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I saw this one in the theater.  When they had to be quiet so the other ship could not hear them, I laughed for almost 10 min.  Other good points - the model t ford fighters, and when the escape hatch blows, one girl is getting sucked out but her hair does not move.  And when the Kilrathi in one of the backgrounds falls over like a paper cut out.

Folks, this is the only movie I ever walked on, and demanded my money back from the theater manager.  Not even "The Big Hit" was this bad.  I was a religious player of the games.. and from that standpoint alone I found zillions of things wrong with this movie from the very beginning.  The point of no return was the actual meeing with the Kilrathi.. they didn't look dangerous, they looked like feline rejects from the cheap versions of the planet of the apes.  It's that bad.

Stay away, very very far away.

I didn't have high expectations for this and I'd never played any of the games.  I thought it was okay.  Not a classic by any means, but not a bad WWII-in-the-Pacific-action-set-in-outer-space movie.  Far better than the abysmal "Starship Troopers", if only because it doesn't waste as much of your time.

AHEM...I meant "Starship Troopers". See how bent outta shape this piece of crap made me?

Tripe...What is it with guys like David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow anyway? These guys have made classic films and are undoubtably fine actors...but for every one great film they're in they must appear in at least a dozen turds apiece. They seem to have a serious case of Michael Caine-itis. One good one to fifteen bad ones...what a ratio! Warner made a real British Swinging Sixties film called Martin. Prochnow was, of course, the U-boat commander in Das Boot...I HATE SEEING GOOD ACTORS WADING IN s**t! Stormship Troopers was fun in all it's badness because there wasn't any real actors to feel sorry for...except maybe Michael Ironsides, but he IS a B movie star. I enjoy watching the new guys, i.e. wannabes, earn their chops in dreck like this, but I just can't sit idlely by and watch proven actors go down the s**tter with thier starcrusiers. I know they're actors and they do it for the money...but geeze...it's annoying as hell!

Would somebody please contact Freddie's current make-up person, and advise them to remove the spirit gum from Freddie's forehead?  You know, the stuff that was left there during the shoot of WING COMMANDER?  You know what I'm talking about - the stuff that kept Freddie eyebrows arched high over his forehead throughout the entire movie?  Freddie looked like he was suffering from a gastrointestinal problem during the whole movie.

Holy moly!  The Kilrathi are CHUDs!

This part got cut out, but it turns out that Gerald was a spy, and Blair stabs him to death with his Pilgram cross, that's how he lost it.

Believe in yourself, believe in rock n roll!

Thank you for rightfully bashing this peice of crap!
The sad part about this film is how fast Chris Roberts irreverseably destroyed both careeres as a game/movie producer.
When the original Wing Commander Games came out, they were fun. In WC3, back in the day FMV (full motion video) was popular, actors like  Mark Hamill (as Blair), Malcome McDowel (as Tolken), and Biff from Back to the Future (Maniac) steped in as the games protagonists. They did a pretty decent job, and though a dumb love triangle thing was attached, the game plot was NOT AS PAINFUL as the film. Hell, the Kilrathi had their own main characters! And did'nt look all green and glowie eyed 'n crap!

That and the starfighters in this film looked more like flying kegs beat with an ugly stick than anything that was in the computer games. Aside from the title, and the names of the characters, this movie is far removed from the games themselves. SO BAD! BAD! BAD MOVIE!
CURSE YOU CHRIS ROBERTS, AND YOUR WWII SUB MOVIE REFERENCES THAT MAKE NO SENSE (esspecialy in space)!

I actually wanted to see this one. I mean, I heard it was terrible, but it has Saffron Burrows, so I was almost ready to take the change. Thanks to save my sanity, Andrew.

By the way, I found terribly sad that Chris Roberts, who managed to mix cinema-style and gaming so well in lots of great games (my personal favourite: Strike Commander) has ruined his future so fast. I mean, the guy looked talented and certainly he could have done much better than this.

Is Freddie Prinze Jr the first actor in history to become famous for a smirk?  There has to have been someone before him, but it's not coming to me.

No, Freddie won't be the first one famous for a smirk--Bruce Willis beat him to it!

I'm no SF fan, but this movie completely sucked.  However, I got a big laugh out of Andrew's totally outraged fanboy review of it.  Gotta love those geeks!

