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Battlefield Earth, 2000

Battlefield Earth

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Come on, one star folks? Thats reserved for some of the REALLY low budget films no one has heard of. Is this great cinema? No, but I dont think anyone ever acused it of that. It has just as much of a plot as many B- action flics and actually had a...
I know everyone from Roger Ebert (half a star) to John Scalzi (Oh my, YES, Battlefield Earth is bad, and not just the standard issue sort of bad, like, say, a Matthew Perry comedy; this one is the Grade A, genuinely epic sort of bad that fills movie...
Wait, I mean, I LOVED RETURNING THIS MOVIE, because it was so dreadfully terrible. Every time I saw the aliens with their laughably-oversized rubber hands I shuddered and wept. Not for me, but for all mankind.
I know the movie has cheesy dialog, and sure the story is a little cheesy as well, but I think John Travolta played a good bad guy. I thought that the plot was kinda cool, and how instead of evolving forward in time humans went to cavemen types...
Why so much negativity? How can a story about the overthrow of an entire race, a millenium into the future, be squeezed into two hours without some ommision, or reliance on some imagination? Watch it for simple entertainment value and enjoy.
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