First Rated R Movie where I.....

Did not have my parents covering my eyes all the time. I come from a family that let my brother and I stay in the room when "Aliens" and other rated R movies were playing on tv, but my parents were careful to cover our eyes during the gory parts. They didn't want us having nightmares from such terrible imagery.

By the time "Starship Troopers" came about, I was almost a pre-teen and got a chance to watch without those restrictions. It was a little shocking to see naked people at first, though they mostly showed the women, not the men. The gore was shocking too, but there was something about this movie that I didn't realize at the time, and I'll elaborate in a moment.

Contrary to what mom told me about Rated R movies all those years, I had no nightmares that night.

However, there was something my younger self didn't know at the time: this movie is a cartoon, and I DON'T mean the CGI used. A lot of the violence is extremely cartoony, and can't compare to some films and tv shows I have seen in later years. It's really goofy and extremely unrealistic, and some of it doesn't make sense. I suspect they wanted some [dark] humor in some parts of this movie, as well as portraying it like a comic book for the 18+ crowd.