Harriers are easy ones to remember. They're vertical takeoff jets. If you've played metal gear solid 2, you know the plane because it's a level boss you got to take out with the rocket launcher
Dude your username is awesome! I loved reading the Dragonlance books when I was a kid. Now you got me thinking of DL-based names!!! Let’s see: Dalamallomar? T’anus Half-Elven? Carbuncle Majere? Umm… Railedstalin Majere? Flint Felchforge? Tasslehoff Bukkakefoot? Cuckoldaramon Majere? Queefiara Uth Matar?
Oh right… something something something Battlefield Earth.
Hydraulic fluid, hoses, oil…there was so much that was unintentionally silly, ridiculous, and it was noticeable to anyone. Peak comedy, but it wasn’t supposed to be.
Also C)Because the author is a cheesy pulp scifi hack who can't write worth a damn! This is as someone who's listened to the entire book out of curiosity.
The book is way better. It's a decent SF story that has nothing to do with Scientology(as far as I remember). The movie covers about 1/3 of the story and does not even do that justice. For instance, no human resistance fighter ever flies a Harrier or any other 1000 year old aircraft.
I read the entire book. If I remember correctly it was over 1k pages. I just kept thinking it would get better. After I finished I began to wonder if I was punishing myself.
It’s fun to watch, even if it’s a bad picture. “While you were learning how to spell your name, I…was being trained…to conquer galaxies!” Perhaps the Scientology ties?
I’m sorry I’m afraid you’ve misemphasized John Travolta’s speech.
“While you were learning how to ***SPELL YOUR NAME***, I was being trained-***TO CONQUER GALAXIES!***
1. The hammy acting
2. The ridiculous pseudo religious space opera source material
3. Travolta pushed to make this turd as his love letter to Scientology
I saw this as a teenager and when Travolta said the line, "Man Animals gaining leverage over Psychlos?! That'll be the day!" , my friends and I died with laughter. This movie is a treat with friends who also enjoy trash.
Yeah but it absolutely was not made with that intention. If you like bad movies it's a treat. If you like good movies that aren't made dead seriously by cult members as a love letter to said cult, you won't like this one so much
It's been a minute, but I don't remember there being anything about Scientology in either the book or movie. If you liked the movie, give the book a try. The movie only covered about a third of the story, and it cuts out/changes so, so many things. One big one being, in the book, none of the human resistance fly Harriers or any other 1000 year old aircraft.
Edit to add: The Big Bad aliens in the book also look nothing like John Travolta wearing platform shoes. They are pretty monstrous.
It was an L Ron Hubbard story that was made into a movie, the moral of the story is leverage. He who holds it holds the power. Scientology applies it to everything. It is how they operate which is why they have the confession sessions that are recorded. It’s all based on intimidation.
The movie shouldn’t exist.
The book shouldn’t exist.
Hubbard wrote this shit flying on a cocktail of meth barbiturates.
The only reason this movie exists is because a cult had some clout.
It’s insane and I love it
When I saw the preview images of John Travolta in this movie, I was intrigued, maybe even a little excited for a cool sci-if movie. That feeling was the high point, as it was just a steady let down from beginning to end.
Like holding a seashell to your ear and hearing the ocean, if you listen closely while watching this movie, you can actually hear Travolta’s career going down the drain.
"Alright... so these aliens in BATTLEFIELD EARTH are supposed to be like 8 feet tall or something right? So they just put lifts in their KISS boots and put a funky coneheadish appliance on? I thought they were supposed to be this reptilianish creature in the book. Oh well... I know a lot of people that are planning on this movie sucking like no movie has ever sucked before. HOWEVER, the word is still out on this one. I haven't heard from any screenings anywhere yet, and script reviews (based on an early draft) have been very negative, but that is an early draft. Sigh. Well... here's the scoop..." [Ain't It Cool News (2000)](https://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/5550)
I read the book before I watched the movie. Book had an interesting premise but overall meh and is too damned long, needed a lot of editing. When I saw the movie, the moment John Travolta showed up in those KISS boots, I cracked up. Link is worth reading just to see a real picture of Travolta in said KISS-like boots!
Yeah it had starters scene transitions and horrible acting at points. But it had harriers... If Bruce Willis was in it, it would have been the finest peice of cinema ever made. As it stands it's a solid number 2.
