I still have plague and it's Friday evening, so I'm going to watch STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997).

Chose it because 1 I've never seen it and 2 I liked Robocop.

Hashing, in case you need to mute my ramblings for your sanity: #filmnightwithdani

Away we go!

One minute into Starship Troopers and it already has Fallout 4 meets Alien Nation vibes #filmnightwithdani

The main character's jaw is, like, extradimensionally square #filmnightwithdani

Are we seriously having a "voting is violence" conversation? Was this movie the blueprint for everything that happened after 9/11 until now?

Also, I assumed Robocop was a one off, but if Paul Verhoeven's whole vibe is taking on the violence industrial complex, I have a new favorite director #filmnightwithdani

This school has never heard of FERPA #filmnightwithdani

"Put your goggles on" but just dive right into this extraterrestrial insect body with still wiggling parts without any other PPE, it's fine #filmnightwithdani

Oh man, the Windows 95 psychic solitaire app. I loved that thing! #filmnightwithdani

Nobody in this film deserves Cyrano the ferret. #filmnightwithdani

This high school sports ball game looks like a combination of football and Foosball.

I don't even care if our hero won, I cannot wait to see him get eaten by a Bug. #filmnightwithdani

"Who gave you the idea to sign up for the army? It was that teacher, wasn't it?"

Yup, that's us, trying to get your conventionally attractive children killed in wars. We'll do anything to get them to turn in their work on time. #filmnightwithdani

I can't keep track of which girl he's dating and which one just wants in his pants. Or are we good with open polyamory in the military industrial dystopia? #filmnightwithdani

(Pause so I can cough up one of my lungs and wring the snot out of it, brb)

(Don't worry, we totally covered this in biology class) #filmnightwithdani

"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom any of us really has."

Bold words to a kid we all know is about to sign his life away to become cannon fodder. #filmnightwithdani

That Academy uniform has hella Hitler Youth vibes.

Way to be subtle, Verhoeven. #filmnightwithdani

The way every adult who served is missing at least one body part has real "here is where airplanes got shot at and still made it back diagram" vibes. #filmnightwithdani

Why does Cadet Squarejaw want to be a citizen so bad, if not being one still means you get to have rich parents who send you to Harvard? He's not shown any real interest in anything other than himself and his hot girlfriend so far. #filmnightwithdani

Handing elementary kids guns for a PSA. This film is freaking psychic.*

*I wish, but this was the road we were on even then #filmnightwithdani

Is that Kurtwood Smith doing the newscaster voice over? #filmnightwithdani

"Fort Cronkite" lol #filmnightwithdani

If our hero and Great Value Biff Tannen can have a conversation while running an obstacle course, they aren't working nearly hard enough #filmnightwithdani