Hey folks, Harry here... Just when some had hoped that BATTLEFIELD EARTH would take down PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, along comes a series of reviews that seem to say... it's pretty stupid, but it's a lot of fun... Well, that sounds like the film is pretty much along the same lines as a DEEP BLUE SEA, that... while being pretty dumb... well, it was just a fun evening at the movies... just not a thought provoking one. From what I'm seeing in my E-mail box, it's looking like a pretty even split between the loathers and the lovers. The folks that loathe it seem to just not have fun with it, and the folks that are digging it, seem to be having that fun. Well... We'll certainly see... it's coming soon....
Hey Harry, my name is Talkative Jay.
Well, I live in Los Angeles, and there a was a screening for Battlefield Earth that I just happened to see with a lady friend of mine.
The story is this: I personally think scientology is a joke. I'm not very interested in it, I don't check the sites or anything like that. I just think it's material people like John Stewart and Conan Obrien can pick on every once in a while. When I heard John Travolta (the scientology pope) was doing this movie based on a book l ron hubbard had written, I laughed, knowing the movie would suck. Anyway a friend called me up and said that he had two tickets to go see the Battlefield Earth movie, but he was going away in a couple days, so he couldn't go. So he offered them to me. I took them and me and my girlfriend went. My plan was to go, watch a free movie, come home, watch tv with my girl, drive her home, come home, write to you about how bad the movie was.
So anyway, the movie started and we both watched, and listened...
About 10 minutes into the movie, I though to myself "this is gonna suck, I might as well leave". But I stayed.
The movie ended, and I found myself staring at the screen not aware of anything around me. I watched the credits afterwards (it's always polite to stay for the credits I was told by my girlfriend). Started looking for traces of scientology ("to learn more about scientology..."), but didn't find anything of it.
The movie? A little cheezy, and I found about 2 holes. And that's it.
The rest? I loved it. Although it didn't raise much respect for scientology for me, I truly truly loved it.
That's really all I can say. I didn't really notice the psychlo costumes really, to me they just seemed like Star Wars costumes after a while. The story was sort of like "eh...", but the action and the effects were amazing. My girlfriend liked it as well.
The bottom line is that if you are expecting a 2001 or an eyes wide shut, skip it. But if you just want to have fun at the movies, check it out.
Talkative Jay
