8 Movie Scenes You Didn't See (Thanks To Test Audiences)

8. Carmen And Zander Kiss - Starship Troopers

The 90s answer to intergalactic warfare, Starship Troopers is the perfect mix of action, science-fiction, and good old fashioned bug-squashing - but it didn't start out as the cult classic it's grown to be. At least, not quite.

In a distant future where high-schoolers are encouraged to join the military to earn their citizenship, Earth comes under fire from a creepy instectoid race: it's about as campy as it sounds, and full to the brim with satire, death, and splatter-ific violence. The only good bug is a dead bug after all.

You'd think test audiences might take offence at the gore and murder, or perhaps the tone of the warfare, or even the young protagonists pushed into the armed forces - but it was in fact the love triangle surrounding Rico's girlfriend Carmen that got them so riled up the footage had to be edited. Sounds like the test group might have had some bad break ups...

Director Paul Verhoeven took the choice to remove scenes with Carmen and Rico's school rival Zander getting closer and sharing a kiss to appease the angry mob that decidedly hated her character from the first iteration of the movie. A small change, but one that obviously had a big effect on watches.