Everything Wrong With Battlefield Earth in 23 Minutes or Less
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Battlefield Earth is considered one of the worst movies of all time. How bad? Let's count the sins!
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ok wait how did you comment 5 hours ago and I'm seeing comments that say 16 hours ago but it says the video was uploaded 43 minutes ago...
Thank u!!! What u said abt John Travolta actin at 3:24 is accurate, thought the same when I seen dis movie as a kid
DO THE HELP!
Please sin kung pow: enter the fist.
the 9 minute battle : I don't think they EVER say in the movie the fact that the entire planet was totally engulfed in poison gas. The ships came in, dumped hundreds of millions of cubic meters of poison gas into the atmosphere and smothered practically every inch
I'll add this to the "I could've sworn y'all sinned this" pile. But more so Imma need you to sin Titan A.E. and Eight Legged Freaks
Titan A.E.? Is it that you didn't like it or just want to see it sinned because that's a great movie. Starting a movie by blowing up the Earth? That was awesome.
Half the back catalogue got dinged for music copyright about 2 years ago. This one not so high on the list to return 😺
Oh man Titan A.E is a beast! Love it to bits!
Holy crap I was just thinking this was a reupload. And 8 legged freaks was fun, but it’s been a minute.
Probably thinking of nostalgia critic.
‘This exists.’ *ding*
“Scientology” *Ding*
Seriously. This movie looks terrible.
My favorite type of sin
Omg that’s so perfectly succinct 😂😂😂
8:00 - I know you already sinned all the dutch angles, but I feel a ditch angle shot of a screen showing a dutch angle shot of the sewer should deserve a special 100 extra sins.
If I remember right, this movie is mostly filmed in Dutch angles. It's either done artistically or the cameramen kept passing out and they just went with it
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Security cam, dutch angle. Classic.
absolutely agree. If there's a hell for movies, seventh circle is where Battlefield Earth ends up.
I saw this for free as i was working in a cinema at the time and i still wanted a refund.
I want that time back!!!
My brother wanted hazard pay
Hilarious.
"While You Were Still Learning How to Spell Your Name, I Was Being Trained to Count Movie Sins!”
While you were still learning how TO SPELL YOUR NAME!
335, lower than I was expecting. There is literally nothing redeemable about this movie. The worst. EVER
There IS one, and only one, redeeming feature of this movie....it did, in fact, end. Please, please roll those credits
M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender
After walking out of the theater when the movie ended, it has been on my worst-movie-ever list.
You've never seen "Monster a-Go-Go."
I chose to watch this as a joke. I didn't even make it through the first half hour until I watched the return of the king.
Also, only 335 sins? "Less than half of what I'd hoped for."
Actual movie name "Dutch Angle Earth"
Its like the director discovered dutch angles a month before shooting this movie and became obsessed with it.
Only a few minutes into this video I realized that I missed nothing by never seeing this movie.
💀😂😂😂
You’re truly missing out. I unironically love this movie. Purely to laugh at how horrible it is. Highly recommend to watch at least once for the experience alone
Same
You did miss out, on losing brain cells
It was funny, good for some chucks, but that's about it. There is nothing of any real substance in the movie, and it barely resembles the original story.
I went to the pawn shop to buy some DVDs and I picked up Battlefield Earth I was going to buy it because I had never heard of it before but when I opened up the DVD box there was nothing inside so somebody took a bullet for me. So whatever man or woman that was, I like to thank you, Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
They were trying to save your sanity 😂
Nice. Pink Floyd. Ill see you at the great gig in the sky
Your story is familiar... have you commented this on Cinematic Excrement or Fanboyflicks or whoever tore this movie appart?🙃
I'd have just introduced the film and put up a title card that said, "Everything." Done in less than a minute.
Works for me. 🤔
but that would be...reading DING!
Seriously, this should be a five second video. Because it needs 4 seconds for the title card and then "Everything".
Anyone who was subjected to this atrocity is owed an apology, a full refund, and an explanation for how this ever could have happened.
All true, but if you think this is the worst sci-fi movie ever made you haven't seen Star Trek Into Darkness.
