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battle for planet of the apes

Ender's game

Skyline (similar to Battle LA)

and last (and least) battlefiled earth

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Enemy mine

battle for planet of the apes

Ender's game

Skyline (similar to Battle LA)

and last (and least) battlefiled earth

I'll see your battlefield earth and raise you starship troopers.

Does Iron Sky qualify as war movie?

The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Best scify war movie of all time![:D]

This article seems somewhat appropriate for this thread

Battle beyond the Stars - a version of 7 Samurai in Space

Gunbuster (OVA) - lots of fighting, but most interesting because it considers relative time passing for different characters

Grave of the Fireflies - if you want to be totally depressed

While not a movie, how about "Battlestar Galactica"?

Avatar. The movie builds up to a major combat sequence climax.

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Enemy mine

battle for planet of the apes

Ender's game

Skyline (similar to Battle LA)

and last (and least) battlefiled earth

I'll see your battlefield earth and raise you starship troopers.

DUDE! Starship troopers is a classic!

Legend of the Galactic Heroes. About two commanders from opposing fleets.

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Edge of Tomorrow is a really good recent sci-fi war film with some very explicit references to contemporary warfare.

Wow, I have missed this one (I have seen all the others mentioned). IMDB score: 8,2 [X(] That's a LOT.

Thanks, to my watch list [&o]

I recommend the All you Need is Kill manga which is an adaptation of the novel that Edge of Tommorow was based on. It doesn't have the hollywood stupidity of the move and doesn't have the annoying political correctness.

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Enemy mine

battle for planet of the apes

Ender's game

Skyline (similar to Battle LA)

and last (and least) battlefiled earth

I'll see your battlefield earth and raise you starship troopers.

DUDE! Starship troopers is a classic!

DUDE!! The topic is scifi war *movies*!!! The book is a classic. The movie sucked jagged boulders. Though the direct to DVD ST3 Marauder wasn't bad.

Starship Troopers the movie is one of the better satires of fascism and the military industrial complex. I'd say it definitely belongs in this thread.

DUDE! Starship troopers is a classic!

That movie was an abomination. It was so bad and so NOT Starship Troopers that Robert A Heinlein's widow made the producers take his name off of the credits. Heinlein rolls over in his grave every time Starship Troopers is mentioned in the same sentence as movie.

That said: even though the movie bears little to no resemblance to the book (and that's my complaint about it) - still - even though the movie wasn' all that great its worth a watch on NetFlix (is it on NF?) if one has nothing else to do for an hour or so.

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Starship Troopers the movie is one of the better satires of fascism and the military industrial complex

Are you sure it was intended? [8D]

Maybe it's like the Rambo movies. I watch them exclusively to have a good laugh (quite hilarious stuff this Rambo guy). But of course these are unintended laughs. I mean, the director did not make the movie to provoke these many laughs (in my case that is). He was dead serious about honour, the flag and blah blah blah.

Went for the new Transformer movie, over th weekend. It was good. But to be honest my age is showing. I had a harder time liking it for the constant action! It was too fast for me. Old age is a b#%&*ch.

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DUDE! Starship troopers is a classic!

That movie was an abomination. It was so bad and so NOT Starship Troopers that Robert A Heinlein's widow made the producers take his name off of the credits. Heinlein rolls over in his grave every time Starship Troopers is mentioned in the same sentence as movie.

That said: even though the movie bears little to no resemblance to the book (and that's my complaint about it) - still - even though the movie wasn' all that great its worth a watch on NetFlix (is it on NF?) if one has nothing else to do for an hour or so.

Here is why it's secretly a classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcUa38KNFo

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Starship Troopers the movie is one of the better satires of fascism and the military industrial complex

Are you sure it was intended? [8D]

Yes.

Reviews about Starship Troopers (the movie) in Finland call it satire. It seems finnish movie critics are smarter than american ones [;)]

Satire or not, overall Starship Troopers - with all its faults (can't they bring any futuristic equivalents of Vulcan?) - is best scifi war movie I know. And the film analysis by Rob Ager has one miss: asteroid wrecked spacecraft's long range communications, yet guy seems to assume ship send report about it.

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Starship Troopers movie was started without any deliberate relation to the novel. Then somebody noticed similarities, movie name was changed, and script was modified.

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I would also like to make comparison to All quiet on the western front:
Recruiting in school (or so Rico's father says) - check
Pro-war propaganda - check
War is Hell - check

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Starship Troopers the movie is one of the better satires of fascism and the military industrial complex

Are you sure it was intended? [8D]

Maybe it's like the Rambo movies. I watch them exclusively to have a good laugh (quite hilarious stuff this Rambo guy). But of course these are unintended laughs. I mean, the director did not make the movie to provoke these many laughs (in my case that is). He was dead serious about honour, the flag and blah blah blah.

One nick name for it is Melrose Space. (Google the TV series Melrose Place.)

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ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000

Starship Troopers the movie is one of the better satires of fascism and the military industrial complex

Are you sure it was intended? [8D]

Maybe it's like the Rambo movies. I watch them exclusively to have a good laugh (quite hilarious stuff this Rambo guy). But of course these are unintended laughs. I mean, the director did not make the movie to provoke these many laughs (in my case that is). He was dead serious about honour, the flag and blah blah blah.

One nick name for it is Melrose Space. (Google the TV series Melrose Place.)

They intentionally picked actors from that type of serials.

http://www.avclub.com/article/emstarshi ... rsem-41966

That Starship Troopers the Movie is not faithful to Starship Troopers the Book is part of why it works so well as a satire - it shows you the flaws and cracks and contradictions of a military regime rather than reveling in it.