10. John Travolta 9. John Travolta 8. John Travolta 7. John Travolta 6. John Travolta 5. The guy from Grease 4. The guy from Look Who's Talking 3. The guy from Face/Off that's not Nicolas Cage 2. The guy from Pulp Fiction 1. Forrest Whitaker
hahaha I remember once as a gimmick some TV channel broadcasted a whole programming block with the picture rotated 90 degrees so people could watch it ok while lying down on the couch. If they put this movie, to watch some scenes correctly you'd have had to actually stand on your head
i love when people find positives in something negative. it's a much more rewarding experience. sometimes, something can do things so wrong that they become a wonder and something deserving of study.
This movie is so over-the-top. It's also the first time I saw Forest Whitaker and Kim Coates aka Tig from Sons of Anarchy. This movie is a total guilty pleasure.
I was working at a Walden Books when the film came out. Since we were located close to the Scientology hub in Clearwater, the church would call us over and over. Each time they'd ask if we'd sold a copy of the book, or any other L.Ron lit. They were very adamant about being able to supply us with more copies of "Battlefield Earth" if we ran out. Needless to say, I don't recall seeing a single copy being sold.
My dad sells books online from his home and one day we randomly got a Battlefield Earth (book art not movie art) mini-poster in the mail. The envelope didn't have anything blatant regarding it's source; but it's obvious where it came from. I can only assume they thought we were an actual book store. The art was nice, though.
The Coen Brothers film Blood Simple, the directors cut is actually a few minutes shorter than the theatrical cut. The shining removed footage from the film after a week of being in theatres, but nothing specifically for home video.
Dear Snob, if you can see this. You are my favorite youtuber. You have got me through a lot of hard times. Making me laugh when not much else could. One day I hope to meet you. Keep killing it Brad i bought one of your dvds and will soon get more.
I saw Battlefield Earth in the theater when it came out. I saw a scathing review of it in The New York Times, and just had to check it out for myself. Then I read the book and bought some Battlefield Earth trading cards I found on discount at a gas station. One of the cards was autographed by Barry Pepper. I wish I still had it, but some roommate threw it away.
It should be pointed out that the Psychlos don't actually speak English. When he's talking to Terl, Johnny is speaking their language and when he's talking to the humans he's speaking English.
"It's like someone couldn't decide to dress up for a Rob Zombie or a Kiss concert, so they decided to go to a romulan costume shop to assemble both." One of the sharpest and funniest snob moments.
I love this movie. I saw it in the theaters when he came out and everyone in the theater loved it. All six of us. Perhaps elderly couple didn't like it because they walked out in the middle of it. But four of us stay to finish it. I still like this movie. But I read the book and I love the book.
Battlefield Earth is a guilty pleasure. It's so bad it's like watching a train with 1000 boxcars crashing and it just keeps going. You just can't turn your eyes away from the disaster.
Interesting idea for a video and I do think this delivers a lot of unexpected fun. If I can be honest for a moment "pieceofcake" being a generic encouragement that has lost it original meaning is a decent bit of world building. Some terms are just so common that they live on beyond their original context.
I was fortunate to have seen this gem in the theatre during its spectacular run @ the box office. It was on one of those Friday nights that made you want to drive straight off a cliff. But that's not even the best part. I ended up seeing the film @ the former "Metro 12" movie theatre in San Jacinto, California, the literal and actual home of the world-infamous, Scientology sanctuary, "Gold Base." It added a creepiness to the movie that no other location ever could.
Note, I wrote this before finishing the episode: The Projection Booth had an episode on this movie. They interviewed the director (who got his start designing sets for Star Wars if I remember correctly), apparently he said the aliens where supposed to be about 8 feet tall in the book, but there was nothing in the budget for this. The compromise was to use Dutch angles and forced perspective to try to make them look bigger than people, but not 8 feet tall. Any movie not funded by Scientologists would have just rewritten the aliens as human size.
@@BWMaguslol it’s funny to think that making some of the actors be on their knees when near characters meant to be bigger was something no one had thought of that wasn’t making home movies
I would be so much more excited tor Ep. IX if it had been Terl's laugh instead of the Emperor's. I have no desire to see the Emperor again, but Rey vs John Travolta at his most insane? Sign me up.
