All strong criticizers of this movie are americans
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choadliqour — 16 years ago(December 18, 2009 05:25 PM)
Of course most of the criticism of this movie comes from the US Battlefield Earth only grossed $21,471,685 in the United States and Canada and a total of $8,250,000 worldwide. About 2/3 of the gross came from the US That means very few people outside the US even saw the film. I would suggest you read the Wikipedia entry for the movie you'll find the criticism of this movie was nearly unanimous. If the rest of the world is so enlightened and tolerant of other views why did the film do soooo horribly in worldwide box office? A little over $8 million divided by 2 billion or so people in the world that can afford to see a movie is sad!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)
From the little I've read Scientology doesn't have a good reputation in most of the world. The top website that is critical of Scientology is Xenu.net and it is run out of Norway by a Norwegian citizen! Xenu.net contains critical information from around the world but most of it comes from the US because the CoS has the largest following there. Myself I've never really seen Battlefield Earth as a vehicle for Scientology doctrine I just think it was a really bad sci-fi movie that starred John Travolta.
Where did the caveman army get electricity to run their flight simulators for that matter where did they get fuel to power the Harrier jump jets? No fuel would last 1000 years of aging and neither would the hardware. How could a hand full of cavemen destroy the entire Psychlos race when the Psychlos destroyed the entire might of the Worlds armies in 9 minutes 1000 years before? This implausible movie sucked plain and simple. -
thejudge1964 — 15 years ago(July 22, 2010 09:49 PM)
NM Johnson, you're not racist for calling out the American media on it's bias against "Battlefield Earth" because of it's connection with L. Ron Hubbard. The movie was a solid entertainment that was unfairly maligned.
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tommy.skold — 15 years ago(August 03, 2010 09:07 AM)
As an avid reader of sci-fi I found the book to actually be quite good. Therefore my hopes where somewhat up before seeing this movie, and yes, I knew about the whole scientology angle before I either read the book or saw the movie but I didn't let that cloud my judgement on either the book or movie. The movie was unfortunately one of the worst movies Ive seen and as many other posters have stated here, I cringed at times. My pocket of the book has over a 1000 pages and I think it just couldn't be transfered to the screenformat successfully.
Oh, and Im from Sweden to, sorry
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repents69 — 15 years ago(August 16, 2010 08:17 PM)
Scientology doesn't have a good reputation ANYWHERE because a money-gobbling global scam.
However, this movie is unfailingly awful regardless of where it came from. I don't care if this movie came directly from the anus of the Almighty Himself. This movie is unbelievably bad and no amount of "Baaaaawwwww..you're just hating on ScientologyBaawwwww" comments will change that. -
katmandoo122 — 15 years ago(September 13, 2010 09:12 AM)
The movie gets horrible criticism because it is a horrible, horrible, horrible movie. Worst I've ever seen. It is the only movie that, after making it to the end, I asked for my money back (yes, I was one of the 6 people in the States to see the movie in the theater!!!!).
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ColinChapman — 15 years ago(September 15, 2010 05:24 AM)
Ignore OP.
He is either a troll or a genuine fool.
NOBODY in the entire world likes this movie. Nobody. Why? Because it's unbelievably bad on so many levels.
I bet this is just somebody holding a grudge against mr. Johansson and has therefore intentionally used his name to create some hostility towards him. -
WoLf_DiGiTaL — 15 years ago(November 01, 2010 12:06 AM)
As the title says, I think all strong criticizers of this movie are americans because, by reading the hollow arguments, I understand that scientology doesn't have a good reputation in the US. Is my guess correct? I believe so.
The movie doesn't deserve the criticism it has received. The american people is generally a very hateful one towards those with a different opinion, and the reactions to this movie is a good example of that. I don't mind if you take me for a racist, because it doesn't change the fact that I'm not.
What's my point for saying this? If you (the strong criticizers) go on hating everything that has to do with something with a different nature than the one of yourself, you will limit yourself alot in life.- Marcus Johnsson, Sweden
Well based on your reasoning us americans can only conclude that we can now ship every crap movie ever made to sweden because if we hate it enough the swedes will buy it.
We hate the movie for 1 or more of three reasons.
- we read the book and busted a blood vessel when this miserable piece of crap came out claiming to have anything to do with battlefield earth which was an awesome book.
- We hate it merely on the basis of the plot sucking, crap acting, and special effects
thst = that
hurt yer brain. - we hate scientology and havent seen the film so therefore it doth suckith.
mine is reason one and two.