In an alternate universe, berry pepper never took this role and had a very successful career as a b-lister.
The only other two movies I can think of with him off the top of my head are 61* and 3. I'm sure he's been in others.
Battlefield Earth should have been a Tyler Perry movie
Forest Whitaker looks like the Jamaican Cowardly Lion.
Lol
OMFG he totally does!
So a Fast & Furious movie can seriously damage or even "kill" the sin counter, but this movie only reaches 335 with the help of TWO bonus rounds.
Probably why they took so long to get around to this. I thought they had already sinned it personally, but maybe knowing the just... absolutely terrible quality of this movie prior they needed to get the sin counter beefed up for it
It's an old video, the counter needs to be adjusted for sin inflation.
Yep, I don't know how it could end up with under 1000 sins. I think the mistake was not using the sins from the bonus rounds as multiplicators.
Of course, "multiply sin count by number of razzies" probably would have done the trick, too.
The only person missing from this movie was Tom Cruise as Xenu lmfao
Hubbard created "Psychlo" not as malapropism of "psycho", but as contraction of "psychologist", because he had these paranoid conspiracy theories about psychologists after he had had to undergo psychiatric evaluation (and diagnosis asa sociopath) after his wife had filed for divorce on reason of Hubbard constanty beating and abusing her, esp while she was pregnant. If you read Hubbard's unhinged book _Dianetics_ that would later lead to Scientology, one of his paranoid-misogynistic obsessions was the idea that pregnant wives were constantly having extramarital affairs or trying to abort their babies by running belly-first into tables. Go figure. ("No, your Honor, the bruises on my pregnant wife's belly are not from me beating her with a stick! She keeps running into tables on purpose!")
That makes SOOOO much sense. Except the promiscuous pregnant women running into…tables?? Where the hell did THAT come from!?! I’m shocked they actually thought this was amazing. Even more surprising was how many people continue to believe in this entitled, fat psychopath.
Also the fact that it was based on a novel by a freak like L. Ron Hubbard deserves one million sins lol. Also it’s called “Battlefield Earth” when there’s a severe lack of battling.
And I think CinemaSins went too easy on this movie :/
10 million
No. One billion billion billion. Squared. To the power of a google.
It should be one billion, just like the number of years in the Sea Org contracts.
Just break the sin counter shatter the bonds of reality with the amount of sins this movie should have. John Travolta really thought this steaming pile was better than star wars pulp fiction and Schindler list! 😂
At a minimum there should be 1 sin per second of the movie....at.minimum.....
My friend talked me into skipping my afternoon classes in high school to go see this. I still regret it.
that's no friend
"These humans, technologically regressed to the point of using sharpened sticks, can not only start modern aircraft, but fly them effectively." *ding*
"Also, these aircraft are completely functional. And their fuel hasn't turned into turpentine. And their missiles aren't rusted in place. Buildings and skyscrapers are returning the earth, but these jets look like they just came off the assembly line." *ding*
This film has the distinction of “winning” several Razzie Awards throughout the decade.
*Worst Picture*
*Worst Director for Roger Christian*
*Worst Actor for John Travolta*
*Worst Supporting Actor for Barry Pepper (Forest Whitaker was also nominated in this category, but lost against him)*
*Worst Supporting Actress for Kelly Preston*
*Worst Screen Couple for John Travolta and anyone in the entire galaxy!*
*Worst Screenplay for J.D. Shapiro and Corey Mandell*
*Worst Drama Movie of the Razzies 25 years in 2005*
*Worst Picture of the Decade in 2010*
That record was later broken by Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill (2011)
I'd better watch this now, before the Church of Scientology sees it and says "CEASE AND DESIST OR SPEND THE NEXT DECADE IN COURT!!!"
I don't think that's a good enough reason to watch it
Nah, they're probably acting as if it doesn't exist!😅
I’ve seen the reviews by Nostalgic Critic, Fanboyflicks and Chris Stuckmann multiple times but I’ve never once heard John Travolta’s character saying “rat brain”
So I've read the novel, a number of times. Whilst L Ron Hubbard was an utter lunatic, of his entire rocker, I stand by that novel being one of my favourites because it's INSANE! It's wonderful, stupid pulp sci fi and bares little to no resemblance to the film. It also makes significantly more sense.