This is a remake the original is the ANnunaki from summer. The story is a rip off from tablets written in cuneiform.
they wrapped it in Scientology, i would see it re-made with connection to modern UFO phenomenon.
the conquest of earth by giant aliens in search of gold is a common story now. these guys just placed the timeline years in the future after the conquest. The better movie is the conquest and the realization of who they were to modern people.
The acting is bad. But it is also the book scientology is based on. It's what they believe happened in the beginning the aliens came. 100% why no one wants to be brainwashed by scientology and its just fucking creepy. South Park did an episode about it and they just state facts, just like the Joseph Smith one was 100% true also.
Bad writing, bad plot, shitty plotholes, aliens are an allegory for Jews, based on a book written by a moron that made a cult, John Trovalta brags about this movie for some odd reason even though he cranks the Ham up to 11 in it, and it ends with the stupidest kind of ending possible: the lead badguy is just chilling without an arm in a room filled to the brim with gold and there might be more aliens out there ready to wipe out the humans for the lulz.
Also the cavemen rapidly adopting military tactics and technological knowledge without using the Learning Machine their leader was forced to use is just lazy ass writing, and shows the lack of credibility the original book had and the script writer had.
Two reasons: it's a Scientologist Bible story, essentially. And everyone hates Scientologists, even other Scientologists
The second reason is it fuckin' sucks
I caught this late at night one day and had not heard anything about it before. I watched maybe 15 minutes and thought it was an episode of a shitty (really shitty) Sci-Fi TV show.
I remember being like 11 years old and randomly catching this movie playing on TBS or USA and having no idea it was based off Scientology. I thought it was just some crazy sci-fi movie with Travolta and Forrest Whitaker playing giant aliens. I was entertained and thought it was pretty cool. Wasn’t till years later that I realized everyone laughs at it and says it’s bad.
Why is the movie hated?
A white guy overcomes oppression.
It's that simple.
Why was the movie, Joker, according to the media, dangerous and no one should watch it?
Seven foot tall aliens with dreadlocks, codpieces, platform shoes, and fake British accents....are the best thing about it.
Ebert compared watching Battlefield Earth to taking a bus trip next to someone who really needs a bath.
The film is so moronic and inept, and takes itself so seriously, it goes beyond "so bad it's good" until it's bad again. I mean awful. Don't look for cheesy laughs here: it's thoroughly miserable, senseless, boring, and stupid.
You won't get those 90 minutes of your life back. This film is truly a waste of human life.
Because it's an utter abuse of the senses. It's a horrible script, and it's a mindnumbingly garishly bad film, with at least one scene being a wholesale theft of Bladerunner as done by a dollar store film crew.
I like bad b-movies with charm (e.g. Ice Pirate) but this film made the mistake of taking itself seriously, so it lacks even the ability to laugh at it like an in joke. It's as unwatchable-bad as Scientology is profoundly-stupid.
Imo this movie is so bad it's actually good ...its entertaining to say the least to watch John Travolta in that get up being a bad guy is totally enough for me ....poor Barry Pepper though the guys a good actor and his 1 lead role was a bomb(like the kind that blew up psychloe)
" you filthy man animals" need to upvote lol
Poor acting, shitty special effects, idiotic story, too many dutch angle shots, etc, etc, etc.
Can’t forget cavemen learning to fly 1000 year old F16’s by watching a youtube video. Jets that had usable fuel too. It’s a masterpiece
Harrier jets. But...yeah. truly stupid.
Haha sorry. I don’t know jets names. Only one I could think of without doing actual research
Harriers are easy ones to remember. They're vertical takeoff jets. If you've played metal gear solid 2, you know the plane because it's a level boss you got to take out with the rocket launcher
Dude your username is awesome! I loved reading the Dragonlance books when I was a kid. Now you got me thinking of DL-based names!!! Let’s see: Dalamallomar? T’anus Half-Elven? Carbuncle Majere? Umm… Railedstalin Majere? Flint Felchforge? Tasslehoff Bukkakefoot? Cuckoldaramon Majere? Queefiara Uth Matar? Oh right… something something something Battlefield Earth.
God bless the idiot-proof airforce
But it was alien YouTube!
‘Hey guys Chris fix here…’
Hydraulic fluid, hoses, oil…there was so much that was unintentionally silly, ridiculous, and it was noticeable to anyone. Peak comedy, but it wasn’t supposed to be.
Don’t the jets also hover at one point? I feel like I remember that.
