Battlefield Earth - Nostalgia Critic
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- You asked for it… The Nostalgia Critic finally reviews Battlefield Earth.
Originally aired on February 2nd, 2010.
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Battlefield Earth premiered in the theaters on May 12th, 2000 and was directed by Roger Christian. It stars John Travolta, Forest Whitaker and Barry Pepper.
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Shortly after Battlefield Earth was released, it was widely declared to to be the worse movie of the entire 21st century. Which, you have to admit, is quite an achievement since it had only been released in June 2000.
Yeah, it wasn't the best way to kick off the millenium.
Worst*
But June 2000 is still XX century :/
When the rest of us were learning to SPELL OUR Name Battlefield Earth was immediately ruining an entire century!
@Cleon29Warrior 2000 is apart of the 1900s? Ok...
Biggest issue with Battlefield Earth is the gold thing. There are asteroids in our solar system with more gold in them than has been mined in the whole of human history. Vastly easier to find and almost effortless to mine.
Adjuni Yeah, if you’ve got a spacefleet.
@@Rgoid which it is implied that they do
This comment actually influenced me to create an animated sci fi film that's more fact than fiction. No fictional planets or moons.
@@kingamoeboid3887 Cool. I hope you share it with me some day. :D
Adjuni the influences were this comment and video and The Nostalgia Critic’s review of Doomsday Machine.
My favourite sci fi films are
1: 2001: A Space Odyssey
2: Stalker (1979)
3: Solaris (1972)
4: Metropolis (1927)
5: Things To Come (1936)
6: Blade Runner
7: Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back
8: Star Wars VI: Return Of The Jedi
9: Alien (1979)
10: Star Wars IV: A New Hope
I do need to see The Day The Earth Stood Still, Incredible Shrinking Man and Forbidden Planet.
I've seen Plan 9 which is my favourite B movie.
Upload of a 7 year old video that is a video looking back at older videos. Damn I feel old
Mugmellow *IKR*
Mugmellow i feel confused
7 years, it came out 2017
To think it's been 14 years now
This comment is now 7 years old
"While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained TO CONQUER GALAXIES!!!" - John Travolta 2000
Will Miester
It was also the year where he was awesome in Swordfish.
actually travolta himself was quoted saying this line in a bar fight, 2 years before writing was even started on battlefield earth
To do anything less, is a disgrace to my entire family line.
Lame
"I can't talk too long I gonna poo"
John Travolta 2019
Did you know that John Travolta described this film as being the Schindler’s List of science-fiction and being like Star Wars, but better? Just when you thought this movie couldn’t get any funnier
In what way is this anything like Schindler’s List
Well it is better than the prequels so I give him that
@@genesismultiverse4896 It really isn't.
@@genesismultiverse4896 This movie isn't even better than The Last Jedi
@@genesismultiverse4896 The Prequels are infinitely better than Battlefield Earth and I say that wholeheartedly and proudly
My biggest problem with this movie: the final battle.
So 1000 years ago, the combined military forces of Earth could only hold off the alien invasion for about 10 minutes
But in the final battle, a small group of cavemen who only trained for a few days were able to destroy the alien home planet. And for some reason, those weapons and fighter jets are still operational after 1000 years.
THIS IS STUPID!!! STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID
Read the book it makes a bit more sense
@@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf Sad isn't it as the book was so much better and purposely funny as it's suppose to be satire. I may take issue with L Ron Hubbard for various reasons but the book was pretty good. For those of us that read the book this movie is even more of a abomination. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that was so badly adapted that it's essence was so completely lost.
I suppose the best way to put this into words is: Reading the book you feel in on the joke while watching the movie makes you feel like the butt of it.
Come to think of it the story of how the Psychlo came to be is eerily similar to Scientology and how they rose to power. Which is rather odd if you think about it considering it was meant as a bad thing. A group takes over and alters their world while holding a tight grip on it using the money and power they obtained through various methods.
Was the movie garbage on purpose in an attempt to fundamentally destroy any interest in the book?