Couldn't agree more 👍
You think that's insane. Try the whole Mission Earth decalogy. It's a ten on the bat-sheet scale.
I bought a used copy of the book with dreaded up John Travolta on the cover, (like who thought that was good advertising), I just thought Id see how badly they butchered the story and was surprised how good the book was. Awsome concepts for sure.
@@Yawbus1976 I've read those as well. Bonkers doesn't even begin to describe it lol.
What's a major point which makes more sense?
It's truly amazing that Scientology managed to survive this travesty.
Enough people had to have seen it for the public to notice
South Park did the rest! Woooo!
Dude 23 minutes isn't anywhere NEAR enough for this movie
Harrier Jump Jets at Fort Hood. I was stationed at Fort Hood for 2 years in the mid-90s and never saw Harrier jump Jets because that's a Marines thing.
I was a kid and grew up there and more marveled at the facts that
1. These planes lasted a thousand years
2. And the thousand year old flight simulator was able to teach a squadron of cave men how to fly.
3. And they find thousand year old jet fuel.
4. And lastly, the planes had enough fuel to go from central Texas to Denver Colorado?
@@josebrown5961 Good point
@@josebrown5961Yep one of the most difficult jets to fly and one of the most complicated to maintain survived for a thousand years under a tarp and still worked.... Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure
Even if you don't know how jets work, your CAR won't start after sitting unused for a month, so the idea that a flying machine would still work normally after sitting for years is absurd.
Oh and I forgot another thing.
The AV8 Harrier is a MARINE jet. Fort Hood, now Ft. Cavazos, is an ARMY base and would never have a Marine aircraft.
Ft.Hood does have fixed wing aircraft. They fly the A10 Thunderbolt a very agile aircraft that would be a fine choice to fly against the Psyclo aircraft.
But remember John Travolta told him that all our fighters got decimated in 9 minutes! So a team of cavemen were able to divine how to fight? I mean from flying the most difficult jet, and understanding the weapons systems of that jet.
Oh yeah and the 1000 year old jet fuel was able to get those jets from Central Texas all the way to Denver Colorado and have the fuel to fight?
"There's so much Dutch in this angle it's practically Paul Verhoeven." I lost it laughing at this point.
The title of the video is misleading
I don’t see the entire movie uploaded
No sin for character running through plate glass directly steals from Blade Runner? Fine, adding it in my head canon.
I always thought it was hilarious that they really were so confident that this movie was gonna be a hit series, that they made toys and shit for it before they could see that it bombed lol
8:02- Even the surveillance cameras are Dutch-angling the video!
The film lists a 73 million dollar budget: However, In 2007 Franchise Pictures was sued by its investors and went bankrupt after it emerged that it had fraudulently overstated the film's budget by $31 million. Which is still more than the final box office of the movie.
They defeated humans in 9 minutes, and that's impossible unless they bombarded Earth from outer space because if they had landed an army they would have made great resistance and more than likely, and we would have used nuclear weapons as well.
They did. The gassed the entire planet. The gas was heavier than air so the Air Force academy was at high enough altitude that the cadets survived. The "9 minutes" was against largely unarmed air force cadets without functioning combat aircraft or any support.
@@toddsonger3732 I sadly read that book when I was younger and I was going to reply this :)
Same. The book is a guilty pleasure of mine. This movie did the book a major disservice.
@@toddsonger3732 They gassed the entire planet with what gas source?? Science fiction writers should have soem vague appreciation for the problems of large numbers...
CinemaSins gets a sin for setting the bar too low with this video.
I’d forgotten how truly, absolutely abysmal this dreadful film was. Sat through the whole thing in a state of shock at how crap it was, like not being able to stop,looking at a car crash.
I imagine the most difficult thing about this movie was trying to parse down the Cinema Sins content. Probably had 5 hours of content and almost went mad trying to edit this video to less than 25 minutes 😂😂
Went to see that at the theater, and I fell asleep
You feel asleep? I couldn’t sleep as I was laughing too hard!
