I like Crudup, he does a stellar job as always, considering the poor script and unatural situations he put into. I've read many of the reviews of this movie and so many of them talk about a 'timeless love' that I'm curious what movie these people watched. What I saw was a heartless woman who cared nothing for her lover. Whenever she was faced with having to decide between Billy or her activism, he's left standing in the cold. The only thing these two seemed to have in common was sex and I'm sorry but no matter how good the sex is, it doesn't command the kind of blind devotion Billy's character give Sarah. Normally I like Jennifer Connelly but in this movie I found her to be tedious, her character was annoying and extremely two dimensional. I did enjoy the movie visually, many of the scenes were very well crafted and technically I'd say this was a good movie. It's worth renting but it's not a movie I'd care to watch a second time. I simply don't like any of the character's except Billy and I don't like the way his character is treated by almost everyone else in the film.
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Battlefield Earth
(2000)
Scientology Strikes Again
18 May 2000
They tried this once before when good old L. Ron was still alive and it failed miserably, the movies they tried to make made Ed Wood look like a genius. In all these years the only thing the Film Branch of Scientology seems to have figured out is how to do mildly good effects, still sub standard compared to every other current films though. This film is laughably bad, just plain silly at points and the plot holes, it boggles the mind really. And such good actors, John Travolta, Forrest Whitaker, Barry Pepper, all very good actors and all Scientologists.
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