Well this is based off of a L. Ron Hubbard book. The man was a horrible author.
@@evanremillard5640 by modern standards. he was considered okay in the pulp days. if his 80s books had come out in the 60s and 50s they would have been received far better.
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WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL
WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL
DENTAL PLAN
Crank Cinema's Holy Lornography Archive LISA NEEDS BRACES.
He needs a hole new set of teeth.
IT FEELS LIKE I'M WEARING NOTHING AT ALL!
NOTHING AT ALL!
NOTHING AT ALL!
I'm sorry. I have this bad habit of repeating myself
Repeating myself
Repeating myself
Repeating myself
Repeat.....I'm an Idiot.
@@rithrius5384 STUPID SEXY RITHRIUS!
I remember the ending of Battlefield Earth, where they pretty much set up a sequel.
The Last Airbender and Jem & The Holograms can eat their heart out.
Rio Kamichika don't forget the Mario Bros.
Rio Kamichika don't forget Dragonball Evolution too!
In... slight... fairness, the movie only covered about the first 1/3 of the book, which is something like a thousand pages long. So they actually had a reason that it ends somewhat unresolved and begging a sequel.
And super Mario brothers the movies
Green lantern fan4stic golden compass and eragon
Even worse than the dutch angles is the fact that they shot this movie in freaking PANAVISION and they still couldn't keep the actors in the frame half the time.
Actually I checked out the technical specs for the film and it was actually filmed with ARRI 35mm cameras
I hope they don't shoot the same thing while using digital film cameras like Red Dragon, Arri Alexa and Panavision DXL. Hell, even GoPro cameras can still have better angles than Battlefield Earth has.
My father acted in that horrible movie, so here's a bit of behind the scene info:
Apparently, the movie wasn't going to focus so much on the main character and the villain. The supporting characters where going to be developed, and you could actually feel..well, actual emotions towards them. But instead, John Travolta (the villain, and who had a lot of influence in the making of the movie) had the bright idea to cut most of the lines that weren't his or the main character's. For exemple, my father started the movie with about 2-3 pages of text, and finished it with 2-3...sentences.
But eh, apparently John's private chef was there, and the food was delicious.
Your dad was an actor in "Battlefield Earth"?
@@BriceInkling138 that's what the comment says
@@JSwanKilowJ Well, did he himself enjoy taking part in it or did he really hate the idea behind it?
Which actor?
@@damoosh4679 Canadian Gamer's father.
"A demon, a monster, a beast!, YARRHGGG!" Love that line.
Me too XD
Have you heard of subtlety, underplaying, a good actor? YAAHH!!!!
are we positively Sure that line was in the Script Or were the Actors Just Drunk
@@julieporter7805 Oh no, it's a demon, a monster, a beast! YAAAAGHH!
RiffTrax's responge to that was gold: "No, but we see a douchebag."
So the psychos invade Earth for gold. But there's more gold in one asteroid (433 Eros) than the entire planet Earth.
Ol' Hubbard weren't a fan of research, he just liked making shit up.
Also, radiation is not matter and therefore can not be explosive. Even setting that aside though, an entirely flammable/explosive atmosphere would destroy all life on the planet the first time there was a static spark.
Actually Earth has a lot of gold... its just close to our core because of its density, so we can't reach it.
six2make4 I found the connection between scientology and this movie... they both make no sense.
starsiegeplayer Well Earth has gold that has been processed by humans which would make it significantly easier... you know, if they'd bothered to actually look for any of it.
Did you know that the only reason the book was listed as a bestseller was because Scientologists were instructed to by multiple copies?
@MegaGug 95 Really? Is that true? It sounds like something Scientologists would do.
@@ReignSupreme2014 Nah, its not true.
To be fair the book was a pretty good satirical sci-fi story but the movie failed on all accounts in telling the story.
@Red Coin actually Battlefield Earth isn't Scientology propaganda, one of the very few books Hubbard wrote that wasn't. It does reflect some of the ideas he would hold as tenets in Scientology, but overall it's just a sci-fi novel.
