The Midnight Movie Club recently took on the epic failure that is Battlefield Earth, and because my mic was broken at the time, I sent Dan a statement to read about the movie. I have included it below.
"This is what it is like when a steaming pile of excrement is lovingly shaped into a movie. Unfortunately, I guess the kind of loving care that went into this movie is the same sort that Joan Crawford lavished on her daughter in Mommie Dearest. It is the sort of film that had to be crafted with sadistic joy, because that is the only explanation I can come up with for its general lack of quality aside from the possibility that Uwe Boll made it. I am sure Nic Cage's agent sent him he script and ever he turned it down.
I mean, Starship Troopers Marauder had the excuse that there was no budget to explain its horrific nature, but this... what fiend thought this was a good idea. And it's not like the book it was based on was stellar either... Hubbard must have been getting paid by the word for that atrocity against literature, because Battlefield Earth the novel is even more half-baked than the "religion" he created.
If John Travolta wasn't in it, I would have thought that it was designed to make Hubbard and Scientology look bad. That's what I would have done, because if it wasn't for Travolta, it would be an epic work made out of hatred.
But you know, I feel really bad for Forrest Whitaker. He has an Oscar, but he still has this on his acting resume. And let's not forget, it killed a studio. Granted, it was the studio that brought us such classics as Ballistic: Sever vs Ecks, the Get Carter remake and Half Past Dead, so perhaps this is the movie's one bright spot.
Everyone involved should be put in stocks and sent to every town in the world that the film opened in theatrically so they can be pelted with vegetables, batteries and/or whatever small items that people can find. And even then that wouldn't be enough punishment.
And yet, it still isn't the worst movie I've ever seen. That's the scary part."
What can I say. I am a passionate person sometimes.
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