory in order to boot up. And some Panasonic players do not contain internal memory. So they will not boot up correctly. But, if you put an SD memory card in the SD memory card slot, the disc will write to that and it will boot up just fine.
We went out this morning and got a memory card and came home and, what do you know, they were right! It does work. So I wanted to get onto Amazon and let everyone know how to fix this little problem if you also happen to have a Panasonic player and couldn’t get this disc to work on your machine.
Hope this helps. I gave it 3 stars because I thought that having to go through all of that just to get disc 1 to boot was a bit extreme especially since the other discs work just fine.