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SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• db2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That movie was so awful, even then. That and Battlefield Earth are guilty pleasures but they’re truly terrible.

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  • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like they belong in separate categories though. Lawnmower man was regular bad, like it started as something that had value but effects and writing just weren’t up to where they should have been resulting in a hilarious, guilty pleasure mess.

    Battlefield earth never stood a chance, everything about it was cursed start to finish and was a complete vanity project by a religious weirdo. There’s just plain guilt with it, no pleasure.

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    • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Calling him a religious weirdo gives too much credit to the cult/scam that scientology is. At best his a brainwashed cult member. I feel like 200 years from now people will be studying the rise and fall of scientology as it’s a fascinating case study of what happens when a scammer sets out to create a cult and actually succeeds. The fact he got away with it despite evidence that it was always intended as a scam is even more mind blowing.

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      • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The only thing remarkable about Scientology and Mormonism are that they were recent creations. That means we have fairly decent information about the founders. The other religions probably started similar ways but that has been obscured by time and poor documentation. The more people that get involved in steering them through the years, the more blurred it gets.

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      • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Come on, the CGI was groundbreaking.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tron has entered the chat

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      • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If I recall, Tron was almost entirely practical effects despite its premise.

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