Everything Wrong With Battlefield Earth in 23 Minutes or Less 

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‘This exists.’ *ding*

"While You Were Still Learning How to Spell Your Name, I Was Being Trained to Count Movie Sins!”

8:00 - I know you already sinned all the dutch angles, but I feel a ditch angle shot of a screen showing a dutch angle shot of the sewer should deserve a special 100 extra sins.

I'll add this to the "I could've sworn y'all sinned this" pile. But more so Imma need you to sin Titan A.E. and Eight Legged Freaks

"These humans, technologically regressed to the point of using sharpened sticks, can not only start modern aircraft, but fly them effectively." *ding* "Also, these aircraft are completely functional. And their fuel hasn't turned into turpentine. And their missiles aren't rusted in place. Buildings and skyscrapers are returning the earth, but these jets look like they just came off the assembly line." *ding*

Actual movie name "Dutch Angle Earth" Its like the director discovered dutch angles a month before shooting this movie and became obsessed with it.

I saw this for free as i was working in a cinema at the time and i still wanted a refund.

335, lower than I was expecting. There is literally nothing redeemable about this movie. The worst. EVER

Only a few minutes into this video I realized that I missed nothing by never seeing this movie.

I'd have just introduced the film and put up a title card that said, "Everything." Done in less than a minute.

I went to the pawn shop to buy some DVDs and I picked up Battlefield Earth I was going to buy it because I had never heard of it before but when I opened up the DVD box there was nothing inside so somebody took a bullet for me. So whatever man or woman that was, I like to thank you, Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

Hubbard created "Psychlo" not as malapropism of "psycho", but as contraction of "psychologist", because he had these paranoid conspiracy theories about psychologists after he had had to undergo psychiatric evaluation (and diagnosis asa sociopath) after his wife had filed for divorce on reason of Hubbard constanty beating and abusing her, esp while she was pregnant. If you read Hubbard's unhinged book _Dianetics_ that would later lead to Scientology, one of his paranoid-misogynistic obsessions was the idea that pregnant wives were constantly having extramarital affairs or trying to abort their babies by running belly-first into tables. Go figure. ("No, your Honor, the bruises on my pregnant wife's belly are not from me beating her with a stick! She keeps running into tables on purpose!")

In an alternate universe, berry pepper never took this role and had a very successful career as a b-lister.

So a Fast & Furious movie can seriously damage or even "kill" the sin counter, but this movie only reaches 335 with the help of TWO bonus rounds.

Anyone who was subjected to this atrocity is owed an apology, a full refund, and an explanation for how this ever could have happened.

Forest Whitaker looks like the Jamaican Cowardly Lion.

Also the fact that it was based on a novel by a freak like L. Ron Hubbard deserves one million sins lol. Also it’s called “Battlefield Earth” when there’s a severe lack of battling. And I think CinemaSins went too easy on this movie :/

The only person missing from this movie was Tom Cruise as Xenu lmfao

I’ve seen the reviews by Nostalgic Critic, Fanboyflicks and Chris Stuckmann multiple times but I’ve never once heard John Travolta’s character saying “rat brain”

This film has the distinction of “winning” several Razzie Awards throughout the decade. *Worst Picture* *Worst Director for Roger Christian* *Worst Actor for John Travolta* *Worst Supporting Actor for Barry Pepper (Forest Whitaker was also nominated in this category, but lost against him)* *Worst Supporting Actress for Kelly Preston* *Worst Screen Couple for John Travolta and anyone in the entire galaxy!* *Worst Screenplay for J.D. Shapiro and Corey Mandell* *Worst Drama Movie of the Razzies 25 years in 2005* *Worst Picture of the Decade in 2010*

My friend talked me into skipping my afternoon classes in high school to go see this. I still regret it.

I'd better watch this now, before the Church of Scientology sees it and says "CEASE AND DESIST OR SPEND THE NEXT DECADE IN COURT!!!"

It's truly amazing that Scientology managed to survive this travesty.

Harrier Jump Jets at Fort Hood. I was stationed at Fort Hood for 2 years in the mid-90s and never saw Harrier jump Jets because that's a Marines thing.

Dude 23 minutes isn't anywhere NEAR enough for this movie

So I've read the novel, a number of times. Whilst L Ron Hubbard was an utter lunatic, of his entire rocker, I stand by that novel being one of my favourites because it's INSANE! It's wonderful, stupid pulp sci fi and bares little to no resemblance to the film. It also makes significantly more sense.

