10 Awesome Things About Battlefield Earth - The Cinema Snob
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- The Cinema Snob counts down the best thing about the movie bomb Battlefield Earth!
Writer/Creator: Brad Jones
Title Card: Shaun Millington
Theme: Rhymer-Man, Devin Letroy Powell
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If you slave over a movie for years, finally get it produced, and everyone loves it, it's a passion project. If it sucks, it's a vanity project.
A John Travolta passion project that took decades to make, got terrible reviews, and bombed at the box office... So basically, it's the Gotti of the 2000s.
At least Gotti cost a lot less.
Gotta makes Battlefield Earth look like a masterpiece
It’s sign of Bad Movie when it takes Decades to make Like Battlefield Earth And Movie 43
10. John Travolta
9. John Travolta
8. John Travolta
7. John Travolta
6. John Travolta
5. The guy from Grease
4. The guy from Look Who's Talking
3. The guy from Face/Off that's not Nicolas Cage
2. The guy from Pulp Fiction
1. Forrest Whitaker
"No.2 The guy from Pulp Fiction" Sam Jackson is in this movie!?
I'm gonna pre-emptively put a r/whooosh here.
0. The guy from Broken Arrow thats not Christian Slater.
Why the hell was he in Star Trek 6? 🤔
What about that guy with the glasses?
That guy who pretends to be straight and not bald was also pretty good.
@@shmabadu Wait, Tom Cruise's hair isn't natural?
I was laying on the couch while watching this and couldn't stop laughing. It's almost the perfect angle.
hahaha I remember once as a gimmick some TV channel broadcasted a whole programming block with the picture rotated 90 degrees so people could watch it ok while lying down on the couch.
If they put this movie, to watch some scenes correctly you'd have had to actually stand on your head
He's not wrong😎
...How does Snob manage to make those ridiculous eyebrows utterly work for him in the thumbnail?
Also, THUMBNAIL LLOYD!
Come for SNob
Stay for Lloyd.
Or vice versa
Got to be the first film to boast REMOVING scenes for the home release!
I think "The Shining" did that as well.
The Coen Brothers film Blood Simple, the directors cut is actually a few minutes shorter than the theatrical cut. The shining removed footage from the film after a week of being in theatres, but nothing specifically for home video.
Josie and the Pussycats did it too. Cut some good jokes to become a PG.
Any Stanley kubrick film
Highlander II basically does, so long as you understand what "Renegade Cut" or "Special Edition" stand for.
i love when people find positives in something negative. it's a much more rewarding experience.
sometimes, something can do things so wrong that they become a wonder and something deserving of study.
i would have to agree, it is more challenging.
Best comedy of 2000. Maybe the best of the entire decade.
I was working at a Walden Books when the film came out. Since we were located close to the Scientology hub in Clearwater, the church would call us over and over. Each time they'd ask if we'd sold a copy of the book, or any other L.Ron lit. They were very adamant about being able to supply us with more copies of "Battlefield Earth" if we ran out. Needless to say, I don't recall seeing a single copy being sold.
That sounds like something those lunatics would do
My dad sells books online from his home and one day we randomly got a Battlefield Earth (book art not movie art) mini-poster in the mail. The envelope didn't have anything blatant regarding it's source; but it's obvious where it came from. I can only assume they thought we were an actual book store.
The art was nice, though.
Walden Books and Battlefield Earth, them was the days.
"DO YOU WANT LUNCH?!" is the greatest line to ever emerge from Travolta's mouth.
Oh Snob you made my day. It’s my favorite guilty pleasure just to see Travolta eat the scenery and all
Praise Lloyd
It should be pointed out that the Psychlos don't actually speak English. When he's talking to Terl, Johnny is speaking their language and when he's talking to the humans he's speaking English.
I honestly consider this film a solid guilty pleasure. It's one of those "It's so bad it's good" films.
His original name was Dave Protagonist.
Dammit, now I have to change my screenplay!
I saw Battlefield Earth in the theater when it came out. I saw a scathing review of it in The New York Times, and just had to check it out for myself. Then I read the book and bought some Battlefield Earth trading cards I found on discount at a gas station. One of the cards was autographed by Barry Pepper. I wish I still had it, but some roommate threw it away.
