Battlefield Earth Sequel!!

[Jedi Master Carr]

If you can believe Travolta says there will be a Battlefield Earth 2. He calls the first film a cult classic and says that it has grown on people. I have no clue what he is talking about. The movie has made 21 million and has not even been released to video yet and everybody that I know who has seen it says it was one of the worst films they have seen. Every critic said it was terrible. So the question is, has Travolta gone insane.

[jjwr]

I thought he was already signed on for the 2nd movie before the first was even released...maybe he's just trying to make the best out of the situation while he goes ahead with his contract.

[Jedieb]

I love Travolta, but this has got to be some kind of sick joke. If it's true then scientology truly is a form of mind control. Run Barbarino! Run!

[Darth23]

Hee hee

Normally I don't link to THIS PLACE (http://www.coruscantcity.net/CoruscantCity/board/Forum2/HTML/000101.html) but....


(hope I don't get in trouble)

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[ReaperFett]

Still not seen it, but I am looking forward to it

Can I remind you all From Dusk til Dawn didnt brake even, nor did Starship Troopers. They have cult followings

And Ig George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino liked it, I am hopeful. I got sick of reviewers mentioning Scientology in their reviews. Good luck to ya Travolta, prove em wrong!

[Jedi Master Carr]

I have no intentions of seeing. I have several friends who saw it and told me how bad it was, they said cartoons had better special effects than this movie had and the acting was the worse they have ever seen. I have even read reports that after the premier that the director came out of the theater looking extremely upset. As far as Lucas and Tarantino goes they probably just humoring him. Finally you think Warner Brother will do a sequal believe me they lost at least 40 million on this movie, I am certain they will not even want to make a sequel. I have no clue why Travolta even said this maybe he was just making a joke.

[Darth23]

Damn, now I have to see it just to find out how bad it was. :-)



I do think a lot fo people used the whole Scientology thing in their negative attitudes towards the movie. Personally I didn't like it the first time I saw a trailer. the only person I know who saw it said it was really bad.


Maybe it will be on the Sci-fi channel in a few months.

:)

[DvdJervs]

(hope I don't get in trouble)
Darth23, you are SO banned for that link. :)

[Bromine]

If you want to talk about a movie that promotes Scientology, let's talk "Phenomenon". Remember that movie? It starred John Travolta as a guy who got a brain tumor that gave him super mental powers. Some of the dialogue sounded like it was taken right out of a Scientology pamphlet.

The thing that's funny about "Battlefield Earth" is that everyone seemed to agree on it. Most critics hated it, most viewers hated it, and it did really badly at the box office.

[Darth23]

I remember hearing positive things about Phenomenon - never saw it.

So was Michael a thinly veiled scientology promotion piece also? (never saw that one either).

[Bromine]

I caught a bit of "Micheal". What I saw just seemed really weird to me; and I'd bet a lot of people considered it downright sacriligious. I think it's about an angel who is visiting Earth for the last time and is allowed to sin or something like that.

[mez7]

reaperfett just dont :)

i dont even want to see this movie i saw the trailers and about 30minuites of it and that was enough for me,
the effects are sub par, the story is just horrible,
(the reason they signed on for sequels is cause one movie couldnt contain the book, so they crammed as much as they could into the first- bad idea)
some of the plot points are just horrible,
ie. the humans find 1000 year old harriers, but guess what they still work fine, not only that but these "inferior" humans learn to fly them in like days????
make sense?? not to me :)
the acting is supposed to be horrible troughout as well, what ive seen of the acting didnt impress me at all, in fact it just horrified me.
those are all the reasons i stayed away from this film

now as for it having a sequel, i read the article about this as well,
travolta is smoking crack,
the movie made 20mill,
he says it cost 50mill CND, but reports have put it at around 70mill,
he says that it is a cult classic and that once on video it will make over 80mill fast, how does he know this?? its not out on video so hes just speculating, and even if it is a cult classic that means it will be along while before it makes enough on video to warrant a sequel,

id bet good money with anyone that we wont see a battlefeildearth2 ever but thats just me :p

[Darth Turbogeek]

"Michael" is indeed Scientology version of Christianity. From what I understand, Battlefield Earth doesnt in reality push Scientology @#%$ like Phenomem or Michael (Which are actually very blatant.... so where was the outcry? I smell Hypocracy here), yet.... BE is tarred.

However, as a movie... it's VILE. It's awful. It was withdrawn from a local cinema after one week. Why? After the opening, 27 tickets sold. Now, does that say something, especially considering most movies that get protested usually GAIN audiences by the the curiosity factor? The pbulicity? The critics, the cnema owners and the public agree. This a vile movie. There WONT be a sequel

[Darth23]

Mystery Men is a Cult Classic.

Battlefield Earth is just a flop. :)

[Bromine]

I don't really see why people even cared that those movies promoted Scientology. Was anyone protesting "It's a Wonderful Life" for promoting Christianity? What about "Miracle on 34th Street"? My goodness, it's propoganda!;)

[ReaperFett]

Or those damn Americanism films

[ReaperFett]

make sense?? not to me
Well, AoD was hardly accurate and realistic, was it :)

[Itala Marzullo]

MM was a flop Reap..I'll see this movie with my ilegal cable box...

I loved The Patriot too Reapper...

[mez7]

but AoD wasnt trying to be a serious scifi film now was it :)