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What is the most ridiculous made up thing/line of dialogue in the entire film?

Started by Johnny_Short_Torso, February 09, 2007, 03:42:27 PM

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Seeing as one of the races is the 'chinkos', I suppose we should be thankful that the banking race isn't the 'jewbloids' or something. God knows I wouldn't put it past Hubbard.

But yeah, I've glanced at Hubbard's prose, and it's low-mediocre for sci fi writers of the '50s (which isn't a high standard.) It was more his story construction I was criticizing- it's bad enough when your Ang Lees and your George Lucases spit out a torrent of half-understood tropes from genres they don't fully get, but at least I get the feeling they like the stuff they're cannibalizing. I think Hubbard looked at sci-fi the way he looked at religion, i.e. an easy way to get rich off of people who would buy anything if it was packaged correctly.


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