You have settled in to your cinema chair to watch the latest blockbuster, or curled up in front of the television.
Who knows what you might see?
Well, I know what you won't see.
* A leading character portrayed as a devout Scientologist. Even the Simpsons attend church regularly, but no one on television attends Scientology services. Iron Man, in Iron Man 2, for example could have been depicted as a Scientologist. It would have taken just take one minute out of the entire movie, and would have improved the tone immensely.
* A Scientology minister presented as a kindly figure of wisdom to whom the characters turn for guidance. Catholic priests are a staple. Why not Scientologist ministers?
* A Scientology wedding. "Mama Mia", "Runaway Bride", "The Wedding Planner", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - hundreds of movie weddings, but not one Scientology wedding. Neither Tom Cruise or John Travolta have ever portrayed the groom in a Scientology wedding. No movie has portrayed interspousal auditing.
* The main character receiving Scientology auditing as a normal part of daily life. Iron Man, for example could have been depicted receiving auditing to handle engrams and increase his abilities. Imagine the positive theta that would flow if just one of the major characters in a show such as NCIS or 90210 was regularly shown to be receiving auditing. But, you don't see a single portrait of L Ron Hubbard on a desk, or an E-meter sitting on a table in any production.
* The main character using PTS/SP technology to shatter suppression. Iron Man, for example could have been an awesome movie if the main character had used Scientology technology. But, and this is the incredible thing - Why doesn't Hollywood let even Tom Cruise or John Travolta use this tech in their movie roles? It's insane.
* A leading character using Operating Thetan abilities to exteriorize and manipulate the world of matter, energy, space and time. This stuff is real and is far more exciting than Iron Man or Harry Potter. If Tom Cruise had been allowed to use it in Mission Impossible, it would have soon become Mission Possible, and all the bad guys would have been rounded up in no time flat. I'd hoped that we would see this tech in Knight and Day but, sadly, we won't.
Any movie, from "Look Who's Talking" to "Jerry Maguire" to "Vanilla Sky" to "From Paris with Love" would have been immensely improved by an explicit realistic, matter of fact, use of Scientology by the main characters. No, but they all fall back on the violence and superstition that has characterized movies since before the advent of Dianetics.
There are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world, but no mainstream Scientology movies since "Battlefield Earth". There are about as many Scientologists as there are Jews, yet you can see thousands of movies portraying Judaism as a daily reality, and that religion doesn't even have super powers. Kirsty Alley is partially to blame, but the real blame is laid squarely on Hollywood's doorstep.