Comments on: Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Apologizes for Battlefield Earth

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:04:35 +0000

It was a B movie on a blockbuster budget. While it didn’t make me vomit or cry ‘foul’ it certainly doesn’t invoke the kind of fond memories one would expect from something with better actors and a the aforementioned budget.

The worst part is just how far off from the book this movie was. Aside from the main characters and a few locations’ names there was very little that even moderately resembled the book.

It’s a shame something couldn’t have been done like Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Ring series. A 2 hour movie would not be able to provide more than a short story version of the overall work.

By: Jeaux

Jeaux — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:20:44 +0000

Forrest Whitaker cries himself to sleep every night for being Forrest Whitaker. Secondly the entire film being in slightly off camera angles is the reason I like the movie.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:41:25 +0000

I saw this movie purely on the terms of a dumb action movie and even I left disappointed. Hell it’s one of the only movies I ever walked out on (others are Kung Pow and Ang Lee’s Hulk)

The movie is bad, not just ‘bad’ in an arthouse sense, but bad in any language and that includes all the non-human aliens out there who have yet to witness Battlefield Earth (Heil Xenu!). The dialogue atrocious, the aesthetics revolting. Whose idea was it to light every set up like a gay bar. Or have every camera be at some weird angle. Forrest Whitaker cries himself to sleep knowing he participated in this.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:56:24 +0000

Battlefield Earth was brutally bad. How a studio can put out such a complete turd on a budget of $73 million is beyond me.

By: kefo

kefo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:11:15 +0000

I actually liked the movie. I dont get why everyone hates the movie so much. it wasn’t meant to be some serious aard wining film. Sometimes its just fun to watch an action movie with dumb comments.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:59:53 +0000

I remember liking Battlefield Earth a lot more than Dude Where’s My car if that counts for anything. However that’s like preferring a root canal to a spinal tap.

By: xego

xego — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:18:58 +0000

i was surprised that this was a 2000 film for some reason I was thinking it was earlier. I saw this once when it came out on video and forgot it as much as I was able. Looking at Travolta’s filmography I would say that the whole of the decade is crap except for “The love song for Bobby Long” which I like, but it may be Scarlett that I like in that.

By: Byron

Byron — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:54:37 +0000

“Unfairly slammed because of the association with Scientology?”

No. The film is quite terrible. When I watched it I noticed none of the Scientology elements in the film, but I did notice Travolta’s awful acting and Barry Pepper’s career almost going bye bye. The effects are crap and the plot nonsensical. I’m sure there’s truly worse movies than BE but it comfortably sets the bar quite low.