I always thought it was hilarious that they really were so confident that this movie was gonna be a hit series, that they made toys and shit for it before they could see that it bombed lol

No sin for character running through plate glass directly steals from Blade Runner? Fine, adding it in my head canon.

They defeated humans in 9 minutes, and that's impossible unless they bombarded Earth from outer space because if they had landed an army they would have made great resistance and more than likely, and we would have used nuclear weapons as well.

The title of the video is misleading I don’t see the entire movie uploaded

8:02- Even the surveillance cameras are Dutch-angling the video!

I imagine the most difficult thing about this movie was trying to parse down the Cinema Sins content. Probably had 5 hours of content and almost went mad trying to edit this video to less than 25 minutes 😂😂

Went to see that at the theater, and I fell asleep

CinemaSins gets a sin for setting the bar too low with this video.

This should be 23 hours long

Intertainment, sued producer Franchise Pictures for fraud. Franchise claimed the budget was $75 million instead of the actual budget of $44 million. Franchise was ordered by the court to pay Intertainment $121.7 million in damages, and went bankrupt. Intertainment only financed the film because it came as a package deal with The Art of War (2000) and The Whole Nine Yards (2000).

First thought on seeing the thumbnail: can the sin counter go that high?

This is a movie inspired by the book if anything. There are so many things they just removed or glossed over from the book. For instance; how Johnny knows about the whole nuke thing is because the aliens breath gas got exposed to some uranium ore that was mixed into gold and caused an explosion. An accident makes much more sense as to why Jonny knows this is a thing rather then learning it threw the machine. The movie changes things like this threw out. Something makes sense in the book, lets change that so it makes no sense at all.

Travolta's overacting deserves a sin off.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time someone says “rat brain”

The book this was based on was actually really good The actual battle for earth as multiple alien races descended on earth after Psyclo had been destroyed and the eventual resolution were very satisfying. I cannot express how deeply disappointed i was in this movie.

I refuse to believe that ALL the sins of this film can be covered in 23 minutes, but I'm looking forward to watching the attempt.

I've seen this movie. But the fact that barely any scenes looks familiar right now, tells a lot about it.

"There's so much Dutch in this angle it's practically Paul Verhoeven." I lost it laughing at this point.

That 2 seconds at 19:24 *also* flips the bird at the 180 degree rule with whatever was left of Forest Whitaker's hand

Thank you for doing this, Jeremy always has the best, LEVERAGE

14:16 i now understand that the script intended the past tense of "fight", but Barry clearly says "we took this one chance , and FART!"

The film lists a 73 million dollar budget: However, In 2007 Franchise Pictures was sued by its investors and went bankrupt after it emerged that it had fraudulently overstated the film's budget by $31 million. Which is still more than the final box office of the movie.

Sweet jeasus I can't believe I'm about to explain this but, only a few Psychlo's know thier own mathematics because Psychlo Math is the key to unlocking teleportation, which is what made them into the unstoppable force they are. Yes, I read Battlefield Earth in high school back in '07 and yes, it was voluntary. (No, I don't need to be rescued. Lol)

Umm how did you condense this down shorter than the full movie length? I must have missed something. The fact this got made and released is astounding.

"There's so much Dutch in this angle it's practically Paul Verhooven." Killed me.

Travolta's acting in this movie is on par with Kevin Costner's English accent in Robin Hood!

I’d forgotten how truly, absolutely abysmal this dreadful film was. Sat through the whole thing in a state of shock at how crap it was, like not being able to stop,looking at a car crash.

Still haven’t seen this to this day, but I appreciate this video for showing me why lol

The Far Side once had a strip of Hell's video... where the only movie you could rent was Ishtar. I would have added Batman and Robin, Secret of NIMH 2, every Adam Sandler movie(Except maybe the Hotel Transylvania ones). Oh.. .and this. Definitely this.

I assumed this would be your first video running over an hour, but you probably got exhausted after the first 200 sins.

In 1979, a band called the GERMS made an incredible song called "Manimal". Maybe that's why the show didn't use it. They knew people like me would call them out on it.

Fun fact: Botanically speaking, peppers are in fact berries.

