Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

[Ice]

Great film!!!!

When I picked up the movie from the video store I was nearly positive that it would be some cheep’o film, with really bad acting.
I was wrong.
It turned out to have an intelligent story line, with special FX and superb acting.
I really enjoyed it.
~Ice~
:rolly2:

 

[Curupira]

I liked it too! Man, John Travolta was uuuugly!!! :laugh2:

 

[ray gower]

Sorry it didn't do a lot for me. The book is a lot more soundly written.

 

[Ice]

there's a book??????????

I'm going to have to go to the library tomorrow.

~Ice~

 

[ray gower]

By Hubbard- a Sixties writer- Had to see the films title credits to remember it, or recognise it

 

[JACKER]

All right! Finally people that liked this flick to. You don't know how long I've waited for this day.

 

[nic]

Nah, it wasn't for me.
I watched it at the pictures and came out feeling like I'd wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life.
I'm not sure what I was expecting from it.
How long ago did it come out? Maybe I can catch it on cable. Some films have a way of growing on you.

 

[JACKER]

It has been out for over a year. I know its been on HBO. The DVD is pretty cool though. You should check that out.

 

[JACKER]

Battlefield Earth

This must be brought up.

Just want to say that after viewing this film a few times and evaluating it on different levels, this may be the most underated, and most undeserving of abuse sci-fi film ever made.

It's the year 3000 thousand and the world has been ruled by an alien mining corporation for an estimated 1000 years. Barry Pepper plays Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. A human rebel that rallies man kind after centuries of not knowing what has happened to them, while also blaming themselves and eachother in a way for the what's happened.

John Travolta plays Terl. The Psychlo chief of security(also a bad @$$) for the Earth base in Denver. He's consumed with greed and power. Like pretty much all the Psychlos on Earth, he wants out. But when denied his right to passage, he cooks up a sceme to train "man-animals" to mine gold in a radiated area that has a deadly reaction with the Psychlo breathing gass. Yeah, they breath gas.

The film uses elements from L.Ron Hubbard's novel, but goes about them in different ways. Thus displeasing those that read the book first. All I ask is to go rent it right now and tell me what you think.

 

[themuMmy]

John Travolta gives away that its gonna be a crappy movie...

 

[rde]

Inane, simplistic, vacuous... but three of the words that can safely be used to describe this execrable film.
What's so good about it.

 

[JACKER]

Well, they're on Earth and they have a battle.

No, it's an old school style scince fiction film about an under dog/heroe's journey to save the world. There's many little metaphores throughout the film that some can probably pick up on. Another thing is that I can't think of another movie like it. Have we actually seen a movie with aliens ruling our planet!

The aliens (Psychlos) represent the darker side of humanity. They're greed, cruelty, and pure arrogance.

All in all, I just think more people should see this.

 

[rde]

Well, there was Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD. It's the story of an evil race who've enslaved mankind, leaving only one man and his brave buddies to wrest control from the alien conquerers, thus saving mankind.

It was pretty simplistic, but it was made in 1966. And excuse Battlefield Earth doesn't have.

 

[JACKER]

Why does it matter that the movie was made in 1966 that gives it an excuse to be simplistic? There's actually things in BE that can be left up to interpretation of what certain things mean. But yes the main premise is simplistic, but I don't see why it has top be incredibly intelligent. It was a summer movie. Some of the actors have explained the movie as "juju" and not meant to be taken seriously.

 

[rde]

<I>Why does it matter that the movie was made in 1966 that gives it an excuse to be simplistic?</I>
Back in those good old days, vacuous **** was released as such; no-one would claim the Daleks are a credible threat to anyone these days.

<I>There's actually things in BE that can be left up to interpretation of what certain things mean</I>
Or to put it another way, it's a ham-fisted attempt at conferring depth onto an otherwise boring movie.

Every single aspect of Battlefield Earth has been done better in a different movie. The graphics were pretty but unspectacular, the dialogue was appalling, the allegory clumsy... I could go on.

And being a summer no-brainer is no excuse. No-one could accuse Blade of intellectual depth, but it still manages to be an entertaining movie.

 

[JACKER]

Like I said, it's an old school type of Sci-Fi. It's also a comic book movie so...

Anyway, I've argued a lot about this movie and I'm not gonna anymore. I just put this up here for people to see, so they can see it themselves sometime. There's a lot (and I mean a lot) of people and film critics that feel the same way you do. You're not saying anything that no one's said before. Except I'm sure there was some intelligent movie made in the 60's.

 

[JACKER]

See this movie.

 

[JACKER]

Another pic.

 

[DragonBaby]

I thought that the idea behind this movie and the storyline were fantastic. It's a really clever idea. Sadly though it was badly planned out and very badly acted. Firstly if the areas humans lived in were radiated,the reason the aliens couldnt go there, then the radiation wold have slowly killed them, as stated in the film. However we are suppoed to believe that the aliens invaded earth so long ago that the humans didnt remember anything about cities or civilisations and lived as primitives. Hang on, how long can we survive radiation? And doesnt it affect fertility????
Secondly John Travolta looked as if he just didnt take the role seriously (cant blame him but why do the movie then??) His acting was appaling!!
That aside it was a good theme and needs some better people to rework it.

 

[JACKER]

Originally posted by DragonBaby
I thought that the idea behind this movie and the storyline were fantastic. It's a really clever idea. Sadly though it was badly planned out and very badly acted. Firstly if the areas humans lived in were radiated,the reason the aliens couldnt go there, then the radiation wold have slowly killed them, as stated in the film. However we are suppoed to believe that the aliens invaded earth so long ago that the humans didnt remember anything about cities or civilisations and lived as primitives. Hang on, how long can we survive radiation? And doesnt it affect fertility????
Secondly John Travolta looked as if he just didnt take the role seriously (cant blame him but why do the movie then??) His acting was appaling!!
That aside it was a good theme and needs some better people to rework it.

The Star Wars and Independence Day crew wasn't good enough huh? I thought Travolta relished his role, but this isn't a serious film either. It's just some Sci-Fi fun. Humans did lose what they once were and therefore forgotten about old civilization. Yes radiation is dangerous for humans and in the book there's some deformed babies being born, but they were killed. They should have given the old guy (Staffor) a deformed foot, because that's what he had in the book, but his life was spared at birth. Once again I love the idea of the whole human race losing everything because of a corporation's greed (there's probably a metaphore in there). And then you see the Psychlos lose their power because of greed.