10 Things You Didn't Know About Starship Troopers

[Rufferto]

Starship Troopers is a masterpiece. And Rico was an idiot for neglecting Dizzy.

[WandererNamedGuy]

Welcome to the roughnecks, Minty’s Roughnecks!

[russellboston]

I was an extra in Starship Troopers, during the futuristic high school football game scene. They filmed it in the Pyramid at Long Beach State College. My girlfriend and I were part of the cheering fans on the sideline. I still have my silver and blue pom poms. (We were supposed to give them back, but I wanted the souvenirs). Side note, An older lady standing next to me got hit in the face with a stray football and it broke her glasses, cutting her face, halting production and freaking out the crew.

[wstine]

Minty: "Come on, you apes! You want to know 10 more things forever?!"

[dawidscheffler]

The Trooper armour also got given a lick of purple paint and reused as "Alliance armour" for the Firefly series.

[paradox]

This movie made me the man I am today.

[tattooed]

First thing I thought when seeing this as today’s movie was “he’s gotta do a ‘Do you wanna know more?’ quote, ” and not even a minute and a half in he delivered! Minty never disappoints! He knows what the people want!!

[paul]

Best scenes in the movie was the “Would you like to know more?” Commercials ! ☝🏻

[darylmark]

Almost 30 years later and the initial drop scene where the Troopers invade Klendathu with Basil's incredible fanfare playing STILL makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

[jamesmoss]

Casper Van Dien is brilliant as Johnny Rico.😀👍

[jacotromp]

When this came out, we couldn't stop talking about it at school. It was huge back then

[DoctorCheryl]

I am from Wyoming and lived in Casper for some years in the 80s. Hell's Half Acre is no place to mess around in when it's hot outside! Wyoming is extremely arid and when it's HOT there, the shade is your friend but in HHA there is little to no shade.

[carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi]

I'm a big Heinlein fan. I loved how he could put two ideas in your head at the same time, so you end up THINKING, not FEELING...and isn't that the problem today? "muh feels and muh truth"?

[The_Daniel_B]

"You know what to do, MINTY!"

[wstine]

This was the first movie I saw where I got carded at the cinema. I love those bug effects, slick satire, and I had a crush on Dizzy. I can't believe this movie had a toy line.

[wstine]

Those Starship Trooper suits were also used in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy for the military in space.

[robertparker]

On the subject of recycled
I read somewhere that the M-16 rifle Al Paciono used in the final shootout in "Scarface" was then carried by Arnold Schwartzenegger in the first "Predator" movie.

Also, I got to meet the great Michael Ironside about four months ago. He's a kind and very talkative guy. It was cool to meet a legend like him.

[mrock]

The CGI for the time was amazing and still looks good!

[fjxeljr]

Minty is the most fun You Tube has to offer, period! And no sponsors either. Bless you Mark!

[Christopher.C]

I was fortunate enough to see a screening of Starship Troopers followed by a Q&A with Paul Verhoeven and Ed Neumeier back in the 2000s, and it was great hearing them reminisce about the film. One thing that stood out to me was Verhoeven saying that he thinks the only reason he was able to make the movie the way he wanted to was because the studio went under multiple different leadership changes while they were filming. He said that if any of the suits had been paying attention, they would have stopped the production dead in its tracks!

Great video as always!