Quote Originally Posted by Caradoc
Do you mean "Bicentennial Man?"

I liked it. Both the novella and the movie.



There was no saving "Battlefield Earth." The entire book was dreck to begin with, and there's nowhere they could have gone with it to make it remotely entertaining. The entire storyline of "Battlefield Earth" reads just like the back story for Scientology, down to the fact that the alien overlords are called "Psychlos," and Scientology hates psychiatrists. (Oh, and the aliens have an "upper class" of overlords called "catrists" - see any more parallels?)
Yeah that's what I meant, "Bicentennial Man" great book and movie!

I gotta say though, I found Battlefield Earth to be very entertaining, it's a SF satire in many ways. Yeah its got a lot of Scientology concepts in it, and although I agree about the psychiatrists, it didn't make me want to get my engrams cleared or anything! I found it overall very entertaining and funny.

One of my fave writers now, Orson Scott Card puts a lot of Mormon themes in some of his work, no big deal. Since you don't seem to care for L.Ron, I won't recomend his "Mission Earth" dekology, one story spread out over 10 4-500 page volumes!