Scene from "Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles"
courtesy of Columbia / Tristar

Plasma Bug Truck Pull

The Roughnecks sucessfully capture and sedate the baby plasma bug, but Mom and Dad bug come home with an attitude.

Some things to watch for in this clip:

* Instead of floating smoothly and unnaturally, the camera following the truck as it's escaping seems to be mounted on a follow vehicle just ahead of the bug truck, so the camera also rocks with the explosions and terrain. This nod to the cinematic style of filming a car chase adds a lot to the realism of the scene.

* A one second sight gag; the mirror on the truck being fired on has a "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" sign, which is bad considering you can a plasma bomb coming toward the truck in the mirror.

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