There Are No Walls in the House of Jearl - Mystery DVD #120

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December 9th, 2007
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Mystery DVD #120
Starship Troopers: Bonus Disc
That's right, this is not Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven's adaptation of the Heinlein novel, in which Space Fascists fight giant insects, but the DVD extra features. The main featurette consists of interviews with the screenwriter, director, and some of the cast and special effects people, many of whom express suprise that the press didn't get their wacky Nazi war movie as the tongue-in-cheek romp they intended. Anyway, it made a lot of money and no one is shedding any tears over it. The disc also contains some promotional shorts (forgettable), some 'Know Your Enemy' clips about the making of the giant bugs, and some before-and-after special effects sequences. The Know Your Enemy stuff is kind of interesting - I found it neat to learn where the CGI ended and puppeteers began. Also it left me wondering where the giant Brain Bug puppet ended up. It's the size of an RV, they might have put a hot plate in it or something. The before-and-after clips were not quite so cool - basically it's picture in picture so you can see people screaming in from or a green screen while CGI bugs rip their legs off in the finished version. Kinda gory taken all at once. Also in the "before" clips you can see and hear Paul Verhoeven jumping at the actors and yelling to make them react to the nonexistent bugs and asteroids and so forth. This is strangely charming.

So...yeah. Apparently you can get just the special features from Netflix now.

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From:[info]kassrachel
Date:December 11th, 2007 08:04 pm (UTC)
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Wow. That sounds...alarming. *g*

Hey, are we going to see you at the end of the year? I'm starting to get excited, which means now I'm all curious about who's coming. :-)
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From:[info]jearl
Date:December 11th, 2007 09:09 pm (UTC)
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Yes, barring ice storms, meteors and surly TSA agents. I guess I should start sniffing around for a ride up.
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