[Future Snake Eater]

The film of Starship Troopers was explicitly intended to be a satire of "American fascism" according to its director. The original book by Heinlein has no such message, of course.

The film was so stupid, yet cool to look at, and a blast to watch.

I read the book when I was deployed to Iraq (read it in my Stryker while pulling ridiculously long security missions), and I decided that the book was far superior, but would've been a fairly dull movie.

[GL of Sector 2814]

The film was so stupid, yet cool to look at, and a blast to watch.

From what I've heard, that sums up the movie "Avatar" as well. I'll give it a miss.

read the book when I was deployed to Iraq (read it in my Stryker while pulling ridiculously long security missions), and I decided that the book was far superior, but would've been a fairly dull movie.

I agree that it would have had to have been substantially altered in terms of plot, pacing, etc., but what's so annoying about the film was the director's perversion of the book's philosophical message.