Nah. The only thing really in common between the book and the movie is the ‘everybody fights no one quits’ phrase and the title name. In the book everybody dropped in including all the leaders. They were wearing mech suits instead of armor. The movie was a parody of the book and I never liked it as much as those who had not read the book. The main character in the book ended up commanding his dad at the end.

The movie is way beneath the book in terms of quality. The book made a bunch of wanna be fascist upset about how it portrayed fascism. It upset the rest with how pro fascist it was on the surface. I read it when I was seven years old. I reread it when I was a teenager so much became clear about what it was intended to portray. I read again right before the movie came out and got even more from the book. When I watched the movie it came off as a nazi 90210 in space. So I don’t share the opinion that the movie is better or even as good as the book. The fact that the story was written in the late 50’s says a lot about how the author could see how things might be. We are at a point where that is starting to look like reality.