Brad... thanks for finally covering my favorite bad movie of all time! It’s such a perfect storm of incompetence that it never fails to cheer me up. And yes, I have damn near all the figures for it (just need to get Ker), along with one of the Psychlo Battlecrafts, a set of the Upper Deck trading cards along with a sealed box, a promotional baseball cap, the teaser and theatrical posters, and a t-shirt with the theatrical poster art on it. Also, for all its flaws, as a teacher of mine in high school pointed out, it’s a story that has teamwork saving the planet rather than the fate resting on Jonnie and Jonnie alone.
Great work trying something different, Brad. I thought this video would be rather weak, but ended up really liking it and I hope you do something like this again. One suggestion though: Use a few other title cards in the count down. Doesn't have to be 10 or w/e, but a few different ones might help.
You bring up a good point: How has it that after 50 generations humans have forgotten what statues are, yet they retained the phrase "piece of cake" throughout a millennium of living in a hunter-gatherer society?
I caught this movie one night on Syfy channel when I was really young. I never remembered anything about it except for the scene where the guy goes "We thought you would settle for bars." For the longest time, I thought it was a figment of my imagination. Like I just made up the movie scene or something. But no. 15 years later, I'm reminded of this insanity
They should make a sequel now.Considering the sequels to movies like Independence Day suck, then obviously a sequel to Battlefield Earth wold be amazing. That's just logic folks. Also they had an F-18 toy? There were no F-18s! They had Harriers. I remember because that was the coolest part of the movie for 10 year old me.
Not to overthink this, but I think the idea behind the 'piece of cake' line is that they know it refers to something being easy or a sure thing, but they don't know what a cake actually is.
I liked this film when it came out, but as I got older I tried to revisit it and couldn't even finish it. Haven't read the book, but I'm told the second half got even more bonkers.
Maybe the most awesome thing about Battlefield Earth is that it has seemed to reach iconic status while still being gloriously, unapologetically, absolutely and unequivocally bats*** crazy.
Best Things About Battlefield Earth by the Cinema Snob? I pulled the bartender's head out of the box and used it to hit that play button _sooooooooo_ fast!
I honestly don’t mind a bad movie if I have fun watching it, and I had a lot of fun watching this one. Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I like it.
I never saw it, but I always felt that it looked better than it's score suggested. Bad? Sure. 3%? Come on! It's production value alone boosts it above 3%. 3% is for stuff Brad used to review when he started this channel, like Crazy Fat Ethyl 2.
I genuinely enjoy the first half of the book. It’s very engaging and fast-paced. The second half is more politically driven, at least in the beginning when I stopped reading 😅
I seriously liked the movie. I don't understand all the hate. I like Rifts, I like Fallout New Vegas, I just love post apocalyptic aliens. The aliens were like vogons. And there is so much wild conspiracy stuff in it. People hated Dune just as much, meanwhile will Smith punches Chris Rock iin face like he was auditioning to be a human animal for the remake of this movie.
The best thing about this movie?.. The book... Ohhh and i did noticed tbe angles... Didn't bother me at all.. There's a lot of things the internet goes crazy about that just didn't matter lol.
10. John Travolta
9. John Travolta
8. John Travolta
7. John Travolta
6. John Travolta
5. The guy from Grease
4. The guy from Look Who's Talking
3. The guy from Face/Off that's not Nicolas Cage
2. The guy from Pulp Fiction
1. Forrest Whitaker
"No.2 The guy from Pulp Fiction" Sam Jackson is in this movie!?
I'm gonna pre-emptively put a r/whooosh here.
0. The guy from Broken Arrow thats not Christian Slater.
Why the hell was he in Star Trek 6? 🤔
What about that guy with the glasses?
That guy who pretends to be straight and not bald was also pretty good.
@@shmabadu Wait, Tom Cruise's hair isn't natural?
If you slave over a movie for years, finally get it produced, and everyone loves it, it's a passion project. If it sucks, it's a vanity project.
I was laying on the couch while watching this and couldn't stop laughing. It's almost the perfect angle.
hahaha I remember once as a gimmick some TV channel broadcasted a whole programming block with the picture rotated 90 degrees so people could watch it ok while lying down on the couch.
If they put this movie, to watch some scenes correctly you'd have had to actually stand on your head
He's not wrong😎
Best comedy of 2000. Maybe the best of the entire decade.
Oh Snob you made my day. It’s my favorite guilty pleasure just to see Travolta eat the scenery and all
Praise Lloyd
i love when people find positives in something negative. it's a much more rewarding experience.
sometimes, something can do things so wrong that they become a wonder and something deserving of study.
i would have to agree, it is more challenging.
