Starship Troopers - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Starship Troopers or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Starship Troopers

[terry]

Somehow even The Daily Show (which did movie reviews back then one of many instances of Early Installment Weirdness) missed the satire, picking up on Neil Patrick Harris' SS-like uniform but not the fact that the audience wasn't meant to be rooting for the humans.

[cassandra]

Casper Van Dien (Johnny Rico) & Dina Meyer (Dizzy Flores) appeared in different episodes of Monk (2002), though not in the same one together.

[scarlett]

The German dubbing of this film, although changing a lot of the political issues of the story, is partly regarded as cult especially due to lines like "Das ganze Gehirn weggelutscht" ("They sucked his brains out") as performed by Joachim Kerzel.

[clayton]

When Sergeant Zim is roughing up the recruits, he hits Shujumi in the right leg with his baton. This is interesting as Shujumi later gets his right leg cut off by an Arachnid during the battle of Klendathu.

[miriam]

Dina Meyers jokingly referred to Seth Gilliam as a green M&M with eyes during the scene where Sugar Watkins kills the warrior bug by shooting its eye out and gets covered in it's green blood.

[camila]

The costume designs use of the "Nazi gray/grey" palette, and a similar uniform design style clearly imply that these are blatantly a form of "Space Nazis". Additionally, during the spaceships in space sequences, it has a vaguely Star Wars Imperial Empire feel about it, which as later Star Wars films clearly made obvious, were also a more subtly designed type of "Space Nazis".

[caroline]

In the novel, The Mobile Infantry were also fighting a war against the Skinnies- a tall, green, humanoid species who were allied with the Arachnids. Also, the Arachnids weren't mindless, savage creatures they were rather intelligent and had advanced technology somewhat on par with the humans such as H-Bombs (which they used to attack Buenos Aires) ray guns, missiles and space ships.

[ava]

On the commentary track, Neil Patrick Harris and Casper Van Dien jokingly called the ferret Cyrano the "ferret from hell".

[kylie]

While it's never explicitly stated in the novel in the film its strongly implied that Fleet and the Mobile Infantry have a rivalry as Dizzy says to Rico after he fights with Zander, "Mobile Infantry and Fleet don't mix".

[jamie]

The tanker bug sequence was filmed in 3 days.

[ken]

Neve Campbell & Rebecca Gayheart were considered for the part of Carmen, but were both busy doing Scream 2 (1997).

[alyssa]

In the movie, the soldiers are occasionally referred to as "Cap Troopers". In the book, this referred to the capsules they dropped in, but in the film the nickname becomes orphaned.

[duane]

The combat helmets were repainted again and used by the SWAT team at the end of the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes, which happened to star Mark Wahlberg who was considered for the role of Johnny Rico.

[caroline]

In several scenes Johnny wears a jacket, similar looking to the one Arnold Schwarzenegger wore in Total Recall (1990) which was also directed by Paul Verhoeven.

[bessie]

Two stars from this movie appear in Monk (2002), and they were born only four days apart: Casper Van Dien (Johnny Rico) appears in Monk: Mr. Monk Is Underwater (2008), Monk: Mr. Monk and the End: Part 1 (2009), & Monk: Mr. Monk and the End: Part 2 (2009).Dina Meyer (Dizzy) appears in Monk: Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized (2008).

[veronica]

In the film, during live training, Djana'D (Tami Adrian George) shoots and kills Breckinridge accidentally, resulting in Rico's flogging. In real life, the two actors are together and have a child. They met on this film.