Battlefield Earth's screen writer apologizes. by Haken

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Battlefield Earth's screen writer apologizes.

POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Monday, April 5, 2010 03:30
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:25 PM

Likes to mess with stuffs.

J.D. Shapiro, Battlefield Earth's screen writer, tells a great story bout how he ended up writing for one of the suckiest movie ever made.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:15 AM

GINOBIFFARONI

" you can't have sex unless you're married. I asked her if she was married. She said yes. So I said, "Great! That means we can have sex!"

LMAO sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield line

I guess any fame can be good... Even in a Ed Wood sort of way

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:42 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

It is good of him to apologize. Battlefield Earth is classic sci-fi and the movie just totally blew. Really bad. So bad it has become an MST3K substitute around our house to heckle and tear apart whenever we feel the need to punish ourselves by watching it.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:05 AM

CHRISISALL

Veeeery funny.

I saw the movie once. Mostly.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:56 AM

BYTEMITE

It doesn't count until he offers monetary reimbursement for the damages.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:07 AM

STORYMARK

Not like he's soley responsible for it's failure. Travolta had the script re-written, the direction was awful, and the acting and FX were lame throughout. Plenty of blame to go around on that POS.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:14 AM

CHRISISALL

I spotted one pretty nice background in it.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:27 AM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

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Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

Thank you so much for posting this, Haken. I can't stop laughing.

I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:41 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I spotted one pretty nice background in it.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

Always lookin' for that silver lining, aren't ya, Chris?

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:46 AM

CHRISISALL

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Always lookin' for that silver lining, aren't ya, Chris?

Naw, it just stuck out so sharply from among all the other *FAIL* is all.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:13 PM

TRAVELER

Once again my friends here at FFF.net have saved me the cost of renting a worthless pile of trash.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:34 PM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

Always lookin' for that silver lining, aren't ya, Chris?

Naw, it just stuck out so sharply from among all the other *FAIL* is all.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

Y'know, that movie used to be on HBO pretty often, and I actually *TRIED* to watch it, several different times. And I shit you not - I could never get more than maybe 20 minutes of it - no matter where I came in - before just groaning and crying "Uncle!".

And I watched Gigli. On purpose. And Showgirls. Twice. I kind of have a thing for truly abominable movies, because sometimes they're so bad and campy, they become entertaining in entirely unintended sways. But not Battlefield Earth. It simply can't be watched. It's pure torture.

One of the other few really horrible big-budget ones that I cannot get through, no matter what, is "Ishtar". Again, I've actually sat down and tried to, more than once. More than twice, even. Can't be done, at least by me. It's not more than ten minutes into the movie, and already the hair on the back of my neck is standing up in embarrassment for Hoffman and Beatty. Battlefield Earth gave me that feeling, too. Poor Forest Whitaker; how'd he ever get roped into that?

Shapiro's article was hilarious. He's moved on, but I don't think he's ever really gotten over it. But as long as he can point and laugh (especially at Scientology), he'll be okay.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:36 PM

KWICKO

Heck, maybe we should start our own Mystery Science Theatre (or Mister Sinus Theatre, or Master Pancake Theatre, like they have here) and try to joke our way through some of these horrors...

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Monday, April 5, 2010 3:30 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Heck, maybe we should start our own Mystery Science Theatre (or Mister Sinus Theatre, or Master Pancake Theatre, like they have here) and try to joke our way through some of these horrors...

Not SciFi, but I nominate "Heaven's Gate".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(movie)

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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