Having not lived when this came out I don’t have the nostalgia factor but I still found it very enjoyable. The CGI is great for it’s time and the acting is good. It doesn’t throw it in your face with its gore. It also had very good satirical facist views. The best part I thought about it was how in the end, the movie was a big propaganda film in the starship troopers universe. How the characters are simple yet you can really get behind their motives. For me at least it worked because it made me see the federation as the good guys even though they aren’t really.