OT: I do dislike stupid people

AgentZero · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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.

geoschmo · #5 April 13th, 2005, 09:29 AM

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Randallw said:
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.

It wasn't so much that they were stupid as corrupt and over confident. The humans would have never been close to even winning their indepenadance if it weren't that most of the Psyclo's were too busy covering their own arses and trying to figure out how to get personal advancment out of every situation. The part about wiping out the entire Psyclo empire in one fell swoop was a little hokey, but Hubbard was just trying to make a point about a soceity that depends too heavily on technology being primed for a catastrophic fall.

Every civilization eventually falls. It's not a matter of a lack of intelligence. Would you say "If the Romans were so stupid as to allow a bunch of little backwards tribal nations to wipe them out, how could they have conquered the all that territory to begin with?" The Psyclo's, like the Romans were an old empire. They had held earth for a thousand years. Who knows how long they had been in power on other worlds before that. The corrupt, self-interested psyclos that allowed themselves to be overthrown weren't the same ruthlessly efficent Psychlo's that had conquered all those planets thousands of years before.

Atrocities · #6 April 13th, 2005, 12:46 PM

I just liked the movie Sahara... The BFE movie did not interest me and I rented it and thought it was a cool idea but poorly implimented. As for the books, well the vibe I got from fellow Sci-Fi readers at work was .. Book bad - Movie bad.

For SST the vibe was ... Movie very bad, books ok.