Really, how BAD could it be?
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beats45 — 15 years ago(April 02, 2011 01:07 PM)
actually the creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000 did riff Battlefield Earth
under the "rifftrax" commentary pretty funny
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taffysaur — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 07:18 PM)
I wish "Mystery Science Theater 3000" was still on the air I know they'd roast this movie real good.
rifftrax dot com
"The Movie sucks so bad. Avoid at all costs!!!! The book though was great."
neil gaiman lists it as a guilty pleasure too. i might check it out.
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joewald — 15 years ago(December 18, 2010 09:16 PM)
I read the book and I actually like it! Which is why I went to see it in the Theater at the time, and let me tell you, the Movie and the Book are almost completely different. The Movie sucks so bad. Avoid at all costs!!!! The book though was great. it's a large paperback, so a lot would have to be cut out for a Movie. It wasn't only that, but the complete B.S. Ending was completely different! There was no planes/Jets flying in the book. Read the book and forget the movie!
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TVholic — 14 years ago(May 30, 2011 11:50 PM)
I saw it once on HBO or network TV. Now I can't remember anything about the movie. It may well be an intentional amnesia my subconscious created to protect me from the utter craptitude of this movie. Or maybe that there's not a single shot, a single moment, a single word of dialog that's worth remembering.
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Strazdamonas — 14 years ago(June 25, 2011 01:42 PM)
bad. if you never read the book this will be another bad 1/10 movie. if you read the book you will have thoughts about murdering people responsible for it.
I've been vandalized by Elvis! -Ernest, Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
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Marhleet_DR — 13 years ago(June 19, 2012 06:58 PM)
Too true. Another big blockbuster movie, that should have been a 3-5 part series, was cut down to "3oh5" for the masses leaving out all the details and back story as to why Terl was showed the way he was.
As bad as the original 'Lord of the Rings' in rotoscope that told little of the story and didn't finish.
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Dextrousleftie — 13 years ago(July 26, 2012 07:53 PM)
Oh, it's bad. Truly, stunningly bad. But I have to admit, I spent most of my time laughing while watching it. It was that kind of bad. Soo many things were wrong, or ridiculous, or illogical, especially on the technological and scientific side. And I could see many movies being ripped off along the way, everything from Braveheart to The Shawshank Redemption and many, many more. I enjoyed myself just identifying the many films they stole from. And Travolta's performance is so over-the-top terrible that it's hilarious. I'm looking forward to watching the rifftrax version, but even on it's own BE is crap-tacular good fun!
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leengee — 13 years ago(August 20, 2012 07:28 PM)
I read the book and just couldn't buy that a group of people essentially pushed back to the stone age could, by luck, overthrow an alien race that had bested the world's armed forces in 9 minutes. The book seemed far fetched to me, so I didn't have much need to see the movie. Then I heard the reviews - a very bad version of a book I didn't like. I skipped it. Now I'm curious to watch to just to see if it's so bad it's funny, or make a drinking game out of it.
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tsw453 — 13 years ago(August 23, 2012 11:48 PM)
It isn't as bad as you think. It is pretty entertaining as a popcorn sci fi flick. But a movie translated from a 1000 page plus book does not do so well on screen. You basically have cavemen that can fly a fighter jet in less than 2 hours that seems absurd. Would have worked well as a mini series more than a 2 hour film.