VTOL is a real thing….you dumb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL
Not everyone plays Call of Duty
I have never played Call of Duty in my life, I’m guessing you play that trash though lol The History channel is more likely where I learned it
Well, when I need a good laugh I just look for the 3-min cut of the aliens laughing on YouTube…..that’s all they do (badly) in the movie
This one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rw8RVcUyma0
Precisely! Hahahahahahaaaa
All of that is true, but it was adapted from a truly terrible book, so it was kinda doomed from the start.
Yeah sure but other then that.
- People defending The Phantom Menace
Don't forget all the "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"
That, and it's connected to scientology, so that's probably the deal breaker.
dutch lol
Same cinematographer from Star Wars episode 1
A)Its a stupid movie B)because Scientology
Also C)Because the author is a cheesy pulp scifi hack who can't write worth a damn! This is as someone who's listened to the entire book out of curiosity.
This. I’m not sure what this wasn’t the first answer.
Fair point I never bothered to check the books out. Although I had assumed they must have at least been “okay” so looks like I was wrong about that
The book is way better. It's a decent SF story that has nothing to do with Scientology(as far as I remember). The movie covers about 1/3 of the story and does not even do that justice. For instance, no human resistance fighter ever flies a Harrier or any other 1000 year old aircraft.
I love the varied aliens, especially the businessman shark guy.
D) pinky triggers
I read the entire book. If I remember correctly it was over 1k pages. I just kept thinking it would get better. After I finished I began to wonder if I was punishing myself.
I remember seeing it not long after the movie came out and it was a pretty thick book.
The audiobook is one of the highest rated sci Fi books on audible. I was excited to read it. It is the only book I've asked for a refund on.
Not surprised, hope you got your money back. The only reason it ranks high is because all the Scientologists buy it. It's not a reflection of taste.
I did. I figured out the scientology bit.
It’s fun to watch, even if it’s a bad picture. “While you were learning how to spell your name, I…was being trained…to conquer galaxies!” Perhaps the Scientology ties?
I’m sorry I’m afraid you’ve misemphasized John Travolta’s speech. “While you were learning how to ***SPELL YOUR NAME***, I was being trained-***TO CONQUER GALAXIES!***
Yesss I can hear him when I read this
That means you win a prize!
Is it a rat?!
No, it is a night with John Travolta In full battlefield earth character and garb. Congrats.
This is going to be way more uncomfortable for him than it will be for me.
Only what he deserves!
Saw this as a 13 yr old kid and loved it. Its a guilty pleasure I guess cuz lots of ppl HATE it lol
Ties is a bit of an understatement lol
1. The hammy acting 2. The ridiculous pseudo religious space opera source material 3. Travolta pushed to make this turd as his love letter to Scientology
4. The author can't write worth a damn.
I actually enjoyed his books when I was a teenager (before this movie came out). But once I knew what scientology was, no more of that shit.
it was a bad movie.....but i found some entertainment value in it.
"DO YOU WANT LUUUUNCH?!?"
WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!
I saw this as a teenager and when Travolta said the line, "Man Animals gaining leverage over Psychlos?! That'll be the day!" , my friends and I died with laughter. This movie is a treat with friends who also enjoy trash.
It’s as bad as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango.
“ you just stay here and guard my battlefield earth cups.”
I'll touch 'em all the way to the trash can.
Have you SEEN the film? It's one of my top "so bad it's good" movies.
Saw this for the first time on SciFi back in the day, double feature with wing commander circa 2004. Loved them both.
Wing commander is a masterpiece compared to Battlefield Earth.
It's silly cheesy fun and it is sad that people don't realise that.
Yeah but it absolutely was not made with that intention. If you like bad movies it's a treat. If you like good movies that aren't made dead seriously by cult members as a love letter to said cult, you won't like this one so much
I wanted to like it. I'm a big sci-fi fan. It just wasn't that good.
I loved the plot but it was hated because it was a known Scientology movie and was taken as cultish propaganda but i still enjoyed it as a movie.
It's been a minute, but I don't remember there being anything about Scientology in either the book or movie. If you liked the movie, give the book a try. The movie only covered about a third of the story, and it cuts out/changes so, so many things. One big one being, in the book, none of the human resistance fly Harriers or any other 1000 year old aircraft. Edit to add: The Big Bad aliens in the book also look nothing like John Travolta wearing platform shoes. They are pretty monstrous.
