Battlefield Earth's screen writer apologizes.
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Monday, April 5, 2010 13:30
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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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" 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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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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Veeeery funny.
I saw the movie once. Mostly.
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It doesn't count until he offers monetary reimbursement for the damages.
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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.
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I spotted one pretty nice background in it.
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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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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I spotted one pretty nice background in it.
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Always lookin' for that silver lining, aren't ya, Chris?
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Quote:Naw, it just stuck out so sharply from among all the other *FAIL* is all.
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Always lookin' for that silver lining, aren't ya, Chris?
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