Am I the only one who laughed all the way through the first Starship Troopers movie?
I still think its one of the best comedies I’ve ever seen.
You’ve seen the cargo lifter that Ripley uses in Aliens? Its sort of like that, but with guns and shrunken nukes.
Its actually nicely described in detail in the book, so that its not just a knight with a gun.
I think they were called “loaders”.
I couldn’t remember the name, I assumed it would be a pretty recognisable prop though.
re: powered armor.
In the movie, you had an infantry platoon jogging down a canyon, all grouped together, where they’d be easy prey for an ambush. In the book, that same platoon would be spread over several miles, moving at 30-40 mph in their powered armor, leaping 20-30 yards at a stretch. It would have been damn difficult, if not impossible (and extremely expensive) to do powered armor correctly in the movie. At best, you’d switch between total cgi scenes of armored MI’s leaping around, a few closeups of 1 or 2 MI’s fighting a bug, and lots of shots of MI’s inside their armor, probably just a face shot with the green glow of their internal screens & diagnostics.
Hmm. Don’t start comparing the book and movie that closely. We’ve been over it too many times. The movie bugs are nothing like Heinlein’s descriprion (Johnny Rico can confuse the workers with the fighters, for instance, unless he looks close). The tactics used in Veerhoeven’s movie, regardless of what the book says, are an afront to common sense, let alone military theory, and would be even if Heinlein’s book hadn’t existed. So it’s all irrelevant.
I’m sure the real reason they didn’t have thje body armor is that they wanted to show people acting and emoting, and it’s hard to do that inside a closed shell. Even Cameron, in Aliens, didn’t have his ST-inspired Space Marines all “suited up”
I didn’t see much talen exhibited in ST1-presumably, CVD has learned how to act in the meantime!
I enjoyed both the Heinlein book and the first movie. I consider the two unrelated. Never saw the second one, but maybe ill give the third one a try if enough people here hate it 
My question was referring to as why ST3 will not have powersuits. Those producers are the ones who could see that you could have MI troopers that wouldn’t look like robots.
Paul Verhoevan:Movies::Andy Kaufman:Comedy