My favorite bit in the film is when Terl and Ker are watching Johnny try to escape and discuss bribing him with food. John Travolta is in character asking what a “man-animal wants to eat?” But Forest Whitaker in that moment has an almost “F my life” look to his face and grunts in annoyance when answering “ there’s no way of knowing that, sir.” My buddy and I joke about that moment a lot and Whitaker is clearly questioning his life’s choices in that moment.
To bad they screwed up the movie because the book was awesome. It really should be a mini series because the movie only got up to pg 300 of a 1000 page book. There was still a lot of story left.
I agree with the comments that the book is outstanding. When I first read the book, I didn’t know much about L. Ron Hubbard or Scientology. I came across the book on the shelf at a bookstore, back when there were still bookstore, and it sounded interesting. The reason the movie sucks, in my opinion, is because they had to leave too much of the story out and the poor adaptation of the alien race and their technology onto the screen. In addition, the Hubbard/Scientology connection was like having a buzzard tied around the movie’s neck.
Berry Pepper seems like he would throw his own mother under the bus, just saying....I could potentially appreciate his honesty, but, I don't see much loyalty In him from what I just heard he said throughout this video!
The script was awful (among so many other things) I mean, why were the Psychlos portrayed as so monumentally stupid? One scene has Barry Pepper’s character shoot and kills a Psychlo soldier. Travolta the alien leader didn’t see it happen and doesn’t believe it. So he just gives him the gun back, where Pepper shoots another Psychlo in front of him, and only then is he convinced!?! How can these alien villains be taken as a serious threat when they’re shown to be so dumb all throughout the film? I haven’t red the novel, but I’m thinking aliens couldn’t have been portrayed this inept in the book?
I could potentially see how Travolta got that much money for his role in the movie Swordfish, but for General's Daughter he got the same amount??? Seriously that's laughable
I'm currently listening to the really engaging audible audiobook version of the book. Its great. I watched the movie shortly after it came out. Its awful. But listening to the book, I kind of wish it could be turned into a long form TV Show, or better yet a gritty animated series. As animation could likely easily capture just hiw much bigger & stronger than humans the Psychlos are supposed to be. There's a scene from the book where Turl gets attacked by a Grizzly Bear & his internal monologue is that he supposes the grizzly MIGHT have weighed almost up to his weight. Almost.
Probably the worst big-budget movie ever made, story-wise. There have been bigger flops, but this film is absolute dog poo from start to finish. I'll take Water World, The 13th Warrior, The Lone Ranger, and even Cutthroat Island over this steaming pile of excrement any day of the week and twice on Sunday!
The crazy thing is, the book is great. All the Scientology crap aside. It needed to be a long form TV show. It is premium sci-fi material. The movie completely made everything about the book ridiculous. I watched this and was promptly horrified. Nothing about the book was conveyed here. L. Ron Hubbard may be responsible for a godawful cult, but he was a good sci-fi writer. He really over reached. Now "Mission: Earth" will never be realized on screen. Getting huge stars involved in your project is a non starter. They ruin everything.
Hey respect for your comment just curious you ever read the book FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard? It is 1 of my favorite works of literature and or forms of any kind of entertainment I've ever come across!!! It genuinely scared me to my core with some of it's themes and execution!!! Ok let me know!
I never went to see this, nor rent it because after seeing the trailer it was pretty clear that it is a pile of shit. In fact, most Travolta movies are utter nonsense. He's mediocre in most of his work. He is as bad as Nic Cage.
By the way, I love the movie: Sound of Thunder! Don't get me wrong, it's cheesy at times, and some of the execution of the themes are questionable, but I love the overall idea of it sincerely!!! Thoughts?? 🤔🤗
@@stvdagger8074 These weren't insurmountable problems, but it's because writers were used to plot holes being hand waved away by the audience if the movie was "fun". We still do that with modern movie. But if the movie sucked, we see the plot holes 100x easier.
I don't think it was that bad. It's stupid, but there were lots of movies that reminded me of BE: Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, Gone with the Wind. All really similar movies with bad acting
The writing of the film as you state isn’t accurate. Having heard it from Corey Mandell personally. I believe the channel film courage features a video of him explaining what happened.
I’ve always kinda liked it!🤷♀️
So how the hell them jets and fuel NOT ROT over a thousand years or whatever 😂
My favorite bit in the film is when Terl and Ker are watching Johnny try to escape and discuss bribing him with food.
John Travolta is in character asking what a “man-animal wants to eat?” But Forest Whitaker in that moment has an almost “F my life” look to his face and grunts in annoyance when answering “ there’s no way of knowing that, sir.”
My buddy and I joke about that moment a lot and Whitaker is clearly questioning his life’s choices in that moment.
John Revolting
To bad they screwed up the movie because the book was awesome.
It really should be a mini series because the movie only got up to pg 300 of a 1000 page book. There was still a lot of story left.
The only movie I straight up demanded a refund for and walked out of. This thing is Hot Garbage.
I agree with the comments that the book is outstanding. When I first read the book, I didn’t know much about L. Ron Hubbard or Scientology. I came across the book on the shelf at a bookstore, back when there were still bookstore, and it sounded interesting. The reason the movie sucks, in my opinion, is because they had to leave too much of the story out and the poor adaptation of the alien race and their technology onto the screen. In addition, the Hubbard/Scientology connection was like having a buzzard tied around the movie’s neck.
I need to tilt my phone repeatedly to view the various scenes straight
never watched it. the special effects look quite good, though the dutch angles might make me feel sick and are unnecessary.
I think this is one of the first movies I saw specifically because I heard how bad it was and was curious. It’s a bad habit I still have to this day.
Oh my... Crazy movie...
