Starship Troopers: why is it that...

[Gojira]

Well, aside from the surprising similar idea of cadets facing a threat while growing up, why did that film feel so much bigger, like they spent so much more money? I mean they seemed to have built the huge hallway/ terminal where Denise Richards can yell from across a long distance "Johnny Rico" picking him out of the crowd, but in our film, the hanger where our cadets leave in shuttles looks like, uh, an old hanger, while the engine rooms are obviously breweries.

WTF?

I think Trek really attempted to have a sense or realism while Troopers does have a tongue-in-cheek attitude.

 

[Cyke101]

I'm thinking that we have two very ideologically different movies, too. Consider the scenes in question: one was about mobilizing an invasion force, the other was about mobilizing a rescue and humanitarian force. One was about war, the other was about saving lives.