So I just saw Traitor of Mars and I liked it, as corny as it was.
I thought Casper Van Dien's dead serious delivery of every line was hilarious, the man really is a god. The Mech suit design was pretty fun, especially the shoulder mounted weapons. That and the return of the jump jets was a nice nod to the book.
I was a bit disapointed that they didn't show the fleet doctrine changing after Klendathu, in the movie you can see the fleet drop troops using the exact same formation, and suffering the same consquences
How did you feel it compares to Starship Troopers, and how well does it fit in the same universe? What about Starship Troopers: Marauder?
Why does he keep appearing in these? He should boycott them until they make a proper sequel
Sebastian Myers
>a proper sequel Starship Troopers 2 was bad, but the third one was pretty good. And this one is also fun, you should check it out.
I think the man just loves to play Johnny Rico.
Gavin Morris
He appeared in some low budget comedy too. I don't think anyone is seeking him out for roles, so he does it to get a steady income, plus he gets to play a badass every time. It's not like he's the comic relief dumb character.
Jaxson Robinson
Sad how he never really made it big, are they afraid of the perfect Aryan?
Zachary Reed
>He appeared in some low budget comedy too. He was masterpieces such as Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine and Army Dog, so, yeah. A man's gotta eat.
Justin Reyes
When I first saw him in the first movie, I really thought he would be big for a couple of years. It was sad that it never panned out that way. He's handsome.
Logan Morgan
I wish they'd go back to liveaction all the cg films bomb
Brandon Nelson
>CGI nudity
Man, its just so awkward looking.
Owen Myers
Just downloaded it, is there supposed to be a sort of constant staticky looking film grain over it?
Zachary Lewis
I'm glad they finally made him Filipino like he supposed to be
Chase Robinson
I know Kojima is derivative but why are they ripping off MGS so hard?
Levi Hernandez
explain how it's ripping off MGS
Jaxson Nguyen
They need to do a Halo movie.
Ayden Howard
>buenos aires is in SEA what the shit
Charles Jackson
he is ethnically filipino
Alexander Carter
There are several Halo movies. They all suck.
Luke Ramirez
There wasn't even nudity in it.
Adam Jackson
Do you have source for that? I honestly have no clue?
Sky Marshall chick is a cute.
Evan Parker
>book
Ian Baker
Anyone else wanted to punch Carl right in the fucking face for bullying this qt?
Ayden Sullivan
how many bugs is she hiding in that massive dome she calls a forehead
Josiah Diaz
All the better to suck out your brains from.
Benjamin Hall
in the book he mentions it in the last paragraph.
he talks about a phrase in his native language (tagalog/Filipino)
Levi Allen
Been meaning to read the book for some time now, got like a scan of the page? I also know the book is pretty different from the live action since the M.I usually roll with powersuits (I like how they showed it here)
Same, Carl and Snapps motivation to continue the war were the same and Mars was going to be destroyed either way because if they left, the other colonies might have left too.
Anthony Ramirez
Sky Marshall Snapp looks a lot like Emma Watson
Levi Carter
You just ruined her for me user.
James Torres
what's it like living with face blindness?
Parker Collins
more pronounced cheeks bones and less "baby fat"
Asher Thompson
are there seriously no sweet CG tits in this one?! fucking japs disappointing me
Robert Flores
Thought so too. They must have used Emma as a reference model.
Caleb Hill
When Snapp started to bleed, it gave me a massive erection holy shit.
Adam Rogers
Why is her head so big?
Christopher Ross
smartest woman on earth
Brody Lewis
Did they really had to kill Dutch just because 101 said "The bugs have your number" at the start?
Charles Jackson
>Sky Marshall chick is a cute. She looks a lot like Emma Watson for some reason
>Same, Carl and Snapps motivation to continue the war were the same and Mars was going to be destroyed either way because if they left, the other colonies might have left too. She wants to keep the war going for good ratings. He wants to keep fighting the war because otherwise the bugs overrun us. Carl is based.
>smartest woman on earth You know she had her PR guy write that, right? She isn't even psychic.
Jack Robinson
Was it only for ratings? I mean she's already a Sky Marshall. Carl used Rico's dead gf and then went tsun at Rico when he mentions they weren't friends anymore.
Noah Hernandez
>Carl is based. of course he is his methods are questionable, but he does it for humanity she does it for herself
Nolan Fisher
It was obviously just for ratings, she actually says so in the movie. There are also several scenes where she's thrilled to see her ratings go up, and butthurt to see them go down. She even hatches a plan to get rid of a whole fucking planet (that's got to count for something strategically) just for ratings.