...How does Snob manage to make those ridiculous eyebrows utterly work for him in the thumbnail?
Also, THUMBNAIL LLOYD!
This movie is so over-the-top. It's also the first time I saw Forest Whitaker and Kim Coates aka Tig from Sons of Anarchy. This movie is a total guilty pleasure.
I was working at a Walden Books when the film came out. Since we were located close to the Scientology hub in Clearwater, the church would call us over and over. Each time they'd ask if we'd sold a copy of the book, or any other L.Ron lit. They were very adamant about being able to supply us with more copies of "Battlefield Earth" if we ran out. Needless to say, I don't recall seeing a single copy being sold.
That sounds like something those lunatics would do
My dad sells books online from his home and one day we randomly got a Battlefield Earth (book art not movie art) mini-poster in the mail. The envelope didn't have anything blatant regarding it's source; but it's obvious where it came from. I can only assume they thought we were an actual book store.
The art was nice, though.
Walden Books and Battlefield Earth, them was the days.
I honestly consider this film a solid guilty pleasure. It's one of those "It's so bad it's good" films.
Got to be the first film to boast REMOVING scenes for the home release!
I think "The Shining" did that as well.
The Coen Brothers film Blood Simple, the directors cut is actually a few minutes shorter than the theatrical cut. The shining removed footage from the film after a week of being in theatres, but nothing specifically for home video.
Josie and the Pussycats did it too. Cut some good jokes to become a PG.
Any Stanley kubrick film
Highlander II basically does, so long as you understand what "Renegade Cut" or "Special Edition" stand for.
Dear Snob, if you can see this. You are my favorite youtuber. You have got me through a lot of hard times. Making me laugh when not much else could. One day I hope to meet you. Keep killing it Brad i bought one of your dvds and will soon get more.
Come for SNob
Stay for Lloyd.
Or vice versa
"DO YOU WANT LUNCH?!" is the greatest line to ever emerge from Travolta's mouth.
Only the Cinema Snob could try finding something GOOD in a trainwreck like Battlefield Earth.
Hell yeah I love the balls it took to look at the positives in the movie and ur right John Travolta's performance is why I thoroughly enjoy this movie
I saw Battlefield Earth in the theater when it came out. I saw a scathing review of it in The New York Times, and just had to check it out for myself. Then I read the book and bought some Battlefield Earth trading cards I found on discount at a gas station. One of the cards was autographed by Barry Pepper. I wish I still had it, but some roommate threw it away.
Anytime I heard Lloyd it brings me joy.
This shit makes me miss Spoony.
yes, Spoony forever!!
He was the best Terl
It should be pointed out that the Psychlos don't actually speak English. When he's talking to Terl, Johnny is speaking their language and when he's talking to the humans he's speaking English.
His original name was Dave Protagonist.
Dammit, now I have to change my screenplay!
"It's like someone couldn't decide to dress up for a Rob Zombie or a Kiss concert, so they decided to go to a romulan costume shop to assemble both." One of the sharpest and funniest snob moments.
I was not expecting something like this.
Thank you Brad. This is what I wanted.
Omg,Brad,if that was Turl laughing in the Star Wars trailer...... tickets bought😄
Fair thee well Spoony. We hardly knew thee.
The sheer conviction with wich he says "Do YOU want LUCH!?" is outstanding.
I love this movie. I saw it in the theaters when he came out and everyone in the theater loved it. All six of us. Perhaps elderly couple didn't like it because they walked out in the middle of it. But four of us stay to finish it. I still like this movie. But I read the book and I love the book.
John Travolta as Terl looks eerily like Bob Marley with vitiligo.
I remember when the Nostalgia Critic best described the Psychlos as "Jamaican Klingon Clowns."
Well, you know what they say. Being bad in Show-Bize is still leagues better than being boring.
And Battlefield Earth is definitely not boring.
Battlefield Earth is a guilty pleasure. It's so bad it's like watching a train with 1000 boxcars crashing and it just keeps going. You just can't turn your eyes away from the disaster.
I'M REAEAEALLLY ANGRY!!
Dude, cinema snob, do manos the hands of fate. You would knock it out of the ballpark with that review.
He's probably saving that one for another DVD.
You got your wish
I saw this in theaters with my parents. My father LOVED this movie (unironicly).
Interesting idea for a video and I do think this delivers a lot of unexpected fun.
