My favourite Verhoeven movie!
In the US they didn't like this movie and it flopped there.
Especially after Paul Verhoeven revealed that he made the movie
to (partly) make fun of war politics of the US.
He basically said that the US fights so many senseless wars,
that once they have fought every country in the world,
they'd start fighting other planets and aliens who would otherwise
have never been a bother to us.
I think this could be true if there was anything like this planet of
huge bugs...they'd definitely try to fight and take over haha.

So yeah, he didn't make friends in the US but that was never his intention
anyway. You beat me to it, writing about this one...so now I had to go for another hehe.