Battlefield Earth, John Travolta and his Annoying Laugh

Okay, this one got 2.5 stars out of 10 in IMDB. This is interesting because it is a far superior film than "Star Wars." Better acting, too.  John Travolta and Forest Whitaker are fine actors.  Let's face it, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were hacks.  Both of them should have taken an acting class. So why are we bent on hating 2000's "Battlefield Earth"?  Well, it was written by the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard.  It was made with big help from Scientologists.  Okay, Scientology is weird but at least they don't rape and pillage Latin and South America, start wars just so defense firms can get wealthy, or consider themselves their own country. You have to be suspicious of Scientology critics when the leading one is that failed, second rate actress Leah Remini.

Let's talk plot. Humans are an endangered species in the year 3000. Living in the wilderness, evil Psychlos have taken over the planet and are plundering its resources. Sound familiar? These fiends are led by Terl (Travolta) and he has a plan. His plan is to train the humans to mine the gold mines in the Rockies, and abscond with the gold himself. His faithful liege is Ker (Whitaker). Meanwhile, Johnny (Barry Pepper) has been taken prisoner by Terl. He plans to escape, start an uprising, and kill all the Psychlos. Terl's greed will be his undoing as he puts Johnny in the knowledge machine so he can teach mining to the rest of the humans. Johnny is a good student and learns a lot more. Now Johnny organizes the enslaved human into a plot to rebel, kill the alien invaders, and blow up the Planet Psychlo.

Johnny has a lust for freedom based in reality. Unlike in "Star Wars" which has that silly "force" that can be anything you want. As Terl and his greed rule with brutality, Johnny leads by inspiration and example. Hardly modern day American ideals...maybe that's why we are supposed to hate this film. A lot of battles will occur, but when Johnny figures out a way to use the fighter jets from the old U.S. military (better than those Ukrainian pilots learned to fly F-16s), he kind of evens the playing field.  A major war for the continuation of the human race has now begun.

Remember what Hollywood had before Scientology?  What did Scientology replace in the mid-1970s? You peeps who lived through the 70s will remember Satanism had its claws in Hollywood. The grand Satanic priest, Anton Lavey hosted the biggest and most influential parties. The fools of Hollywood dropped him and adopted Scientology. As annoying as they are they did make a film far superior than "Star Wars" and that Mandolorian garbage.  For a pretty good and action packed sci-fi film, with loads of human inspiration (no forces), see "Battlefield Earth" and try to avoid the rantings of that so-called actress, whatever her name is.