Battlefield Earth should have been financed by ARS. A finer foot bullet could not have been imagined. Not only is Battlefield Earth garnering the worst reviews I can ever recall but a lot of those reviews are spilling the beans on the church. ARS could not have bought better publicity at any price.

Check out Slate at

http://slate.msn.com/MovieReview/00-05-12/MovieReview.asp for gems like "A central tenet of Scientology is that humans are manipulated by alien spirits implanted within the species thousands of years ago. " And that was the very first sentence. Stuff like this is scattered through several reviews. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times was especially cruel. :)

Do you think that there is severe enturbulation at Flag? Do you think any staff might snap out of their reverie long enough to blow? These reviews have to be like cold water in the face. I mean you have arguably the clams biggest star in what was supposed to be an epic blockbuster based on that masterpiece of modern science fiction by L. Wrong Hubbard and all the otea powers in scientology could do nothing to save it from being a total embarrassment.

By golly, if there are any otea's in scientology they need to start postulating a timeline in which this movie never happened.

One last thing...

Anyone noticed how strange Travolta has been in his public appearances lately? He has that "look". Almost manic. Scary.