after watch this movie for the first time i stay star at the tv screen completely numb with my mouth wide open by the sheer horror of it . everything you hear about battlefield earth represent a saga of the year 3000 be true . battlefield lame be base on the novel write by l. ron hubbard and the creator of the ( in ) famous scientology church ( the religion of the rich and famous ) in the year 3000 the good old planet earth be lay waste by a race of vicious extraterrestrial creep call the psychlos which have slave the planet . apparently 90 % of the population of earth die laugh at their ridiculous visage represent a sort of cowardly lion meet chewbacca meet uruk hai warrior . a few of the non slave human survive in the wild without any kind of technology and living a primitive . one of them and jonnie goodboy tyler ( barry pepper and who look like clint howard with an anorexic matthew lillard combine ) be take prisoner . ( spoiler ) in captivity he plan revolution and thanks of the sheer stupidity of the psychlos and the crappy script and a healthy diet of rat ( do not ask ) he get away with it and a final battle be set and primitive human who know nothing about technology learn how to fly combat jet in a few day in flight simulator with only repeat piece of cake and piece of cake a a motto . then be psychlos v or s human . who will win . ( end spoiler ) accord to john travolta this be a movie he want to make for more than 20 year in honor of his dear mentor mr. hubbard . it seem that the wait be in vain . apparently the filmmaker and producer be aim high with this movie and they be dream another star war trilogy in the making with thousand of million waste in merchandising and action figure and promotion and several spin off be plan before the premiere ( include a sequel and even an animation series . ) but after the box office and critical slaughter they wake up and realize they get robot monster and plan 9 of out space and manos and the hand of fate and santa claus conquer the martian and terror from the year 5000 and mommie dear all roll into one . this lifeless and cliche ridden waste of film be one of the bad movie ever make . no doubt about it . everything that make the cinema art great be wrong in this one . terrible script and inept direction and ugly photography and lighting and lame editing and overblown sound and obtrusive camera angle and run of the mill special effect and the act my god . the acting be incredible bad . the entire cast be make fool of themselves but it seem they think they be do shakespeare in space . the urge of burst into laughter after read those line must have be difficult to repress during the filming . and even under thousand of layer of bad make up you can still notice travolta hysterical overacting ( who take his character waaaay too seriously and channel vincent vega by the way of danny suko with a little bit of tony manero on crack ) and forest whitaker face of complete embarrassment . i felt sorry for barry pepper who must have sign the dotted line think this part would be his big break . i hope his career recovers . and why be richard tyson do the role of tarzan in the future . or be deathstalker . or yor . my favorite be kim coates in the role of carlo and world big wimp and useless sidekick who spend the entire movie cowering in fear and arm waving and over reacting and and eye popping in extreme his green eye and you will swear he be marty feldman in disguise . see it to believe it . and then exorcise your tv set . negative .