New Movies – Movies That Fans Of Starship Troopers Need To Watch Next

Like Starship Troopers, Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales was panned when it first came out. Famously, the sophomore effort from the Donnie Darko director was booed when it premiered at Cannes (via The A.V. Club). Southland Tales also skews America’s militaristic leanings, but did so during the hyper-patriotic fallout of 9/11. Viewers just weren’t ready for a movie about future drug-addicted soldiers, terrorist improv groups, and Kevin Smith discovering time travel.

Southland Tales is a big, ambitious mess of a movie. The cast list is almost as insane as the plot: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Wallace Shawn, Amy Poehler, Justin Timberlake, Nora Dunn, Bai Ling, Mandy Moore, Jon Lovitz, Seann William Scott, and Seann William Scott again. Although the critical consensus on the film has softened somewhat since it came out, Southland Tales hasn’t gone through the full image rehab that Starship Troopers has. It does have Justin Timberlake dancing to a Killers song, which Troopers is sadly lacking. 

The Cannes cut was just released on blu-ray, so now is the perfect time to see this eerily prescient film.