The thread about the plans for a new Mad Max movie and one posters’ comment about hoping wouldn’t inspire Travolta to make Battlefield Earth II sent me searching, since I’ve heard rumors that Travolta is indeed working on a sequel, and while I didn’t find any information, I did stumble across a site which had Travolta claiming that Lucas had seen the first one and loved it. Any truth to this? (Gotta admit, it’d answer a whole lotta annoying questions. A whole lotta annoying questions.)
Cite for your site?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA:D
Geez I kill myself, especially typing on 4 hours sleep.
Ask and ye shall regret.
Here’s a couple of more sites of other people claimimg Lucas was impressed:
Space.com,
FilmForce
ABC News
Oh, come on. An old co-worker shows Lucas a film he worked on alone. Wha is he supposed to say? “Gee, Roger, you did a really shitty job on this one. Yup, you f*cked it up royally!”
George Lucas total ineptitude as a filmmaker aside, of course he complemented the guy on his work. Any decent human being would have in the same situation.
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“complimented”
That is all.
Sounds to me that Mr. Lucas only liked the special effects. Nothing really there if he liked the movie itself or not.
Perhaps, but it’d be kind of nice to “hear” George say that he’d seen the movie, not just other people claiming that Lucas said he seen it and liked it. (I also have a hard time believing that Lucas would like the effects in any way other than “Whew! These guy’s aren’t going to be a threat to me anytime soon!” since they were rather horrid.)
Lucas grilled him on the effects. I’m not sure that Lucas cares about story or dialogue as much as look.
Actually I remember a Travolta interview at the time that Turd came out (The movie not Travolta 
) and he described the folks at ILM including Lucas screening it.
To paraphrase (as I could not find the cite): “They sat there in stunned silence… they really liked it and asked about the effects” Sounds like typical denial. I’m picturing the stunned faces of those people who just saw that crap and had to put a nice spin on it. Best they could come up with was special effects questions.
I could have sworn I remember seeing Travolta either on Jay Leno or another entertainment show talking about this.
I remember him saying that he felt great no matter what 'cause Lucas had told him he had made a great science fiction film.
Avoiding criticizing a movie by complimenting the special effects is like avoiding criticizing a writer by complimenting his handwriting.