So we finally bit the giant Scientology-shaped bullet and watched a classic in modern bad cinema: "Battlefield Earth." It's hard to say what the best bad part of this film is. The cliche plot. The 1995 videogame-like CGI. The hammy overacting (mostly inflicted on the audience by John Travolta and Barry Pepper). Or maybe it's the fact that the entire movie is shot in Dutch angles and uses curtain wipes for nearly all of its transitions.
I won't post any quotes from this movie. All the best ones are pretty well known and text would not adequately show the inflection needed to really convey how ridiculous they are. Go watch it for yourself but do so with other people. This movie can be ungodly boring if you watch it alone.
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