The fact that Freddie Prinze gets paid to make movies and gets to have sex with Sara Michelle Geller just proves that there is no god!

At first I was craving to get to see the damn thing, since I was (am) a big fan o.t. Game.

When it finally hit the cinema´s here in Germany I went straight to the Theathre... and suffered.

I mean, c´mon... ONE f**king fighter type? O_o

The Story was all in all better then I feared it would be, bvut the worst of it all (for me) was the German Translation. I got the chance to Watch it once more in Original English, wich made a WORLD of a Difference. The entire Story suddenly made more sense, making me almost forget how bad they did the Killrathi´s (For the love of God... LEATHERY skin? O_o They were All furred in ALL the games!).

All in all I still regret that I ever spend a single coin to see this... sad piece of work.

cheers

Bheliom

I saw five minutes of this, and it isn't even enjoyable to laugh at, it's just dreay, cheap, and cliched.
"Zero Stars"

It's also a proof that designers from one genre should be banned from migrating into another (the guy who made this excrement is the designer of the actual games - not too surprisingly, this was his first *and last* film)

Oh why did they had to make such a good series of novel (non-movies ones of course) and video games into a utter utter piece of s**t, thank god Iceman was the only one that wasn't in it :D

Haven't Prinze and Lillard made about three movies together?  Who on earth thinks they play well of each other?  Further proof that contracts with Satan must exist.

I AM A WING COMMANDER FAN, AND ALSO SUPER p**sED!

One of the notable things about the Wing Commander series of games is the cast of well-defined characters (NPCs) you interact with.

One of the most notable things about the Wing Commander movies is the lack of character and interactions that aren't pure nonesense.

In addition to the "woefully underpowered assault rifles" thought... Freddie Prinze and Company appear to be using the same weapons as the Naval Base personnel, and yet whereas the base personnel's bullets bounced off the Kilrathi, the pilots' bullets punch through them like a crossbow bolt through a stick of butter.

As for Starship Troopers... yes, you'd think that an armament program capable of making pocket nukes would be capable of doing better than 5.56mm assault rifles. Hell, even a UAS-12 combat shotgun with rifled slugs would be better (the 12-gauge sized slug having significantly more mass and impact energy than a 5.56mm lead)

I'm rather tempted to write a script for the movie this should have been.

As far as some films go - it could have been worse.

Not making as many errors when filming would have been a good start.

and at least 2 types of fighters would have been good.
OK they have a bomber - g-whizz.

Even battlestar has several versions of the viper.

maybe they should have made a movie based on Zero Wing

someone set us up the bomb!

This movie had the potential to be a really fun movie, the problem is the plot wasn't very clear. I watched it a few times, and I still don't know what it's about.

The only thing I remember about this movie was I got to second base with a girl during it. Good memories.  :smile:

 THIS MOVIE SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED!!!!!!!! It makes "Super Mario Brothers" look like "Citizen Kane". Well, almost.

If they really wanted to make the film the right way, they would have used the actors from WC III and WC IV to make it better, but then they would have to change everyone's rank since I don't think Mark Hamill can pull off a 20 some year old Lt, at his age.

i don't know how good or bad the gamea are the film was complete bulls**t. If one stood down and did some research he would have done such a mess. I hate when they come with these scifi movies and turn to be complete bulls**t. they make the genre look awful. Thank god there are a couple of good scifi movies. Hope that at least when someone wants to make a good sci fi movie talk with an expert on the matter not try to invent things by yourself it saves you from making complety stupid films!

Yuk!  :thumbdown:

They shoulda made a "Star Fox" movie instead. For sure.

I was a massive fan of the video game on my PC back in the day when this movie came out.  This movie wasn't even close to the video game.  Thank God that the producers of the newest Star Trek movie learned a lesson from this movie and came out with something even better than the original.  It was good to read these posts and remeber the glory days of the old Wing Commender series on the PC.  Thanks for the walk down memory lane

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First Mate : SIR, THEY CAN'T HEAR SOUND THROUGH A VACCUME. WHY ARE YOU WISPERING.
Captain : What?...(Hurummh)  I MEAN, I KNOW. GOT A COUGH DROP ON YOU?