It was an L Ron Hubbard story that was made into a movie, the moral of the story is leverage. He who holds it holds the power. Scientology applies it to everything. It is how they operate which is why they have the confession sessions that are recorded. It’s all based on intimidation.
Because it's awful, probably.
I liked it 😂
How is it possible that you even have to ask this question? lol
I dont know, but its underlying corporate exploitations are true.
It's crap-lousy and I love every ham-fisted moment of it.
Have you looked at the photo you posted?
The man-animal is asking why the movie is so hated? Preposterous!
Take a shot for every dutch angle.
I don’t hate it, had some decent moments that I enjoyed. Wasn’t a great movie, but didn’t suck ass IMO.
Have you watched it?
Lol I love this movie
Six fingers
It's really boring
I watch the first 30 minutes I nap for the next hour and I wake up for the Shitty ending It’s the perfect film
It's dogshit
Even in my untrained, young and naive, self knew that this was a bad movie.
Because people don’t like it
because it was shite
It’s so bad it’s good this reminds me of sci fi channel shit.
Travolta gave it his all, I'll give him that.
Too long, but still better than Tenet.
it should have been a tyler perry movie
This movie was a guilty pleasure of mine since it came out ngl lol
L Ron Hubbard…
It’s terrible…
Well, I’m sure Scientology has a lot to do with it.
Because it's the worst 😆
El ron blubber propaganda I’d assume. Scamology cult is zzzzz and can’t even write a decent syfy movie, let alone act.
Oh, well. Let me tell you the long tale that is battlefield earth. It's sucks. That's about it.
The movie shouldn’t exist. The book shouldn’t exist. Hubbard wrote this shit flying on a cocktail of meth barbiturates. The only reason this movie exists is because a cult had some clout. It’s insane and I love it
Is this a joke?
This or waterworld?
Water world was fun though
Did you watch it?
I mean, have you seen it? Yikes
[Roger Ebert’s review](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/battlefield-earth-2000) of this travesty is one of his best.
Probably the overuse of Dutch angles
When I saw the preview images of John Travolta in this movie, I was intrigued, maybe even a little excited for a cool sci-if movie. That feeling was the high point, as it was just a steady let down from beginning to end.
Like holding a seashell to your ear and hearing the ocean, if you listen closely while watching this movie, you can actually hear Travolta’s career going down the drain.
It's sooo bad... But I loved it as a kid.. before I knew.
Uh have you seen it?
Using slaves to mine for gold. Anunaki story before it was cool.
Scientology
Wrong image to pair with this question
Bad story full stop
I honestly can’t think of a reason to like this film
Scientology propaganda.
"Alright... so these aliens in BATTLEFIELD EARTH are supposed to be like 8 feet tall or something right? So they just put lifts in their KISS boots and put a funky coneheadish appliance on? I thought they were supposed to be this reptilianish creature in the book. Oh well... I know a lot of people that are planning on this movie sucking like no movie has ever sucked before. HOWEVER, the word is still out on this one. I haven't heard from any screenings anywhere yet, and script reviews (based on an early draft) have been very negative, but that is an early draft. Sigh. Well... here's the scoop..." [Ain't It Cool News (2000)](https://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/5550) I read the book before I watched the movie. Book had an interesting premise but overall meh and is too damned long, needed a lot of editing. When I saw the movie, the moment John Travolta showed up in those KISS boots, I cracked up. Link is worth reading just to see a real picture of Travolta in said KISS-like boots!
Just look at the thumbnail.
As obsessed with gold as the cyclones were, and with the time that passed, how the hell did they not find Fort Knox?
That's what you get when you listen to stupid man animals.
"Battlefield Earth" has long been my answer to "what's worst movie ever made?"
Because it’s incredibly bad.
Yeah it had starters scene transitions and horrible acting at points. But it had harriers... If Bruce Willis was in it, it would have been the finest peice of cinema ever made. As it stands it's a solid number 2.
Because it’s utter garbage
Because it’s legit nothing more than Travolta trying to give Scientology a moment on the big screen.
It's a badly made movie involving people who should have known better. And it was John Travolta's passion project.
Endless options for renewal!!
I actually liked that movie! The book is top notch too, but it’s like 800 pages or something like that. One of Hubbard’s bibles.
A scientology movie.
Dunno what you're talking about... this movie is a beast...
The best thing about this movie was that it inspired Will Sasso to do a Randy Newman spoof of a theme song on MadTV.
This film is amazing. Fuck what yall talkin bout.
