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The moment in which "Doogie" announces: "It's afraid!" and everyone cheers is priceless.


I think that's right out of the novel, BB.

The scenes of bugs firing missiles out of their anuses---clear across the galaxy---to land on Earth five minutes later, however, are not.

There's another alien race allied with the bugs in the book. The Skinnies. They're tall, humanoid things. We witness a battle against them at the beginning, in which we get to see the weaponized pressure suits our heroes use in battle, missing from the film.

I agree that Verhoeven thinks Americans are stupid. Of course, some people feel that way about the Dutch.