--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard M" <compost...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" > <willytex@> wrote: > > > > > > Hugo wrote: > > > > They lose me with Xenu though. > > > > > > > You mean, compared to Vishnu or Krishna > > > in TM mythology? > > > > > > How, exactly, did L. Ron lose you with > > > Xenu, but the Marshy convinced you to > > > believe in Vishnu or Krishna? > > > > Because it sounds like a bad sci-fi novel. > > And if I'd spent many thousands of pounds on > > auditing and many years devotedly serving the > > church only to be told a tale as tall as that > > I'd be mighty pissed off! > > > > I'm going to 'out' myself: > > I quite enjoyed Travolta's "Battlefield Earth", reputedly "The worst > film ever made". > > There - I've said it. I feel better now.
You're not alone. I was pleasantly surprised too and though it won't make my top hundred I can think of worse sci-fi movies. The book was rather good if a bit childish towards the end, and there was no shortage of good ideas. I particularly liked the idea that the reason the earth was destroyed in the first place was because the psychlos (aargh, I can remember the name, nerd or what?) found the voyager probe somewhere out it deep space and were delighted that a source of such rare metals came with a map attached to the side showing from where it came from. I think Travolta was unjustly maligned for making it. But what I'd really like to see are Ron Hubbards original attempts at movie making with a cast of scientlogists trying to act and home-made sets. I imagine something more awful than Edward D Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space which manages to be a masterpiece somehow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo It's a must see. Bela Lugosi inconveniently died during filming and his part was finished by the directors nephew (I think) who didn't look anything like him and so held his cape over his face. Treat yourself.
