re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The other thing that Verhoeven totally screwed up was omitting the powered Mobile Infantry suits, which allowed them to send a handful of MIs down to neutralize an entire planet, not the hordes swarming off transports like Marines at Iwo Jima that he portrayed…

I hope that they do a proper film version of it some day that takes all those aspects into account.

Came across an article written about that movie written by a former military officer.

Included lines like, “The apparent basic formation unit of the Mobile Infantry is the ‘mob’.”

Basically went on to rip the military aspects of the movie apart from head to toe regarding doctrine, weapons, training, logistics and so on.

Verhoeven was doing his usual anti-fascist thing (this time as satire) along with riffing on various older military movies or documentary footage.* A lot of aspects of the book are simply ignored for not fitting what he wanted to do, or simply not being convenient for the budget or movie making - which is the main reason I think the powered armor aspects were skipped. Budget costs to develop along with necessary special effects, and helmets obscuring the actor’s faces.

* - Bugs pretty much played up as something equivalent to Zulus vs British troops; e.g. swarms of lower “tech” infantry (no guns, fierce in melee) vs lower numbers of gun-armed infantry. Tanker bugs riff on any number of WW2 movies where the infantry have to deal with a tank or other armored vehicle immune to the base weapons. And so forth.