The most visible proponent of these views is probably Paul Verhoeven, whose film version of Starship Troopers portrayed the Terran Federation wearing Nazi-like outfits and using fascistic propaganda; but Verhoeven admits that he never finished reading the actual book.[48]
The footnote: 48 ^ Peterson, Robert (2000). Starship Troopers: Film and Heinlein’s Vision. Space.com. Retrieved on 2006-03-04.
I went to http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/movies/troopers_contrast_000610.html listed in the footnote and found a really strange ‘Special to Space.com’ about Starship Troopers. It never actually says Verhoeven never finished reading the book but it does offer up some hit and miss observations on the flick.
In it Robert Peterson comments on Clancy Brown breaking a boot’s arm:
Other flaws are minor and relate to the lack of efficiency we see in the film. Sergeant Zim (Clancy Brown) is all wrong. Heinlein’s boot camp is tough, fair and, most importantly, real. Verhoeven played the boot camp, and especially Zim, for psychotic laughs, as when Zim breaks a new recruit’s arm to illustrate a point.
Patterson notes that “the arm break is nowhere in the world of the book,” and I agree.
Evidently neither of these two clowns ever read the novel either!
If I recall the novel correctly, Zim broke boot Sutherland's arm at the first formation and said in an aside he was sorry as the boot hurried him.
Sorry, I was wrong! Went back and reread Starship Troopers and it was 'Breckinridge, suh" not "Sutherland" who got his arm broke by Zim. BTW Breckinridge later did not make it through the dump naked into the Canadian Rockies and was posthumously buried as PFC Mobile Infantry.
Also reread Have Spacesuit, Will Travel and I want to know where is the Mother Thing when we need her?