And Carl going "nooo I would never do that how could you think such a thing" was more of a callback to the first movie imo. It could also mean that he was aware of her plan but decided to let her go on with it so he could be there when it blows up in her face.
That user gets it.
Jeremiah Nguyen
I know her motivations had to with "ratings' but for what? isn't sky marshal the highest rank in the Federation already? I just can't bring myself to like Carl, he manipulates people and being sanctimonious about it. Never read the books but did they ever mention if it was possible to have a ceasefire with the bugs?
Gavin Young
Didn't she died in the first movie ?
Carter Martinez
Didn't you watch the movie? She was a psychic illusion to give Rico a murderboner to survive.
Eli Richardson
Yes it's the highest rank, but she obviously has a huge need to be loved. Sky Marshalls are appointed, not elected, so it stands to reason that there could be unpopular ones.
The book is very different from the movies, there are no psychic powers in the books, and Carl is killed early in the war. Also Diz is a dude. In the books Mankind is at war with several alien civilizations, including the Arachnids, and in all of these wars Mankind is the aggressor, truces aren't really considered.
In the movies it's implied that if we just left the bugs alone they'd stop attacking us, and there's also the popular fan theory that the bugs didn't even have anything to do with Buenos Aires.
Carl does what he does because the survival of mankind is at stake in the movies. His methods are questionable but the alternative is the annihilation of Mankind.
>t. hasn't seen the new movie
James Evans
Yeah I read that the Federation was the one that bombed Buenos Aires because the peace was stagnating the colonies and that'd be difficult in a civilization where people who enlist have the power.
Chase Sanders
Dude is literally Old/Naked Snake and that girl is fucking Meryl, right down to the hair and black tank top.
Luis Myers
My interpretation of it is that the Federation wanted a war for two purposes. The first one was to whip up nationalism and ensure the loyalty of the citizens, and the second one was population control. The nationalist propaganda aspect is obvious, people hate the bugs, so they love the Federation. The second one explains why they're sending dudes in flak jackets with assault rifles to meet four meter tall unthinking killing machines numbering in the thousands in a pitched battle on the field, instead of bombing them from the air, or space, or even just using terrain and fortifications.
What happens then is that Mankind starts losing the war, and gradually they have to stop throwing lives away in the meat grinder because they kinda need them to hold back the tide of the Arachnids. This explains why Federation military doctrine appears to be changing in Marauder, and then in Traitor of Mars. In Marauder they use underground bunker with narrow firing slits so they can shoot at the Arachnids without the Arachnids being able to hit back (of course they eventually counter that with grenades, but it's a start). And then in Traitor of Mars they use the suits and the jump jets to give their troops the ability to outmaneuver the Arachnids, which puts them in a position to actually win fights against them.
Isaiah Ross
is there tits?
Anthony Richardson
>instead of bombing them from the air, or space I mean the bugs did have those Anti-Air plasma bugs. Well from what I know the powersuits is standard Mobile Infantry gear (in the books at least ). But I do agree with you that the war is a fabrication made by the federation and that they jump started a war with the bugs since most citizens already have a low opinion on them. What I liked about the 3rd movie was the federation hanging the "peace terrorists" and blaming them for that Sky marshals death, just so that the war will continue indefinitely.
No
Liam Bell
>I mean the bugs did have those Anti-Air plasma bugs. The attrition caused by the anti aerospace plasma bugs doesn't prevent the fleet from dropping troops, why would it prevent them from dropping bombs? I'm not even going to go into how in a realistic settings they could place a bomb on a ballistic trajectory that'll impact the planet in a few weeks/months while staying way out of range (or hell, use kinetic impactors) because it's obviously not that kind of movie, but if they can deploy dropships they can deploy bombs.
>Well from what I know the powersuits is standard Mobile Infantry gear (in the books at least ) The book has almost nothing in common with the movie. I love them both (and you should read it if you haven't), but you really can't use one to explain the other. >What I liked about the 3rd movie was the federation hanging the "peace terrorists" and blaming them for that Sky marshals death, just so that the war will continue indefinitely. They hang pacifists in the first movie too. And I don't think Carl is waging the war just for fun, I think he's doing it because at this point the Arachnids have been responding the Mankind's aggression with such force that they need to be dealt with otherwise they're actually going to win. But that's just fan speculation I'll give you that.
Michael Watson
So hol up This kino be canon? Like the three live actions?
