FFS Staff

Apr 08 2023

Screening #75

poster for Battlefield Earth

Screening Info

Selection: Battlefield Earth
Notes: (Wolves bay in the moonlight) Make haste, Fortunato! Let us away to the sinister catacombs of mine forebears with all alacrity! (Chandelier bursts into flames) Step lively, Fortunato! I must avail myself of your exquisite connoisseurship to test the mettle of a claret of dubious provenance! (Pipe organ begins to play by itself) But have care, Fortunato! One false step amidst the crumbling stones of these winding escaliers might dispatch a man to his very doom! (Cackles evilly, grandly drawing a curtain to reveal a subterranean laboratory stocked floor to ceiling with pulsating brains in glass jars) Fortunato, you credulous fool, you've fallen right into my trap! This is no wine cellar but rather THE FORTNIGHTLY FILM SOCIETY'S SHADOWY GOVERNING BRAIN TRUST™ (PAT. PEND)'S BRAINULOUS COMMEMORATION OF THE THIRD (3RD) ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORTNIGHTLY FILM SOCIETY! And what better way to celebrate, Fortunati, than by choosing a winner from some of the FFS's best-loved also-rans? This week's nominee lineup consists entirely of films that have received four (4) or more FFS nominations -- but have never won!
Nominations
  1. ⭐️ Battlefield Earth
  2. Gigli
  3. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
  4. Spice World
  5. Surf Ninjas
  6. The Lone Ranger
  7. Troll 2