Watched Starship Troopers last night.  I don’t know why everyone gives it such a hard time.  I liked it.  The Wife^®, not so much.  Anyway, commencing with the trivia.

• Starship Troopers was directed by Paul Verhoeven.  Verhoeven also directed a few other movies before ST:  RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and… wait for it…  Showgirls.  Which, if you think about it, makes a ton of sense.  ST is basically the perfect combination of the preceding 4 movies.
• Rumors of a Showgirls sequel have been around for some time.  But alas, it looks like the project is in trouble.
• It appears that there was only one season of RoboCop the TV Series, which is really too bad.  That doesn’t track with how many episodes I remember, but I guess we may have just seen the same episodes over and over.  I was, however, glad to see that it did actually exist.  For a while now I’ve been wondering if Tom and I were the only people who ever saw this series since no one else seems to know about it.
• Starship Troopers has spawned 2 sequels.  Part 2 seems to have nothing to do with the original cast, but part 3 brings Casper Van Dien back  as Johnny Rico.  Also starring in Part 3:  Jolene Blalock.  Nerds and Maxim subscribers may recognize that name.  She played the overly sexual Vulcan T’Pol on Enterprise.  She did ST3 after Enterprise (2008).  She must have a hell of an agent… or a lot of debt.
• People interested in movies may want to check out this site, where a guy reviews the scripts that are floating around Hollywood.  A pretty cool behind-the-scenes look that gives you a sneak peek of what’s coming soon.  He was right on about G.I. Joe and Transformers.