@@josebrown5961 🤣
Was it a good nap?
Expensive nap
@@scarletspidernz Tickets were like 6 bucks in 2000 lol
Drinking game: Take a shot every time someone says “rat brain”
First thought on seeing the thumbnail: can the sin counter go that high?
It's pretty sturdy now, thanks to all the fast and the furious movies!
And he still low balled it, should be a million sins just for having Travolta in it.
Intertainment, sued producer Franchise Pictures for fraud. Franchise claimed the budget was $75 million instead of the actual budget of $44 million. Franchise was ordered by the court to pay Intertainment $121.7 million in damages, and went bankrupt. Intertainment only financed the film because it came as a package deal with The Art of War (2000) and The Whole Nine Yards (2000).
This should be 23 hours long
How amazing that the aliens have rotten teeth, but the humans without access to dentistry or tooth paste all have American A1 smile
This is a movie inspired by the book if anything. There are so many things they just removed or glossed over from the book.
For instance; how Johnny knows about the whole nuke thing is because the aliens breath gas got exposed to some uranium ore that was mixed into gold and caused an explosion. An accident makes much more sense as to why Jonny knows this is a thing rather then learning it threw the machine.
The movie changes things like this threw out. Something makes sense in the book, lets change that so it makes no sense at all.
I refuse to believe that ALL the sins of this film can be covered in 23 minutes, but I'm looking forward to watching the attempt.
Travolta's overacting deserves a sin off.
*NOTHING* about this film deserves a sin off. In fact, it deserves one more sin for you suggesting that.
Travolta's acting in this movie is on par with Kevin Costner's English accent in Robin Hood!
"There's so much Dutch in this angle it's practically Paul Verhooven." Killed me.
Umm how did you condense this down shorter than the full movie length? I must have missed something.
The fact this got made and released is astounding.
I've seen this movie. But the fact that barely any scenes looks familiar right now, tells a lot about it.
The book this was based on was actually really good The actual battle for earth as multiple alien races descended on earth after Psyclo had been destroyed and the eventual resolution were very satisfying. I cannot express how deeply disappointed i was in this movie.
14:16 i now understand that the script intended the past tense of "fight", but Barry clearly says "we took this one chance , and FART!"
Fun fact: Botanically speaking, peppers are in fact berries.
That 2 seconds at 19:24 *also* flips the bird at the 180 degree rule with whatever was left of Forest Whitaker's hand
Thank you for doing this, Jeremy always has the best, LEVERAGE
I assumed this would be your first video running over an hour, but you probably got exhausted after the first 200 sins.
Sweet jeasus I can't believe I'm about to explain this but, only a few Psychlo's know thier own mathematics because Psychlo Math is the key to unlocking teleportation, which is what made them into the unstoppable force they are.
Yes, I read Battlefield Earth in high school back in '07 and yes, it was voluntary. (No, I don't need to be rescued. Lol)
If you have to read the book to explain a plothole in the movie: that's a failure of the movie. Sin upheld.
@@angeluslupusI think it was more of a “I can’t believe I’m actually going to talk about BE” thing.
The Far Side once had a strip of Hell's video... where the only movie you could rent was Ishtar. I would have added Batman and Robin, Secret of NIMH 2, every Adam Sandler movie(Except maybe the Hotel Transylvania ones). Oh.. .and this. Definitely this.
Still haven’t seen this to this day, but I appreciate this video for showing me why lol
In 1979, a band called the GERMS made an incredible song called "Manimal".
Maybe that's why the show didn't use it. They knew people like me would call them out on it.
Will you do Frozen Empire soon since it is now digital?
What's up with the angle of the security footage at 8:04?
I think the idea is that the Psychlos would stop their attack on Earth because Terl is there as hostage? But Terl is considered a traitor, so...
What's truly remarkable is that you managed to condense the horror to only 23 minutes. Every single scene in this travesty is a sin. Just horrific. For the record, inside the Church of Scientology they firmly believed that this would surpass Titanic and Avatar to become the greatest movie of all time.
I am extremely impressed you managed to get this down to 23 minutes instead of leaving it at the entire movies run time :p
Curious about what happened to the bonus round for the Dutch Angles...
