![]() ![]() It is certainly ambitious and bonkers, with plenty of really on-the-nose nods to other American sci-fi films, not just Starship Troopers. In the making-of documentary that accompanies the Blu-ray, Miike himself (I think) says of the film, “It’s fine as long as it’s fun.” When your filmography features more than 100 directing credits in just over 25 years, they can’t all be winners, and a cursory glance at the ratings of Terraformars on Letterboxd show that it might be considered one of those inevitable duds. Take, for instance, his ostensibly family-friendly 2005 film The Great Yokai War, in which mung beans play an integral part in saving the day. In fact, when he was invited to contribute an episode to the Showtime series Masters of Horror – which billed itself as a venue for allowing directors complete creative freedom – his contribution, “Imprint,” was deemed “too disturbing” to show, though it was later released as part of the series on DVD.įor all that, however, Miike’s extensive filmography includes plenty of mainstream movies, too, even if a mainstream Takashi Miike movie is often still pretty bizarre. Thanks to Audition and some of the other films that followed it such as Visitor Q, Ichi the Killer and Gozu, Miike’s name became synonymous, at least in the United States, with a certain strain of transgressive and ultraviolent cinema. In fact, his films are rather notorious for flouting, confounding and subverting them, going back at least as far as 1999’s Audition, the movie that catapulted him to international fame, even though he already more than two-dozen directing credits under his belt by then. Of course, Miike has never seemed one to place much stock in audience expectations. Mes goes on to extensively claim that “ Terraformars is Miike’s Starship Troopers,” by which he means that “it is very much a Miike version of Starship Troopers: it is equally spectacular and silly, and populated with characters that will never quite succeed at becoming the heroes that the conventions of the genre (and the expectations of the audience) normally want them to be.” It would be an endearing factoid, even if it weren’t a relevant one – fortunately, in this case, it’s both. So says Tom Mes in the booklet accompanying the Arrow Video Blu-ray of Terraformars*. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.“Earth’s pests have all been sent to Mars.” – Terraformars (2016)Īpparently, Starship Troopers is Takashi Miike’s favorite film. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does. ![]() Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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