13
Why does everyone forget the fun parts of Battlefield Earth?
Everyone rips on that movie, and I get why the accents are silly and the plot is all over the place. But I saw it at the dollar theater in 2001 and it was such a wild ride, the mining stuff actually felt tense to me. The book by L. Ron Hubbard is dense and slow for the first 200 pages, but the movie just jumps into the action and that energy is fun. My buddy says the movie ruins the story's logic, but I think the dumb spectacle is the whole point. Anyone else actually enjoy a famous flop because they saw it before they read the source material? What's the movie that everyone hates but you will defend to the end?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
elliotadams14d ago
Honestly, my cousin rented that movie on VHS back when Blockbuster was still a thing, and we watched it three times in one weekend because the flying harnesses looked so ridiculous we couldn't stop laughing. I never read the book, and I still haven't, so for me the movie is just this weird standalone thing where John Travolta has that giant forehead and everyone's yelling about gold. I remember the mining scene specifically because my cousin kept saying "that's not how a mine works" and he worked at a gravel pit for like two summers, so we argued about it for an hour. Tbh, I defend Waterworld the same way, everyone hates the Kevin Costner one but I saw it on cable at like 2am and thought the whole floaty city concept was kind of cool. The logic falls apart if you think about it for more than five seconds, but who watches these movies to think? That's what documentaries are for.
6