http://www.cracked.com/article_19259...ed-future.html


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sounds cool at first, but it really applies to a lot of wars.

 

lol, not bad cracked. not bad at all.

 

 

I enjoyed Starship Troopers when it first came out, but I didn't get the satire aspects of it until years later. And then I enjoyed it even more. One of my guilty pleasures. Pretty funny article.

But I always hated how they sent all the infantry in without any sort of support. No tanks, IFVs, or even jeeps? Heavy infantry weapons? What about air support? That part always seemed like it could have been done better.

 

Still think that it was a giant vagina, and that really looks like Amy Poehler in Abu Ghraib. The squeals aren't too bad for a B movie, by no means equal to Battle Los Angeles or anything.

 

In the book the infantry is more like mech warriors with battle suits that the movie chose to ignore.

 

Until the third or fourth movie

 

I did read the book a number of years ago (big sci-fi fan in general and Heinlein in particular), but the book and the movie are so different in tone and plot that I regard them as two totally distinct entities that happen to share a name. The book did a good job of making their powered armor eliminate the need for support, but in the movie the lack of a combined-arms approach seemed to make the soldiers sitting ducks.

 

agreed. I read the book for the first time when I was like 12, I have read it many times since then. I too am a big sci-fi reader. Actually right now I am having trouble finding a new author I really like. Seems like everybody is lumping Sci-Fi in with Fantasy and it's pissing me off as the two are completely separate genres.