I absolutely loved the book. It was fucking great. Didn't know it was by the scientology guy until years later. I read my paperback until it fell apart and then got a new copy. The book was 1030 pages, and the movie used about 4.
Seriously, don't judge the book by the movie.
Saw Gerrara was into some weird stuff between the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War.
His sisters death hit him hard.
Hehehehehe. Brilliant
*GOLD! DECEPTIONS! EVERYDAY MORE GOLD!*
I know this originally aired in 2010, but it's the first time I am seeing it. What makes this gold for me is I just saw another video title "Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist Ep.01- The Psychlols" by Media Zealot which JUST covered this movie. He did a three part series on a bunch of different races like this too.
Oh yeah I just saw that as well.
Civilizations that split infinitives do not deserve to exist.
This made me realize that The Psyclos would stand absolutely no chance against the Yautia(The Predator race)
The Yautia wouldn’t even bother with them.
They’d see actually fighting them as a waste of time.
And the Xenomorphs will finish the all the Psychlos off with zero issues at all.
@@Isaac-gh5kuactually the xenomorphs wouldn't even try the psychlos as hosts
This is probably one of my favorite reviews
Me too! Scientology got PWNED! x3
Rainbow Dash always had an odd taste
10:15 look, they predicted 2017
NunyaBusiness I don't know why people want to tie this silly thing to scientology. It's a 1982 sci fi novel turned into an inferior movie, and neither really has anything to do with Hubbard's BS "religion" from what I can tell.
in fact this is my Number one Review. this is why i was making subtitles
Marvin the Martian could beat these aliens.
They make me very angry!
E.T could single handedly destroy their entire planet
The Vogons could beat them.
Invader Zim could beat the Psychlos
The Crites or the Xenomorphs would kick the Psycholo's asses.
"*ghasp* you don't mean?"
"no not that one."
"oh"
still a great joke.
Back when Spoony was actually cool. Sad times, man.
what happened?
He got a bit hostile on Twitter (putting it mildly) and alienated himself from half of the Channel Awesome team. They've reconciled, but he doesn't make videos anymore. He was diagnosed as Bipolar, which explains the behavior, but still... I think he streams Let's Plays, but I haven't followed him in years.
I miss Spoony, nobody was as harsh on shitty games and movies like he was, he was the Rick Flair of UA-cam critics
7:10 Fun fact: Forest Whitaker later expressed regret taking part in this film, and I can't say I blame him.
"I'M REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY ANGRY!"
I'm really angry.
@@jesuschavez5875 No, no no. I'M REEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLLY ANGRY!!!
@@davidrobb2772 I'm REEALLY angry.
@@Amp661 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@Amp661 EEEEEE... ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT!!
“We finally get to see what this advanced alien race that enslaved humanity looks like...........
6:19 Jamaican Klingon Clowns. I got to admit, Movie, I gave you a lot more credit than you deserved!”
Fun fact
Battlefield Earth won 9 Razzie Awards throughout the 2000s.
It won: Worst Picture, Director (Roger Christian), Actor (John Travolta), Supporting Actor (Barry Pepper), Supporting Actress (Kelly Preston), Screen Couple (John Travolta and any actor who was unfortunate enough to share the screen with him), Screenplay (JD Shapiro and Corey Mandell), Worst Drama of the Razzies 25 Years in 2005 and Worst Picture of the Decade in 2010.
NOTE: Forest Whitaker (who plays Ker) was also nominated for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost against Pepper.
So this was like the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest of the Razzies?
2010: "This movie from the year 2000 is just on the cusp of being nostalgic."
2017: "Here's a review of a movie that came out a few months ago."
Boy, the meaning of the word "nostalgic" sure has changed. :P
Royal Crustle Well, remember he changed up the rules so that it has some sort of nostalgic connection. Not specifically something that came out a while, but is based on some sort of nostalgic property.
Boss baby, norm of the north
emoji movie, need I go on?
That's for the best imo, why restrict the videos lile that?
