I feel like maybe their ammo is not particularly effective.

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Johnny, no, talk to me, Johnny!

*sigh* Where's a good gif of Guinan when you need one?

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#STTNG 🖖

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Wait, so the main character just got murdered by a giant assassin bug, but the movie is only half over?

"To fight The Bug, we must understand The Bug."

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW *MORE*?

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RICO! RICO!
Wake up, nerd, you're dead.

Johnny 5 is alive!

Oh wait. Wrong movie.

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FATHER GABE?!?

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#TheWalkingDead

"You don't do your job, I'll shoot you."

Yay, Jester's back!

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#TopGun

The scenes with all the bugs scurrying everywhere make me wanna watch #EdgeOfTomorrow again. I don't even care, I love that movie.

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Monkey-suckin' sack of maggot puke.

Well, that's a new one and a doozy.

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Giant flame-spewing cockroach beetle. Gotta be taken down from above.

Where's Legolas when you need him?

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#SurferElf

Rico, you kill bugs good.

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Ye GAWDS how did I not see this movie for what it is?

THEY'RE PLAYING FUCKIN DIXIE 🤣

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Well Diz, you're finally getting him to lay you. And even Jester understands. I guess. 😆

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Had to pause to check y'all's replies. Now back at it, and suddenly we've got FLYING BUGS?!?

Ach du meine Güte.

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Watkins (FATHER GABE), seeing the mangled human bodies inside the military compound:

"Geeeez, someone really humped the bunk."

Y'all, I GUFFAWED. 🤣

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#TheWalkingDead
#HumpedTheBunkCoral

"Diz, check it out."

I have a bad feeling about this.

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#StarWars

"THEY SUCKED HIS BRAINS OUT"

Well, that's a bad day.

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I think the general has a bug that's going to bust out of his head and I really hope I'm right about that

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#RFK
#BrainWorm2024

"FIRE AT WILL!"

Poor Will.

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#STTNG 🖖

Aw shoot, flying bug took out the general. I don'tget to see the #BrainWorms.

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"I hope you have a crazy pilot."

Ooh, ooh, I know who it's gonna be!

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Oh dang that's a mess of bugs.

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#MessOfTacos

I was right! Crazy Carmen crashes the party!

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Aw. Jester's dead for real this time.

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Ah, and if you'll direct your attention to the right, here we have the traditional scene of The Woman Gets Punished For Having Sex.

"Johnny, I'm dying. But it's all right, because I got to have you."

This is officially the only movie in which I have ever approved of this trope. Because Verhooven eviscerates it.

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Doogie Howser lookin' like a skinny little Nazi stormtrooper.

You get all the cookies if you get that reference. 😘

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Oh *now* they don the helmets.

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Welp, so much for Xandcar. Carxand? Carmder?

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Oh! They're not dead yet! It's only laceratingly painful puncture flesh wounds!

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Ace and Sugar got yer back, Johnny.

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Oh. Giant tick brainsucking bug. Neat.

🤢

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"You're some kinda big, fat smartbug, aren't ya?"

Nailed it, Johnny. Nailed it.

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Carmen totally had a wordless I AM NO MAN moment there! Way to go, Céowyn!

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When running from a giant explosion fireball inside a tunnel, I always prefer keeping my attention directly ahead of me and hauling all ass instead of looking over my shoulder again and again to see how far I am from the giant explosion fireball. But hey, that's just me.

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Doogie Howser is Ender Wiggins.

#PlotTwist
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Private Zim got the brainbug.

I'll take Clancy Brown over RFK any day.

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WE NEED YOU ALL

***SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP***

THEY'LL KEEP FIGHTING

AND THEY'LL WIN

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#BeAllThatYouCanBe
#TheFewTheProudTheMari-
#AimHighFlyFightWin

#WouldYouLikeToKnowMore
#YouCantHandleTheTruth

Well, that was a lot more fun than than I either remembered or expected. #StarshipTroopers, I have done you a disservice these past 27 years. Mea culpa.

*bows with flourish*

@courtcan the book is on my top 3 RAH’s books. The movie is just amazingly fun. You made it so much more fun with your narration.

I pretty much knew Dizzy was going to buy the farm the moment they had sex … because that’s a trope. I mean, it fails the Bechtel test miserably.

@GayDeceiver I thought of you earlier when I was pondering my past Heinlein reading! 😁 There is so much about his work that I thoroughly dislike these days. And yet, there's this movie -- the satire might not have been what he intended, but the seeds were in the book. And still have such a soft spot in my heart for Podkayne! 💙

Yeah, the Woman Gets Punished For Having Sex trope jumped out at me immediately--been discussing it elsewhere in-thread. The subtle, subversive sarcasm...GAH. EXQUISITE.