OT: I do dislike stupid people

Ron_Lugge · #1 April 12th, 2005, 03:47 PM

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dogscoff said:

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Starhawk said:
LOL AHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL LOL HAHAHAHAHA I do so hope you are kidding with that line Doggy SST the book came first!!!

Well that just shows how bad it was. The guy who wrote the book obviously didn't get it all as I said in my first post, so they had to make the film to straighten him out. Hopefully now the film is out, ppl will forget about the book.

OMG. That is just so horrible.. It is not even funny. Please; this joke has gone way to far.

Heinlin is one of the top SciFi writers ever; he is up there with Asimov and the guy who did Battlefield:Earth (Man, that was a good book...). His books are wonderful pokings and proddings at all number of things, with some wonderful and witty thought thrown in (porcupine defense... sounds like fun. How about telepaths on the ships exploring the galaxy? Classic.).

I mean, it is impossible to not like him, so please, cut the joke.

<note: edited to avoid comments that might get me banned if he was actually serious somehow>

dogscoff · #2 April 12th, 2005, 04:38 PM

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did Battlefield:Earth (Man, that was a good book...).

Yeah, that was a great film. THat was the one with John Travolta wasn't it? Loved that film, probably the only scifi film as good as SST.

BTW, have you heard they're bringing out books of the LotR films? I bet they suck...

Hunpecked · #3 April 12th, 2005, 05:14 PM

Speaking of "LotR" and "Battlefield Earth", I've heard that JRR Tolkien, who wrote the "LotR" scripts, was such a fan of L. Ron Hubbard that he named the chief Rivendell elf after him.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 April 12th, 2005, 06:57 PM

It's humor, Ron.

AgentZero · #5 April 12th, 2005, 08:52 PM

I just hope everyone's joking about Battlefield Earth being any good. Three weeks of my life I want back.

geoschmo · #6 April 12th, 2005, 11:10 PM

In my opinion Battlefield Earth the book didn't suck. It was a fun read and a good scifi story. It wasn't great literature, but honestly not a lot of scifi is great literature.

I started reading the Hubbard decalogy, what was that called, Invasion Earth or something? I read the first five I think. It just went on too damn long. If he had made that a trilogy I think it could have been really good.

Atrocities · #7 April 13th, 2005, 03:09 AM

well I have even more ammo to prove that Roper is a dumbass. I went and saw Sahara tonight and I thought it was a very well done movie. I don't know what movie those two saw, but the one they reviewed sure as hell was not the movie I saw. Perhaps they were to busy chatting or sleeping to pay attention to the moive. It went to great lengths to make its points and I found it easy to follow and very enjoyable to watch. THIS just proves the old saying, if Ebert and Siskle, now Roper, hate a movie... Go see it, if they love a movie, rent it on video. Hell IIRC, Ebert thought Gandhi was the most exciting movie of the year when it came out, and bombed Star Wars when it came out.... Go figure.

Randallw · #8 April 13th, 2005, 04:12 AM

Since I was flying to europe when the battlefield earth film came out I bought the novel to read on the plane. I found it disapointing. I'm not a great fan of books where the primitive humans easily fool the stupid alien conquerors. I ask, if the aliens are so stupid how did they conquer Earth in the first place. obviously just because of their technology. As for the Invasion Earth series I got sick about reading of lesbians doing SM to the main character. It did have one good bit I must admit, don't get into a fight with people wearing cleats.