Battlefield Earth Reaction (FIRST TIME WATCHING) - Nice Dude Movie Night
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- "While you were still learning to SPELL YOUR NAME! I, was being trained to CONQUER GALAXIES!" - John Travolta, Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Samurai Cop, The Room, The Last Airbender
This movie remains the greatest unintentional comedy masterpiece ever made. The scene in which cavemen learn and master piloting harrier jump jets in an hour using a simulator which couldn't possibly have any power after a thousand years of laying stagnant causes me to evacuate my bowels with joy every time see it.
I watched your Dune review where you talked about how it was flawed, but there was a quality to it because the story was there.
This movie is what happens when the story isn’t there.
This is the best film to come out since _Morbius_ . I vividly remember watching it, and thinking at the end: Woah...that was... a movie. Travolta's character had such depth, his acting made me rethink my life. 11/10
Have you seen the deleted scene in which he says "It's Psychlin' Time!"? Man, I wonder why they cut it out. It's such a powerful, riveting character moment.
It can't be "since" because Battlefield Earth came out before the Morbius movie. Are you not good with years?
@@wesmcinerny4524 r/Whoosh
@@wesmcinerny4524 I feel like you didn't get the joke.
just remember, as far as we know tom cruise 100% believes this as fact.
Call me crazy, but both the movie and the book may be part of their gospel. 🤪😂
Fun Fact : This is the sequel to Saturday Night Fever
Teeeechnically there’s already a sequel 😂 Maybe it’s a trilogy??
Fun fact...Staying Alive is the sequel to Saturday Night Fever...this is part 3.
Makes you want to hear Terl just drop a hard R N-bomb out of nowhere.
That's why the Psychlos are wearing boogie shoes.
Sunday Morning Diarrhea.
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I actually used Travolta's performance in this movie as inspiration for my school's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as the primadona comedic punching bag of the play (Nick Bottom).
I was told I was the best part because of my hammy acting.
I really enjoyed the book as a kid, and even reread it the last few years and didn't think it was that bad. I remember looking forward to this movie and being so excited and it's the most disappointment I've ever had with a movie.
While the book was very entertaining, if cheesy, it is worth mentioning that the 2nd half of the story is a bank trying to repossess Earth.
This is the story of Scientology
Based on a book by the guy who created Scientology, and likely financed by it, too... A "cult" classic in name only, probably. I've seen worse, but not many.
The reason this movie is *so* bad is because while it's adapting an L. Ron Hubbard book, it was not produced by the Church of Scientology. This was Travolta's pet project. Every line, every Dutch angle is because John's not a writer or a filmmaker. His plan was to play the protagonist (whose name is Jonny Goodboy because L. Ron Hubbard was a hack writer) but by the time he managed to put this thing together, he was too old for the part. And it was designed as a two-part film series so that's why it takes its time introducing motives and protagonists...But the production company was sued for fraud. Also nobody wanted to see a part two.
Ladies & gentlemen...The FATHER of Scientology!
👏👏👏!!!!
I would recommend watching the Nostalgia Critic review of this movie, instead of actually watching it. You get basically all of the plot, some good jokes and a reaction that rightly rips this movie Apart.
John Travolta is a scientologist.
Tom Cruise was too short for the aliens size.
I used to love this movie when I was a kid. It used to come on tv all the time when I spent the summers at my grandparents out of state. it reminds me of good times. but now that I'm older this movie is pretty bad lol
Roger Christian, the director, was production designer on the first Star Wars and Alien (winning an Academy Award for the former and getting a nomination for the latter). He was also second-unit director on Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace. Production Designer Patrik Tatopoulos worked on a bunch of high-profile movies, including Independence Day. Composer Elia Cmiral scored John Frankenheimer's Ronin two years earlier. There are several very talented Actors in this. And I read the book, it *was* possible to make a decent adaptation...
So yeah, I really enjoy watching this flick but only with the right "What the fuck were they smoking?"-mindset.
When they say "the book was better" they mean "...cuz the movie was septic tank scrapings compared to the book. Amazing, loooooong book, but short sad movie adaptation.
In the movie they explained they defeated all the world's powers and less than 17 minutes
This is one of the movies ever made.
It's actually a better movie after reading the book.
This is only the first 300 pages
Rifftrax does an amazing job with this film.
