Starship Troopers (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: The tactics and military conduct in this movie are ''so'' bad that it makes you think they're deliberately trying to lose[[hottip:*:<ref>[[Wild Mass Guessing|some theorize that this is indeed the case]]</ref>, and would probably need an entire essay dedicated to it to do it justice. However, the film is a subversion; unlike most films all of their incredibly bad ideas ''don't actually work'', and by and large the human troops are completely slaughtered. The writers’ intent seems to have been to use the enormous casualty rate resulting from them as a way to emphasize that [[War Is Hell]], but the human characters just come across as idiots who don’t know how to conduct warfare instead (especially circumspect because the entire culture is built around militarism). Notably, the Bugs actually do use decent tactics and combined arms given their limitations. They routinely stage ambushes and the basic drones soak up a lot of casualties, but they were literally born to be cannon fodder.