bissek said:
A war movie with continuously boneheaded tactics (Honestly, Navy, either contribute to the battle, or get out of range of the anti-spacecraft fire. Don't sit there and get shot at), heroes whose actions have negligible impact on the war while the real heroics are done by a bit character off camera, what's there to love?
Not to mention that the director admitted to never reading the book, to hating the book (despite never having read it), and had the moral of his movie's story be almost exactly 180 degrees off from what the book was saying...
Also, 'Starship Troopers' is the sci-fi novel that effectively
invented the powered armor genre(*), and
there's no bloody powered armor in the film.
(*) Although there was a brief earlier appearance of the concept in E.E. "Doc" Smith's 'Galactic Patrol'.