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Summary: New, Different, and Innovative
Review: All the critics and the judges for the "emmys" and "oscers" always say the same thing, " Why can't anyone make a different kind of movie".Well Battlefield Earth is a different kind of movie, but the crybaby critcs still wine, because they asked for a different kind of movie but they're still judging it by same narrow minded view of what makes a good movie, as if a movie that doesn't have a so called "deeper meaning" is inferior.This makes me sick. Judge movies for what they try to do.
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Summary: This Movie Is Worse Then The Powerrangers
Review: Wow, I got this movie for free. I won it in a contest from ign.com, nd it blows. Do not rent this or even think about buying it at any cost. If you like this I think you have some kind of problem, this movie shouldn't even be in my movie collection. I do watch this movie to have a really good laugh...
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Summary: "Probably the worst movie ever made"
Review: Battlefield Earth, starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker, is perhaps the worst movie ever made. It is completely boring, way too long, not action-packed and did I mention extremely boring! Barry Pepper was horribly cast and Travolta and Whitaker...how could you force yourself to do this? This movie is not even worth renting. It is horrible, dreadful, and dumb.
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Summary: Off the scale.. 1/2 Star ?
Review: Words cannot express how bad this film is. My copy of this DVD is hereby relegated to duty at my next trip to the skeet range.
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Summary: Horrible, Tedious, Unfunny Jetsam, Not Even Pitiable.
Review: This movie makes the Anna Nicole Smith show seem like high entertainment. There was not one good thing about this pathetic starship crash of a movie, except maybe for when the end credits rolled.
No, check that. The credits were horrid, too.
Now, can you publish this review the way it was written this time?
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Summary: It was bearable
Review: Not as bad as its reputation has it, but still pretty bad at that. John Travolta is physically striking but also laughable as the head of the villainous Psychlo race (mmm...could that be Psychos with an L? Naw!) who have taken over a futuristic Earth and made slaves of humans. Barry Pepper is the leader of the good ole boys who help restore order. Every science-fiction film imaginable, from Planet of the Apes to Goldfinger is ripped off shamelessly, plus the film contradicts itself on many occasions: the characters have maintained phrases like "piece of cake" to show how even a thousand years later remnants of the language of twentieth-century humans remain, but on the other hand they refer to the parliament buildings as places where our "great tribes" used to meet. Which is it gonna be folks, a last dying gasp of our race or a new beginning? I somehow managed to enjoy it, perhaps because it was honestly bad fun, or because it had great art direction, but it's still a boring mess that can only be a appreciated at a camp-movie night party. Barry Pepper tries to be a star but only emerges as a poor man's Matthew McConaughey (and boy do I mean, poor), and Forest Whitaker looks like the love child of Tina Turner and the Cowardly Lion.
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Summary: Battlefield Earth - Great novel
Review: I haven't seen the DVD yet, but a couple of my friends own it and have told me it is really good. I recommend everybody checks out the book. It's really awesome. I honestly had trouble putting it down! It's got a lot of action, and very good writing. Check it out!
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Summary: Battlefield Earth - Great novel
Review: I haven't seen the DVD yet, but a couple of my friends own it and have told me its very good. I recommend everybody checks out the novel that this film was based on. It's an amazing book. I had trouble putting it down! It is very action packed and adventurous. Check it out!
