Presented at the 2010 Razzies, Worst PICTURE of the Decade - Battlefield Earth accepted by original screenwriter, J.D. Shapiro. This segment on CNN aired 4/310, interview by Don Lemon.
That's awesome, seriously have a lot of respect for this guy. Which is something I never imagined I would say about the screenwriter for Battlefield Earth.
I REALLY loved the book. Had read it several times. So when the movie came out I was very excited. I took a girl I'd gone out with a few time to see the movie opening day. After that night, she never called me again.
Lol at least this guy is self aware. I love that he just accepts it and takes it in stride. Unlike someone like Tommy Wiseau who tried to rebill his film as a dark comedy because more people laughed at it than cried. I hope someday Tommy Wiseau and J.D. work together on some big budget abomination. It would actually probably make money. The man that brought us "The Room" and the writer that brought us "Battlefield Earth" together in one film... it would be glorious.
"I don't see you winning a Razzie any time in the future so uh..." "EH! Well suh sometimes I do uh, sometimes I do uh..Well listen, what's been the reaction?"
Did anyone else notice that in the interview J.D. Shapiro is wearing the same suit he was wearing when he accepted the Razzie? Check it out. Go to the end of the vid and look. It's got him side by side with the video from the award ceremony.
You're not the only person alive who thinks so. I agree with you and I don't understand all the hate. It wasn't good, it suffered from bad writing and sloppy directing, but you're right that there are worse movies out there, i.e. the entire Scary Movie corpus. You know what I think? People just parrot each other without pausing to use their own brains. A few early critics trashed this movie due to its author being an unpopular figure, the world jumped on the bandwagon. It's not THAT bad.
Critics viciously ripped this film, threw it to the sharks, left it alone till those aliens ripped a whole in space time, obtained it, consumed the left overs of the movie, and excreted it after quite some time of massive problems revolving around constipation and irritable bowel syndrome induced by the remains of this movie.
I went into this movie without knowing all the hype. I didn't know L. Ron Hubbard had written the book, I didn't know Travolta was in it (somehow I didn't recognize him), and I hadn't heard of it's "status" as worst SF movie ever made. I knew it was seriously flawed but damn, after awhile it sucked me right in. I found it equal parts funny and engaging. Yeah, I laughed through it but it was fun to watch. :P
i never seen this movie, i used to work at a movie theater and we had it, i didn't watch it, but i my co workers all said it was bad, and a few said it was okay, no one ever said it was good
man, i watched this movie when I was 12, and at that age I didn't anything about cinema to really notice how flawed this movie is, but I could feel something was off. Until the part where a caveman compares training in a flight simulator to riding a horse, that's when I knew this was shit.
it probably wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't turned it into an idea for the movie from the book. I mean, this was only half the damned book and the second half, albeit a little strange, was my favorite half.
@Brownlyne actually I seen a trailer, and it's a million times better than other things that I've seen, and so is twilight but I was just making a simple minded joke
@regulatorzone Um, since the decade it was part of was the first decade of the new century, that's actually pretty redundant o.0 Incidentally, had it been made in the 1990s and been named the worst movie of the century, that would've automatically also made it the worst movie of all time since movies had only existed for a century at that point. So there's my two cents:P lol
Nah This is my fave movie off all I don't care about critics I Learned to understand it apreciate it actually I love it.. Well too bad tv says stuff like this thank god this is not the whole world ja ha ja there are actually allot more people who love it and still read the books on Battle Field to Earth.. My all time fave ..
Damn No! This was not the worst movie of the decade, seriously, how can anyone claim that any movie was worse than Epic movie(2007)? This movie was a master piece next to Epic movie.. Now I'm probably the only person alive who didn't hink that Battlefield Earth was that bad, but that being said there is no redeeming quality in epic movie.
I don't know why this guy is taking all the credit for this crappy story. Afterall, the original writer of Battlefield Earth was L. Ron Hubbard, probably the biggest hack science fiction writer ever!
I am a Sci-fi fan and have read almost 100 books and seen many, movies. This was not nearly as awful as people say. I just feel that for the huge budget, it could have been better, but there was lots of interesting stuff going on in the movie. Worth it.
A question I would pose is "Does it work well as an over the top, sometimes corny popcorn Sci-Fi movie?".... I feel that it does. Will it become a classic? Absolutely not. Is there worse stuff out there? Definitely. I prefer this over Independence Day. I think that really is an awful movie... oh and lines like the one you wrote.. "when you were learning to spell, I was trained to conquer galaxies"...cheesy but not unexpected kind of dialogue in these kinds of movies and genre :)
@llVIU You're kidding, right? I'm wasn't totally 'ga-ga' over the Twilight series, either, (although it was decent) but there really is no comparison between that and the 'stank' that is/was "Battlefield Earth." Come on, really?
Lol, not in the least. I'll be the first to risk their ire by calling them a cult. I mean, following a religion made up by a science-fiction writer? That's like people believing in the force. Oh wait... Anyway, no, I just really liked the book.
