Starship troopers seemed to me one of those movies that had almost nothing to do with the book. It was as if they decided to take the concept of war, the concept of bugs and the title, and that was it.
I know a lot of people hated the movie, I enjoyed it, but I just didn't think it had any more than a passing relationship to the book, which I enjoy very much. I much prefer the book to the movie. The movie was a good, loud, gory kind of a thing. The book however examined all sorts of interesting ideas about service to country in exchange for the right to be involved in government etc etc.
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