If you don’t know what to watch on TV tonight, we have a recommendation for you. Starship Troopers is on TV and has still lost none of its appeal. The film is entertaining, even criticizes its own source material with razor-sharp satire and shocks with its brutality.
That’s what Starship Troopers, our TV tip for today, is about
The Humanity fights against hordes of beetle-like aliens and recruits even the youngest cadets (Casper van Dien, Denise Richards and How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris). They then undergo a tough training that has already cost countless victims. They are then used like cannon fodder and thrown to the thousands upon thousands of bugs to be eaten.
Meanwhile, from every speaker and every screen, the endless propaganda machineEveryone is called upon to do their part, to join the fascist regime and fight against the aliens – whatever the cost. At the same time, extremely nasty, pseudo-scientific experiments are being carried out on the bugs to bring victory.
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Starship Troopers works as a sci-fi war film – and as a brilliant satire and critique of its original
The bitterly evil Paul Verhoeven film Starship Troopers fits seamlessly into the ranks of his films such as RoboCop or Total Recall. The hard-hitting satire oscillates between teen drama, sci-fi action and war filmIt does not skimp on depictions of violence and constantly takes swipes at everything that is undemocratic. This makes it very different from the original.
Starship Troopers is based on the 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The book was given both militarism and fascism glorification That shouldn’t happen to Starship Troopers with its biting, cynical criticism – even though the film was banned in Germany for a full 19 years and was repeatedly toned down.
TV or stream: When and where is Starship Troopers shown?
On RTL 2 you can today, June 1, 2024 from 23:05 Watch Starship Troopers. There is also a repeat, which will be shown on June 3rd at 0:30 a.m. According to editing reports, however, both broadcasts are the FSK 18 version, which has been shortened by 6:06 minutes.
The Paul Verhoeven film is available unabridged, for example on Disney+ by subscription to see, where the film is part of the streaming flat rate. Otherwise you also have the option of buying and renting it on Apple TV, Amazon, Maxdome or Google.
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