My cousin bet me $20 I couldn't sit through Battlefield Earth twice, and I almost won until the dinner scene
We made the bet at his place in Fresno last Saturday, and I made it 90 minutes in before that alien dinner scene with the laughing broke me, so I paid up and we watched the rest anyway. Now I'm stuck wondering if the first half is actually good or if I just liked it because I was winning, so someone tell me where you draw the line on a movie you only defend halfway.
90 minutes is longer than anyone should last. That dinner scene is where the movie shows its whole hand, every dumb choice jammed into one room.
Half a movie can be good if the bad part is at least fun. Battlefield Earth fails that test. It's not so bad it's funny, it's just bad.