If I can be honest for a moment "pieceofcake" being a generic encouragement that has lost it original meaning is a decent bit of world building. Some terms are just so common that they live on beyond their original context.
It's not "pieceofcake," it's "pieceofcakePIECEOFCAKE!!!"
GreatgoatonFire I agree fully about piece of cake. It’s almost like they’re saying it as a single word.
I kinda assumed that as well
PieceofpiepieceofpiePIECEOFDANISH!
It’s known as “aluminum Christmas trees”
I was fortunate to have seen this gem in the theatre during its spectacular run @ the box office. It was on one of those Friday nights that made you want to drive straight off a cliff. But that's not even the best part. I ended up seeing the film @ the former "Metro 12" movie theatre in San Jacinto, California, the literal and actual home of the world-infamous, Scientology sanctuary, "Gold Base." It added a creepiness to the movie that no other location ever could.
If Turl was the mastermind in Rise of Skywalker, and Rey's gramps... Missed opportunity for greatness.
18:29-18:37 that is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
More Dutch angles than a Rotterdam geometry class...
I worked in a movie theater when this movie came out. It's where the cool kids went to make out and we took naps during our shift.
The first thing I noticed in Battlefield Earth was the hilarious bulges. 😮 😳 🤣
I did not seen those but I sure as hell am looking for them now!
Another new classic Snob video. Superb.
Note, I wrote this before finishing the episode: The Projection Booth had an episode on this movie. They interviewed the director (who got his start designing sets for Star Wars if I remember correctly), apparently he said the aliens where supposed to be about 8 feet tall in the book, but there was nothing in the budget for this. The compromise was to use Dutch angles and forced perspective to try to make them look bigger than people, but not 8 feet tall. Any movie not funded by Scientologists would have just rewritten the aliens as human size.
They should waited a few more years and Peter Jackson could have showed them how to actually pull that trick.
@@BWMaguslol it’s funny to think that making some of the actors be on their knees when near characters meant to be bigger was something no one had thought of that wasn’t making home movies
Honestly snob I was on this flicks hate bandwagon but now I want to actually want to see it again cuz of those interesting points u made thx smob
I would be so much more excited tor Ep. IX if it had been Terl's laugh instead of the Emperor's. I have no desire to see the Emperor again, but Rey vs John Travolta at his most insane? Sign me up.
The Room in space?
Best Battlefield Earth review!
1. Referencing Broken Arrow = a Win. Love that Movie.
2. Now it makes me want to see a Cinema Snob review on Hostel...lol.
"While you were still learning HOW TO SPELL YOUR NAME !!!"
Brad... thanks for finally covering my favorite bad movie of all time! It’s such a perfect storm of incompetence that it never fails to cheer me up. And yes, I have damn near all the figures for it (just need to get Ker), along with one of the Psychlo Battlecrafts, a set of the Upper Deck trading cards along with a sealed box, a promotional baseball cap, the teaser and theatrical posters, and a t-shirt with the theatrical poster art on it.
Also, for all its flaws, as a teacher of mine in high school pointed out, it’s a story that has teamwork saving the planet rather than the fate resting on Jonnie and Jonnie alone.
Guess your teacher doesn't bow to meaningless attacks. Wish I had more like him.
Great work trying something different, Brad. I thought this video would be rather weak, but ended up really liking it and I hope you do something like this again.
One suggestion though: Use a few other title cards in the count down. Doesn't have to be 10 or w/e, but a few different ones might help.
I only ever saw this the one time in cinemas. It saddens me to discover they cut the flying scene.
You bring up a good point: How has it that after 50 generations humans have forgotten what statues are, yet they retained the phrase "piece of cake" throughout a millennium of living in a hunter-gatherer society?
I caught this movie one night on Syfy channel when I was really young. I never remembered anything about it except for the scene where the guy goes
"We thought you would settle for bars." For the longest time, I thought it was a figment of my imagination. Like I just made up the movie scene or something. But no. 15 years later, I'm reminded of this insanity
You tease! I require more seconds to admire the cuteness of your cat in front of a Bible. 😍
Wait a minute, I didn't hear "jail" during the final shot with Travolta in jail...
They should make a sequel now.Considering the sequels to movies like Independence Day suck, then obviously a sequel to Battlefield Earth wold be amazing. That's just logic folks.