Dorkfish Don’t forget Captain Underpants.
@@dorkfish1275 those were special occasions. Norm was for 10 years of nostalgia critic, emoji movie was for some special reason I can't remember and boss baby came after a flood of requests for it after he did emoji movie
10:11
DIO: "WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
*continues*
Abraham Zambrano FREE KEKISTAN!
O God you right
Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵 im a simple woman. i see a jojo reference, i like.
Even Speedwagon is annoyed!
10:11
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
dandeentremont WWRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ENOUGH OF THAT SHIT
Hải Lân Lưu I’LL BE BAC......
@@pablothecoffeelover2551 road rolla
Omg, they're fortnite players, RUN!!!
Radiation = explosion, because science.
Encephthy, in the book, the atmosphere was primarily methane and oxygen. In that environment, ignition equals explosion.
That makes sense, well, as much sense as building a military based on a planet with an atmosphere that could ignite if two pieces of anything rubbed together.
My issue was with what the movie implied, that a "radioactive" atmosphere would make it explosive. Which is total nonsense.
Of course don't you know anything about science!!!
It's radioactive that can't be good!!!
Obviously, since nukes are radioactive, that must mean that radiation is explosive: don't light a match next to a nuke /sarcasm.
It's not science at all....*screaming* ITS SCIENCE-TOLOGY
I'm easily probably five of the thousands of views of this video and this episode still gets me every single time I watch it. A periodically go back and re-watch this episode and the water world episode just because they're so good
I love how the jets as well as the fuel are still fully functional after sitting there and rusting for a thousand years
RIP Kelly Preston, Travolta's wife. She passed away 3 years after making this review.
10:12
You were expecting Nostalgia Critic, but it was me, Dio!
Funny Fact: this video was the first ever recorded use of a REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
11:09
That politician has more chins than Jabba the Hutt
20:50 Best. Rant. Ever!!!
I think the pearl harbour one is better
20:44 My rant on Holmes and Watson, which became one of the worst British comedies of all time.
I miss Spoony.
Scoffs where is he? Is he alive???
@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks He's still alive and is very very much on Twitter. That's kind of all he does now. Doesn't put out videos anymore. :\ It's a shame because I really liked his content.
@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks I heard he stopped because he was too depressed.
Noah/Spooney as Terl is hilarious, he does a really good Travolta impression.
"To be....or not to BE!!!!!"
😂😂😂
Doug, PLEASE do an episode on "Fateful Findings," a hilariously bad movie!
Funny how in this video, NC says the movie might not be old enough to be considered for an NC video.
And now, this video is 23 years old.
Far older than anything NC had covered at that point.
This video isnt 23 years old
@@arte0021 ah, yep.
oops haha
I love how at 0:19-0:44, The Nostalgia Critic incorporated my all-time favorite version of 'Ode To Joy'.
For those that never heard of it, or, didn't get it, it's the version of 'Ode To Joe' that's from the first 'Die Hard' movie.
Another NC vs AVGN would be awesome!
24:49 He was the Art director of the first Star Wars and first Alien and second unit director for the Phantom Menace (whatever that means) (wiki)
This is still one of the best reviews in NC history. And Spoony is awesome in it.
If they had awards for best performances in reviews, the guy playing Turl would definitely get one
Poor Spoony
My favorite Nostalgia Critic videos are:
Battlefield Earth
Neverending Story 3
The Last Airbender
Patch Adams
The Magic Voyage
Batman and Robin
After Earth
Master of Disguise
Cool as Ice
Ghost Dad
Felix the Cat
Green Lantern
The Amazing Spiderman 2
Doug's First Movie
Fan4stic
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The Life of Timothy Green
Rapsittie Street Kids
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Pixels
The Emoji Movie
Robocop (2014)
Double Team
Steel
20:45 - Nostalgia Critic but every time he says stupid it gets faster.
10:15 hey look, they predicted 2017!
