The movie was progressing in a very satisfactory manner until it started spewing it's rubbish about religion/Christianity.
The religion crap TOTALLY ruined the movie for us - what on EARTH was it doing there in a camp sci-fi horror film?!
Tell me I'm going to hell if you must, but PLEASE don't tell me that it's appropriate to put religion in a film like this.
I think I preferred the Startship Troopers 2...
Yeah, it's hard to know whether they were satirizing religion and failing or trying to take it seriously and failing, but either way it was a FAIL.
shareAmbivalence isnt fail. You just needed a clear statement that soothed your worldview instead you got a movie that didnt preach either way and made fun of both sides.
I found the christian overtones kind of annoying at times. They could have toned it down a bit and still have gotten the message trough.
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What ruined this film was a bad script, very poor acting, dodgy special effects, poor direction, laughable plot lines AND religion, apart from that....
Run for it?, Runnings not a plan! Runnings what you do, once a plan fails!
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100% agreed. Either the director is a religious nut, or they were trying to capture the religious audience.
Anyway, it didnt work, made no sense. As somebody said, I didnt mind the christian characters, but Lola's conversion was ridiculous. Typical of christian universe garbage (music, movies, etc).
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- He moves his lips when he reads. What does that tell you about him?
I wouldn't say religion ruined the film. I still found it quite satisfying. I actually didn't mind too much of the religious aspects. I like the idea of a man going insane believing he's talking to a God which turns out to be a powerful alien with evil intentions. Reminds me of STAR TREK 5, which I also liked.
But I do feel it started pushing it, especially Marnette Patterson's character. The praying and "finding religion" revolation was forced.
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If you want religion, go to church. If you want 'religion', watch a movie.
At least they got the 'Our Father' right.
BOHICA America!
believe it was supposed to be a satire....tho with the poor writing one would not notice....some moments were almost pure comedy...heinlein's works were a social satire sci-fi works, tho think he'd turn in his grave
seen a really horrible flick with "time machine" that was totally made by christian studio... this one does not go that far....
The religion crap TOTALLY ruined the movie for us - what on EARTH was it doing there in a camp sci-fi horror film?!
This just became my favorite Starship Troopers movie. They took what could have been a run-of-the-mill POS DTV third-rate knockoff and had the temerity to address the issue of faith, which cannot possibly be rationalized, and the issue of the hate that faith can breed, because someone honors “the wrong god;” and they gleefully rubbed the noses of all the simplistic fanboys who tuned in hoping to see Denise Richards’ mammaries on display (see related thread) in a narrative that has some actually worthwhile and profound content, and to hear them bleat and moan (see almost every post above) that the Devine has no place in trash. The Devine is omnipresent. And, yes, this modest movie also continued the Starship Troopers tradition of satire, with the State attempting to co-opt Faith (“God is on our side.”) Tell me: has there ever been a nation or faction engaged in conflict that has said, “God is against us?” Wise old saying: there are no atheists in foxholes.
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The film is a satire of religion being marginalized from, and then co-opted into, a military autocracy. That was the purpose of the film. That's what it's doing there. The degree to which it succeeded is, I suppose, a measure of its success. It did not do so well, and several anti-war films have already presented the exploitation of religion in war, though with far greater subtlety than this. Blame the writers if you must, but this really has little to do with going to hell, or concepts of what is, or is not, appropriate in film.
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