Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

Calificación de los usuarios:

2.3/10   

Director:

Roger Christian

Escritores (WGA):

Corey Mandell (screenplay) and
J.D. Shapiro (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 mayo 2000 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

Prepare For Battle

Plot:

After enslavement & near extermination by an alien race in the year 3000, humanity begins to fight back.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Zoo | Mannequin | Digit In Title | Man Animal

Premios:

9 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

One of the greatest sci fi comedies ever made!

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

Battlefield Earth (USA) (short title)
Campo de batalla: la Tierra (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi action.

Duración:

118 min | USA:119 min (video version) | South Korea:95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

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:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

John Travolta's contract for this movie had him take a large up-front pay cut from his usual fee, to around $10 million, with incentives that would have paid him about $15 million more when and if the movie met standards at the North American box office. Unfortunately, the film fell short of these standards.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: In a few shots inside of the Psychlo Dome, blue sky is visible at the top of the frame where the dome roof should be visible.

Citas:

Chirk: I am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofed in "Saturday Night Live: Christopher Walken/Weezer (#26.20)" (2001)

One of the greatest sci fi comedies ever made!

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.