Carson Ramirez
Yes, they just didn't call it Starship Troopers 4 so they wouldn't discourage people who have only seen the first one from seeing it.
Austin Morris
I think in the 3rd movie with the Brain bug having a more prominent role, it was shown that the bugs are actually galvanizing to beat the federation. Also aren't bombs ineffective since the bugs just hide underground, that's why the M.I couldn't nuke them straight up but have to find their caverns and shit. I can't remember if they hanged pacifists in the 1st movie since I haven't watched it in a while, I love the Federation propaganda commercials they do, feels comfy as shit and here's hoping Star ship troopers blow up in popularity soon. Also the scene where Rico salvages powerarmor from dead soldiers was fucking great.
Is it? Isn't Razbach, Rico's teacher who died?
Cooper Jones
If your nuke doesn't vaporize the ground deep enough just use a bigger nuke. Or use orbital strikes tactically to support troops on the ground after they drew out the Arachnids. Combined Arms Warfare is powerful as shit and every modern military uses it, it makes no sense that the Federation wouldn't, unless the purpose of the war is to curb population.
Rasczak isn't in there.
Justin Rivera
I thought the animation was good except for how they moved their mouths for dialogue. It didn't match up at all. All the women were hot in this.
Angel Cook
Okay so what is official list of what is canon and non canon?
We have 3 live action movies, 2 animated one i think and how many books because i never did read them and in what order should i do all this in?
Adam Long
Isn't the name of the Admiral who died from the HALO dive Rasczak? Also I don't think the war is about the population since they have terraforming technology so theoretically they have infinite supplies but more about control of the population since more colonies = more independent thinking.
Sebastian Smith
Is that Guts?
Xavier Evans
There's only one book and it's completely different from the movies, it's its own canon.
For the movies watch Starship Troopers, then Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, then Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, and that's it.
No I don't think so, I'd have to check, but it would make no sense for it to be him. And terraforming technology doesn't mean infinite resources, what are you on about? You still need a suitable planet to start the process, and these can't be that common. And when you're done you have a barren desert with breathable air, that's it.
Colton Jenkins
There are three canons Book canon - standalone Hollywood live action + 3DCG kinographies TV 3DCG seriekinographie There are also videogames and anime and manga and comics
William Brooks
>All the women were hot in this. yeah, one even had a lipgloss on when going to battle
Aiden Miller
I mean the more planets you terraform the more resources you'll acquire and since the galaxy is ever expanding you'll have in theory infinite resources? I mean even if 1 out of 20 planets has usable resources you'll still have infinite resources since they have FTL technology.
Austin Anderson
Thanks.
Jonathan Carter
>the galaxy is expanding What are you on about lad? The galaxy isn't expanding where would you get this idea. But still I see your point, but what other explanation could there be for the Federation sending people to their deaths on purpose, besides a ressources shortage?
Jack Adams
Isn't the current theory is that the universe/galaxy is ever expanding/ has no end? I think the reason they send people to their death is so more people would enlist.
Jose Ortiz
what reality did we fall into again?
Nathan Collins
The one where its Berenstain bears and not Berenstein.
Landon Moore
Carl is Griffith and he mind-raped Carmen in front of Johnny
William Cook
I'm surprised Rico and Carmen never became a thing again but then again Carmen is a fucking bitch.
Kevin Martin
He doesn't look Filipino; Filipinos are ugly, short, dumb, weak, cowardly shitskins
Matthew Campbell
>universe/galaxy Those are two very different thing user. Our galaxy (it's called the milky way) is contained within a galaxy cluster that's called the Local Group. The Local Group is inside the Laniakea Supercluster, which contains about a hundred thousand galaxies, including ours. Superclusters form filaments and sheets and large voids when you look at them collectively, and overall these form the large scale structure of the universe. The universe is expanding, and this cause the voids to expand and the sheets and filaments to move away from each other, but their components don't really move in relation to each other. Also you'll notice no matter is being created in all of this, it's just moving apart.
>I think the reason they send people to their death is so more people would enlist. How is a high mortality rate in the troops an incentive for enlistment? Wouldn't people be more likely to enlist if they thought there was a good chance they'd make it out alive? And even then, the Citizenship is already a pretty big incentive to enlist.
Caleb Myers
So much projection in this one post.
Think about it, the more people who die the more people would want to enlist for revenge, if you ever played COD MW2 (?) The General guy does some shady shit that kills tons of american lives to ensure there's no shortage of enlistment, also as you said there is a big incentive of enlistment but there is a stagnation if noone dies since why would you enlist if there is assurance you will win the war and not enlisting could still be beneficial, look at Rico's parents who aren't citizens but they're still rich as fuck. Also I normally know what a galaxy is it's just late where I live.
