The Guy With The Glasses' Nostalgia Critic - Battlefield Earth

[Trekker4747]

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His 100th Episode.

 

[Gepard]

Yay! Going off to watch now.

 

[CaptainCanada]

It's the motherload (of shit).

 

[jefferiestubes8]

“Battlefield Earth” Screenwriter Apologizes

screenwriter J.D. Shapiro

“Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see “Battlefield Earth,’” he writes in the New York Post. “It wasn’t as I intended — promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.
“My script was very, VERY different than what ended up on the screen. My screenplay was darker, grittier and had a very compelling story with rich characters,” he continues. “What my screenplay didn’t have was slow motion at every turn, Dutch tilts, campy dialogue, aliens in KISS boots, and everyone wearing Bob Marley wigs.”

“Now, looking back at the movie with fresh eyes, I can’t help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest,” he adds

.To read more about the journey and the script writing process
NY POst article:
March 29, 2010 via sliceofscifi.


Razzies founder John Wilson said this month:

Among all-time Hollywood dreck, "Battlefield Earth" is "like the 800-pound mongrel gorilla in the room," Wilson said. "It's one of my favorite type of bad movies. It's so bad, it's entertaining, in ways that the people who made it had no idea it would be."

heh heh.

 

[Ryan]

"It's so bad, it's entertaining, in ways that the people who made it had no idea it would be."

That's it in a nutshell. People who feel the need to deconstruct Battlefield Earth are missing all the fun that comes from a very bad movie that's earnestly made. It really is the pinnacle of so-horrible-it's-awesome movies.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Nostalgia Critic stopped being funny along time ago.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Disagree there; the Battlefield: Earth review posted here was one of the classics (though I don't think anything will ever beat his review of Cool As Ice). The best of his really recent ones would probably be Quest for Camelot.

Though the thing I'm really enjoying right now is the Chick's two-part take on Showgirls.

 

[Ryan]

Yelling that you think something is stupid isn't comedy.