| | Battlefield Earth DVD (6 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Action Movies, Horror Videos, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Based On A Novel, Aliens, Future/Futuristic Worlds | | Starring | John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, Richard Tyson, Kim Coates, Jim Meskimen, Michael Byrne, Sabine Karsenti, Christian Tessier | | Director | Roger Christian | | Composer | Elia Cmiral | | Director of Photography | Giles Nuttgens | | Editor | Robin Russell | | Executive Producer | Andrew Stevens | | Producer | John Travolta, Elie Samaha, Jonathan Krane | | Production Designer | Patrick Tatopoulos | | Screenwriter | Corey Mandell | | Source Writer | L. Ron Hubbard |
Kelly Preston, Forest Whitaker, John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Richard Tyson, Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti - Dir:Roger Christian This big-screen adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's popular sci-fi novel features dedicated Scientologist John Travolta in the starring role, playing Terl. As the leader of the evil Psychlos, Terl and his race have taken over the world's natural resources and disregarded everyone and everything else. It's up to Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler (Barry Pepper), a brave human, to battle the Psychlos and restore normalcy to the world. Directed by Roger Christian, the art and set decorator responsible for sci-fi classics ALIEN and STAR WARS. It's the year 3000, and Earth is under the dominion of the Psychos from planet Psychlo, a race of nine-foot-tall aliens intent on strip-mining the planet and using the remaining scraps of backward humanity (which they call Man-Animals) as slave labor. Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler (Barry Pepper) is an ambitious young man who decides to explore the region beyond his home, to learn more about the monsters who have taken over his world. Terl (John Travolta), head of Psychlo Security, is ready to leave the backwater planet, but when he is denied a promotion he schemes to make himself wealthy and powerful. Terl comes across Jonnie and decides the human's above-average intelligence is just what he needs, educating him and letting him loose to mine gold in an isolated region. Jonnie must take this opportunity to try to destroy the Psychlos and free humanity from oppression, with only the help of the other disorganized tribes still existing on planet Earth, and with Terl watching his every move. BATTLEFIELD EARTH is an action-packed sci-fi movie based on the best-seller by L. Ron Hubbard, which Travolta (who both starred in the movie and produced it) had wanted to make into a movie for more than 15 years. Theatrical Release: May 12, 2000 (NATIONAL)
Filmed on location in Quebec, Canada.
The finished screenplay only covers half of the original novel's plot, in order to allow for a sequel.
BATTLEFIELD EARTH director Roger Christian won an Academy Award for Best Art Decoration/Set Decoration for STAR WARS and served as second-unit director on STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE.
Producer-star Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, are both members of the Church of Scientology, founded by BATTLEFIELD EARTH author L. Ron Hubbard.
Star Travolta wanted to make a film of BATTLEFIELD EARTH for more than 15 years, waiting until he had built up enough clout in Hollywood to produce and star in it himself.
Battlefield Earth Quotes/Excerpts: "Man-Animal will never gain leverage over a Psychlo!"Terl (John Travolta)
This is the only Sabine Karsenti video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Christian Tessier. Battlefield Earth | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.19) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 2000 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8927  | | CD Universe Part number | 1286806 | | Catalog number | 18566 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 16, 2001 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Running Time | 117 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Dolby Noise Reduction; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Widescreen; Special Edition |
Battlefield Earth Movie Review Average Rating: (2.3 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Escaped aliens from AREA 51
Well this is a good movie, though Travolta has made better films, but science-fiction is one of my favorites and I do like the special effects and the costumes, they are cool and I noticed that this movie got some negative reviews, but you can't always please everyone, but I do like this movie.
Submitted by ciricafrost (Gainesville, TX.) 
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 exceptionally bad
Absolutely one of the worst movies in the science fiction genre to be released in the last 20 years. Almost hysterically comical, its so bad you can't possible take it any other way, it simply must have been made as a parody by everone involved. So many bad reviews panning this flic have been written it has now enterred the pantheon of one of worst of the worst big production flims of all time, right up with Ishtar, Heavens Gate and Bolero.
Submitted by crackersflorida (Cape Coral, Fl. USA)
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One of the most unintentionally funny films ever made
Don't get me wrong, this is not only a horrible film, it fails to entertain and will never ever convince you that it was inspired at all by any intelligence. It is laughably bad because every other moment in the movie is hammy, massively silly, at a nauseating angle or it's a totally undisputable rip-off of a scene from the matrix. I am talking about the scene where Neo and Trinity are shooting all the marble and plaster off the walls. They do the EXACT same thing in this movie except much worse. The movie is laughably bad but it's still horrible and can induce nausea quite easily. Avoid unless you're watching with a Rifftrax.
Submitted by Russell (New Mexico, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Quite possibly the worst movie ever made...
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Submitted by Jim Bib (Toronto, Canada)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  This movie butchered the L. Ron Hubbard novel
I believe this movie completely decimated the L. Ron Hubbard novel, Battlefield Earth. It had lousy drama, worse special effects and didn't follow the plot at all to the book. The only thing the same was the character's names. John Travolta can dance not act, D+.
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Battlefield Earth DVD Region 1
Snap Case
Single Side - Single Layer
Special Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes: John Travolta Makeup Test
Audio Commentary: Roger Christian - Director, Patrick Tatopoulos - Designer
Featurette:
1. EVOLUTION AND CREATION
2. CREATIVE VISUAL EFFECTS
Trailers:
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. TV Spots
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies: Cast & Crew
Storyboards
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