Jace Rogers
I think you mean starship troopers five bro.
Ethan Stewart
>I also know the book is pretty different from the live action It's hard to ever emphasize how true this statement is. Verhoven hated the book and aside from the general conceit and a few character names they've not got much in common. Heinlein is known as one of the grand masters of sci fi for a reason, but unlike some of his contemporaries the "science" in his sci-fi us usually more of the social sciences. While his universe is full of ray guns and rocket ships they're usually more about how civilization adapts socially to the changing universe. People like to try and put heinlein in a box, but thats wrong. The same guy who wrote about a right wing peoples rebellion on mars is the same guy who wrote about a anarco-socialist revolution on the moon, the fascist/statists wet dream of starship troopers, the religous autocracy of revolt of 2100, the hippy-dippy love fest of stranger in a strange land, and whatever the fuck lazarus long was all about (mostly fucking cute relatives and space-loli clones of himself). The biggest running theme of his sgories is an exploration of the role of the individual and the state. I highly recommend anything hes written. Especially his short stories. By his own bootstraps is my favorite time travel story ever. Have spacesuit, will travel has one of the best closing lines in contemporary lit.
Parker Edwards
As it stands the MI has something like a 80% casualty rate, that's a bit much. And in Modern Warfare 2 General Shepherd doesn't do what he does to get more enlistment, where would you get that idea? He does it to get revenge on the civilians who didn't care about the men he lost in the middle east, he does it to bring war to them and to make them care about what happens to soldiers.
And I don't see why you would think noone would enlist if noone died. Do you get up every morning thinking "wow, I feel like joining the army, but I'm going to wait for someone to blow up in Syria so I can take their place!", that doesn't make any sense. And yes Rico's parents are rich, but they're not citizens, and citizens don't respect non citizens. It's not about money, they're an interstellar civilization, they can afford to house their people in nice houses, it's about respect in the public sphere.
Angel Ward
What happened to Guts? Why did they change the setting? How did Griffith get boobs?
Nolan Anderson
This user is right listen to him. Also the physics in his books isn't so bad, especially compared to other authors. In particular The Moon is a Harsh Mistress comes to mind, the orbital mechanics in that book are pretty spot on for instance, which isn't that common in science fiction.
Angel Nelson
After Berserk ended Guts had to make due with a bunch of odd jobs piloting mecha
Samuel Sanchez
How would SICON/Federation be overpopulated when there's already legislation that requires people to do civil/military service and become a citizen first before getting a reproductive license?
Caleb Baker
In the book they did everything they could to discourage enlistment in the mobile infantry before Buenos Aires. Thats why they had a triple amputee vet sitting at the enlistment desk. In the book Rico bumps into him on his way out and is startled to find that he has realistix faux-flesh prostheses and he says its a scare tactic. They also didn't even bother when people went awol or didn't even show up basic training. They had too many people already that took a ton of cash to train up to MI standards. After the bug attack they have the opposite problem of not having ENOUGH bodies and they started taking everyone, which is why Rico's dad shows up in his unit at the end of the book.
Christopher Price
Snake??
Angel Gomez
Doesn't Shepard say something like "We wont run out of recruits now" or something like that? I haven't played the game in years so I might be wrong. >And I don't see why you would think noone would enlist if noone died. Do you get up every morning thinking "wow, I feel like joining the army, but I'm going to wait for someone to blow up in Syria so I can take their place!", that doesn't make any sense. Okay I agree what I said doesn't make sense, if I were to rephrase it I'd say MORE people would enlist if the casualties rose because it brings the fear that the federation MIGHT lose the war also because if someone you personally know die from the war that might be the reason why'd you'd enlist also I got the general feeling that non citizens started to not care about the prejudice of citizens to non citizens since their lives were really comfy, I mean look at the current movie and Mars wanting to secede from the federation. But then that's my interpretation of the thing.
Levi Phillips
Why else would they send people to a pointless death on purpose? It's the only thing I can think of that can explain the Federation's military doctrine.
Hunter Fisher
>reproductive license People still had kids without the license but they couldn't claim any kind of benefits from the government. Or you could just buy your way through.
Elijah Moore
Huh, well I've said that I haven't read the book but it's that different huh? Did the book emphasize the importance of being a citizen too? I should really read it one of these days.