We goin over everything? No way it’s covered in 25 minutes… movies at least an hour long…
The scene that got me is the cow scene. Watching Travolta "mutilate" a cow offscreen when the other actors act "disgusted" was PATHETIC and that was when I left.
Slipping in the 1/2 second joke about "unprecedented" was great.
i love how terl shoots the gun pinky out cos that 6th finger doesn't move. everything is pinky out on planet psychlo. they fancy✨
What has more cuts, do you think? This, or Requiem for a Dream?
The sentence should have added "with endless options for renewal."
Sinning a historical recreation is a bit harsh.
It's like if you made sin video on one of those dinosaur documentary recreation movies.
My darkest secret is that back in the day I liked this movie, In my defense I thought it was intended to be a comedy.
Only twenty-three minutes? Kind of expecting the sin show to be longer than the actual movie.
Roy Sheider aboard a 23 minute video. Battlefield Earth shows its head. Roy, "We're going to need a bigger video!"
"Slow motion." I can go slow motion. Come on down here and watch some of this shit!"
I didn't understand all of the Scientology jokes at first, but it made sense after I realized the books were written by L. Ron Hubbard. 😂
Five minutes into this video and my head is already hurting because of the tilted image. What a precarious film.
iv never understood the trope of humans becoming primitive and not understanding technology anymore because the only way i can imagine that happening is if there parents where unable or unwilling to pass down there history and skills and i have no idea what could bring about that scenario
Think about all the devices you use/interact with on a daily basis, from washing machines to smartphones. Now imagine yourself trying to explain how they work to someone who'd never used one - in detail (not just tap that bit to get to your settings). The fact is that detailed knowledge of these things resides in a very small proportion of the population and an apocalyptic event would kill an awful lot of them.
L. Ron Hubbard is spinning in his grave over this adaption of his book.
My first blind date when I was in high school was to this very movie. I totally blame this movie for her never returning my calls.
By Xenu you finally did it. A cinema sins for Battlefield Earth. I sit down and watch it once a year because I'm glutton for torture.
Only movie that could make me click on a cinemasins video in years
Listening to this at work, heard the bonus round music start up and IMMEDIATELY thought, "This is gonna be for 'rat brain'," and YEP!
Can we PLEASE get The Menu sometime soon? I like cheeseburger
Dude, it is a 20 second video. “It exists” a million sins!
I think the (BATTLEFIELD EARTH) story, should be made into a show series.
This POS should have started with infinite sins, due to the crappy directing, editing, adaptation, acting, cinematography and the stupidity of the previewers who said " Oh, yeah ". Hell this whole movie should have been left on the cutting room floor and then burned down the studio. And, I deserve some too for actually watching the whole damn thing.
If any aircraft mechanics are out there and read this, how much maintenance do you have to do after an aircraft returns from just a single flight? If you could quantify it into how many hours the amount of maintenance you have to do after single flight takes that’s all I really need to know let alone how much it would take after they sat there as long as they did in the movie.
Thing with this movie is that it seems to assume that everyone watching read the book, where it is made clear that the 'Earth's greatest warriors' were in fact Airforce Academy cadets.
I didn’t expect a quote from “Scrubs” as a sentence… but I love it!
Terl’s watching this video and saying, “While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME!!! I was being trained…to conquer GALAXIES!!!!!”
This video is only 23 minutes long... that is some *intense* editing
I'm totally with you on this film needing cult status. Besides being badly acted and made, it is so ungodly stupid, all whilst taking itself 100% seriously. It honestly cracks me up.
12:20 - Even their cameras have Dutch angles and the screen is filmed on a Dutch angle. Dutchangleception?
3:24 Go watch the 1976 TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" and you'll realize that John Travolta has *always* acted that way.
Have u ever done turbo ?
Is this an old episode re-edited to avoid a copyright claim?
Nope, see their pinned comment
@@Pudsey991 Thanks, I see it now.
Everytime time he said rat brain my brain autocorrected it to 'mousebrain' from Warriors
Drinking game: Take a shot for every frame of Dutch Angle in this movie
I think you'd be passed out before the first act ended