hmmm...gonna have to look that one up..I actually want to see movies that are "that" bad...cause I can laugh
Battlefield:Earth
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hmmm...gonna have to look that one up..I actually want to see movies that are "that" bad...cause I can laugh
The book was decent but not altogether memorable. I got it for Christmas one year and burned through it in a few sittings. It's just a forgettable pulp novel, honestly. Entertaining while you read it but doesn't really stick with you as anything special.
I saw this film IN THE THEATER...Yes, I plunked down $8.00 and gave it a go..I read the book when it came out and liked it..So I lost $8.00 and just about 2 Hours of my life I'll NEVER get back... This isn't just a Hollywood bomb...It's a BAD movie..seriously..a BAD movie... I do subscribe to the" So Bad It's Good" mantra of movie going but this was too much for me...WAYYY too much for me..BTW I own a copy of "The Green Slime" and enjoy repeated viewings of bad films for the fun factor..
This simply is the "Worst Film I've Ever Seen"..the writing,acting, special effects..hell even the MUSIC sucked...
This simply is the "Worst Film I've Ever Seen"..the writing,acting, special effects..hell even the MUSIC sucked...
It was pretty mediocre, but I think I've seen much worse during an average season of MST3K.
Indeed. Like, there's Battlefield Earth, which at least has stuff going on on the screen, and then there's, say, Laserblast.* Or, God help us, The Beast of Yucca Flats.
*2 1/2 stars!
I think when one says things like "The Worst Movie Ever Made" you have to take a lot of things under consideration. I mean Battlefield Earth is a piece of shit for sure but, yeah, it's not worse than many of the movies on MST3K, in particular "Manos: The Hands of Fate" or movies like "The Room" but there's a lot of buts and ifs in the fine print.
Is it really fair to say that Battlefield Earth isn't a terrible movie because there's a self-produced, very limited release piece of shit out there floating on DVD? Or that some asshole fertilizer salesman 50 years ago made a piece of shit on a crank-camera that had a one-night showing that caused most of the cast to sneak out the back door in shame?
I think not. Battlefield Earth gets so much shit because it was a wide, international, big-budget release with big-name stars in its cast. THAT is why it's so shat on by people. It's a big piece of shit because it has no excuse to be one and it's practically unwatchable even though you've got a good, charismatic, actor like John Travolta in it.
Is it worse than "The Creeping Terror"? No. But it's harldy fair to compare to different movies, separated by several decades and produced in very different ways with very different budgets. "The Creeping Terror" is a piece of shit because they lost the audio for the movie (introducing us to narrator), the monster is a Chinese parade dragon and is bland as hell. But it's also a product of its time as movies like that were pretty much a dime a dozen and very much the "B" or even "C" movie.
Battlefield Earth has no excuse to suck so much it was given plenty of opportunity. Sheer incompetence on many levels made it implode.
Is it really fair to say that Battlefield Earth isn't a terrible movie because there's a self-produced, very limited release piece of shit out there floating on DVD? Or that some asshole fertilizer salesman 50 years ago made a piece of shit on a crank-camera that had a one-night showing that caused most of the cast to sneak out the back door in shame?
I think not. Battlefield Earth gets so much shit because it was a wide, international, big-budget release with big-name stars in its cast. THAT is why it's so shat on by people. It's a big piece of shit because it has no excuse to be one and it's practically unwatchable even though you've got a good, charismatic, actor like John Travolta in it.
Is it worse than "The Creeping Terror"? No. But it's harldy fair to compare to different movies, separated by several decades and produced in very different ways with very different budgets. "The Creeping Terror" is a piece of shit because they lost the audio for the movie (introducing us to narrator), the monster is a Chinese parade dragon and is bland as hell. But it's also a product of its time as movies like that were pretty much a dime a dozen and very much the "B" or even "C" movie.
Battlefield Earth has no excuse to suck so much it was given plenty of opportunity. Sheer incompetence on many levels made it implode.
I am another who saw "Battlefield: Earth" in theater with my best friend and while I don't think it deserves to be pegged as one of the worst films ever it is a pretty bad movie. John Travolta is hilarious in this movie, I agree with that, with that awful laugh...I agree with the poster who said the movie touched on about a third of what the book did but then it's been some time since I've read the book. The book is much better than the film adaption.
The movie was a rushed mess, due mostly to Travoltas insistance that it be made in time to be released in the year 2000. So instead of using one of the many potentially good scripts that had been prestented to him, and holding out until financial backing of a major studeo came into play they went with a hack "writter (s)" and a dime store budget and produced an adaptation that gives just a meager glance at what the epic novel was about. Its a shame to, it really is a good Sci-Fi epic and with proper money and a good team of writters could be made into something much better than what I seen at the theater.
Well that explains a few things then, and 100$ million would have been closer to what was needed to make a true huge picture (150$ would have been better actually) . But from what I read, and from what the director said, the production barley crossed 22$ million total. Thats approaching "made for TV" type figures. Truth be told in Hollywood you usually do get what you pay for.
I think the film would have been more interesting if they has dramatised the underlying mythology of Scientology -- Xenu dropping Thetans into volcanoes and dropping A bombs on them -- something cheerful like that.
And so it should in this context. there are many worse films than Bloodrayne in existance, which was surprisingly enjoyable.
Was the first one of that the one with the guy named Farmer or something? If so that film was decent enough too.
People can criticse Boll all they want, he isnt good, but I did enjoy Bloodrayne, and am quite happy to admit that.
So, Showgirls anyone? 
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