wonder how the healing is working out so far?

I'm gonna stick pins in my Tom Cruise doll.

wonder how the healing is working out so far?

The only reason these people are suffering is because they have been infested with the souls of aliens thrown into volcanoes ten trillion years ago. The earthquake had nothing to do with it.

And here I thought the solar powered bibles were fruity.

Fiannly revealed by himself the first time he ever admitted the truth about how ignorant and stupid he is, "Zombie" # 3 Fruity HAhahahaha...

Humor (among a great many other things) seems to sail miles over your head, Dr. ShitForBrains.

Zombie, pretty funny but only to those who know the history of scientology .;P

It's scary to imagine that intelligent people actually believe that bullshit...but then again, it's only a "little" bit more outlandish than believing in an invisible man in a make belive realm that can only be seen and visited when you die?

Kinda sad that when I think of the bible nowadays, I'm reminded of the movie "The Invention of Lying".

"sigh"

Loh

It's scary to imagine that intelligent people actually believe that bullshit...but then again, it's only a "little" bit more outlandish than believing in an invisible man in a make belive realm that can only be seen and visited when you die

I wonder where we would be without the ritualistic cannibalism of Jewish zombies and E-meter assisted exorcism of brainwashed extraterrestrial souls.

I'm reminded of the movie "The Invention of Lying".

Never seen it. I'll have to IMDB it.

haha e-meter...forgot about that .;P Talk about a money maker...cmon folks...lets get....

clear.

haha..vacate your mind (and wallet, cos that e-meter aint cheap)

Loh

haven't seen the movie either, just the previews....

basically no one ever lied so everything everyone says is taken as the truth....

tells a woman that "the world is going to end if you dont sleep with me" to which she replies, "Do we have time to get a room, or should we just do it here" (they're walking on a busy street).

I'm sure there's a BS learning moment in there at the end about how bad lying is....like the "Wheel of Morality" at the end of every Animaniacs cartoon.

Loh

What ever you do, don't pay to see that movie. All it was total crap, the trailers make up the only watchable parts.

I recommend Battlefield Earth instead. L. Ron Hubbard's finest piece of work.

like the "Wheel of Morality" at the end of every Animaniacs cartoon.

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, but socially dead."

Well I guess that someone has to compete with the Catholic Church for the Haitian souls- and whatever money they can garner from them. I would also like to see one of the Scientologist's "success stories" from one of their re-connects. Whadda buncha bullshit...

What ever you do, don't pay to see that movie. All it was total crap, the trailers make up the only watchable parts.

I recommend Battlefield Earth instead. L. Ron Hubbard's finest piece of work.
^^^

Flabbergasted that anyone could recommend that over any other movie in existence. (hoping you're joking ;))

If not a joke, no offense intended, I know some people take some things they read/hear as gospel, but the movie (and the book) was so outlandishly out of whack that it made Kevin Costner's "Water World" worthy of an Oscar.

Sure, the premise of an alien occupational force is standard SciFi, but the rest of it was pretty much junk.

While Science Fiction doesn't need to make a whole lot of sense, it still has to make "some" sense...I think the term is "suspension of disbelief" and at least some of the "science" has to be believable. BE just wasn't.

Reading the book I spent most of my time laughing my ass off at trying to imagine someone as illiterate as described learning so much in such a short time (1-2 years max) with such little information available..he was a friggin prisoner after all, even if he was a test subject for some kind of worker/pet.

I'm guessing that the screen writers felt the same way since in the movie the information was "beamed" into his head via some electronic device rather than learning it the "old fashioned way" which is how the book described it.

My best guess is that Ronnie was so stoned on shrooms that he never noticed the contradictions in his own work and figured that some non base 10/16 math and some space ships qualified it as "Science" fiction, instead of just "fiction".

Again, sorry if that offends, but just can't imagine how anyone can get anything other than "what utter bullshit" out of the guy....xenu....that shit cracks me up. Definately came off as seriously stoned based on everything of his I've read.

Loh

haha, found this on IMDB, shoulda just pasted this first....says it much better than I can.


That they even had something positive to say about this turd shows that most people have learned long ago to mine useful nuggets from meaningless shit:

My spouse and I went to see this on opening night. We were expecting to see an extremely bad and costly film, and we were not really disappointed. It is a testament to John Travolta's genius that his career survived this disaster at all.

As they say, garbage-in, garbage out. Start with an L Ron Hubbard novel (your first mistake) featuring a completely plagiarized dark-skinned, war-like and hairy alien culture with wrinkly foreheads (if this sounds like Klingons to you, I thought so too!), and add unfortunate Barry "can't get a break" (or maybe it should be 'cant pick a script') Pepper and all you need is Travolta himself - playing the arrogant, merciless, slightly effeminate and quite under-sized leader of the alien colonists. Remove any hint of character development from the script and use the worst of the worst black box technobabble explanations for plot devices. Finally, stay true to the idiotic gibberish you based the film on in the first place, and you've got the makings of a rolling-on-the-floor comedy.

In fact, opening night, in a packed theater, people started laughing out loud about 20 minutes into the film and never really stopped. We had a great time that night. Halfway through the film more than half the crowd was actually interacting with the film, asking "Mr Worf, where's Commander Riker?" and asking troublesome questions about how many hundreds of years gas would remain viable in the gas-tank of a Harrier.

