It wasn't that bad !

microbit, I agree. I also wanted to see why it was so bad, and I didn't like it per se, but it wasn't painful to watch. I watched Serenity around that time, and found Battlefield Earth to be about the same experience. I don't even remember which was which... Although, to be fair, I didn't watch any of Firefly.

Battlefield Earth is now downloadable off Netflix and I saw it last night. And I agree with you, it's not THAT bad. I've seen movies a lot worse than this. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, The Avengers, Wild Wild West, Freddy got Fingered, Electra, Shira: The Vampire Samurai, etc. Now those were bad movies!

To me this movie was very much in the style of 1980's sci-fi such as The Last Starfighter and Enemy Mine. Not great, but not deserving of being among the worst movies ever made.

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No, it is not. It was a typical Connan the Barbarian movie. with jet fighters =))

Yes it wasn't that bad at all... It was horrible and a awful mutilation of a great book!

Just go buy the book and read it, opposite to the movie version is fantastic!

Book stellar moments missing from the movie:

1) when Jonnie finds the US President last shelter.

2) when Jonnie detonate a tactical nuke on one of the Psychlo's mining outpost.

3) when Jonnie use Uranium bullets to shot and detonate the living Psychlo's bodies.

4) In the aftermath of the destruction of the Psychlo's Empire (that happens half way on the book) the whole universe converse on Earth to find out who wiped them out.

5) Another Alien races powerfull as the Psychlo will try to destroy Earth.

6) The space battle over lake Victoria area above Africa, Star Wars battles pales with the narrative and the final climax crash on Earth of a gigantic Alien capital mother ship.

And the list goes on and on....

What the writers have done to the original plot have no excuse at all.

I agree... I like the film actually... Bought it on DVD and watch it probably once a year... I think all the mega-negative reviews are people just jumping on the hater-bandwagon... Bottom line-- it's a pretty decent flick...

"Battlefield Earth" was not the biggest financial bomb of the year 2000. A good candidate for that title is "Supernova." "Battlefield" had a production cost of $44,000,000 according to IMDB and earned about half of that at the box office. "Supernova," with a production budget of about $60 million, earned only about $15 million. As for quality? "Supernova" made Battlefield Earth" look like an Oscar nominee.

I completely agree with you microbit. I thought BE was a decent enough entertainment. I think why this film got razed through the coals so badly by critics probably had to do with a long simmering resentment with The Church of Scientology.

Up until the year 2005 or so, the media was absolutely terrified of the church's known harassment treatment of any journalist who said anything negative about the CoS. Since a bad movie review was safe, the media had a field day.

The fact is BE was pretty decent and if L. Ron Hubbard's name wasn't attached, I think the reviews would have been much kinder.