[sinanju]

I disagreed with a lot of the stuff in Starship Troopers. The movie was directed by Paul Verhoeven and should not be taken seriously.

[Vanders9]

I didn't go along with everything in the book Starship Troopers either, but I do believe Heinlien has a right to his opinion. What the film did was to take the basic story and twist its meaning to exactly the opposite of what Heilein intended, and I'm sorry that is just plain wrong.

It's a bit like remaking "All quiet on the western front" (one of the greatest anti-war movies of all time) into a Ridley Scott action-packed blood-and-snot-flying-everywhere heroic adventure drama. You could do it, and it might even work (in the sense that people might enjoy it) but its incredibly disrespectful to the author.