Dear Snob, if you can see this. You are my favorite youtuber. You have got me through a lot of hard times. Making me laugh when not much else could. One day I hope to meet you. Keep killing it Brad i bought one of your dvds and will soon get more.
Hell yeah I love the balls it took to look at the positives in the movie and ur right John Travolta's performance is why I thoroughly enjoy this movie
I remember when the Nostalgia Critic best described the Psychlos as "Jamaican Klingon Clowns."
This shit makes me miss Spoony.
yes, Spoony forever!!
He was the best Terl
"It's like someone couldn't decide to dress up for a Rob Zombie or a Kiss concert, so they decided to go to a romulan costume shop to assemble both." One of the sharpest and funniest snob moments.
That shot of Spoony dressed as Terrell really makes me miss the days of the old Channel awesome
This movie is so over-the-top. It's also the first time I saw Forest Whitaker and Kim Coates aka Tig from Sons of Anarchy. This movie is a total guilty pleasure.
The sheer conviction with wich he says "Do YOU want LUCH!?" is outstanding.
I was not expecting something like this.
Dude, cinema snob, do manos the hands of fate. You would knock it out of the ballpark with that review.
He's probably saving that one for another DVD.
You got your wish
Fair thee well Spoony. We hardly knew thee.
Interesting idea for a video and I do think this delivers a lot of unexpected fun.
If I can be honest for a moment "pieceofcake" being a generic encouragement that has lost it original meaning is a decent bit of world building. Some terms are just so common that they live on beyond their original context.
It's not "pieceofcake," it's "pieceofcakePIECEOFCAKE!!!"
GreatgoatonFire I agree fully about piece of cake. It’s almost like they’re saying it as a single word.
I kinda assumed that as well
PieceofpiepieceofpiePIECEOFDANISH!
It’s known as “aluminum Christmas trees”
John Travolta as Terl looks eerily like Bob Marley with vitiligo.
Omg,Brad,if that was Turl laughing in the Star Wars trailer...... tickets bought😄
More Dutch angles than a Rotterdam geometry class...
I love this movie. I saw it in the theaters when he came out and everyone in the theater loved it. All six of us. Perhaps elderly couple didn't like it because they walked out in the middle of it. But four of us stay to finish it. I still like this movie. But I read the book and I love the book.
Thank you Brad. This is what I wanted.
The first thing I noticed in Battlefield Earth was the hilarious bulges. 😮 😳 🤣
I did not seen those but I sure as hell am looking for them now!
I'M REAEAEALLLY ANGRY!!
"While you were still learning HOW TO SPELL YOUR NAME !!!"
The Room in space?
Note, I wrote this before finishing the episode: The Projection Booth had an episode on this movie. They interviewed the director (who got his start designing sets for Star Wars if I remember correctly), apparently he said the aliens where supposed to be about 8 feet tall in the book, but there was nothing in the budget for this. The compromise was to use Dutch angles and forced perspective to try to make them look bigger than people, but not 8 feet tall. Any movie not funded by Scientologists would have just rewritten the aliens as human size.
They should waited a few more years and Peter Jackson could have showed them how to actually pull that trick.
@@BWMaguslol it’s funny to think that making some of the actors be on their knees when near characters meant to be bigger was something no one had thought of that wasn’t making home movies
Anytime I heard Lloyd it brings me joy.
I worked in a movie theater when this movie came out. It's where the cool kids went to make out and we took naps during our shift.
"It's quotable"
According to the Nostalgia Critic, that means it's better than those award-winning films.
Better than some of them, certainly. Not all of them.
I was fortunate to have seen this gem in the theatre during its spectacular run @ the box office. It was on one of those Friday nights that made you want to drive straight off a cliff. But that's not even the best part. I ended up seeing the film @ the former "Metro 12" movie theatre in San Jacinto, California, the literal and actual home of the world-infamous, Scientology sanctuary, "Gold Base." It added a creepiness to the movie that no other location ever could.
Only the Cinema Snob could try finding something GOOD in a trainwreck like Battlefield Earth.
You bring up a good point: How has it that after 50 generations humans have forgotten what statues are, yet they retained the phrase "piece of cake" throughout a millennium of living in a hunter-gatherer society?
