Published at: Jan. 6, 2000, 6:22 a.m. CST by staff
Hey folks, Harry here. The Hollywood Reporter has gotten ahold of a press release about the 2nd BATTLEFIELD EARTH movie.
Well... Hmmmm.... Ya know... Sometimes ya see developments that just seem to go beyond reason. Most of the reports on the film have been 'wavy hand' to 'thumbs down', but... I've held that alot of this has been coming from the kneejerk reaction to anything and everything that is L Ron Hubbard related. Reports in Entertainment Magazines seem to focus more upon the 'CULT activities' of Scientology... and not so much upon the film itself.
Something that kind of reminds me of the pre-hype tripe that was hurled at TITANIC, criticisms aimed at James Cameron's perceived arrogance, cost of the film, etc.... as opposed to the quality of the film itself.
Now... I'm not saying this movie is not a big heaping load of dogdung... BUT... Someone out there with some big ass deep as hell pockets has seen what has been shot and has given a sequel (actually... this first film is just the first half of the book, the 'sequel' is actually just the rest of the movie) a go ahead.
Some people in the biz are dying to see B.E. not for any other reason than they believe it is a trainwreck on the scale of say... Michael Jackson doing Edgar Allan Poe... But... Believe it or not... Some people actually dig the trailer. Our own Seque Zagnut really liked it.
I don't do this much, but... well... I'm going to have to warn you folks about many of the media outlets and/or reports about this film. Scientology has made some big ass enemies... specifically in the Entertainment Journalism field. I've never had any altercations, and my only run in with Scientologists has been across from the University of Texas where they are always pitching free I.Q. tests...
I've always been curious about this film, I didn't hate the script. Personally, both Father Geek and I thought that it has a chance at being pretty darn cool. The trailer didn't instill confidence in me... But I'm trying to stay as open-minded as possible about this film... there's enough closed off minds that'll be writing about it anyways...
