[reeckoh]

They did make a movie out of Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

But the director, Paul Verhoeven, lived through WWII and found the militaristic ethos so abhorrent that he threw out most of the story and made a comical parody of the book.

[Hoasi]

Starship Troopers is a great movie. It starts as every silly archetypal superhero movie but ends up being much more profound.