Brad... thanks for finally covering my favorite bad movie of all time! It’s such a perfect storm of incompetence that it never fails to cheer me up. And yes, I have damn near all the figures for it (just need to get Ker), along with one of the Psychlo Battlecrafts, a set of the Upper Deck trading cards along with a sealed box, a promotional baseball cap, the teaser and theatrical posters, and a t-shirt with the theatrical poster art on it.
Also, for all its flaws, as a teacher of mine in high school pointed out, it’s a story that has teamwork saving the planet rather than the fate resting on Jonnie and Jonnie alone.
Guess your teacher doesn't bow to meaningless attacks. Wish I had more like him.
I would be so much more excited tor Ep. IX if it had been Terl's laugh instead of the Emperor's. I have no desire to see the Emperor again, but Rey vs John Travolta at his most insane? Sign me up.
Wait a minute, I didn't hear "jail" during the final shot with Travolta in jail...
saw this one at a very early age,it explains why i see the world at a different angle.
Well, you know what they say. Being bad in Show-Bize is still leagues better than being boring.
And Battlefield Earth is definitely not boring.
Honestly snob I was on this flicks hate bandwagon but now I want to actually want to see it again cuz of those interesting points u made thx smob
Hard mountain dew? That's called a fourloko my friend
Hard Mtn Dew exists now
They should make a sequel now.Considering the sequels to movies like Independence Day suck, then obviously a sequel to Battlefield Earth wold be amazing. That's just logic folks.
Also they had an F-18 toy? There were no F-18s! They had Harriers. I remember because that was the coolest part of the movie for 10 year old me.
Will you review a monster movie (hopefully Godzilla) due to the new film's arrival?
You tease! I require more seconds to admire the cuteness of your cat in front of a Bible. 😍
Best Things About Battlefield Earth by the Cinema Snob?
I pulled the bartender's head out of the box and used it to hit that play button _sooooooooo_ fast!
I'm typing a comment now. Make up something amusing in your head and pretend I said it.
hahahahaha! "Honey, this one's eating my popcorn" hahahaha!
That's a good one.
The fact that you quoted the bartender line made me laaaaaaugh.
The management regrets that it will not be showing a feature film, as it eats into the profits.
*Beep*
MY MOTHER IS WHAT?!!!!!!!!
Great work trying something different, Brad. I thought this video would be rather weak, but ended up really liking it and I hope you do something like this again.
One suggestion though: Use a few other title cards in the count down. Doesn't have to be 10 or w/e, but a few different ones might help.
Dutch Angles Galore
Not to overthink this, but I think the idea behind the 'piece of cake' line is that they know it refers to something being easy or a sure thing, but they don't know what a cake actually is.
1. Referencing Broken Arrow = a Win. Love that Movie.
2. Now it makes me want to see a Cinema Snob review on Hostel...lol.
I know some one who would review it, THE DOM from lost in adaptation
Not to mention the Smeghead from Cinematic Excrement.
You mean... Dominic Noble. He's no longer the Dom
I was going to buy Battlefield Earth at this pawn shop. But when I open up the DVD box there was no DVD in it. Some brave person took a bullet for me.
Either that, or the shopkeepers keep the discs behind the counter for security.
A pawn shop bought someone's old Battlefield Earth DVD???
@@CanItAlready Desperation is a stinky cologne.
I saw this in theaters with my parents. My father LOVED this movie (unironicly).
I want an action figure that says "“While You Were Still Learning How to SPELL YOUR NAME, I Was Being Trained to CONQUER GALAXIES!”
I only ever saw this the one time in cinemas. It saddens me to discover they cut the flying scene.
Today I learned the "I graduated top of my class..." copypasta comes from Battlefield Earth. Any movie that gave us that can't be bad.
I actually quote Gladiator all the time and can not remember a single line from Battlefield Earth. I think you are completely wrong on which movie is more quotable.
I can quote both films pretty well, to be honest, but I think Battlefield Earth has more fun quotes.
I remember the quote about conquoring galaxies was practically my catchphrase back in high school.
I am still waiting for a chance to say "You sold me queer giraffes"
I've never seen someone quote Gladiator except for "Were you not entertained?" Meanwhile, I heard so many Battlefield Earth quotes that it gave me an "Oh shit!" feeling when I actually saw where they all came from.
