# The only awards ceremony that counts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-awards-ceremony-that-counts/59393 "2001-03-25T04:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-awards-ceremony-that-counts/59393/1 "2001-03-25T04:44:23Z")
It’s official. _Battlefield Earth_ has won _seven_, count 'em, _ **seven** _ RAZZIES!!! Quoth the [Golden Raspberry Award Foundation](http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view=44): > [@](#): > > Among the $2.49 statuettes claimed by BATTLEFIELD were: Travolta as Worst Actor, his wife Kelly Preston (as a six-foot-tongued alien secretary!) for Worst Supporting Actress, his co-star Barry Pepper as Worst Supporting Actor (in the role Travolta had wanted to play when he first started pitching the project nearly 20 years ago), Roger Christian for Worst Director, Worst Screenplay (Corey Mandell and J.D. Shapiro, based on Hubbard?s Novel) Worst Screen Couple (?Travolta and Anyone Sharing the Screen with Him!?) and, of course, Worst Picture. Ahhh, sweet redemption! ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-awards-ceremony-that-counts/59393/2 "2001-03-25T05:19:56Z")
That was one that I didn’t see, but seemed unremarkable. Some of the criticism it got was of the variety “How can a master race of aliens have dirty equipment?” ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-awards-ceremony-that-counts/59393/3 "2001-03-25T07:22:04Z")
I assure you, **tshirts** , it’s worth seeing just for the hilarity value. There are few things more entertaining than John Travolta as a nine foot tall rasta man with yellow teeth. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-awards-ceremony-that-counts/59393/4 "2001-03-26T03:13:35Z")
Bump for posterity. ---
**Author:** ![SpinneZiege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SpinneZiege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpinneZiege)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-awards-ceremony-that-counts/59393/5 "2001-03-26T03:23:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by friedo \* > \*\*I assure you, **tshirts** , it’s worth seeing just for the hilarity value. There are few things more entertaining than John Travolta as a nine foot tall rasta man with yellow teeth. > > \*\* But the thing is, it wasn’t. I went with some friends to it. We were expecting some B-movie hilarity value. But there was none! I mean, this is going to go down in record books as a worse movie than _Plan Nine from Outer Space_ and a bigger waste of money by an established actor than _Waterworld_. There was absolutely no entertainment value at all once the aliens stepped in. I mean, seeing the cavemen running around in the beginning was kinda funny, but after that it was torture! Somehow my family received a limited edition print by a Scientologist “artist” of a scene from the book by Hubbard. I thought it was funny to have an authentic piece of Scientology propaganda, my dad didn’t. When I asked to have it to put it up in my dorm room, it wasn’t too pretty. “I’ve had enough Scientology for one lifetime!” he cried. “Don’t you see, this is how they get to people. They want young people to be exposed to this stuff!” I mean, so what if his first wife got into that and the quarter-million dollar divorce settlement went entirely to the Church of Scientology. Does he have to take it personally?