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Post by Ratso on Jun 2, 2006 5:19:15 GMT -5
Yeah, the better film always bombs and makes people want to forget it exists.
This is my favorite Travolta quote....“I wanted my own little airliner in the backyard, ... I'd have my girlfriends use their Brownie uniforms to be the flight attendants, and I was the captain and they would have to pretend they were serving people.”
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jun 2, 2006 6:35:49 GMT -5
And yet all these crazy people (Travolta, Cruise, etc) have all of this money.... I feel sorry for us.
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Post by Chuck on Jun 2, 2006 13:34:30 GMT -5
Scientology has gotten a lot of Travolta's money.
As for Battlefield Earth, it was based on a book by L. Ron Hubbard, so the story can only be as good as the source. I wonder if the film truly captured Hubbard's prose.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jun 2, 2006 13:39:42 GMT -5
Scientology has gotten a lot of Travolta's money. Not enough if he can afford to have an air field as his backyard. That's why it was so bad.
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Post by LetGoOfItSlappy on Jun 2, 2006 14:13:33 GMT -5
I heard enough about this suckfest to not really see it, although I did catch about ten minutes of it BY ACCIDENT once on TV - was physically ill for a short period after that come to think of it....anyway....
Am I mistaken or is Battlefield Earth the "backstory" (I guess) of the whole Scientology "religion"?
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Post by Chuck on Jun 2, 2006 16:06:34 GMT -5
Yup.
I watched it to see how bad it was.
To recover, I watched Castle of FuManchu and Manos un-MST3K-ed, back to back!
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jun 2, 2006 16:20:54 GMT -5
I just saw a little of it on Sci-Fi....
And the sight of Travolta with those things hanging out of his nose sent me diving for the remote...
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Post by lisalovelace on Jun 2, 2006 16:32:24 GMT -5
I really don't get how John Travolta has become such a huge financial success. I don't have anything against him but he is a mediocre actor at best. To me he will always be Vinnie Bobarino from WBK
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Jun 2, 2006 19:11:50 GMT -5
On YouTube, there's a " new and improved version" of Battlefield Earth. Much more enjoyable than the actual film. An excellent book I read recently, Fiasco : a history of Hollywood's iconic flops by James Robert Parish, offers a good explanation behind the grotesque, ego-driven, money-burning sagas of the making of bloated films, including Battlefield Earth. Poor Travolta was so dedicated to bringing L. Ron's "vision" to the screen. He'd wanted to do the project since the '70s. What a waste of time, money, and talent (however limited).
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Post by ashkenaz on Jun 3, 2006 3:00:14 GMT -5
"Is this where he is? Is this where L. Ron Hubbard is? Oh my GOD!"
haha
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Post by bonfiregal on Jun 3, 2006 6:36:33 GMT -5
I really don't get how John Travolta has become such a huge financial success. I don't have anything against him but he is a mediocre actor at best. To me he will always be Vinnie Bobarino from WBK Blow Out was good....well, guess he's a "persona"....or something....maybe the dimples...I don't know...
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Post by ashkenaz on Jun 3, 2006 16:58:03 GMT -5
hah Thanks Cartman, i just didn't know how to put it in text but you hit the nail on the head.
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Post by lisalovelace on Jun 4, 2006 21:06:43 GMT -5
I do remember having a huge crush on him when I seen grease but I was like 10 years old.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jun 5, 2006 18:43:52 GMT -5
Face Off wasn't bad. I remember actually buying into the "characters faces have been swapped" thing.
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Post by Don Quixote on Jun 6, 2006 7:53:47 GMT -5
He wasn't bad in the 'Look Who's Talking' movies. At least, I didn't think so.
'The Boy in the Plastic Bubble' is still one of the funniest things he's ever done though. Yeah he was young, but I just thought it was a bit of a ridiculous concept, particularly once he got the 'air suit' or whatever the bloody Hell that thing was supposed to be.
I never saw 'Battlefield Earth' and gaging the quality from your descriptions, looks like I never will.
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