[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]

You can make an argument that the film pandered to action loving frat boys. Satire has always appealed to one audience a certain way and to another a different way (Gulliver’s Travels...)