Battlefield Earth

By Steven James Snyder | @thesnydes | December 21, 2009 | +

It still might be the funniest movie failure of the decade. Truly drinking game worthy, if nothing else. From the hacky credit sequence to the ugly makeup and the thrift store costumes, I’ve rarely encountered a film so pretentious, ugly and meandering. There’s a moment in this film that I’ll remember forever: The home planet of the Psychlos is obliterated. A people is destroyed. And yet the film just pushes forward. The cast seems uninterested in the genocide. We don’t quite care either. It really takes something special, for a movie to detonate a world and for it to not matter in the slightest.

–Steven James Snyder

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