Gray Ghost wrote: : : I actually like Battlefield Earth. Yeah it's hokey in spots, but really most : SciFi is anyway. : I only read the book. My paperback from the 80's has "SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!!!!!" on the back cover. Okay, if "soon" means 15 - 20 years...
As for the movie - never bothered. Could not see boiling down a 1500 page book to 90 minutes. Plus the clips with Harriers was just too c*ck-a-mamie to contemplate. When does the story of Johnny Good boy(?) take place - some hundreds of years after the invasion, at any rate. Fuel would no longer be, rubber seals would be a long lost memory, etc. And, finally, John as Terel? Nope. Worse, I tought he was playing Johnny Goodboy. No. HELL NO. : : And look at the dreck : the SciFi channel produces, : What? What was wrong with Alien... uh, something, with Bruce Campbell and Renee O'Connor? Apoclypse? Besides, look at all of the work "the Lou" has been getting with the SyFy-less (pronounced 'syphilus') network... : : views. And the "corporate" society gone mad. It's not a great movie but it so : much better than so much that is out there. : Well, only in that Will Farrell has only written one movie, but has re-shot it many times. Plus the "if only I had a brain" rehashes of Ducks of Hazzard, I Spy, Starsky & Hutch. Blech. And I grew up watching that stuff. Which does NOT mean I want to watch it now.
Bruce