Starship Troopers

I just made a big mistake. A really big mistake. No one should ever watch a movie after reading the book. Occasionally the filmmaker reinterprets the book and it’s all right. Think Peter Jackson with The Lord of the Rings. He cut where it was needed to improve the transition for the screen. In the case of Starship Troopers Paul Verhoeven got it all wrong.
1 The weapons were way cooler in the book
2 The troopers move in a tactical environment like a mob on the National Mall
3 The training sequences are so unrealistic they are laughable
4 The actors are incapable of barking orders
5 The storyline was changed at multiple points but no improvement was made
a) Women in the infantry?
b) Where are the armored suits? Humans can’t just breathe anywhere
c) The love interests?
d) Shooting your buddies instead of bringing them back?
e) The teacher is a retired trooper, he is way too fucking old to be a Lt.
6 Professional soldiers don’t shoot up in the air to celebrate. That is what undisciplined swine do.
I rarely bother to trash a movie but this one deserved it. My five cents: save yourself $3.75 and buy the book instead.