18:42 me after I ripped my favourite shirt on a nail in the wall which I just did
Sorry but LOL
@@tealnoise it’s all good my brother sewed it back up
I go out back and smoke a joint
Oh Nostalgia Critic
20:44-21:14, his reaction to most modern movies and TV shows!
Fucking 90's kid
Up yours, you worthless waste of existence. I'm still standing! You can say whatever you want to me, and it won't affect me in the slightest.
10:11- Doug having Spoony reeee is quite the foreshadowing.
25:00 Nostalgia critic unironically inspired Jared Leto's Joker.
YESSSSSS!!! BATTLEFIELD EARTH!!!
This line still lives rent free in my head and pops its head out from time to time.
22:20 the director has a fundamental misunderstanding of how fighter jets fly
Wow. Nostalgia Critic's one hundredth episode. Congratulations, NC! We who are about to laugh, salute you!
20:44 one of the greatest NC moments of all time
to think that this was Barry Peppers follow up to Saving Private Ryan
musicalDrebin he also did The Green Mile after Saving Private Ryan.
He did “The Scorch Trials” and “The Death Cure” in 2015 and 2018, respectively.
After 20 years it still hasn't made even the production cost back yet let alone any profit.
This was supposed to be a trilogy but thankfully never happened.
Arguably his best review ever
The Oogieloves and the BIG Balloon Adventure?
3:49 I think gold is the one of the most abundant element in the universe. Back on Earth, gold is rare, at least on the Earth's surface. From what I've heard, beneath the Earth's crust, gold is a bit more abundant than the crust.
What do you guys think?
REVIEW NORM OF THE NORTH OR IM TAKING MYSELF HOSTAGE
Congrats! Your wish came true!
How much will you pay to get yourself out now that he has
I think he already has
Why do you hate the nostalgia critic? Ok the review as funny but still.
That happened
A scientology movie that criticizes greed. Lol.
7:03 I seriously can't with the captions 😂
14:16 I don't know why but this part makes me laugh every time I see it.
20:46 almost EVERY Cartoon Network reboot in a nutshell
What about the ending of Samurai Jack Season 5 ending?
Battlefield Earth;
The movie where the aliens are dumber than the humans.
8:54 when you were learning to spell your name I was in a over the top movie with nickelis cage
2020 and this review is still golden
I rewatch it like every 2 months
“We are the most intelligent, advanced, and powerful beings in the world”
“What’s your name?”
“Terl. And this is Ker. Over there is Olp, Fud, Sock, and Derp.”
3:14: (Falsetto) “In the year 3000 . . .”
I actually just realized that gold comes from stars. So there; plot hole identified. The Psychlos needn't invade the Earth for gold since gold basically exists anywhere in the Cosmos where there are stars hanging in the void.
LOL, I really liked Bargo as "Ma-Ti" at the beginning of this. His voice was so funny!
2001: A Space Odyssey review.
Pink Floyd is the Best Band of All Time. Boring and overrated, perfect for wannabe hipsters to circlejerk each other about
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the critic would prove you wrong about that.
Aseril so your one of those people who hate something cuz everyone else likes it
I don't like when people overrate that movie (2001) but not even when people banalize it.
In the book the Psyclos were totally full of themselves.
Honestly if anything the movie underplayed their own self importance.
The main complaint i have with this movie is that they changed the "Ending". The showdown between the Psyclos and the Humans was far more epic. In fact the book had another movies worth of story left untold in the movie. Literally ending the movie halfway through the book.
There was a much more involved conflict, that made considerably more sense.
They were saving that for a sequel that never happened.
I heard one of the creators of this claimed it was better than Star Wars. I WOULD RATHER WATCH JAR JAR SHOUT "MEESA MEESA MEESA" FOR TEN HOURS STRAIGHT THAN ONE SECOND OF THIS!
And people say the Star Wars prequels are the worst movies of all time
10:10 Pepe is in charge. XD
All hail to Kekistan! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
my eleven favorite reviews
1. Battlefield earth
2. Dungeons and Dragons
3. Conan the Barbarian
4. Conan the Destroyer
5. Judge Dredd
6. Alone in the Dark
7. the Room
8. Star Wars: holiday special
9. Never-ending story III
10. the Langoliers
11. Blair Witch 2 Book of Shadows
20:46 Even after all these years, and even after his rant had been debunked, this is still one of the best and funniest outbursts the Nostalgia Critic has ever done.
