Completely understandable, Snassek. I wish I'd had no desire to see it -- now I have to live with this subliminal Scientology programming they snuck in my head via the movie.
Seriously, though, the book is worth a look if you like SciFi. It's amazing how that book doesn't feel dated like a lot of SciFi seems to once it gets older. Of course, it still might do that in another 20 years or so.
Hubbard was a pretty good story-teller when he wasn't being preachy or just plain nasty-gross.