Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?

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Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it? - Lemmy.World

Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.
That movie suffers from the source material being fucking ridiculously long and weird. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is like 1000 pages or so. Also it’s L Ron Hubbard so the book is just weird and creepy at times.

They used to get paid by the word back then.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlWwHr6DXk&t=0

Harlan Ellison Educates Robin Williams about LRH

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For a writer he was not concise in his explanations.