John Travolta thinks the media killed Battlefield Earth

bob · September 20, 2014, 09:57:06 AM

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/John-Travolta-Blames-Media-Epic-Failure-67281.html

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Javakoala · September 20, 2014, 07:04:27 PM

Frankly, I don't get all the hate for the movie either. I thought it was the best comedy I had seen in years. The scene where he blows the cow's leg off still has me chuckling.

Jack · September 20, 2014, 07:38:24 PM

Yeah well me and like six other guys think it wasn't really all that bad. I mean it was bad, but I've seen far worse.

Says the guys who has 9,400 posts on a bad movie board.

Olivia Bauer · September 20, 2014, 10:48:39 PM

Travolta's got yellowish spunk in his skull instead of a brain.

You punch him in the head and he makes a hollow "THUNK".

bob · September 21, 2014, 09:02:48 AM

I really hated this movie and I got a massive headache after I was done watching it due to the excessive use of angle shots.

Bushma · September 21, 2014, 10:54:38 AM

Quote from: Jack on September 20, 2014, 07:38:24 PM
Yeah well me and like six other guys think it wasn't really all that bad. I mean it was bad, but I've seen far worse.

I completely agree. I didn't think it was horrid, it just wasn't good. I may have to give it another watch but it was a fun Sci-Fi movie.

Quote from: Javakoala on September 20, 2014, 07:04:27 PM
The scene where he blows the cow's leg off still has me chuckling.

LOL! Yup all that was missing was a good BBQ pit!

SynapticBoomstick · September 21, 2014, 07:31:23 PM

Battlefield Earth is good but it's for the wrong reasons.

Pilgermann · September 21, 2014, 07:38:22 PM

Quote from: bob on September 21, 2014, 09:02:48 AM
I really hated this movie and I got a massive headache after I was done watching it due to the excessive use of angle shots.

Ditto. I tried watching it and the nonstop Dutch angle crap was unbearable, otherwise I could imagine it being kind of funny to watch.

Flangepart · September 22, 2014, 08:19:20 AM

The media? Naw...self inflicted wound. Travolta just pulled the trigger.

FatFreddysCat · September 22, 2014, 11:25:29 AM

I've seen worse movies than "Battlefield Earth," but not many that cost so much money and came with such massive hype. I mean geez, to hear Travolta during the pre-release press interviews for this movie, you would've thought "B.E." was gonna be the second coming of "Star Wars."

Then it opened ... and the flick was an instant punch line. Roger Ebert's review of this movie is my absolute favorite of all of his writing, he described it as "like taking a long bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time," and said "Some movies run off the rails, but this one is like the train crash in The Fugitive."

Ted C · September 22, 2014, 07:54:11 PM

I've read the book, which is tolerable, if kind of childish.

The movie just destroyed everything that was moderately amusing about the book.

Travolta turned a mediocre book into an awful movie. He has no one to blame but himself.

Bushma · September 22, 2014, 07:57:36 PM

Quote from: FatFreddysCat on September 22, 2014, 11:25:29 AM
I've seen worse movies than "Battlefield Earth,"

Yup! I'd watch this over The Room any day!

DrSimonCowell · September 23, 2014, 09:45:51 AM

Battlefield Earth. LOL!!! I have never seen this film. nut I have read the L. Ron Hubbard book it is based on. But do you all want to hear something fascinating?

Battlefield Earth was the first movie Wyre and his wife saw together. This was before they were married. But of course the date of the wedding ceremony may shock you. It was on Sept 11, 2001.

That is all, Bad Movie Lovers. Have a nice one.