Battlefield Earth

as reviewed by Skylaire Alfvegren

Continued...

See, you're supposed to apply the struggle between Goodboy and the Psychlos to your own life. You're mentally enslaved, weak of will, a victim of others' influence. You need to think for yourself; the easiest way to begin doing this is by reading up on Scientology. (Hubbard called someone who has moved to the top of Scientology a "Clear," defining them as "not an adjusted person, driven to activity by his repressions...(but) an unrepressed person operating on self-determinism.")

In case you were wondering if Battlefield was an all-Scientologist production, here's how director Roger Christian (whose only other credit seems to be as the art director on the original Star Wars) recently defined his own personal philosophy "If you look outside of your boundaries, then you will learn and go to a higher level." Spooky. And although Christian nabbed an Oscar for Star Wars, the Battlefield effects are truly abysmal.

Rumor has it that Travolta, a long-time Scientologist, tried to leave the "church" a few years back only to be told that his "sham" marriage to Kelly Preston would be leaked to the tabloids. (She turns up as a Psychlos secretary.) Somehow you get the feeling that that would've been a better career move than starring in–and fronting half the money for–this stinky disaster, which is too despicable even for the "it's so bad it's good" file.

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