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Summary: A completely ludicrous film
Review: When you sit down to see a movie, you know suspension of disbelief is a must. Especially when the film is a science fiction. You know a lot of things in the movie can't really happen, but you can let yourself believe you can for those two hours you're immersed in another world. Unless, of course, the movie is too ludicrous and everything that happens screams disbelief. Battlefield Earth has enough unbelievable situations for three terrible movies. (Warning, minor spoilers ahead). The premise of the film asks you to accept that a supreme alien race conquered Earth in 9 minutes, and then for 1,000 years have reaped the land for natural resources, namely gold. So a civilization so advanced it can take control of a planet so quickly, hasn't found all the gold on Earth yet? And hasn't even found Fort Knox yet? And they don't have a clue that humans are intelligent enough to operate mining equipment (They laugh at the thought of humans being able to do any work), yet they live in the ruins of Denver, surrounded by obvious signs of an intelligent race which they enslaved. At one point in the film, even, these humans, who have been forced to live in caves or cages, find an army base filled with still working planes and weapons, and learn how to operate everything as good as any experienced pilot or soldier, in only a few days. I could go on; these are just the tip of the iceberg. Besides the ridiculous leaps of belief the movie asks you to make, there is more to despise here. For example, the pacing is atrocious. In the first 5 minutes of the movie, you meet Jonnie (Barry Pepper) as he returns to his home tribe, says a few words to the woman we're told he's romantically involved with, gets in a fight with the head of the tribe about how they should venture out of their caves, and leaves. The film doesn't show us how they live, explore their culture, examine the relationship Jonnie has neither with the head of the tribe nor with his girlfriend, or even give Jonnie any in depth characterization. Instead, the whole movie moves so fast, we don't know these characters any better then the extras without any speaking lines. However, there are a few things to admire in this film. Primarily, there are some beautiful scenery shots of mountains, fields, and cities overgrown and taken back by the wilds. There are even a few good ideas peppered throughout the film. Just don't blink, you might miss them. If you're not at all fussy about intelligent (or even somewhat believable) science fiction, or character development, or even acting (a can of worms I didn't open, John Travolta is terrible as the bad alien Terl), then Battlefield Earth might be worth a quick glance. Otherwise stay away. Stay far, far away.
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Summary: AS BAD AS IT GETS
Review: John Travolta has done some bad movies in his career (Michael, Perfect, Phenomenon, Mad City, Two of a Kind). It's too bad because Travolta's a good actor, and has had his share of good movies too (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction, Grease, Face/Off). But Battlefield Earth is as awful as movies come.
He plays Terl, an alien from the planet Psychlo. He looks like hell. They have given him ugly claw-like hands, billowy eyebrows, and a massive bush of dreadlock hair. The make up designer has copied the aliens from Star Trek and Star Wars so he looks like a cross between a Klingon and a Cantina alien.
This has also got to be the worst performance of Travolta's career. He tries to make Terl a diabolic, yet sarcastic villain and it just doesn't work. Given, he's working with a horrible script, and doesn't have much support from other cast members, but I expected more of a Darth Vader-like bad guy. Terl is not menacing at all, and quickly turns into a joke rather than a true villain. His appearance on screen is an annoyance as he hams it up, sniffing and cackling somewhat like Jack Nicholson's Joker.
Ludicrous is the only word to explain the rest of the film. The script is based on a 1982 novel by the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. Travolta is a known follower of Scientology, and maybe that explains why he did the film. It is badly photographed, with set design that is drab and chintzy, looking a lot like Blade Runner (though not nearly as good). It's the most dismal, depressing art direction and cinematography I've ever seen.
It takes place in the year 3000, when mankind is near extinction and many Psychlos have colonized Earth. Terl is Earth's chief of security, patrolling our destroyed cities with his troops and watching over the few humans (man animals!) that are left. Barry Pepper plays Jonnie, who tries to form an uprising and save Earth from Terl and his men. Pepper, who was excellent in Saving Private Ryan and The Green Mile, has very little opportunity to make the role of Jonnie a good one. He does his best, but the character is too dense and shallow.
Dark, uninspiring, and just plain rotten, Battlefield Earth left me feeling sorry for Travolta and Pepper who have more potential. A note to John Travolta: Fire your agent and get more films like Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty. If you make the right choices maybe we'll see you with the gold on Oscar night someday. Let's just hope it's not the year 3000. Rated PG-13 for violence and light profanity. (No stars) (F) **AFTER NOTE: Battlefield Earth took home seven Razzie Awards (an awards show that gives prizes to the WORST cinema of the year) including: Worst Actor (Travolta); Worst Supporting Actor (Pepper); Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Picture.
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