Zombies

First of all, Starship Troopers is an excellent movie for what it is and that is more or less a comical homage to war and sci-fi movies. It doesn't try to be serious and I think was always intended to come off the way it did and I think it works great.

So has anyone who has seen the very bad DTV part 2 (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation) made the connection that Brenda Strong (who plays the narrator I believe on Desperate Housewives) is in both movies playing different characters?

She is the captain of Denise Richards and Patrick Muldoon on the ship who dies in 1 and yet she is also in part 2 as another character who I believe gets possessed by a bug.

It didn't dawn on me until I watched part 1 again and then realized the few minutes I saw 2 that I recognized her.

Isn't that peculiar?

Giles

"This isn't random light - somebody made a big goddamn mistake!"

ShagMan

"abandon... shiiip......."

Great movie, the commentary by Verhoven is great as well... I appreciate what he did with the over-the-top Nazi-like culture.

BuddyRevell

Yes I did notice this. I also noticed that the naked girl from part two was naked. And that was cool my friends.

Zombies

So there is no explanation to this phenomena?

GoldenJCJ

The biggest name they could get to return?

Note: I have yet to see pt2 so perhaps there's others.

Joe Molotov

It just happens sometimes. Bruce Spence played the Gyro Pilot in The Road Warrior and then returned in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome playing a different character. Same with Lee Van Cleef in For a Few Dollars More & The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Fielding Mellish

"You're wearing my shirt, Johnny Rico."

UAIOE

Then we both noticed the only cool part of the movie.


The movie really lacked that Verhoven touch and the one aspect that could have made the movie great (the bugs taking over people) was an idea that wasn't really used to its fullest.

But then if they had it would have been "The Thing" just set on some bug infested rock in space.