"Battlefield Earth" Would you let your middle schoolers watch this movie?

[GreenPartyVoter]

I'm having a look at it myself now.

[backscatter712]

1. That was one we featured at my university's MST3k club one year.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I can see why!

[jmowreader]

3. It would show them what a really bad movie looks like, anyway

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. It would definitely do that. LOL I want one of those learning machines.

[cyberswede]

5. Only after they read Roger Ebert's review

Priceless!

"Battlefield Earth" is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way. The visuals are grubby and drab. The characters are unkempt and have rotten teeth. Breathing tubes hang from their noses like ropes of snot. The soundtrack sounds like the boom mike is being slammed against the inside of a 55-gallon drum. The plot. . . .

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000512/REVIEWS/5120301/1023

[CBGLuthier]

6. Written by a lunatic, filmed by a blind idiot and starring cultists?

Gee why don't ya run Triumph of the Will? At least the photography is better.

:)

I voted no, BTW.

[kick-ass-bob]

7. With the preface that "this is one of the biggest bombs in cinematic history"

"and you are about to see why"

:rofl:

[rrneck]

8. As punishment for a felony. nt

[LynneSin]

9. Are they a bunch of miserable, spoiled rotten children who deserve the worst form of punishment ever

Then yes.

[meegbear]

10. If they were interested in cinema and you wanted to show an example of a bad movie

[sakabatou]

11. It's too horrible a movie to let anyone watch.

[arbusto_baboso]

12. No one HUMAN should have to watch that drek.

In fact, I think the Geneva Accords SPECIFICALLY mention Battlefield Earth.

[bluesbassman]

13. Not if I liked them.

Some middle schoolers deserve the punishment however. :)

[BlueJazz]

14. One of the top 5 movies ever made.