If you need to know about the plot - it's this simple - Earth has been conquered by an amazingly stupid group of Klingon-like aliens, and the remaining humans live in a large domed slave labor camp where they are taught that their sole purpose is servitude because they are stupid, weak, etc. Barry Pepper somehow becomes convinced that he's not born to be a slave, and learns to fly a harrier, etc. It's really not worth the effort of typing. There are a few not-so-subtle and not very original but good messages about ethnocentrism to be found here, but not much else. Some day when you need a good laugh, rent this or borrow it from your local bad film collector.

haha, some of these people are frigging funny:

3 seconds in: The title is cheesy green and beneath the words 'battlefield earth' is a subtitle: 'the saga of the year 3000'... Not an auspicious start!

3 minutes in: The camera is always on a tilt. It's like watching the old Batman TV show with Adam West. My neck is starting to ache already. My friend wonders aloud if they have put the film into the projector at a funny angle.

10 minutes in: That scene was ripped straight from bladerunner

11 minutes in: So was that one...

12 minutes in: Hey look the costumes are out of dune!

14 minutes in: Hey look the aliens look like klingons

15 minutes in: Hey! They speak like klingons too!

16 minutes in: Hey. The computer displays are out of predator!

17 minutes in: John travolta shows up. He's funny, it might start to pick up from here... maybe...?

20 mintues in... or maybe not.

30 minutes in: Why are these aliens so stupid! Let's not only leave our captive human slaves unattended but let's actually *inject* their brains with all the information about our race and then take them to the library and give them the declaration of independence to read. That won't make them dangerous or rebellious at all!

40 minutes in: Barry pepper does his oscar winning speech: "we will fight for our freedom, and we will win. Are you with me? ARE YOU WITH ME?" The Scots all shout "yes William, I guess we didn't get all dressed up for nothin"...

45 minutes in: John Travolta snarls "When we took over your planet all of the forces on earth put up a fight for a measly 9 minutes before they were defeated. There is nothing you can do to stop us!!!"...I'm left wondering if a race so stupid could have defeated mildly intelligent things like humans in 9 decades let alone 9 minutes.

55 minutes in: Why are the aliens after gold???? Why is this making no sense???

1 hour in: There hasn't been any middle setpiece yet. Actually nothing has happened at all.

1 hour 15 minutes: Did i just lose time? Was I asleep? Had I slept? what's happening? do I care?

1 hour 30 minutes: Maybe the middle set piece is just late... maybe one will come along in a minute?

1 hour 45 minutes: ... hmmm, maybe not.

1 hour 50 minutes: Oooo goody the humans have come up with a plan to get rid of these incredibly stupid alien's. Finally.

1 hour 51 minutes: Could you repeat the plan please? It made no sense and I think I might need to understand it so that the rest of the film is coherent?

1 hour 55 minutes: Cool, our heroes have found a hangar of fighter planes in Texas. The caveman humans learn to fly Harrier jump-jets in 6 days. Very impressive indeed!

1 hour 56 minutes: ...But since the Harriers have been sitting in a hangar for 1000 years how come they are still fully fueled and shiny with working weapons?? Never mind. I guess we're not supposed to notice that.

2 hours: Yayyy the fighting has begun! Ooo look, some pretty explosions. Cool - a building fell down! The humans are stopping to throw chairs through windows. That will defeat the aliens for sure!

2 hours 2 minutes: Hang on just one moment? Isn't this supposed to be BATTLEFIELD earth? There are about 15 humans and 10 aliens. Shouldn't they have called it 'slight scuffle earth' or 'schoolyard fight earth' instead?

2 hours 10 minutes: Please somebody kill me now.

2 hours 15 minutes: YAY! the head alien has managed to blow his entire race up by being really stupid.

2 hours 20 minutes: Where's the exit! Take me home please.

Loh,

You would have gotten a funny flag for that but you didn't write it.

...but the movie (and the book) was so outlandishly out of whack that it made Kevin Costner's "Water World" worthy of an Oscar.#14 | Posted by Lohocla at 2010-01-24 07:12 AM | Reply | Flag

It's sad when the book is actually worse than the movie... In college, I actually made it all the way through the book (biggest waste of time in the world) - I just remember thinking how ludicrous it was that the master aliens were only beaten by a group of, what, 30 retarded humans and that no one else in the galaxy had figured out the master alien's technology in over 200,000 years? And that the retarded humans were able to defeat the aliens with NO training? Riiight. The Barney video my three year old is watching right now makes more sense and was better planned than that drivel called Battlefield Earth. Neither the movie nor the book are worth your time.

On topic, some churches send bibles and "assist" healers; fortunately, a larger percentage of churches have actually sent aid in the form of food, water, clothes, tents, cots, etc. Good for these churches and shame on those that haven't sent any aid. Providing aid in times of need is one of the primary roles of the church IMHO.

we use a process called 'assist' to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points

The foot bone connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connected to the leg bone...

The foot bone connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connected to the leg bone...

The leg bone connected to some aliens...

#14

Sorry Loh, I forgot to insert the sarcmarc.

"Well I guess that someone has to compete with the Catholic Church for the Haitian souls- and whatever money they can garner from them. I would also like to see one of the Scientologist's "success stories" from one of their re-connects. Whadda buncha bullshit..."

Catholic missionaries at least give away food, water, clothing, money, medical supplies, etc. They aren't faith healers.

I quit being a Catholic for many reasons. But I've known members of the Catholic clergy who selflessly devote their lives to helping others. And as someone who is unwilling to devote such efforts to others, I'm not foolish and hypocritical enough to discount their good work just because their help comes with at the cost of *gasp* having to listen to their religious beliefs a little bit.

I'm betting the touching is working at least as well as the praying.
But when do the Mormons arrive to start converting the dead? There are bunches of soon-to-be-servants of the Mittster and his wives in the next life, just rotting away there.

But when do the Mormons arrive...?
#23 | Posted by northguy3 at 2010-01-24 07:09 PM | Reply | Flag: obsessed