There's really only one way to summarize my sheer hatred for what is possibly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. And it's through a list.
CommentApr 29, 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:3
Rotten:118
Average Rating:2.3/10
Consensus: Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly.
Theatrical Release: May 12, 2000 Wide
Synopsis: When an alien race called the Psyclos turns the Earth into a mining colony, it's up to rebel hero, Johnny Goodboy, to lead a revolt and save the... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates
Director: Roger Christian
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REVIEWS FOR BATTLEFIELD EARTH
"Battlefield Earth," based on a crappy 1982 sci-fi novel by cult religion dips#*t L. Ron Hubbard, is so inept and pathetic that it should forever end any questions about the validity of Hubbard's manufactured religion of Scientology.
Apr 12, 2009
Pretty much the Showgirls of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups.
Mar 26, 2009
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Mar 10, 2009
If you are looking for something to hate and despise, get thee to this movie.
Aug 7, 2008
A folly so supreme that it occasionally inspires awe, in the sense that so many people spent so much time and money on it without ever realizing how awful it is.
Jul 23, 2007
This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.
Jan 6, 2007
Top CriticWatching Battlefield Earth is to a movie-watching experience what having a yeast infection is to having sex.
Apr 6, 2006
Place it next to The Omega Code and The Omega Code shines.
Feb 9, 2006
Travolta, it seems, had wanted to star in a film of Battlefield Earth since first reading the novel in 1982. Only the all-seeing L Ron knows why.
Jan 26, 2006
John Travolta will forever be haunted by this sci-fi travesty based on L. Ron Hubbard's novel.
Oct 25, 2004
Blame this mess on Travolta.
Jun 23, 2004
Robin did not review "Battlefield Earth"
Jun 11, 2004
Scientologist or not, this is as inane as summer blockbusters get.
May 22, 2003
If this is what we have to look forward to in the year 3000, count me out.
May 14, 2003
The sets are laughably cheap, and the aliens look like geeks from a Star Trek convention who couldn't afford to buy the "good" Klingon costumes
Mar 20, 2003
This film maintains a surprising consistency of bad acting and directing almost from the first frame to the last.
Feb 8, 2003
AAAAAAAAGHHHH! MY EYES! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!
Dec 8, 2002
It doesn't help that the film's premise, which sees stoneage cavemen turn into ace fighter pilots with only a week's training, is as naive as that of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers.
Dec 2, 2002
Just too absurd to pay full price to see in a theater.
Oct 11, 2002
LATEST NEWS FOR BATTLEFIELD EARTH
March 28, 2010:
Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Apologizes
In a New York Post editorial, "Battlefield Earth" screenwriter J.D. Shapiro responds to the movie's recent Worst Movie of the Decade win by explaining how, exactly, he came to pen "the suckiest" movie...
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September 24, 2009:
How Bad Can It Get? RT's Worst of the Worst List Will Tell You!
Over the last decade, we've collected reviews for thousands of movies. Most films, even profoundly mediocre ones, can expect to receive at least cursory support from the pundits. However, once in a...
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June 15, 2009:
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