I just rewatched Starship Troopers recently, and it seems to be a total rip-off of starcraft. Did Blizzard get royalties? Was it meant to be a Starcraft movie? If there is a Starcraft movie Verhoevan who made Starship Troopers would be the perfect director. Maybe they will make a movie in conjunction with SC2, that would be cool.

Cheez_Dip{PAK}

150 Posts

May 16 2003 23:43 GMT

wasnt SST made before SC? I think SC was influenced in part by SST...

LumberJack

United States3355 Posts

May 16 2003 23:44 GMT

actually, i own the dvd to starship troopers it was based on a novel in the 70's by some guy, if u want i can rewatch the commentary and get the title, author, but only if you sex me :o

LumberJack

United States3355 Posts

May 16 2003 23:45 GMT

fyi, i used to think it was based on sc, too ; )

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

May 16 2003 23:45 GMT

..Anyone played warhammer 40k? That (together with alien)are both starcraft and starship troopers has got their inspiration (the black coats in SST is really wh40k influenced imo..). Btw the first edition of wh40k came out around the same time as alien 2 (1983).

Regards FrozenArbiter

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

May 17 2003 00:04 GMT

yeah, except no protoss.

The StarCraft story line is way better too.

ObsoleteLogic

United States3676 Posts

May 17 2003 00:29 GMT

Starship Troopers was a book written in 1958 by Robert Heinlein. Movie very different.

EDIT: typo (I even made it again in the edit..)

LumberJack

United States3355 Posts

May 17 2003 01:25 GMT

bleh, 70's 50's, all the same ;D

mensrea

Canada5062 Posts

May 17 2003 02:05 GMT

SST a rip-off of SC? Hardly. As already pointed out, it's the other way around. I'm surprised how SF illiterate people are here. Heinlein, people, Heinlein. One of the truly great science fiction grandmasters.

Cere

Seychelles15 Posts

May 17 2003 02:24 GMT

#10

On May 17 2003 08:45 FrozenArbiter wrote:
..Anyone played warhammer 40k? That (together with alien)are both starcraft and starship troopers has got their inspiration (the black coats in SST is really wh40k influenced imo..). Btw the first edition of wh40k came out around the same time as alien 2 (1983).

Regards FrozenArbiter

Hahahaha looks like someone missed the point with SST entirely.
The movie draws several paralells with Nazi germany and the black coats are supposed to be the gestapo uniforms.

iD.Twisted

Netherlands3102 Posts

May 17 2003 02:34 GMT

#11

Hah SST rox

I watched it over 15 times I think.

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

May 17 2003 02:40 GMT

#12

I'm stupid -__-; Btw, I thought it sucked so incredibly much that I almost fell asleep--

Regards FrozenArbiter

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

May 17 2003 02:40 GMT

#13

Btw, it's the same in wh40k (nazi germany parallels--).

Regards FrozenArbiter

ZyMotiC

103 Posts

May 17 2003 03:33 GMT

#14

I even have the dvd of SST and I watched over a dozen times and it still rules

orca

Israel469 Posts

May 17 2003 04:11 GMT

#15

FFS, it's giant bugs vs human infantry...

the concept is so OBVIOUS that it can't possibly be considered a ripoff.

Mydnyte2

Canada101 Posts

May 17 2003 04:39 GMT

#16

The zergling like creatures in that movie - Totally owned, ok?
gg no re no thx ^.^;

animal

South Africa168 Posts

May 17 2003 04:54 GMT

#17

SST came out before SC. But the 2nd or so T mission where you have to hold out for 30 mins or so vs streaming zergling 'hordes' made me chuckle when I first played it, as it felt exactly like the SST base scenes.

Of course if you play it now, you totally slaughter the poor ai.