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Originally Posted by Elsi
The Postman.
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Yikes, that one really was shameful. I knew going in that the movie was supposed to be pretty bad, but I didn't expect that they'd find a way to remove all of the interesting plot points and any of the novelty, while at the same time deciding that the book only ended about halfway into the actual story. I mean, was there even a sequel to The Postman that they were basing it off of, or it was it just some script writer who decided to "punch up" the book by adding a non-existent second half?
As for Battlefield Earth, I watched it when I was about 15 and it didn't seem
that bad (except for the off-kilter camera thing, which was ridiculous). I watched the Rifftrax version a couple of months ago and I now can't believe I gave that movie any sort of credit. I really do think John Travolta has a gift for playing an appropriate (a pretty important word) role convincingly, but this is one of the few times that somebody's acting has been so bad that I can barely believe I'm actually watching a real movie. I really like this line from the wikipedia article about the movie:
Travolta described the book in interviews as "like Pulp Fiction for the year 3000" and "like Star Wars, only better".