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Summary: so bad it's good
Review: this movie has got to be one of the funniest movies ever made. as everyone else has said, it really is terrible with huge gaping plotholes, a bad script, & inexcusable movie science, but it's funny for it. if you find yourself drawn to horrible movies, this one is right up your alley. i'm just waiting for the sequel. i hear that kevin costner's a early favorite for director.
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Summary: Better than most
Review: I don't know why the critics didn't like this film. They seem to have latched on to the smallest details and then gone insane over them. These are usually the same people who loved Phantom Menace!! Oh, come on. People keep bringing up these things which they claim are plot holes but in fact I have been able to explain every single one of them.My brother and I both agree that this was a fun film and that it was definitely very entertaining. The special effects were excellent and the story kept you engaged. I can't say the same thing about Phantom Menace. I highly recommend this film to sci-fi fans and those that can let go and enjoy a good fantasy film.
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Summary: Worst Movie Ever.
Review: I cannot honestly say I have seen a worse movie. Everything from cast to plot and story to special effects in this movie were abominable.
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Summary: ...
Review: When I spend money on a DVD I expect to get the movie, the whole movie, not an edited version. It says on the front of my DVD "Special Edition" but the Amazon[.com] picture of the front cover fails to mention this. There are lots of data about all the extras you get but they fail to mention that the movie is cut. In the small print on the back of my DVD box it says "Edited for home video". Now they tell me. The only redeeming feature of this film is it's humor and they edited it out. At the same time we lost the humor they made Terl just not as demonic as he really is. If you want to see the movie in entirety, try to catch it on TV.
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Summary: yeah I know the Aliens look cheezy but
Review: Ok we know that Travolta is still able to look good as a harry 8' tall Alien haha. That Aside this movie takes on a similar genre to the Original "Planet of the Apes" film with the premise that humans are lowered to a primitive status to only be used as slaves for a superior species. I personally enjoyed this film mainly because of the way it portrayed Aliens who oppressed human society during a post apocolyptic world where human history and knowledge have been erased in order to control the humans as slaves.
The special effects weren't that bad either, although 8' tall hairy aliens did look cheezy at times. Nevertheless the plot was good and the concept behind these 8' tall aliens disprespecting our knowledge to the extent that they would enslave us to only do manual labor makes you question how our species would be treated if there was a real alien takeover of earth. In my opinion you have to have an open mind when watching a movie like this by looking at the philosophies involved in the context of this movies storyline. That is unless you would rather shut your brain down and look at some mindless action sequences in order to be entertained.
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Summary: Battlefield Horrible!
Review: Battlefield Earth is one of those movies up there with Water world, Eight Legged Freaks and the other Big Budget Bombs. It is really obvious they spent a lot of money making this movie, excluding the script, of course. The special effects, cemitogrophy and scenery are fairly good, and that is about it.
This movie is a big plate of fat under a nice sauce in a restaurant that charges too much. It looks nice, but there is nothing to it. It will taste good when you try it, but it will make you sick by the time you finish it and will make you more sick when you get the bill. The break down goes this way: evil aliens run around the galaxy conquering other aliens, making them their slaves while harvesting the resources of the conquered planet. The poor victims of alien exploitation are exterminated with the usual sad story.
It's a rather neat, although worn out sci-fi story. Here is the part that really makes this story more worn, the book that the movie is based on is from the founder and former leader of the cult of Scientology. Whos "religion" is based on something of the same story. Makes you think, huh? The main evil alien is played by everyone's favorite Scientologists, John Tovolta and his ever inspiring evil squirming sidekick is played by Forest Whitaker. The ever do good human good guy is played by Berry Pepper and his band of merry slightly evolved cavemen "we'll follow Mr. Good guy main character" are played by a bunch guys who I have never heard and most likely never will. What makes this film ever so much garbage is numerous and unbelievable plot holes, most of which can be ignored except for the ever predictable final epic battle. For example, we are lead to believe that a bunch of cavemen can learn to fly Harrier Jump Jets in 9 days with enough skill that they can not only take-off and fly but also shoot down the bad guys aircraft. Throw into the mix that the hardware has been sitting around for a thousand years, and well, you get a very unbelievable ending. Of course the good guys win and the bad guys lose and pay the highest of prices for their enslavement of mankind, the destruction of their home world with a nuclear weapon that also has been sitting around for a thousand years. Battlefield Earth is just one of those film you have to see once so you can shake your head asking how they got the whole thing through production without a single high ranking person the production or movie company saying, "Hey, this movie if horrible. We should not make anymore of it!" Its very existence will boggle your mind and now that is a scary sci-fi plot!
