Political set up in Heinlein's novel: ANYONE can be a citizen so long as they serve. You cannot be medically exempt from service, if you a blind paraplegic they will find a job for you. It won't be useful but if you're insistant on serving they will let you. After serving your term, and ONLY after you've left service, will you be eligible to stand for government and vote for people to represent you. The philosophy behind this is that the vast majority of people will put themselves and their own interest before others, where as those that have served in the military have put others before their own lives let alone their interests and will vote for things that will benefit the majority over the minority.

Our current political system:
-90%+ of the wealth controlled by 1% of the people
-Mitt Romney, running for election for past 8 years, is rediculously rich and has had several records pop up showing shady dealings from when he was at Bain Capital
-"Millionaires Row" of Parliment, a chunk of the party in power currently who are worth over a million, current party in power has cut taxes for top earners to 40% and cut down social benefits.

Heinlein put forward his political/philosophical theory based on the idea that democracy in it's current state would fail. Democracy in it's current state is failing.

Vorhoeven read two chapters, not even getting NEAR the History and Moral Philosophy class (during Rico's officer training) that explained the idea behind the concept, decided he knew it and that it was fascist. Furthered his own poliical agenda like he had in all his other movies and completely disregarded the source material. Movie snobs who love him hailed it as fantastic saitre.

Now someone is proposing a remake that is closer to the source material and everyone of you is up in arms about it, somehow thinking the movie is better than the book and that the director is somehow deserving of more respect than the original author has been afforded.

First off: You don't seem to know what Facism is, which is why I've included the definition.
Second: One of the main components of facism is racism (I'm assuming, possibly incorrectly that the director thought this was being done in the Human vs. Bug war), the main character of the book was Juan "Johnny" Rico, an 18 year old, hispanic FROM Buenos Ares (not his parents visiting there like in the movie), and for thar role they chose a 30 year old Casper van Dien, in fact replacing ALL the main characters with white people in their thirties. Hollywood casting seems more racist/facist (neopotism is rife and we all know it) than Heinlein's book.
Third: Just because YOU don't want this remake does not mean that it is unwanted by ALL. I for one am very much looking forward to a more accurate adaption of the novel and think that it will be a better movie.

Saw this on Twitter recently, posted after a screening of RoboCop: Question to Paul Verhoeven: "How do you feel about ROBOCOP & TOTAL RECALL being remade?" Verhoeven answer: "Beyond depressed."

Well yes, now they can make all those wonderful practical visual effects that still work perfectly today digital. So what? Watching ST today is still an event with awesome effects. Doing them digitally may make them look just more…digital. That’s a problem with a lot of digital effects. They often just look too clean, too perfect, too digital. While I do like big visual effects spectacles, I just hope they get the story right, otherwise we will have another one of those empty big budgets extravaganzas that you begin to forget right after leaving the theatre.
And let’s hope they don’t get a hack like Rob Cohen or Jonathan Liebesman to direct. With a decent director, a good screenwriter and other decent talent in front of and behind the camera, I might give this a chance.

It might make for an interesting comparison. One version ripping apart facism. Clearly a head of it's time in it's satire and subversion. Then in the not to distant future. When the film is more relevant than ever. Almost seeming on the nose about current times. They make a new version, which actually is pro fascism. This time for kids!

Any one that wants to do a "remake" and can manage to read more than 2 chapters of the original book can probably make a decent film. Anything to obscure the existence of the 'un-original' that can treat it with the huge dollop of disrespect that it deserves would be welcomed by me.

You are mostly on target but got a story point wrong. Rico was from the Phillipines. His native language was Tagalog (see the last chapter for the brief reference) and his mother was visiting her sister in Buenos Aires.

The Hollywood elites claim to love the original only because they hate Heinlein and his principals. The movie was nothing but boobs, blood and bugs with no intelligence to it. Verhooven demolished an outstanding opportunity to take a book which has been a favorite for decades to the screen. Any similarity between the book and that movie was an accident.

Second, the movie was okay as a satirical take on a WWII propaganda flick, but it had NOTHING to do with the source material. It puzzles me that there are people lamenting the remake as an affront to Vorhoeven, when his movie was a deliberate lampooning of the book. Screw Vorhoeven. He made a satirical version of a book that he didn't even read, but he has the audacity to be offended that others are remaking his work?

I'd love to a decent attempt at addressing Heinlein's ideas.

Oh no, a movie with a message that will challenge the viewer to think!

Looks like the new SST movie is actually happening. I'm looking forward to it. I loved the book. That doesn't mean that I agreed with all of Heinlein's politics, but it's a cerebral piece of literature and it gave me a lot to think about. That's good.

I didn't think that Verhoven's movie was terrible (although "masterpiece" is a ridiculous overstatement). It was an extremely blunt lampooning of the equally blunt nationalistic propaganda flicks they were making back in forties and fifties. It's not a hard subject to satirize, and Verhoven was hardly the first (or the best) to do it. If you lay it on too thick, which he did, you end up looking as silly as your intended target. But I digress.

My frustration with his film is that he called it Starship Troopers, even though it had NOTHING to do with the RJH's book. As a result, boobs like you are whining about an unwanted movie remake, when the reality is that an actual Starship Troopers movie has never been made. Anyway, I hope they get the movie made, I hope they have the good sense to stay true to the source material, I hope that it comes to be known as the "real SST movie," and I hope that makes Paul Verhoven sad.