Hahahah. The most unintentionally hilarious movie I ever saw. Got to see it when it was released in theaters. The great thing was seeing it in the room filled with Scientologists. They felt my manic laughter was very disrespectful to such a serious work of art.
Piece of cake piece of cake piece of cake ouh-ouh-ouh!
Ok, this is the secon time in a few days that a former Channel Awesome producer I'm still following references Spoony. What's going on?
His old website went down.
Probably nothing. Spoony was just so damn good for about 5 years that we still remember him. If he had had the work ethic of Brad and not developed mental problems, he'd be bigger than Channel Awesome.
Battlefield Earth is a guilty pleasure. It's so bad it's like watching a train with 1000 boxcars crashing and it just keeps going. You just can't turn your eyes away from the disaster.
Why were Lloyd's eyes red while sitting over the holey bibel
I think they did the Dutch angles on purpose, they knew it was snorefest.
Someone else also said it was to try and make the aliens look bigger than the humans, or at least prevent you from noticing that they were not.
I don't hate Battlefield Earth, it's hard to hate something you've never seen.
This video makes me want a Lloyd Creationist Cat crossover. The universe will implode from the cuteness overload.
Aw Spoony, is he still kicking around
Our friendly bartender!!!
John Travolta Equals Battlefield Earth, Old Dogs, Look whose talking Now, Gotti, The Fanatic, Speed Kills, And The Poison Rose
Maybe the most awesome thing about Battlefield Earth is that it has seemed to reach iconic status while still being gloriously, unapologetically, absolutely and unequivocally bats*** crazy.
Best Battlefield Earth review!
Okay, it's official we need to get Eric Freeman and John Travolta to play over the top sci-fi villains in the next big summer blockbuster movie.
John Travolta should have won an award for his performance in this film. Period.
This could be a new thing I like.
Pointing out the 'good' parts of bad movies.
I honestly don’t mind a bad movie if I have fun watching it, and I had a lot of fun watching this one.
Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I like it.
Prove that in entertainment, you are allowed to be bad.
The unforgivable sin however is to be boring.
let me guess number one John Travolta he's always the best
Another new classic Snob video. Superb.
at #7 According to the DVD Commentary of this film, Director Roger Christian wanted to make this movie look like a comic book!
I hear the year this movie takes place in and can only think of one thing:
"IN THE YEAR 3000!!!"
"IN THE YEAR THREE THOU-SSSSSSAAAAAANNNNDDDDD!!!"
I'm not gonna lie, I never knew that "When you learned to spell your name, I was conquering galaxies!" was a Battlefield Earth line up until now. I always thought it was some sort of Spaceballs quote.
18:26 Would love to see Terl as the BBEG of Star Wars.
#11: The live action adaptation of Invader Zim looks different, but in spirit VERY loyal to the source material.
I caught this movie one night on Syfy channel when I was really young. I never remembered anything about it except for the scene where the guy goes
"We thought you would settle for bars." For the longest time, I thought it was a figment of my imagination. Like I just made up the movie scene or something. But no. 15 years later, I'm reminded of this insanity
I genuinely enjoy the first half of the book. It’s very engaging and fast-paced. The second half is more politically driven, at least in the beginning when I stopped reading 😅
I seriously liked the movie. I don't understand all the hate. I like Rifts, I like Fallout New Vegas, I just love post apocalyptic aliens. The aliens were like vogons. And there is so much wild conspiracy stuff in it. People hated Dune just as much, meanwhile will Smith punches Chris Rock iin face like he was auditioning to be a human animal for the remake of this movie.
18:29-18:37 that is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
Now i gotta rewatch broken arrow
The book was ok,and watching Travolta stumping around in those stilts was the gift that keeps on giving
You with dreads is what the world needs, but doesn't deserve Snob.
If Turl was the mastermind in Rise of Skywalker, and Rey's gramps... Missed opportunity for greatness.
Very different for you. Don't fall into the trap of listing, it's too easy!
Adam Watson Too easy? This episode took far longer to edit than a regular episode. :).
Well I meant me really lol I’ve found that it’s easy when writing reviews to start listing without realising it and by the time you’re done most of the review is just factoid fluff and no real effort or thoughts 🤷♂️