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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.'"
You know, I made it through about fifteen minutes of the movie, turned to my wife and said "There's got to be something good on TV tonight." It wasn't even bad in a fascinating way, like Plan 9 From Outer Space. It was just awful crap. I hope the $cientologists lost a boatload on this one.
You know those whiney easily offended types who bitch and moan anytime someone writes "M$" instead of "MS" for Microsoft? The ones who think that writing "M$" automatically makes your criticisms of Microsoft's business practices invalid because they have no real rebuttal of them and are desperate to avoid admitting it because that might mean re-evaluating their myrmidon-like support for this company? They seem rather silent now that someone is writing "$cientologists" for "Scientologists." Like all other hypocrites, they have no concern for the self-consistency of their position. This only further exposes the "anti-M$" crowd for the pro-Microsoft fanboys that they are. There's no other reason they aren't bitching about other uses of the same spelling.
It's for the best. "You wrote 'M$', therefore I won't respond to your fact-based objections of this company" was a sorry, shoddy substitute for argumentation anyway.
proselyzation - what's that mean, proselytization?
Quick way to explain it is it means "to extoll the virtues of something."
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Yes, except it is spelled "proselytization". Apparently, I should have flagrantly corrected you, so I could be modded up.
Apparently, I should have flagrantly corrected you,
Why would you be correcting me? I'm not the one who misspelled it, neither am I the one incapable of clearly conveying a proper grammar nazi'ing.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
I wasn't trying to convey myself as a grammar nazi. And I assumed anyone who would reply to my post would be the author of the post I was replying to.
In any case, you still needed to be corrected, since you apparently didn't get that the statement, "proselyzation - what's that mean, proselytization?" is a kind correction of a mispelling. It is clueless of you to supply me with the definition, since my statement implies I'm aware of the definition.
I just didn't expect (or really care) that someone else besides the author of the post would reply in such a manner. I don't actually read the author "names" or id numbers. I suppose, in the future, I should be more careful in the future not to make that assumption.
But you're still clueless.
No, you're just a piss-poor communicator. And while I know that reading ain't cool on slashdot, seriously, read the fucking names of the people you're replying to. You look like a god-damned moron otherwise. Sheesh.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
You're not a very good troll. And you can't disguise the fact you can't read by calling me a poor communicator.