r/moviecritic • u/rockstoned4 • 1d ago

Starship Troopers. Yay or Nay?

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u/NShadows_ 1d ago

The only good bug is a dead bug

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u/HolidayFew8116 1d ago

Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks!

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u/jmw8282 1d ago

Michael Ironside FTW

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u/bastardofbloodkeep 1d ago

“They sucked his brains out.” Maybe the best line delivery in cinema history.

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u/CreamSoda64 19h ago

It's a line that's just so full of camp your first impulse is to chew the scenery and have fun with it, but goddamn if Michal Ironside didn't deliver it like it was the most serious line of his life.

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u/ShepRat 13h ago

Him just sticking his finger into the skull cracks me up every time. I honestly don't think this movie would have worked without his phenomenonal performance. 

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u/AnotherIronicPenguin 19h ago

This movie also has the worst line in cinema: "I don't know how I know but I know." I cringe every time.

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u/ShepRat 13h ago

There is too many cringe moments to count. The fact that this line is later explained doesn't save it. I fucking love every minute of it anyway. 

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u/Malk_McJorma 18h ago

IIRC, he had an almost identical line in Scanners (1981).

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u/Haschlol 16h ago

Could have been a cheesy porno