William Gomez
The reason they can't just orbitally bomb or even glass the planet from space is simple, bugs hide underground, where they're safe from the bombs.
In the book mobile infantry are needed specifically to jump jet from entrance hole to entrance hole to deposit nukes in each little hidey hole.
We already see in the first movie M.I. using air support to carpet bomb arachnids after they come out of the ground. Although in that case it was used to clear the way for the mobile infantry, and granted at the beginning of the war, tactics were still developing.
The only forseeable reason I can think of to not use aeronautical bombers are flying bugs and anti-air bug plasma. Mech suits and infantry drops are probably more cost effective than bombers. It's a case of ground reconnaissance and surgical strikes to find and eliminate brain bugs. Arachnids probably multiply like rabbits.
Personally, i'm still waiting on cyborg dogs from the book.
Andrew Taylor
>Did the book emphasize the importance of being a citizen too? Yes it did. Verhoven notoriously hated the book and didn't even finish it, so they decided to subvert it as much as possible turning it into a satire/parody.
Austin Brooks
>which is why Rico's dad shows up in his unit at the end of the book.
If my memory serves correct. Rico's dad shows up as a naval colonel (i'm pretty sure this isn't even a thing), having bought his way into officership like the brits used to do.
Caleb Bell
I think I see your point now, I don't see it like that but I guess it also makes sense.
Yes the doctrine changes during the course of the movie and that's pretty cool. Still, most of the time in the movies the bugs are not in caves, so the best strategy would be to draw them out of the caves and then kill them on the surface to thin their numbers before killing the brain underground. Surely they can't reproduce faster than the Federation can drop bombs (although they might be able to reproduce faster than the Federation can build bombs...). My point is that there is no way what they're doing in the movie is rationally the best use of their resources.
Also shit I forgot about the robot dogs
William Hill
>specifically to jump jet from entrance hole to entrance hole to deposit nukes in each little hidey hole. Half the bug holes were already irradiated. They mention having nerve gas that sinks into the bug hives, but they're doing recon on the bugs so they do it the hard way.
Mason Kelly
Huh so if citizenship was important in the books how come they're scaring people away from the M.I? I did like the movie though but I've never read the book.
>I think I see your point now, I don't see it like that but I guess it also makes sense. Everything is open to interpretation, Also I'm thinking that the Federations fear is that there will be a civil war instead of a war on bugs since the colonies are too far apart/ too many.
Gabriel Robinson
>In the books Mankind is at war with several alien civilizations, including the Arachnids, I want to know more.
Jaxon Baker
Then do yourself a favor and read the book.
Dominic Hernandez
So is Snapp going to get the rope?
Hunter Watson
No, she's going to remain Sky Marshall as a puppet for Carl.
Zachary Lee
I only read The Moon is A Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers, but I think you're spot on about Heinlein.
Any other short stories to recommend? What's that book and the martian rebellion?
sounds fun, but I'm weirded out by that gatsu Rico
Leo Russell
Read the book.
To be honest, that's probably what they've been doing, establishing outposts like whiskey, and then bombing the bugs outside of it.
I think it's more of a case that the bugs are so numerous that it's simply cheaper for M.I. to hold off bugs, perform reconnaissance and hunt down brain bugs, than to instead transport more bombers, draw out bugs, send bombers down, refuel them, drop bombs, then bring the bombers back up for refuelling and re-arming.
M.I. it makes more sense to focus logistics on M.I. than an air force. It's still ground troops that secure battlezones. Same with modern armies, they've only just now figured out that drones can have guns attached to them, and with western navies focusing more on drone use than other forms of aeronautical power, it won't be too long until some military commander with an I.Q. higher than his shoe size figures out they should be making drone carriers.
Regardless, by traitors of mars, M.I. can outrun arachnids and are equipped with specialist gear to take out different kinds of bugs either way. You win 100% of the battles you don't fight.
Of course this is entirely conjecture and playing devils advocate. Stories have got to be made fun somehow.
Angel Gray
>Regardless, by traitors of mars, M.I. can outrun arachnids and are equipped with specialist gear to take out different kinds of bugs either way. You win 100% of the battles you don't fight. Yeah, that's why my head cannon is that by Traitor of Mars they figured out that whatever political reason they had for sending people to their death pointlessly is overruled by their need to, you know, take this war seriously unless they're going to win it.
>Stories have got to be made fun somehow. Sure, but nerds have to take stories apart to figure out what doesn't make sense and then come up with convoluted explanations as to why it actually makes sense when you think about it that way.