Starship troopers.
The movie was great in an over the top fascist everything sense, but I thought the book was fantastic.
Hard disagree. The book is way better. Don't get me wrong. The movie is good but it's basically a satire of fascism that backfires spectacularly (which is why it's so good). The book on the other hand is just a straight love letter to right wing authoritarianism. The mobile infantry are also much cooler in the book. I much prefer the idea of the 'cap trooper' where each individual trooper is in power armor and gets shot out of the capital ship like a bullet. In the book like 3 troopers are enough to destroy a whole city. Also the movie cuts out the other aliens, the skinnies, and that opening chapter where the infantry just fucking wreck them is great.
wait that was a book?
as far as I'm concerned the book and the movie had nothing in common but the title and character names.
The director specifically stated he was going to shit on the source material because he was upset that Earth was essentially a utopia in the book but had a "right-wing" militaristic government. So he added the propaganda, two-tier society, SS references, etc, and tried to go for a "The Stepford Wives" type of vibe.
From the 50's. Robert A Heinlien. Good book but short
Yes, and it's actually far more than... "men with laser guns shoot alien bugs".
They didn't have laser guns
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