Rifftrax is the only way to watch some films. This one is a good example, and the whole Twilight series as well 😂
10:05 mentioning freedom and mel gibson and braveheart
very next scene he literally steals the speech
and then then this guy who comes in again at 11:03 is actually the crazy irish guy from braveheart lol
You brave boys. I had to watch this with commentary from Rifftrax to make it bearable
Guys, don;t bother watching this movie its really ba---
Whoops.
😭😭😭 it can’t be undone. Thanks for watching, though!
So very awful. One of the most bothersome things was the jets... They are 1000 years old at this point in the movie! I mean come on!
This movie is annoying to watch because of the stupid Dutch angles. I have to keep twisting my neck while watching.
I swear there are so many dutch angle shots I just assume at some point that they are gonna slide off the screen
I will tell you a secret. I saw that movie in theater...
I never talked about that until now.
I loved this movie growing up and I have no idea why. The Dutch tilt alone was sickening.
John Travolta was supposed to be the teenage boy, but he wanted to be one of the Warriors instead
Fun fact Psyclos we’re ruling Earth for 1000 years and they never found Fort Knox😮🤔🤭🥱🙄
Well, theres certain places on Earth that Psyclos can't go due to radiation.
sfdebris did a review of this movie where he went into the making and it was amazing, due to "Hollywood financing" this movie cost more then the lord of the rings trilogy.
I watched both this and Cats in theater. This was worse because it's so, SO forgettable. I couldn't have told you a thing about it until I watched your review and remembered it, and I know I'll forget it again within a couple months. Cats, on the other hand, was unforgettably bad, and for that, I respect it. I mean, in comparison to this movie I respect it.
John Travolta's character wanted to go back home because he wanted to live in luxury instead of living on some back water world and deal with what the character considered an "inferior species".as head of security.
This movie is hilarious hot garbage, but those gun sound effects do be extra crunchy. Just watch Event Horizon, far superior movie
Did you see the Fred Durst directorial debut with John Travolta? TheFanatic.
Yep! We actually already made a video on it. 😁
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The quintessential "So Bad, it's Good" movie.
I love how after 1000 years all the military supplies and weapons are still in working order, but on the here and now thing have a 10 to 15 year life. Thanks planned obsolence lol
I forgot how fucking painful this movie was
The book was kind of ok. I mean, it was the usual Hubbard "too long for no reason" story, but there at least was a decent idea behind it.
Making a movie from it was a bad idea since Scientology would of course be involved and that's guaranteed to screw things up.
Watch this war movie called 'Cross of iron'
Noted! Thanks for watching.
incredible to think that it was directed by someone involved in the original star wars and Alien
Good thing you two didn’t do the drinking game of ‘take a shot everytime you see a Dutch angle’
this is a calsic, im not sure if i ever watched the whole of it, but they used to show it on tv all the time(those channels that show only movies)
Movie is wired , but I find him charming.
Agreed!
This one of those examples of really bad movies which you still find interesting even when it's really bad. It has some special atmosphere, that movies is so bad, but it was still fun for me. But I that person who likes watching bad movies just for fun. :-)
I've just saw it yesterday (with Czech dubbing) and I would say yes, it is nonsense, nothing really makes sense in this movie, but it's not as bad as people are saying, I saw much worse movies. You can't take it seriously, if you watch it like commedy, then it works somehow. :-D But as someone said, you can't make good movie from bad book. The worst thing about whole movie story is that nonsense with cavemen in fighters and operating nuclear bombs, that's really nonsense. This movie could be legendary (well, it is somehow) if they did some things better. Camera is not the biggest problem even when it's really annoying, the biggest problem for me is story, it just doesn't make any sense.
Oh for sure! There are always worse movies haha. We're huge fans of comically bad movies but this one just drained us lol
@@NiceDudeMovieNight the movie is nothing like the book and everything about it is hot garbage. the book though is actually good sci-fi and made tons more sense
Completely agree.
He said ooh when I said ooh when they showed that girls tongue lol yeah lol love that v shot lol so funny explanation why you call it that look started calling this guy Caesar cause he does like Caesar does taking over now he's the leader lol
HI'm still convinced this movie is a misunderstood classic. I'll admit it has issues, but seeing this in an empty theater when it came out was a blast.
I truly think Barry Pepper does a lot with what he was given. I wish he was given more lead roles.
It is filmed terribly, though. I see no discernable virtue or strength in the direction & cinematography.
Thank goodness you guys started watching good movies too. XD
I saw this movie in the theater and, even at 14 years old, I knew it was a cheap-looking, poorly-written shitpile. Poor Barry Pepper, we haven't seen him since.
I read the book afterwards because I figured it had to be better than the movie.
