Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Post has a story about J.D. Shapiro, and his gracious acceptance of a Razzie award for writing Battlefield Earth. He first offers an apology to anyone who has seen it, then he offers a funny, outsider's perspective of dealing with Scientologists, and the subsequent mangling of his script for what was once allegedly referred to by John Travolta as 'The Schindler's List of Sci-Fi.'"

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The lesson here?

[JoshuaZ]

Movies (or for that matter any media) which is made by people with a specific religious or political agenda will almost inevitably suck. In this particular case, there's little to no Scientology in the film itself. But the overriding agenda of making a movie out of the founder's best (least suck?) novel still shown through. This is related to why anything of the form [religion] [normal thing] generally just means [sucky] [normal thing]. Thus, Christian rock is a subgenre of sucky rock. Christian rap? Let's not go there. Jewish rock- generally pretty sucky rock. Etc. Let's all be thankful that we don't yet have Scientology rap.