[allmendream]

So he took a brilliant book (Starship Troopers)with a brilliant political message of republican virtue and civic responsibility and turned it into an antifascist satire. And we are supposed to applaud this travesty? Not I.

[Jeff Chandler]

So he took a brilliant book (Starship Troopers)with a brilliant political message of republican virtue and civic responsibility and turned it into an antifascist satire.

It could be worse. He could have done what Frank Marshall did to Congo--turn a scientific jungle thriller into an anti-capitalist cartoon.

I guess we should be grateful to both of them for making popular literature accessible to people of low intelligence.

[Borges]

It’s certainly not faithful to the spirit of the novel. I never claimed it was. It stands as an achievement on its own however. If you want slavish literary adaptations try Masterpiece Theater.