RE: Ever read Robert Heinlein's... blah.
I was going to make fun of people who read books... and their insistence that movie scripts adhere to said books. But I thought this was a good example of both book and movie being, separately, good.
Heinlein's book is this "what if..." about the government that's geared towards the military without being a military dictatorship in the classic sense. Civics 101 wrapped around an interstellar war. It's pure science fiction.
The Starship Trooper movie is a satire of military propaganda with a horror element (if you got a fear of bugs). The marketing bumpers asking you to "Join the Mobile Infantry!" The go-go attitude of the characters before they realize that war is ugly and actually dangerous. Then there's the bugs! Rarely do movie-goers get to see an non-anthropomorphic enemy. The bugs have no faces or pupils to focus on, multiple legs, fast-moving, shrill screamers. But instead of being these dumb wooden ducks to shoot at, the bugs actually display a good amount of tactical thinking. Anyways, similar to Robocop, Troopers ridicules at our attempts to make War into an activity we WANT to participate in while scaring the crap out of us with these beings we can't relate to. Well, unless you're NPH, who's the only one allowed to "Pet the Worm".
That reminds me: Jurassic Park III. (All the velociraptor moments are horror scenes.)
