Starship Troopers
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
How do you satirize a self-serious sci-fi staple? Any way you can! This week, Chris & Lizzie drop in on Paul Verhoeven's widely misunderstood anti-fascist spectacle and try to figure out how the cast of 90210 was employed to battle some of Phil Tippett's best-looking creations on Klendathu.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to what |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome back to What Went Wrong, |
| 0:22.4 | your favorite podcast, Full Stop, |
| 0:24.2 | that just so happens to be about movies |
| 0:25.9 | and how it's nearly impossible to make them, |
| 0:28.2 | let alone a good one, |
| 0:29.9 | let alone potentially a misunderstood sci-fi magnum opus. |
| 0:38.1 | I don't know if that's the right way to describe this. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm one of your hosts, |
| 0:41.8 | Lizzie Bassett, here, as always, |
| 0:43.5 | with Chris Winterbauer. |
| 0:44.5 | And Chris, what do you have for us today? |
| 0:46.8 | Today, I have |
| 0:48.1 | 1997's Starship Troopers. |
| 0:52.1 | Yes, a misunderstood film, |
| 0:55.1 | or at least misunderstood, |
| 0:57.1 | upon the time of its release. |
| 1:00.7 | A film that I watch every five years or so, |
| 1:05.8 | just to marvel at both 90s, symmetrical faces, |
| 1:10.3 | chisel jaw lines, and the integration of practical effects and CGI. |
| 1:17.2 | I think this film, moments of this film are remarkable in how they hold up to this day, |
| 1:19.4 | especially the giant bug hordes. |
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