I am extremely impressed you managed to get this down to 23 minutes instead of leaving it at the entire movies run time :p

What's truly remarkable is that you managed to condense the horror to only 23 minutes. Every single scene in this travesty is a sin. Just horrific. For the record, inside the Church of Scientology they firmly believed that this would surpass Titanic and Avatar to become the greatest movie of all time.

I'd say the biggest challenge of adapting the book is how the psychlos speak a different language is an important part of the plot, and yet we have entire scenes of drama and dialogue said with that language, so it's either lots of audience reading subtitles or english pretending to be something else. I guess they settled on both?

Listening to this at work, heard the bonus round music start up and IMMEDIATELY thought, "This is gonna be for 'rat brain'," and YEP!

Finally, thank you to the channel producer and team if there is one

Even the sewer camera was at a Dutch angle 😭

The sentence should have added "with endless options for renewal."

Roy Sheider aboard a 23 minute video. Battlefield Earth shows its head. Roy, "We're going to need a bigger video!"

iv never understood the trope of humans becoming primitive and not understanding technology anymore because the only way i can imagine that happening is if there parents where unable or unwilling to pass down there history and skills and i have no idea what could bring about that scenario

I think the idea is that the Psychlos would stop their attack on Earth because Terl is there as hostage? But Terl is considered a traitor, so...

how the hell could a flight simulator still work after 1000 years ????

I'm totally with you on this film needing cult status. Besides being badly acted and made, it is so ungodly stupid, all whilst taking itself 100% seriously. It honestly cracks me up.

Curious about what happened to the bonus round for the Dutch Angles...

Will you do Frozen Empire soon since it is now digital?

Can we PLEASE get The Menu sometime soon? I like cheeseburger

Five minutes into this video and my head is already hurting because of the tilted image. What a precarious film.

The scene that got me is the cow scene. Watching Travolta "mutilate" a cow offscreen when the other actors act "disgusted" was PATHETIC and that was when I left.

Only movie that could make me click on a cinemasins video in years

We goin over everything? No way it’s covered in 25 minutes… movies at least an hour long…

i love how terl shoots the gun pinky out cos that 6th finger doesn't move. everything is pinky out on planet psychlo. they fancy✨

My darkest secret is that back in the day I liked this movie, In my defense I thought it was intended to be a comedy.

This video is only 23 minutes long... that is some *intense* editing

That Thumbnail Tho! Because of that Dutch Angle, There’s a reason you had to put your text on the right side.

Terl’s watching this video and saying, “While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME!!! I was being trained…to conquer GALAXIES!!!!!”

I remember this was on Netflix (I forgot what year it was… maybe 2017) and I actually fell asleep while watching it and woke up after hearing that part where John Travolta says “While you were still learning how to SPELL YOU’RE NAME!” 😂😂

I wonder why Tom Cruise wasn't able to show up for this near 3 hour long scientology meeting. 🤣

25 Minutes wasn’t enough! lol

how is this not 4 hours long

Dude, it is a 20 second video. “It exists” a million sins!

12:20 - Even their cameras have Dutch angles and the screen is filmed on a Dutch angle. Dutchangleception?

One of the few cinema sins i couldn't make it all the way through because the source material is so cringe. Thankyou for your service, that me may not.

It is quite funny how every scene in this film ends with a wipe cut.

"Manimal" was the name of a TV series.

@8:02 we get three Dutch angles for the price of one! WTF?! I'm going to be sick! 🤮🤣

WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL! WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL! WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!

My first blind date when I was in high school was to this very movie. I totally blame this movie for her never returning my calls.

15:19 I SWEAR WHEN I WAS WATCHING THIS IN 2014 I HAD THE ACTUAL EXACT SAME THOUGHT!!! THAT THIS FEELS LIKE CAMERA HAS GAINED SENTIENCE AND REFUSES TO COOPERATE BECAUSE IT HAS BASIC ARTISTIC TASTE!!!

If any aircraft mechanics are out there and read this, how much maintenance do you have to do after an aircraft returns from just a single flight? If you could quantify it into how many hours the amount of maintenance you have to do after single flight takes that’s all I really need to know let alone how much it would take after they sat there as long as they did in the movie.

I think the (BATTLEFIELD EARTH) story, should be made into a show series.

Even after watching you summarize what happened in this movie, I STILL don't understand what the heck was going on! This movie makes no sense!

I didn't understand all of the Scientology jokes at first, but it made sense after I realized the books were written by L. Ron Hubbard. 😂