Bret Devereaux

"You obviously cannot break up film scenes with short lectures in between each one the same way you can put short expository passages in between each chapter of a book” *laughs in Starship Troops*

(But yet, pedantic quibbling, the point is well-taken.)

I don't actually like Verhoeven's Starship Troopers very much. I get what he is trying to do, but I think the film is fighting a straw-man version of the book and of Heinlein in general and while the combat scenes are meant to be satirical send-ups of dumb action scenes...

...they're so dumb that I find them a bit irritating. Not saying it is an objectively bad movie, just that it isn't for me.