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Lack of talent ruins a movie that could have been good.
Battlefield Earth is an adaptation of the book by L. Ron Hubbard.
While the book was a rather interesting story about humans, led by Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, taking back Earth from the Psychlos, the film has turned the story into a string of badly filmed action sequences, with silly camera angles and awful editing. The Psychlos already have human workers before capturing Jonnie. This change in the story serves no purpose but makes the story even more messy. The film then focuses on some of the story elements in the book, but leaves most of it out, including the entire last half.
Considering this was a dream project for John Travolta, it's strange that he would let the book be made into such a bad movie, especially such a silly one. While the book was not without flaws, it was actually pretty good, but the movie is for the most part more or less incompetently made. The director, writers and editors all did a bad job. It does have some entertainment value though, which keeps me from giving it the lowest rating.
Please forgive my pretensions. I am but a humble movie reviewer. I and all my kind are most likely extinct by now
This a great movie. Perhaps people would like Battlefield Earth more if John Travolta and Forest Whitaker were playing the human rebels instead of alien guards.
In one scene the Alien leader Terl (John Travolta) picks up a laser gun and shoots/slices off a subordinates arm. They say scenes like this browbeat the viewer into liking the movie, in the sense of, ". . .wow look at what these movie makers are allowed to show" (ok, that's just what I say)
Imagine if it were real tho. . . Which I suppose is what you are trying to imagine when you watch a movie. . . If it were real, and I was an Alien soldier, in John Travoltas' Alien army, I'm sure i'd be impressed.
But the thing is. . . losing his arm. . . hardly hurts the 'guy'. He looks dazed but merely responds, "Yes sir I'll get right on it" Leaving to accomplish his mission.
These are tough aliens.
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