just came back from Battlefield Earth (got free pass in exchange for a pizza). Just one word sums up this movie:

BWWWAAAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say that there's no 'recruiting' for scientology going on in it and I could not see any references of any kind to Dianetics, either. I'm not a scientologist, but if any attempt was made either directly or indirectly, I didn't see it. I've seen more blatant attempts at philosophising in Star Trek... hell, I've seen more by staring at my shoes!

On the other hand, I wish they had put in some kind of recruitment... it'd break up the tedium and otherwise extremely cheesy and contrived dialoge!! This movie makes no attempt whatsoever to make you connnect with any of the characters and you end up not really giving a damn what happens at the end.

Travolta apparantly totally forgot how to act in this bombshell, rivalling even his Vinnie Barbarino days and 'Boy In The Plastic Bubble' for some of the worst acting ever commited to film. I'm sure Ed Wood is spinning in his grave with envy at the utter badness of this movie. Hell, they didn't even attempt to show Denver (the post-apocolyptic setting) as it is. The best thing I can say about this movie is that it is precisely that: a strip of film embedded with images that when run in front of a light appear to move.

Damn sorry waste of a perfectly good pizza, if you ask me...