[USNBandit]

Good book, but the movie sucked.

[Teacher317]

The movie was only tangentially based on the book... there is a Johnny Rico (from the Philippines in the book, not Buenos Aires), and there are “Bugs”... but the intent and messages are vastly different between the two media.

[BenLurkin]

Been a LONG time since I read the book, but IIRC the enemy wielded weapons — and wasn’t just charging monsters.

[skinkinthegrass]

Good book, but the movie sucked.Yeah..Good book, Great Graphics/spoiled script for Movie.....

[logic101.net]

Good book, but the movie sucked.

No, it was a great book. However the movie gutted the philosophy of the book.

[Vanders9]

And that is the point. The movie WAS a send up/satire of militarism - but the book most certainly wasn't. Now I don't personally agree with everything Robert Heinlein came up with in "starship troopers". I think as a novel its far too preachy and some of the theories he expounds are frankly bizarre. I do however think he has a right to express them, as everyone who loves freedom should think. To have some liberal movie people rewrite the story to mean the opposite of what the author intended is absolutely appalling. Its anti-democratic, its contemptous, its downright unethical. Its also utterly cowardly - if Heinlein had been alive he would certainly have sued them. I mean can you imagine what this movie reviewer would write if someone did a remake of "All quiet on the western front" as a blood and guts, all star, tub-thumping heroic slugfest?

I think "Starship troopers" the movie has got to be just about the worst serious big budget flick I have ever seen.

[SevenofNine]

The book was good the movie sucks