TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

That's one good thing about Scientology. Has led to cruise (and therefore money) wanting to do more sci fi

It more directly led John Travolta to wanting to do more sci fi.

A hugely under-rated film.

[Sheilbh]

Always fancied a place in CdM's sig?

[Eddie Teach]

That movie got a 2.4 rating on IMDB. Double that score and it's still not worth watching.

[Admiral Yi]

It's worth catching about 15 minutes to see what the fuss is about.  That should be good enough for about 5 leverage!!! lines.

[CountDeMoney]

Always fancied a place in CdM's sig?

No shit, man. 

From Cracked--

Battlefield Earth was shopped around Hollywood for years with no takers. Studios worried that the negative public perception of Scientology might affect the movie's gross. A brave studio called Franchise Pictures finally brought the story to life starring Scientologist and Sweathog John Travolta as a dictator named Terl who exhibits a taste for every kind of scenery. Upon its release Battlefield Earth promptly made no money. Franchise Pictures, who learned all the wrong lessons from The Producers, overestimated the film's budget by about 37 million and ended up being sued into oblivion. That the film was lambasted by critics is an understatement.

Today, it is considered by many to be one of the worst films of all time. However, Battlefield Earth retains a cult following among people who love the movie because Tom Cruise tells them they do, as well as a small group of devotees who love it precisely because it is so fucking terrible.

Yi, unless you're stoned, you and your frontal lobe won't be able to last those 15 minutes.  It's that fucking bad.

[Ed Anger]

I read the book.

[Ideologue]

Just saw Edge of Tomorrow and 22 Jump Street at the drive-in last night.  Timmy taint notwithstanding, if you haven't seen Edge of Tomorrow yet, do it.

Ide, I'm going to call bullshit on your analysis.  You mention superior ending, but [spoiler]EoT and Oblivion have exactly the same ending- he dies, and the end hard-cuts with a reunion between him and The Girl, who are going to have to get to know each other all over again.  If anything, EoT is superior for giving Tom Cruise more believable flaws to overcome in the beginning and a more believable progression towards becoming the "ideal hero."  Oh, and he gets to maintain a major flaw in the form of being paralyzed into inaction by concern for The Girl.  The closest Oblivion came was his hero worship of Sexy Morgan Freeman.[/spoiler]

I haven't enjoyed a Tom Cruise movie that much since the first Mission Impossible.

22 Jump Street was amusing, but not that memorable.  It was basically Van Wilder and The Naked Gun thrown in a blender.

No, I agree in many regards.  Like I said, it's his most fully-formed action hero role since Cole Trickle or Maverick.  The thing about Tomorrow's ending is that it doesn't make any sense (and [spoiler]it's a cheat so we can have a happy ending rather than a grim ending, or a hellishly bleak ending[/spoiler]).  The ending of Oblivion makes all kinds of sense, as long as you assume the Tet is a little bit stupid, which I will concede you have to do to enjoy the movie at all.  [spoiler]It's a bittersweet ending for Oblivion--our hero dies, but Olga Kurylenko and Tom Cruise 52 can be happy.  That said, we ain't talking about Moon levels of character development or tear-jerking here.[/spoiler]

Battlefield Earth is indeed very, very bad.  It's "underrated" solely if "underrated" means it's not the very worst film of all time, which I agree is somewhat hyperbolic.  Terl's funny.

[CountDeMoney]

I read the book.

I've noticed you read a whole lot of shit.  It's sorta like a melting pot of 11B's reading list one moment, Timmay's alt-hist sci-fi adolescent whackfests the next.  Don't see how you can manage that.

[Ed Anger]

I read the book.

I've noticed you read a whole lot of shit.  It's sorta like a melting pot of 11B's reading list one moment, Timmay's alt-hist sci-fi adolescent whackfests the next.  Don't see how you can manage that.

It was High School. It was read sci-fi or actually work.

[CountDeMoney]

I suggest more Steinbeck in your diet.

[Admiral Yi]

Yi, unless you're stoned, you and your frontal lobe won't be able to last those 15 minutes.  It's that fucking bad.

I've seen maybe 70% of it.  Definitely merits 15 minutes for intellectual curiosity.

[Ed Anger]

I suggest more Steinbeck in your diet.

Bleh.

[Josquius]

Always fancied a place in CdM's sig?

No shit, man. 

From Cracked--

Battlefield Earth was shopped around Hollywood for years with no takers. Studios worried that the negative public perception of Scientology might affect the movie's gross. A brave studio called Franchise Pictures finally brought the story to life starring Scientologist and Sweathog John Travolta as a dictator named Terl who exhibits a taste for every kind of scenery. Upon its release Battlefield Earth promptly made no money. Franchise Pictures, who learned all the wrong lessons from The Producers, overestimated the film's budget by about 37 million and ended up being sued into oblivion. That the film was lambasted by critics is an understatement.

Today, it is considered by many to be one of the worst films of all time. However, Battlefield Earth retains a cult following among people who love the movie because Tom Cruise tells them they do, as well as a small group of devotees who love it precisely because it is so fucking terrible.

Yi, unless you're stoned, you and your frontal lobe won't be able to last those 15 minutes.  It's that fucking bad.

I suppose I fall into the latter group. It is an extremely stupid film. Some parts are just horrible, the scenes with the travolta aliens and the brain washing and sickness inducing camera angles.
But it is a film that kept me watching the whole way through. There is entertainment to be had in its sheer idiocy.

[jimmy olsen]

 I don't see why it doesn't imply both 

http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/46/32

[Ideologue]

How many atomic bombs does it take to create life ex nihilo?