re: #330 AntonSirius

Starship Troopers is a fantastic movie. It’s also a terrible adaptation of the book. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Ohh I have to strongly disagree. It took one of the very best and most deep books of sci fi ever written and turned it into a mockery.

It was also stupid as a movie IMHO. I mean, in the book the bugs had space ships and fired laser rifles. There were well thought out tactics with small units in very super-powered battle armor.

In teh movie though, let’s see what the tactics turned into.

You control the high orbitals of a planet covered with nasty bugs who don’t have much in the way of ranged capacity, but do swarm really well.

you:

a) Nuke them from orbit.

b) send in your armored military into a cleared landing area (that you nuked from orbit) with lots of air cover and heavy support.

c) send in lightly armed infantry without cover to get swarmed.

Really f’n dumb that movie was.