How did this movie even get made? No one during production realized how awful it was?

How did this movie even get made? No one during production realized how awful it was?

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I watched Battlefield Earth for the first time yesterday

Ask me whatever

What’s your tax policy?

Do you WANT lunch?

if 95% of your movie is dutch angle shots it distracts from how bad the rest of it is

Lots of Scientology bucks

If they have so much free time, put the gold in bars

No rats pls

>if 95% of your movie is dutch angle shots it distracts from how bad the rest of it is
It was really hard readjusting to reality after I finished because life wasn't at a dutxh angle anymore

well. this was kinda like the archbishop of canterbury demanding to act in a film about the bible because he is totally devoted to his prophet

compely miscast and was a shitshow vanity project where scenes couldnt be cut because "LRH wrote them for a reason"

i suspect some people gave up when they saw what was going on

plus the book is 1000+ pages. i read it on the beach during a 2 week holiday. its basically 900 pages of gay power tripping fantasy about 'leverage' and 100 pages of actual content so there wasnt a lot to work with anyway

Didnt this movie bankrupt the production company?

Reminder that $cientologists believe this to be a historical documentary

Anybody care to explain why does it get the hate it does? I have seen worse movies by far, and while the Harrier training and ingot casting were dumb beyond belief, it ain't got shit on the Doomsday with Rhona Mitra.

i imagine it's hard to tell if a movie is good or not while you're filming it.

especially if it's a scientology movie.

It was literally an 80 million dollar tax write off for the Church of Scientology.

That and Travolta sank like 3 million of his own money into it, and sucked LRH's cock so hard it was gonna get made, shit or not. You can tell just watching the movie he's the only one really invested in it though, everyone else is phoning it in for the money.

True Fax, apparently the onsite catering was so horrible that Travolta spent his own money to bring his personal chef up to feed the crew. Now thats a bro in my books.

Scientology aside, I don't want to watch a movie that makes me tilt my head throughout its run time.

>How did this get made?
Scientology.
>Why does it get the hate it does?
Scientology.

how do you watch porn then?

Scientologists should try to do some internet tv series about early Hubbard scifi tales... I want to know how wacky they are. But no they prefer to spend their money in gay shit.

>throughout its run time
Nobody watches a whole porn video from start to finish... right?

No we don’t.

>the Harrier training and ingot casting were dumb beyond belief
They got all the gold from Fort Knox. They didn't actually mine any gold.

Nigga even the food on set was awful and Travolta had to call his chef.

As a recruitment tool for Hubbard. Same reason the book got made. Ironically the book doesn't even have the strengths of Hubbard's pulp era writing. His writing used to be lean and fast paced whereas the Battlefield Earth novel is bloated and slow. The movie is garbage but in a different way that the book was garbage.

They sole enough books from it to make it worthwhile. The fallout and continued ridicule is free advertising for them. It all worked out great.

Much of the book sales were from buying back the books and reselling them then having Church members buying them back by the stack.

They don’t but the thing is, the Xenu story that they *do* profess to believe was turned into a widely available film treatment by Hubbard. So this secret knowledge that can purportedly kill or injure the unprepared was also going to be a movie at one point, and anyone can read it (presumably without dying) at any time. I’d love to hear how they explain that.
Honestly I don’t think Hubbard or anyone else actually bought into this stuff, they just claim to so they can be legally recognized as a religion. Hubbard even joked about the IRS in the recording of the Xenu saga. I think he was in on the joke much more than people realize.

>Be Paul Haggis
>Spent 35 years being Scientology
>Get finally an Oscar
>Leave Scientology
>Gets accused of multiple rape cases
>2 of your 3 daughters became lesbians

Be careful if you join but want to leave afterwards

>2 of your 3 daughters became lesbians
Just to be clear, are you claiming that Scientologists brainwashed his daughters into becoming lesbians, or that Scientologists forced his daughters into becoming lesbians

My Mom loves the book and movie for some reason

Paul Haggist left scientology becuause they were against gay marriange in California. It's just funny that 66% of his daughters are lesbian when Scientology is well known for hiding the homosexual behave of their members.

your mom was good in the mission impossible movies

it's a solid 5/10 like most scifi movies. I never understood the problem with it

terrible pacing, acting, directing and cinematography

>it's a solid 5/10 like most scifi movies
Agreed. I'm and I had to shut off The Last Jedi after less than fifteen minutes, but I would happily watch Battlefield Earth again.

>she's stupid enough not to be a menace
>good-looking enough to be decorative
>she gets drunk with economical speed
>and has other advantages

Do I have to read the book to understand what they're talking about in this scene

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yeah, same. The hammy Travolta is enough to make it watchable

have sex then you will understand

Come to think about it I've never seen Tom Cruise and my Mom in the same room before

What did he mean by this

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