Credit where it’s due to L Ron Hubbard, he’d conceived the perfect money making organisation over the course of a few pints one evening and it’s been wholly successful at making a few people stinking rich while at the same time appearing to be a load of wobbly sh**e to about 80% of the population. He’d have made an awesome politician.
Oh and having read Battlefield Earth as a teenager, I can safely say that it’s low grade pulp sci-fi at it’s most medicore and a copy is best kept by the lavatory in case one runs out of bog paper at an inopportune moment. The film was laughably dire, the only way it could have been a success would be if it were done tongue in cheek and had played the questionable content on it’s sleeve, like Starship Troopers. Instead, a bunch of misguided Scientologists tried to make a film failful to Hubbard’s vision and in doing so blew $200m of the Churh of Scientology’s funds on a colossal turkey.
To quote Forrest Gump, “Stupid is as stupid does”.