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Summary: The Alien Menace, Plotline, and the Humor it Casts Aside
Review: In some rights I found this movie appealing on a very primal movie-watching level and, in others, I also found this movie cluttering the recesses of a mind that screamed and writhed as I was forced to rewatch it more than once. In the very beginning (after a few yawn-filled introductions to the romantic pulse of the movie that quite simply didn't have to be) this mixed moments began with something that seemed like it might be somewhat promising, with cities that exist as charred husks beneath a sky that is endowed with the primitive aspects of a religion that see our lovely statues as Gods and explain away malls and the plastic people within them (not consumers, mind you, but the mannequins they leave behind) and cursed by these mythic figures. This seems furthered by something that comes stalking our three tourguides to the primitive thoughts that are born when society reverts, using some sort of energy weapon to destroy the inanimate and to stun these beasts with a pulse. After this, however, the real fun and the lack of forethought begins. When we are introduced to the badly named aliens that have overrun the human face and the society that they further, the flaws start to manifest themselves and keep running deeper and deeper into the confines of the story. We see their thoughts on how humans should be used as slaves to collect material from areas where these beasts simply cannot breath, how the hierarchy of the pens that the hominids are kept in works, and that there is a spark of hope existing in the depths of a human soul that doesn't play his part all that well. He constantly rebels and tries to flee and his keepers and, finding him to be too much woe in the making, they decide to play a little game of "how long will it take the beast to suffocate." This would have ended the problem therein, too, except the head of security (played by J. Travolta) for this overglorified miners and his subsequent greed decide to take centerstage. This, in turn, leads a viewer down more of the darkspots of a plot that lets a technologically-impared peoples learn to fly in weeks, gives us a few laughs when cows are used as target practice and when it is decided that raw rat must to man-animal's favorite food, and made me turn it off when the final battle for freedom and the paper-thin plot of the human resistance began. If you haven't watched this movie and decide to do so, good for you. It is my belief that tormenting one's mind with moving images that will haunt you for a lifetime can't be a bad thing; a philosophy I developed shortly after watching this work of supposed art. Please be advised, however, that you should take all medication that keeps any form of rage bitten down within you before hitting this flick and you immediately watch something else afterwards so you don't dwell on the tale or the budget that it carried in tow. Then, maybe, you'll overlook the glitches in it and enjoy it as the B-movie it should have been.
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Summary: Very average. No worse than many other B movies.
Review: Not quite as bad as some would have you believe. The large hole in this film is the villain. The makeup is VERY poor and as a result Travolta has no real menace. He just isn't frightening or scary. The main human lead is equally weak, with a terrible hair-cut. The FX are no better or worse than a lot of other mid-range FX movies and the direction is actually quite good in places. It's ok for a cheap purchase / rental and the disc has some features. Good picture and sound. It's simply an average B movie made with a little more care.
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Summary: Battlefield Earth Review
Review: I bought this DVD simply because I thought the story line was a good for a sci-fi story. The storyline is slow at first as the story develops but slowly develops into a basic greedy alien occupying earth story. It is not a bad movie if you are into the different prospective type sci-fi movies, but you may not like it if all you are expecting are action and surprises. I rate it at 3 stars which means to me that you may want to rent it first before you buy it.
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Summary: You won't finish it.
Review: I own this cinematic masterpiece and let me tell you, I get so bored by the end of the first 15 minutes I can't help but turn off the DVD player. I highly recommend this movie if (1) you have an IQ below 20 (2) were entertained by "Saturday Night Fever" and (3) you are drunk and need something to kill time with. If any of these conditions are not met, YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS MOVIE. That is all.
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