My favorite WTFs

1. A species capable of interstellar travel would use that most inefficient energy source - slave labor. Worse, use it poorly

2. Jet fuel would still be viable after a millennium? Water contamination alone would have rendered it useless centuries ago. Won't go into all the other things that deteriorated, starting with tires.

3. Speaking of jump jets, of course an illiterate barbarian (sorry Goodboy, but you are) could learn to pilot the most unstable of aircraft by watching a video game for a week ... well, my brain hurts, too.

There's more, but enough pain for the day.

I can't help but think a fair share of Travolta's walking around money went into Bolivian marching powder for cast, crew and writing staff.

It has been a while, but I don't recall lots of blood coming out. Shouldn't there have been lots of movie blood?

My brain already hurts today...

So many points on which to hang this awful, awful film, yet your critique is the first I've ever read that even addressed the issue of where the jets should have been!

And they must have some fancy-ass tires to protect them from a millennium of dry rot.

Just one that jumped out at me, because I was in the Marine Corps.

I also loved the idea of an advanced alien civilization that needed massive quantitities of gold. But couldn't find out about Ft. Knox, even though the "manimals" could.

While the Psychlos were spying on us, you'd think they would have run across at least one old VHS copy of "Goldfinger." In fact, VHS might have been an upgrade over their alien video system.

Are you always a Sunday morning masochist? Wouldn't it be just as rewarding (if that's the word) to watch The Sopranos on A&E? You know, with all the 'good stuff' edited out?

That would be at least as punishing as listening to a guy with a voice like a gerbil with a crank habit trying to convince the viewer that he's really an interplanetary war god.

BY ROGER EBERT / May 12, 2000

"Battlefield Earth" is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way. The visuals are grubby and drab. The characters are unkempt and have rotten teeth. Breathing tubes hang from their noses like ropes of snot. The soundtrack sounds like the boom mike is being slammed against the inside of a 55-gallon drum. The plot...

But let me catch my breath. This movie is awful in so many different ways. Even the opening titles are cheesy. Sci-fi epics usually begin with a stab at impressive titles, but this one just displays green letters on the screen in a type font that came with my Macintosh. Then the movie's subtitle unscrolls from left to right in the kind of "effect" you see in home movies.

Read the rest:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000512/REVIEWS/5120301/1023

either is already barking mad, or has access to some weed the quality of which in unsurpassed.

Says all you need to know about him.

...worst science fiction writers in the business: L. Ron Hubbard. I only read one collection of his short stories: Ole Doc Methuselah, and it was every bit as bad as it sounds!

From what little I know of Scientology, it sounds like a religion started by a bad science fiction writer. A friend of mine once said: "I'd be happy to join a religion started by someone like Kurt Vonnegut."

my second choice. I think Heinlein would be my first choice.