P.s
you sound like you're a scientologist. Please tell your "brethern" to not send out scientology crap when someone only wants to order the free poster from the book. That is so not cool.
Smile and wave boysJust smile and wave
- Marcus Johnsson, Sweden
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asciirider — 15 years ago(December 11, 2010 04:56 PM)
Well, as an American and a fan of the actual novel it was based on, I hated the movie for the simple fact that compared to the book, it was horrible!
Quite a few things were changed, probably in the interest of fitting it into a movie, even though they only did half of the book, which was at around page 500 or so by that point. Hollywood took shortcuts, and they paid for it.
With how large the book was they should have done like they did with Stephen King's "The Stand" and made it into a 4 part miniseries and remaind a lot more true to the book, instead of making something that had a few elements and the most made up as they went along.
Being a fan of the book nonwithstanding, Even if I'd never read the book, the movie was so full of plot holes, bad acting, contradictions etc. that is was just plain bad! -
joewald — 15 years ago(December 18, 2010 09:28 PM)
The Movie completely SUCKS on so many levels!!! Did you read the book? I did before I watched this movie in the theater. I actually liked the BOOK. The MOVIE is almost completely different from the book. Talking about a Hatchet job, and a completely different ending. I hear it's a Scientology book?!?! If you say so, I thought the book was a great Sci-Fi story. The movie on the other hand was so LAME, DUMB, didn't make since Sense. There's no fighter jets in the book for example. Saying people(American's are Racists) because they didn't like the Movie sounds Racists to me!!! The Movie SUCKED, I didn't think anything could be worse then Judge Dread, but I was proved wrong when this Garbage was released. The book is GREAT, the Movie SUCKS.
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corek1949 — 15 years ago(January 10, 2011 06:45 AM)
As the title says, I think all strong criticizers of this movie are americans because, by reading the hollow arguments, I understand that scientology doesn't have a good reputation in the US. Is my guess correct? I believe so." You will find Germans have made scientology illegal, which would make it have a bad reputation there. Are they americans as well?
I believe, as a brit, that this is a really bad movie. No hollow arguments, just a bad movie, also badly acted. -
simian_ninja — 15 years ago(January 20, 2011 07:07 PM)
"As the title says, I think all strong criticizers of this movie are americans because, by reading the hollow arguments, I understand that scientology doesn't have a good reputation in the US. Is my guess correct? I believe so.
The movie doesn't deserve the criticism it has received. The american people is generally a very hateful one towards those with a different opinion, and the reactions to this movie is a good example of that. I don't mind if you take me for a racist, because it doesn't change the fact that I'm not.
What's my point for saying this? If you (the strong criticizers) go on hating everything that has to do with something with a different nature than the one of yourself, you will limit yourself alot in life."
Not really, no. I'm not American, I gave this film a 5/10 and that's a pretty high score for this film at best.If you know about Scientology, it shouldn't have a good reputation anywhere - I'm getting the impression that you might be a scientologist though.
The American people are not hateful of other people's opinions, I've had many friends who are American and encounters with people who are American and they are generally respectful of other people's opinions - unless you're watching Fox News where the news anchor will scream you down if you have a different opinion.
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Mighty_Duck_4 — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 02:40 AM)
Anyone can look at the voting. IMDB compiles votes and breaks them down into demographics. The original poster who claims to be Swedish, apparently ignorant of the fact that Scientology has major problems with the Swedes hasn't looked at the voting stats. US voters gave the film a 2.2 rating while Non-US voters gave it a 2.5. Looks like his theory of the US being to blame for it's poor rating is bs.
What's more the film made more money in the US than it did in the rest of the world, combined. Not by a small margin either. More than 70% of the box office revenue for the film was from America.
Even if his original asinine point about Americans not liking things different from their own culture/religion was true it wouldn't explain the critics. Critics see many films from around the world and give them honest reviews based on their merits and don't conform to social pressures. The overwhelming majority of critics panned the film.
Fact is it's a terrible movie no matter where you're from, and the original poster is an ignorant d-bag.
PS: This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R didn't exist. -
rogcoley — 15 years ago(February 26, 2011 03:20 PM)
I swear to hell the first time I saw this, I thought it was a comedy for the first few minutes.Then I discovered it was an unintentional comedy and watched it several times.Scientology could be as popular as free money and this flick would still have sucked out loud.