Who is rating this so low?
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kenfxj — 12 years ago(May 02, 2013 03:42 PM)
This movie is so unintentionally hilarious that it's almost awesome. It's no Plan 9 but it's close. There are more WTF??? moments in this POS than in a weeklong marathon of SyFy original movies.
I would give this movie a 1 but I still enjoy watching it for all the wrong reasons. -
stephenmonachello — 12 years ago(May 27, 2013 01:48 PM)
You lost me when you said you rather watch this over the Star Wars prequels.
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pzsolnay-1 — 12 years ago(May 18, 2013 05:38 PM)
The problem with the movie is that it tried to cram like 500 pages worth of novel into a 2 hour (118 min) movie. IIRC, the book was like 1000+ odd pages long - and this movie covers roughly half of the book.
As such, movies have to trim LOTS of the narrative and story in order to fit the story into the constraints of the motion picture format. Stuff like how the people of Earth managed to figure out how to fly those Harrier jump jets after 1000 years of them sitting in storage. That's the problem with taking books and making movies out of them.
Had they done a full rendition of the book, the movie would probably be like 8+ hours long. (My guesstimation) And no one would be willing to put up with that.
It's far better to read the book (or at least the 1st half of it) before watching the movie - it makes so much more sense that way. Amazon's got copies of the book - cheap too. -
eapplebaum — 12 years ago(May 19, 2013 02:57 PM)
I SO wish the Mystery Science Theater guys would do a show on this film, it would be SO SO SO funny!!!
It's impossible to watch this and not think about how it comes from the mind of a man diagnosed as a sociopath who managed to convince a lot of feeble minds to follow him in a cult, called it a religion and created a belief system that is based on insane paranoia. -
mojorecords — 11 years ago(October 22, 2014 11:19 PM)
They already did, it's called RiffTrax. Go to their site (rifftrax.com) and download the audio, you can listen to it through the movie, or download a torrent with the audio already synced and donate the money you would have spend on the RiffTrax to RiffTrax!
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wallacesawyer — 12 years ago(October 14, 2013 03:41 PM)
Because it's bad. I'll admit I liked it when it first came out, but I was probably 13 at the time. I tried to watch it again recently and couldn't finish. This movie does not stand the test of time.
Never read the book, and couldn't care less about Scientology.
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horseplosion — 12 years ago(January 18, 2014 05:55 PM)
I would just like to say that this film is hilarious. We reviewed it for our podcast and honestly we think it's worth watching just for John Travolta's "amazing" acting!
Listen to our podcast that reviews bad films here:
www.horseplosion.buzzsprout.com/