Also they had an F-18 toy? There were no F-18s! They had Harriers. I remember because that was the coolest part of the movie for 10 year old me.
saw this one at a very early age,it explains why i see the world at a different angle.
#11: The live action adaptation of Invader Zim looks different, but in spirit VERY loyal to the source material.
The book was ok,and watching Travolta stumping around in those stilts was the gift that keeps on giving
Why were Lloyd's eyes red while sitting over the holey bibel
Hard mountain dew? That's called a fourloko my friend
Hard Mtn Dew exists now
Snob, I really like your latest self awareness, and mind games a'la "Choose your own Guttenberg" If this weren't my favorite channel already!
John Travolta should have won an award for his performance in this film. Period.
Dutch Angles Galore
Piece of cake piece of cake piece of cake ouh-ouh-ouh!
Not to overthink this, but I think the idea behind the 'piece of cake' line is that they know it refers to something being easy or a sure thing, but they don't know what a cake actually is.
Today I learned the "I graduated top of my class..." copypasta comes from Battlefield Earth. Any movie that gave us that can't be bad.
This could be a new thing I like.
Pointing out the 'good' parts of bad movies.
I liked this film when it came out, but as I got older I tried to revisit it and couldn't even finish it. Haven't read the book, but I'm told the second half got even more bonkers.
at #7 According to the DVD Commentary of this film, Director Roger Christian wanted to make this movie look like a comic book!
Aw Spoony, is he still kicking around
Maybe the most awesome thing about Battlefield Earth is that it has seemed to reach iconic status while still being gloriously, unapologetically, absolutely and unequivocally bats*** crazy.
I want an action figure that says "“While You Were Still Learning How to SPELL YOUR NAME, I Was Being Trained to CONQUER GALAXIES!”
This one is a keeper.
It's a guilty pleasure favorite of mine
Oh shit. Suncoast Video. Nostalgia levels critical
John Travolta Equals Battlefield Earth, Old Dogs, Look whose talking Now, Gotti, The Fanatic, Speed Kills, And The Poison Rose
This was amazing
Our friendly bartender!!!
Best Things About Battlefield Earth by the Cinema Snob?
I pulled the bartender's head out of the box and used it to hit that play button _sooooooooo_ fast!
Now i gotta rewatch broken arrow
I honestly don’t mind a bad movie if I have fun watching it, and I had a lot of fun watching this one.
Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I like it.
Prove that in entertainment, you are allowed to be bad.
The unforgivable sin however is to be boring.
I love how the anniversary specials back in the day are still Canon.
there was a seen in another cut of this film that explains where them all saying "piece of cake" comes from.
Will you review a monster movie (hopefully Godzilla) due to the new film's arrival?
I never saw it, but I always felt that it looked better than it's score suggested. Bad? Sure. 3%? Come on! It's production value alone boosts it above 3%. 3% is for stuff Brad used to review when he started this channel, like Crazy Fat Ethyl 2.
18:26 Would love to see Terl as the BBEG of Star Wars.
This movie taught me what Fort Knox is. Yeah....
That Jay Sherman style joke at the end destroyed me! How have you not made your own movie homage to The Critic yet??
I genuinely enjoy the first half of the book. It’s very engaging and fast-paced. The second half is more politically driven, at least in the beginning when I stopped reading 😅
I know some one who would review it, THE DOM from lost in adaptation
Not to mention the Smeghead from Cinematic Excrement.
You mean... Dominic Noble. He's no longer the Dom
I think they did the Dutch angles on purpose, they knew it was snorefest.
Someone else also said it was to try and make the aliens look bigger than the humans, or at least prevent you from noticing that they were not.
Okay, it's official we need to get Eric Freeman and John Travolta to play over the top sci-fi villains in the next big summer blockbuster movie.
I don't hate Battlefield Earth, it's hard to hate something you've never seen.
I seriously liked the movie. I don't understand all the hate. I like Rifts, I like Fallout New Vegas, I just love post apocalyptic aliens. The aliens were like vogons. And there is so much wild conspiracy stuff in it. People hated Dune just as much, meanwhile will Smith punches Chris Rock iin face like he was auditioning to be a human animal for the remake of this movie.
Nostalgic critic did it
This video makes me want a Lloyd Creationist Cat crossover. The universe will implode from the cuteness overload.
The best thing about this movie?.. The book... Ohhh and i did noticed tbe angles... Didn't bother me at all.. There's a lot of things the internet goes crazy about that just didn't matter lol.