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"Meer science fiction in Scientology als Scientology in 'Battlefield
Earth"  :8)

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http://www.al.com/movies/?/entertainment/ap/2000-05-12/revbattlefieldearth.html

Logic and originality are alien to 'Battlefield Earth'
By Stephen Whitty 
Newhouse News Service 
5/12/2000 

'Battlefield Earth' (PG-13) Warner Bros. (117 min.) 

Directed by Roger Christian. Stars John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest
Whitaker. 

L. Ron Hubbard must have put an awful lot of thought into Scientology. 
Because judging by "Battlefield Earth," he didn't leave anything for 
his novels. 

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Luckily, it's not only good things that come to an end in this world, and
eventually "Battlefield Earth" winds down, too. Don't expect people to
stop talking about it, though, even when it time-warps out of here. Since
the project was announced, critics have been decrying it as
Scientology-fi; like Travolta's otherworldly "Phenomenon," it's been
denounced as pop-cultist propaganda. 

That's unfair. Actually, there's a lot more science fiction in Scientology
than there is Scientology in "Battlefield Earth." And a lot more
imagination. 

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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/tnw/today/as/mv/mv_b.htm#Battlefield%20Earth

'Battlefield Earth' (5/12/00)
Directed by Roger Christian
Starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper

The second, and hopefully last, of John Travolta's Scientology
movies, "Battlefield Earth," like "Phenomenon," is religious propaganda
masquerading as sci-fi fun. A cross between "Independence Day" and "Mad
Max," though not nearly as amusing as either . . . 

The message is that learning and mental clarity are the way to 
humanity's salvation; coincidentally, Scientology believes the same 
thing. Besides the scenery chomping from Travolta, who at times seems to
be doing a Dr. Evil impersonation, there is nothing to recommend in this
tedious, cheaply made dirge. The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, 
and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film
clich�.

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