What's the scariest monster disaster movie you remember?
In the 1990s, science fiction films represented by Terminator 2 achieved innovation in visual effects, and computer animation rendering gradually replaced the shooting of physical props.
This has given many film creators who are struggling with picture performance more adequate technical support.
Science fiction films with thriller elements have become an important commercial film category that audiences like to hear.
The resulting works such as "Robocop", "Stargate", "Time and Space", etc. are creative and special effects to clearly see that the films at that time were experiencing a new era of the industrial revolution.
1997 was definitely a bumper year for Hollywood movies.
In terms of action movies, Nicholas Cage, who has not yet become the king of bad movies, dominates the film world, and "Prison in the Air" and "Change of Face" are acclaimed.
But to say the most surprising movie of the year, many people will mention a sci-fi thriller called "Galactic Team".
The film opens with bloody footage of frontline reporters being torn in two by the Zerg.
The film is full of bloody and brutal plots of various insects abusing and killing humans:
Soldiers who are corroded into skeletons by the strong acid spat out by giant insects;
Giant beetles that can spit strong acid, flesh worms that suck people's brain marrow, this movie is a childhood nightmare for many people
The story is set in a future world where the Earth no longer distinguishes countries and becomes a federal community. Obtaining citizenship through joining the military has become the political aspiration of many young people.
Due to the advancement of science and technology, human beings have long realized interstellar travel, and the cosmic distance of hundreds of light years has become a breeze.
However, in the process of cosmic exploration, humanity encountered an attack from the Arachi insectoid from the K planet, and the development direction of the Earth force gradually shifted to the war against the insect tribe.
Rico, a rich boy who had just graduated from high school, did not listen to his father's persuasion and decided to join the army with his girlfriend.
However, due to his poor talent and achievements, he was assigned to the most advanced mobile infantry, and his girlfriend was assigned to the air fleet.
The first time he arrived at the barracks was quite difficult, and the instructor was quite strict with Rickco's group of recruits, but fortunately, he gained a group of comrades with similar interests in the barracks.
To Rico's distress, Diz, the girl who has always had a crush on him, also came to the barracks.
Due to the long separation of the two places, girlfriend Carmen proposed to Rickon to break up.
In the live-fire exercise, a comrade-in-arms died due to Rickco's wrong command.
Just when Riko was depressed and preparing to return home, he received a message that his parents had been attacked and killed by the zerg. This made Rico determined to return to the barracks to avenge his parents.
Eight million people died in Zerg attacks, and Earth's Supreme Marshal gave orders to attack Zerg planets.
However, due to insufficient information on the Zerg, the human troops suffered heavy casualties, and Rico was also included in the list of dead due to his serious injuries.
Rico and the others were assigned to the tough guy units to carry out the mission, and the commander of the squadron happened to be Rico's high school teacher.
After this battle, experts deduced that there was a mother worm with a very high IQ who was giving command orders. This has dramatically changed human warfare tactics against the Zerg Race.
In a major battle, Rico's fighting talent was revealed, and he was promoted to corporal. His relationship with Dietz also heated up rapidly.
The Zerg mock post sent out a distress signal, and the tough guy troops learned from the surviving generals that a female worm that had sucked brain marrow was directing the Zerg attack.
As soon as the tough guy troops learned the truth, they were attacked by the zerg tribe.
On the way out, the chief and Diz are killed by the Zerg, and Ricko becomes the supreme commander of the Tough Guy Force, which makes him determined to find the Zerg leader.
After investigation, humans found the base camp of the Zerg Race.
During the attack, Carmen's ship is hit by the plasma cannon of the Zerg Clan, but she falls into the female worm's cave by mistake.
Obtaining the coordinates where Carmen was located, Rico led his troops to arrive in time.
After fierce fighting, the tough guy troops successfully captured the mother worm. Humans have triumphed in the battle with the Zerg Race.
Mixed baths, German uniforms, and only soldiers can become citizens, a political metaphor under the surface of the Human-Worm War in The Galactic Team
In addition to the special effects that seemed extremely realistic at the time, many young viewers were puzzled by the repeated recruitment ads and battlefield reports in "Galaxy Team".
Looking back at "Galaxy Team" now, Fork fork suddenly realized that this is the most talked about place in this film:
At the beginning of the film, the background of the story is briefly introduced in the form of a recruitment advertisement, and the only way to become a soldier is to change from a civilian to a citizen.
The film appears from time to time in the recruitment propaganda film, and the advertisement is unrestrained in the violent and bloody rendering of the death penalty and the death scene.
Soldiers encouraged children to raise their arms, and school teachers preached that violence was the only means of fighting for rights, all of which were the same as the Germans in World War II.
Under the brainwashing of the official "Shangwu" culture, young people have shown their willingness to join the army.
This also caused strong opposition from the parents of the male protagonists, who were aristocrats, because as people who came over, they knew what medicine was sold in the gourd of the ruling class.
In the film, both men and women, regardless of gender, serve at the same time, bathe together, sleep together, and participate in missions together.
This gender-ignoring approach is also a figurative manifestation of the cultivation of people as cold-blooded war machines.
If these are not conspicuous enough, the film specifically designs the human army suits into the style of the German uniforms of the World War II, which is obvious enough.
Under the influence of such an extremely offensive and aggressive ideology, it is difficult not to wonder whether the initiator of this human-insect war is really an insect race.
Fork fork even suspects that the real culprit of the 8 million deaths represented by the male protagonist's parents is not the insect clan, but the top level of human beings.
Intent on dominating the galaxy, they created a fuse by orchestrating a zerg catastrophe on Earth.
So in the final analysis, the humans in the film are morally the real villains, and the ugly-looking buggers are decent.
The truth of the story is that militaristic humans launched a war of aggression against the Zerg in order to rule the galaxy, and the Zerg were only forced to fight back.
"Galactic Team" is an anti-war film cloaked in a human-worm war.
Two Dog-tailed Sable's Galactic Sequels
Although the special effects of "Galactic Team" have been repeatedly commended, coupled with director Paul Verhoeven's familiarity with commercial films, the film is quite watchable.
However, because the rendering of militarism in the film is too explicit, which has attracted many bad comments from the audience, "Galaxy Team", which should be a model of anti-war, has become the leader of glorifying the violence of war.
The $105 million investment only earned more than $50 million at the box office, which directly led to the shelving of the sequel plan for the film.
Until 7 years later, the sequel to "Galaxy Team" was released directly on discs, and did not enter the theater at all.
Even though the third installment brought in cass pie van Dane, the male protagonist of the first episode, it only grossed a pitiful $400,000, completely cutting off the series' back road.
The reason for this is that the drastic reduction in budget has led to a significant reduction in the special effects of the film.
As the main backbone of the director Paul Verhoeven did not participate in the relevant creation, resulting in the subsequent plot becoming fragmented is also the reason why the two sequels have been criticized.
Compared with the weakness of the two sequels, the animated version of the derivative is worth a look.
Failing to continue the century-long war between humans and insects cannot be recorded in the annals of science fiction movies forever, and "Galaxy Team" is really unlucky.
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