Says that the book made him depressed so he stopped reading it and made his own movie with the same title.

No, apparently the Heinlein estate had control over the script, so Verhoeven was unable to damage the script. He therefore filmed the script in a parodistic, over-the-top mode to try and discredit the ideas therein.

I believe the Daily Show was the outfit that made explicitly criticized it as fascist, calling Neil Patrick Harris' character "Doogie Himmler."

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