Have you ever seen one Demon monster a beast Ahghhhhhhh!
Travolta wanted to make this dreck right after GREASE
I liked the movie too.
Someone was WAY too exited to have a DUTCH head for the Camera SYSTEM - this movie hurts my neck
I actually liked this film. It's so bad, it's good. MAAAAAN...ANNNNNIIIIMAAAALLLLL!
Berry Pepper seems like he would throw his own mother under the bus, just saying....I could potentially appreciate his honesty, but, I don't see much loyalty In him from what I just heard he said throughout this video!
Loyalty to what?? He did a job & collected a paycheck. It's not like he swore a blood oath to Xenu or something
The script was awful (among so many other things) I mean, why were the Psychlos portrayed as so monumentally stupid? One scene has Barry Pepper’s character shoot and kills a Psychlo soldier. Travolta the alien leader didn’t see it happen and doesn’t believe it. So he just gives him the gun back, where Pepper shoots another Psychlo in front of him, and only then is he convinced!?! How can these alien villains be taken as a serious threat when they’re shown to be so dumb all throughout the film? I haven’t red the novel, but I’m thinking aliens couldn’t have been portrayed this inept in the book?
🤣 This film was Both hilarious and ridiculous While you were still learning To spell your name I Was being Trained to conquer galaxy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I could potentially see how Travolta got that much money for his role in the movie Swordfish, but for General's Daughter he got the same amount??? Seriously that's laughable
Actually The General’s Daughter out grossed Swordfish and cost less to produce.
Travolta sucks.
@@deecook8393do tell, lol
I'm currently listening to the really engaging audible audiobook version of the book. Its great.
I watched the movie shortly after it came out. Its awful.
But listening to the book, I kind of wish it could be turned into a long form TV Show, or better yet a gritty animated series. As animation could likely easily capture just hiw much bigger & stronger than humans the Psychlos are supposed to be. There's a scene from the book where Turl gets attacked by a Grizzly Bear & his internal monologue is that he supposes the grizzly MIGHT have weighed almost up to his weight. Almost.
Let a sleeping dog lie. It was pure garbage.
Probably the worst big-budget movie ever made, story-wise. There have been bigger flops, but this film is absolute dog poo from start to finish. I'll take Water World, The 13th Warrior, The Lone Ranger, and even Cutthroat Island over this steaming pile of excrement any day of the week and twice on Sunday!
The problem with the movie is that Hubbard was not that good of a writer. Not hating, just saying.
I know I'm in the minority but the movie wasn't that bad and the book was pretty good. No I'm nt a scientologist.
Canadian outback? lol
The crazy thing is, the book is great. All the Scientology crap aside. It needed to be a long form TV show. It is premium sci-fi material. The movie completely made everything about the book ridiculous. I watched this and was promptly horrified. Nothing about the book was conveyed here. L. Ron Hubbard may be responsible for a godawful cult, but he was a good sci-fi writer. He really over reached. Now "Mission: Earth" will never be realized on screen. Getting huge stars involved in your project is a non starter. They ruin everything.
Hey respect for your comment just curious you ever read the book FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard? It is 1 of my favorite works of literature and or forms of any kind of entertainment I've ever come across!!! It genuinely scared me to my core with some of it's themes and execution!!! Ok let me know!
@johnjamesleahy4065 I have. It's on the shelf. Great book. For all of his shortcomings, he was a really great writer.
One of my favourite books
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It has some good parts and quality effects. But overall yea it's poor.
Every shot is a Dutch angle lol
I never went to see this, nor rent it because after seeing the trailer it was pretty clear that it is a pile of shit. In fact, most Travolta movies are utter nonsense. He's mediocre in most of his work. He is as bad as Nic Cage.
How dare you. Nicholas Cage is a national treasure!
The movie was decent lol
Sure, if you're comparing it to The Amazing Bulk 🤣
By the way, I love the movie: Sound of Thunder! Don't get me wrong, it's cheesy at times, and some of the execution of the themes are questionable, but I love the overall idea of it sincerely!!! Thoughts?? 🤔🤗
It sucked!!
I didnt think it was that bad. I didnt dig the main actor personally in this. But i wanted to see what happened next lol
You must be a trump supporter. That's exactly how they think.
One of my fav. movies - easily as good as Starship Troopers. I never have understood the hate directed towards it.
John Travolta hamming it up - The idea that cavemen can learn to fly Harriers in a day, and DUTCH ANGLES non-stop
"Easily as good as Starship Troopers" LMAO, you're tripping. It's a dogshit movie and it's insulting you'd even mention it in the same sentence as ST.
Then you should watch it again when sober
@@apreviousseagle836 Also that Harriers can still fly after being abandoned for a 1000 years - Even the fuel would have been useless.
@@stvdagger8074 These weren't insurmountable problems, but it's because writers were used to plot holes being hand waved away by the audience if the movie was "fun". We still do that with modern movie. But if the movie sucked, we see the plot holes 100x easier.
I don't think it was that bad. It's stupid, but there were lots of movies that reminded me of BE: Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, Gone with the Wind. All really similar movies with bad acting
Seek help.
The writing of the film as you state isn’t accurate. Having heard it from Corey Mandell personally.
I believe the channel film courage features a video of him explaining what happened.
The sad thing is this movie is better than anything Ron Howard has even done. He should of directed it😂
No way is this trash better than Willow.
@@ryandonovan5205 I'm just going to assume some day drinking was happening here. Either that or you're Travolta.
@IHRZGHKIP they got me chained up in the basement of a scientology church, they made me sat it smiley ☺️
@@ryandonovan5205 That makes sense!
Really? Better than Apollo 13? What drugs are you on? Whatever they are, lower the dosage.