I essentially never give a film a 1 vote; even a very bad one. But this film takes one of the most powerful and historically significant works of science fiction, and quite consciously makes a joke out of it. Heinlein, in 1959, years ahead of his contemporaries, in one single small book, absolutely stunned the world. In this book were packed dozens of mind blowing new science fiction concepts, and since then, virtually every work of science fiction you have ever enjoyed, contains concepts and ideas which first appeared here.

In addition, the book is not a joke. It is a tragic tale of soldiers who die fighting to save humanity under the most dire of conditions. Each of these soldiers fight to the death, decked out in advanced body armor that nobody had previously thought of. To put it into context, "Master Chief" from Halo is a complete rip off, directly from Starship Troopers. Also, the original soldiers from the book would have completely kicked his ass.

To give an idea, half a dozen of these ultra soldiers could be dropped onto a planet and be reasonably expected to *subdue a continent*. They were the baddest of bad ass. In the book, it is also gut wrenching to watch the soldiers fall in combat. You sense the loss and numbness of the surviving soldiers, the terror of a ruthless and devious alien enemy, and the horror and losses that define war..

What does this turd of a film give us? A mockery. To me it feels like if you were to insult our proud soldiers overseas who serve to keep us all safe. You just don't do it. Some things are off limits.

I get the bit about how it's fun to see idiots running around shooting alien bugs and doing stupid things, yay CGI and bug blood. And if this movie had been named ANYTHING else, I would actually rate it fairly highly. Who doesn't love killing hostile aliens? I sure do.

But it was named after the book, which means the only way you can rate this film highly is if you decide to be ignorant of the profound insult it casts upon one of the most important science fiction works in history.

I'm done ranting. You can now go watch idiots shooting bugs now.... (Sigh)