
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
I finally had the time, or more likely the mood, to watch this one. And oh my god what a movie it turned out to be. All the thousands of bad reviews this movie has got merely scratch the surface. I mean this movie stinks so much it makes shit smell like roses. There's honestly not a single thing in this movie that works. I really got the feeling that everyone who worked on this movie was a disgrace to the art itself. Even thou it has some people in it who have actually made something worth while in the past. Guess stupidity is contagious. It's like the cinematographer had some sort of balance disorder and bad eyesight so every shot had to be somehow tilted and zoomed in tight. Thou then again the closeups were probably intentional as most of the sets looked like they're from some 50's sci-fi b-movie. The composer had to be on crack or something as his take on most of the things seemed to be "oh there's nothing happening on the shot, lets put some grandiloquent music there to boost it up". The actors are completely lost seemingly just improvising some old cliches and they're certainly not getting any help from the director who seems to be lost in his own vision. He makes it quite sure we can fully understand everything he's trying to tell us by using painfully many slow motion shots and echoing all the "important" lines, not once or twice but as much as five times so even the slowest of retards can get it. Oh boy, by now you must be thinking it's better to run away fast from this film. No, don't do that. I highly recommend this movie as it's just something larger than life, you have to see it to believe it. It honestly makes Plan 9 from Outer Space look like a work of art. It truly is so bad that it's brilliant. Here's just a few examples of the greatness. A man talks to a walkie-talkie saying "Five guards from the cell, heavily armed and moving FAST!" while the viewer is shown five guards in slow motion WALKING. You can get a 1000 year old Harrier jet flying and learn to fully use it in a day on a flight simulator. You have never even seen a library, you get a chance to read one book and learn from it what ever you wish, what book do you take? The Declaration of Indepence of course. The Psychlo's, the bad guys, are able to defeat the whole earth in 9 minutes, but can't stop the few humans from destroying almost all of them. Those are just a few of the thousands of superb moments of this film. I have to say this is the best worst movie I have ever seen, simply brilliant. Had the movie ended in a scene of raising a U.S. flag, it would have found it's way straight to the top 10 of my all time favourite movies. But even without it it's cheesy enough to be a gem. It's a must see for everyone, wether to enjoy it's overwhelming badness that reaches levels of greatness or just to see the worst movie ever made so you can enjoy the average pieces of this art form a bit more.
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