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- It features some of the stupidest aliens in cinema. A thousand years in the future, the planet will be dominated by a race of giant aliens called Psychlos.
- Acting. The Psychlos aren’t just stupid, selfish and ungainly – they also behave like a group of unemployed Shakespearian actors after two bottles of sherry.
- John Travolta. John Travolta clearly enjoys playing the most villainous of the Psychlos, Terl. He’s despicable. He wears a huge cod-piece, and he’s fond of making grandiose statements while drunk in a bar.
- Its production design is mystifying. Before directing Battlefield Earth, Roger Christian was a rightly-acclaimed production designer. He won an Oscar for his work on Star Wars, and was nominated for another in 1979 for Alien.
Sep 19, 2010 · No one ever sets out to make a dreadful film, but Battlefield Earth feels surprisingly thorough in its rottenness, as if it was designed by some mysterious intelligence that hates science-fiction, hates epics, hates movies, hates life. To “enjoy” it, one must not only suspend disbelief, but also intelligence, as well as faith in art’s capacity to do anything of worth.
An article I wrote, reanalyzing the blockbuster failure (or disaster) that was Battlefield Earth. Using Roland Barthes' seminal concept of intertextuality and concepts of the "work" and the "text" to analyze how the film paralleled the political and social atmosphere of the early 2000's while also giving insights on the state of the modern-day ...
First, it didn't have anywhere near the level of budget or the same sort of style as the Star Wars prequels. I don't know where you're getting that from. BE was $44 million according to the wikipedia. Second, if you really think BE was not a bad movie you need to watch a lot more movies -- good movies.
BATTLEFIELD EARTH, an independently made adaptation of a popular novel by pulp legend and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was a longtime passion project for its co-producer/star John Travolta (a.k.a. “Mr. Scientology”) and a massive failure upon its release in 2000. Its connection with scientology certainly didn’t help its chances, and nor did the beyond-cringey “Go Psychlo ...
May 14, 2020 · Two decades later, the legacy of Battlefield Earth is defined by cast and crew apologies, critical reviews that feature olympic-level insults, and a 3% Tomatometer score. With all of that said, on the 20th anniversary of the film’s release, we look back and provide some insight into how Battlefield Earth came to be, and why it’s almost charming in its scrappiness.
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