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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
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12 May 2000 (USA) moreTagline:
Prepare For Battle morePlot:
After enslavement & near extermination by an alien race in the year 3000, humanity begins to fight back. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
9 wins & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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One of the greatest sci fi comedies ever made! more (1217 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Travolta | ... | Terl | |
| Barry Pepper | ... | Jonnie Goodboy Tyler | |
| Forest Whitaker | ... | Ker | |
| Kim Coates | ... | Carlo | |
| Sabine Karsenti | ... | Chrissy | |
| Michael Byrne | ... | Parson Staffer | |
| Christian Tessier | ... | Mickey | |
| Sylvain Landry | ... | Sammy | |
| Richard Tyson | ... | Robert the Fox | |
| Christopher Freeman | ... | Processing Clerk | |
| John Topor | ... | Processing Clerk / One-Eyed Guard / Teleportation Supervisor | |
| Shaun Austin-Olsen | ... | Planetship | |
| Tim Post | ... | Assistant Planetship / Psychlo Guard | |
| Earl Pastko | ... | Bartender | |
| Michel Perron | ... | Rock |
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Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi action.Parents Guide:
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118 min | USA:119 min (video version) | South Korea:95 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Malaysia:U | Finland:K-12 (2000) (theatrical) | Finland:K-15 (2001) (DVD) (revised version) | South Korea:12 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | South Africa:10V | Netherlands:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Denmark:15 | France:U | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIA | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37411) | Philippines:PG-13 | Iceland:12Fun Stuff
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When this film swept all its nominated categories at the 2001 Razzie Awards, it was referred to throughout the ceremony as "Plan Nine from L. Ron Hubbard" (as in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)). moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: Many of the human males apparently were able to shave everyday or so, since few had beards. moreFAQ
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My spouse and I went to see this on opening night. We were expecting to see an extremely bad and costly film, and we were not really disappointed. It is a testament to John Travolta's genius that his career survived this disaster at all.
As they say, garbage-in, garbage out. Start with an L Ron Hubbard novel (your first mistake) featuring a completely plagiarized dark-skinned, war-like and hairy alien culture with wrinkly foreheads (if this sounds like Klingons to you, I thought so too!), and add unfortunate Barry "can't get a break" (or maybe it should be 'cant pick a script') Pepper and all you need is Travolta himself - playing the arrogant, merciless, slightly effeminate and quite under-sized leader of the alien colonists. Remove any hint of character development from the script and use the worst of the worst black box technobabble explanations for plot devices. Finally, stay true to the idiotic gibberish you based the film on in the first place, and you've got the makings of a rolling-on-the-floor comedy.
In fact, opening night, in a packed theater, people started laughing out loud about 20 minutes into the film and never really stopped. We had a great time that night. Halfway through the film more than half the crowd was actually interacting with the film, asking "Mr Worf, where's Commander Riker?" and asking troublesome questions about how many hundreds of years gas would remain viable in the gas-tank of a Harrier.
If you need to know about the plot - it's this simple - Earth has been conquered by an amazingly stupid group of Klingon-like aliens, and the remaining humans live in a large domed slave labor camp where they are taught that their sole purpose is servitude because they are stupid, weak, etc. Barry Pepper somehow becomes convinced that he's not born to be a slave, and learns to fly a harrier, etc. It's really not worth the effort of typing. There are a few not-so-subtle and not very original but good messages about ethnocentrism to be found here, but not much else. Some day when you need a good laugh, rent this or borrow it from your local bad film collector.