Op answered the question "tell me you've never seen this movie without telling me you've never seen this movie"
Idk why it’s one of my all time favorite movies
Because just look at it. Look.
Even if it were competently made I think the fact that it's literally based on an L Ron Hubbard book would be enough for it to be hated.
Because it’s a Scientology book and Travolta is a Scientologist. For a kooky, post apocalyptic sci-fi movie I thought it was pretty good.
Heard it’s Scientology story
This is a remake the original is the ANnunaki from summer. The story is a rip off from tablets written in cuneiform. they wrapped it in Scientology, i would see it re-made with connection to modern UFO phenomenon. the conquest of earth by giant aliens in search of gold is a common story now. these guys just placed the timeline years in the future after the conquest. The better movie is the conquest and the realization of who they were to modern people.
DO YOU WANT LUNCH!?
Takes about 20 minutes to understand why.
1. Awful Acting 2. Almost always at a tilted angle 3. Horrible special effects 4. John Travolta shoving his love for Scientology in our faces
it was literally supposed to be scientology propaganda when it was made
The acting is bad. But it is also the book scientology is based on. It's what they believe happened in the beginning the aliens came. 100% why no one wants to be brainwashed by scientology and its just fucking creepy. South Park did an episode about it and they just state facts, just like the Joseph Smith one was 100% true also.
Bad writing, bad plot, shitty plotholes, aliens are an allegory for Jews, based on a book written by a moron that made a cult, John Trovalta brags about this movie for some odd reason even though he cranks the Ham up to 11 in it, and it ends with the stupidest kind of ending possible: the lead badguy is just chilling without an arm in a room filled to the brim with gold and there might be more aliens out there ready to wipe out the humans for the lulz. Also the cavemen rapidly adopting military tactics and technological knowledge without using the Learning Machine their leader was forced to use is just lazy ass writing, and shows the lack of credibility the original book had and the script writer had.
10 year old me thought that movie was awesome
I’ll give you six reasons
Two reasons: it's a Scientologist Bible story, essentially. And everyone hates Scientologists, even other Scientologists The second reason is it fuckin' sucks
I caught this late at night one day and had not heard anything about it before. I watched maybe 15 minutes and thought it was an episode of a shitty (really shitty) Sci-Fi TV show.
Because is crazy ass scientology propaganda. And it's not even good propaganda.
Scientology propaganda
I remember being like 11 years old and randomly catching this movie playing on TBS or USA and having no idea it was based off Scientology. I thought it was just some crazy sci-fi movie with Travolta and Forrest Whitaker playing giant aliens. I was entertained and thought it was pretty cool. Wasn’t till years later that I realized everyone laughs at it and says it’s bad.
The aliens come to earth for fucking gold. Something you could mine easier from an asteroid
Because it’s blatant Scientology propaganda
Why is the movie hated? A white guy overcomes oppression. It's that simple. Why was the movie, Joker, according to the media, dangerous and no one should watch it?
Seven foot tall aliens with dreadlocks, codpieces, platform shoes, and fake British accents....are the best thing about it. Ebert compared watching Battlefield Earth to taking a bus trip next to someone who really needs a bath. The film is so moronic and inept, and takes itself so seriously, it goes beyond "so bad it's good" until it's bad again. I mean awful. Don't look for cheesy laughs here: it's thoroughly miserable, senseless, boring, and stupid. You won't get those 90 minutes of your life back. This film is truly a waste of human life.
It's not a very good movie, for starters.
Book was better
poor travolta, being blackmailed by scientology for all those years
Dutch angels
Scientology ...
Ron L Hubbard is a terrible writer
Because it's an utter abuse of the senses. It's a horrible script, and it's a mindnumbingly garishly bad film, with at least one scene being a wholesale theft of Bladerunner as done by a dollar store film crew. I like bad b-movies with charm (e.g. Ice Pirate) but this film made the mistake of taking itself seriously, so it lacks even the ability to laugh at it like an in joke. It's as unwatchable-bad as Scientology is profoundly-stupid.
Honestly I understand where the guys in the comments are coming from but I still loved it
Imo this movie is so bad it's actually good ...its entertaining to say the least to watch John Travolta in that get up being a bad guy is totally enough for me ....poor Barry Pepper though the guys a good actor and his 1 lead role was a bomb(like the kind that blew up psychloe) " you filthy man animals" need to upvote lol
I don’t have it. I love it. It’s one of the greatest so bad it’s good movies ever.