'Battlefield Earth' Screenwriter Is Sorry About That (Regrets Over Scientology Cult Movie Stinker)

PopEater.com ^ | Mar 28th 2010 | Marc Schneider

[DogByte6RER]

[DogByte6RER]

Full apology at:

“I penned the suckiest movie ever - sorry!”

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmfpw80Xc7aO/1

[Cronos]

I honestly thought freddy got fingered was worse — a girl I was thinking of dating showed me that pic once — after that I stayed far away from her...

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[conservative cat]

Freddy Got Fingered is one of the movies I have turned off/stopped watching because it was so bad. I liked Tom Green at the time, too. Battlefield Earth is pretty bad, though.

[kingu]

My computer choked on all of the Post's ads, so I'll use a less compliant browser to read the article, but I did get probably the biggest laugh out of the Ford advertisement... For an SUV, 25mpg, 256 horsepower, with text in the bottom corner: Roll over for special deals. Know I know that's geek speak for put the mouse pointer on our ad, but you'd think someone along the way would be over 25 year old and recall all the horrendous bad press that came from roll over tests...

[DogByte6RER]

“A few days after I finished the script, a very excited Travolta called, told me he “loved it,” and wanted to have dinner. At dinner, John said again how much he loved the script and called it “The ‘Schindler’s List’ of sci-fi.”

Read more:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmfpw80Xc7aO/1#ixzz0jd4vHhsu

[Dumpster Baby]

There is no way that book could have been made into a movie, period. No way.

[DannyTN]

I actually liked Battlefield Earth. I didn’t realize it had anything to do with Scientology except for the star.

[arealconservativeforachange]

I think Scientology and Mormonism should merge.
We could have one huge cult that way.

I’d have to come up with new jokes though.

[Snickering Hound]

The Providence Journal review is my favorite:

“Battlefield Earth’s primary colors are blue and gray, adding to the misery. Whenever we glimpse sunlight, the screen goes all stale yellow, as though someone had urinated on the print. This, by the way, is not such a bad idea.”

[wjcsux]

Wasn’t Battlefield Earth one of L. Ron Hubbard’s novels?

[Rome2000]

I thought Battlefield was actually pretty good and would love to see a movie based on the Mission Earth Decalogy.

[Ingtar]

Yes, and the novel is actually great. He wrote it intending it to be a movie. Not the movie that was made, however.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But Shapiro knows what he did was awful.

It couldn't have been as awful as the novel that inspired it. It's the only thing by L. Ron Hubbard I've ever read, and it was the sort of thing an uninspired and untalented high school student in a writing class might have written, expanded into a thousand page novel.

[DaxtonBrown]

[I honestly thought freddy got fingered was worse]

I don’t know, Ishtar really stunk up the place

[999replies]

I might as well apologize, because I thought Battlefield Earth was a decent movie. It was entertaining and different and it held my attention. I have seen tons of movies that I thought were worse. I recently viewed “The Fourth Kind” and I quit in the middle of it.

[999replies]

I think Scientology and Mormonism should merge. We could have one huge cult that way.

When people like you make comments like this, I never seem to read what exact church you belong to. Let me guess, "a Christian one"?

[Slings and Arrows]

There may be no unforgivable sins, but he came close.

[Liberty Valance]

It’s about time that bastard apologized. What a piece a sh*t that movie was. Did he grovel ... ?