I literally just watched the Russian sub version yesterday.
Channel Awesome confirmed as psychics.
How did Earth get defeated so fast?
*Psychlos open communications*
Trump: "Yeah we surrender and here's the codes to shut down all military communication on the planet." "You're welcome."
Psychlos: "Friggin yes! We finally found a planet we can conquer! Now lets all act like we do this all the time!"
I would really love to see a Walker Bros. rewrite of this. This couldve ended up really cool, had it actually made sense 😂
Wow, this has so much overacting that if you put it on a slice of bread, it's a ham sandwich.
Terl: "What do you think a man animal would like to eat?"
Me: Taco Bell? Burger King? McDonalds? Pizza Hut?!
Kentucky Fried Frog!
I just realized...the scene when the Alien walks in after shooting one of the guys...Gears of War has that exact same shot, only seeing the waist down to the knees, focusing on the Pistol, and it's in slowmo, i forget Which Gears of War it is, but it is!
Altho i think this came out first, so that means Gears of Wars was inspired by Battlefield Earth...
"The gods took your father in the night"
"NAAAAAOOOOOO"
I was watching this on my bed with my dog, and at the REEEEEALLY ANGRY squealing she got so disturbed she woke up and left.
I read on IMDB that everything was slanted to give the film a comic book look. And the director Roger Christian actually worked on the original Star Wars movies and won an Oscar for Art Direction for one of them. George Lucas recommended him for this movie.
"Battlefield Earth should've been a Tyler Perry movie!"
NOPE! NOPENOPENOPE! I don't need to see Terl teaming up with Madea. NOT IN HELL!
Um, I hate the Tyler Perry movies with every ounce of my being, but they are still better than this movie.
"L ron hubbard was a black man and his name is L Ron Hoyabembe"
18:41 The sound that can end universes
17:38 as a former Rhode Island resident its true
IM RÈÈALLY ÁNGRRIEH! did i do it right?
Psychlos atmosphere was not made of radiation, able to be blown up by a regular bomb or fire... You definitely misunderstood this plot point. The surviving humans on earth, survived by unknowingly living near a radiated area. It is radiation itself, that ignites the atmosphere of psychlo, such as uranium. The bomb the humans sent to Psychlo, was a dirty bomb containing heavy amounts of radiation and uranium..
There is even a scene that shows Psycho home planet, where a giant flame is shot out of some kind of exhaust stack, or power plant of some kind.
The movie is pretty awful, but the book is pretty good. Also, the movie only covers about half the book, but I understand why. The second half would not make for a good movie.
In short, all of the important alien races come down, and the representatives from the intergalactic bank. The dirty bomb had set off a chain reaction to every connected planet that had the teleportation devices, wiping out basically half the damn universe. This left Earth responsible, and restitution is demanded. Through a bunch of events, Jonnie is technically the owner of Earth, and what is left of the Psychlo Empire and its mining Co. With the help of an old Psychlo, he learns their mathematics and the schematics of the teleportation systems. (Both secrets had made the Psychlos the most powerful in the universe, so they weren't stupid in the books. Nobody else had ever figured out the math or the teleportation systems)
Jonnie uses this to his advantage, and works a deal with the intergalactic bank to spare earth, and becomes the savior of the universe, lol.
5:48 To be fair, if the future scientist discover the ancient ruins the Disney World, they probably would have though we did worship the mouse god Mickey.
13:03 How much you wanna bet that moment was improvised due to his dog walking in?
Has Doug ever had a dog?
1:53 what else is there??? That was after the room review, right?..
Easily in my top five favorite Nostalgia Critic episodes.
my number one Review
Q: What type of metals the Psychlos are looking after?
A: Gold, Nuggets, Bullion, Karats, Bars!