It is, but only marginally.
Nose plugs were necessary, because this film stinks.
Hey you just played probably the coolest sniper in movie history ! You want to be the lead in a Scientology piece of shit movie??!! Yup!!! 👍
This is one of my favorite bad films. I watch it to make fun of it. On a scale of 0 (boring) to -10 (must see and make fun of) I give it a -7.5.
so was the guy that did the 60s Batman, the one filming this?
Ha, this should be good..😏
Worst movie ever. So relentlessly awful and totally inept that it defies explanation, and almost feels like a deliberate insult to the viewer's intelligence.
The book is so much better. The film had scenes completely cut out and it was badky edited just to get it in theatets on the day promised.
The lady alien with the tongue was John Travolta's wife.
Watching Battlefield Earth is like watching a goat puke.....
How dare you call this a bad movie, best sci fy ever....
The movie was a travesty, the book was better. I read it before I knew Scientology existed. In the book the aliens invaded by poisoning the atmosphere, killing most people instantly. That's why military equipment and other stuff was stuff is basically untouched.
Poor scripting and direction killed the movie. Unfortunately Scientology then this movie killed any chance for Hubbard to be taken seriously as a writer. I would have loved to see his Mission Earth decology put to film. Then after this movie. I thought no, never make it a movie series, please.
Just saw “saw picture of Travolta and I’m sold.” If you get to the end and you’re still sold…UNSUBSCRIBE!!!!
So Travolta took this, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(novel), a rather thick book, and distilled it down to a 117 minute movie. The book is actually ok in an old pulpy way, but it really needs to be a streamed series to do it any justice.
This movie is good to watch when you start feeling like every new😮 movie is garbage. It recalibrates a viewers expectations and truly gives viewers the gift of enjoying movies again. We are so spoiled as viewers and over time our expectations are so high that we need to watch this flaming trash pile in order to reset our judgement.
And after all that, they rely on British harriers
I just skipped to the end to see if you would say it sucked. I am glad you did. This was such a bad movie.
Do you WANT lunch?! 👊🐁
Cast was soo good, why do I like this movie? I feel old..
Have you ever watch Zardoz (1974)?
Zardoz is a ridiculous movie but far better than this.
this is based on a religion that travolta follows.cant member name
This movie won nine Razzies.
Worst Picture
Worst Director - Roger Christian
Worst Actor - John Travolta (tied with his performance in Lucky Numbers)
Worst Supporting Actor - Barry Pepper
Worst Supporting Actress - Kelly Preston
Worst Screenplay
Worst Screen Couple - John Travolta and anyone else on screen with him
Worst Drama of the Razzie's First 25 Years
Worst Picture of the Decade
Be glad you just watched the movie, the book is so much worse.
Watch KungPow!! Its a great kungfu paradie that uses deepfakes , bad dubs and old kung fu movie material
The last act seems like they ripping off Star Wars lol
If you have about 50 minutes, I'd advise you to check out SFDEBRIS' review of it.
Fun fact: this film sucks.
Doesn't john Travolta in this look like vegeta A bunch especially like the outline of the hair and how he acts and saying stuff like he being trained from birth to conquer galaxies sounds like vegeta lol I use to have this book dam not a big book but it is a big book over thousand pages I couldn't get into it too much but I kept trying cause I liked the movie and dam be cool to say I read A over thousand page book im pretty sure its longer than it lol
It's an expansion upon his Scientology belief and he just went with it... The story is OK, but the presentation just doesn't grab you and take you into this world, there's no world building to bridge to it... That's why this failed, not many just dived into it and went with the story, the beginning was just too jarring...
This is what happens when a vanity film is made and even the ones making it don't understand or share the vision of what it's going to be... He no doubt tried to explain what he wanted, and he got what he wanted but nobody bothered to join it all together or give it a bit of life and purpose, it's just a series of disjointed scenes that probably make sense to Travolta, but everyone else just did what they were told not understanding what it was all about...
Gonna be that guy and point out that you just kept repeating travolta's motivation. The plot was taking earth back from the aliens.
One of the best worst movies ever
This is without a doubt the worst big-budget movie ever
Terrible movie, awesome book.
Don't hate on me, but i actually liked this movie. Scientology, not so much. L. Ron Hubbard? Ultimate con man. But i had fun watchin it.
you watched it so the other watchers don't have to. thx 4 ur service 🪖
PLEASE! PEOPLE! Read the original book or even better get the incredible Amazon Audible book. This movie was an insult to the actual story.