Firstly- wow. How did this movie get made?? Oh, right, John Travolta.
Secondly, lies that Battlefield Earth told me:
- less than a week in a flight simulator is all it would take to learn to fly a jet
- you can rip the guts out of a nuclear warhead and use it as a bomb without any (to our knowledge) understanding of bombs
- fighter jets, walkie talkies, books in a blown up, decaying library and who knows what else can apparently remain in tip-top condition for a thousand years! Splendid!
Thirdly, impressions from the film:
- wow, did they ever love slow motion. About every ten minutes there was a slow motion sequence.
- NEVER have I heard echoing used like that in a movie. Somebody says something dramatic and echo, echo, echo... for example, "You're not staying here for five more cycles, you're staying for 50 cycles! (50 cycles, 50 cycles, 50 cycles...)"
- someone is obsessed with breaking glass. First there was the slow motion scene where Johnny crashes through about 8 plate glass windows while he's passing out from the tranq. laser. He lands in the pile of shards but emerges with only one cut on his forehead! Yay Johnny! Then later, when the dome is collapsing, huge chunks of glass fall smashing to the ground, shattering all over- again and again and again.
- what is up with this species that they don't care when a limb gets sliced off?
If anyone has arguments about why this film is awesome, lay 'em on me.
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