Battlefield Earth - Nostalgia Critic

[@ChannelAwesome]

Feels so good to have the 100th Nostalgia Critic episode on our channel! Make sure to grab your autographed Suicide Squad prints and To Boldly Flee is back in stock! theawesomestore.com

[@everything9137]

Channel Awesome dont you have like 400 episodes

[@GeorgePatton1885]

Channel Awesome what are your thoughts on the "first" comment s

[@2passing]

Channel Awesome god this brings back memory's

[@femmefuntime]

Channel Awesome will you have autographed stuff at Fanime next weekend?

[@ChannelAwesome]

+Prince Vegeta We couldn't afford higher resolution

[@AlmostZer0]

My father acted in that horrible movie, so here's a bit of behind the scene info: Apparently, the movie wasn't going to focus so much on the main character and the villain. The supporting characters where going to be developed, and you could actually feel..well, actual emotions towards them. But instead, John Travolta (the villain, and who had a lot of influence in the making of the movie) had the bright idea to cut most of the lines that weren't his or the main character's. For exemple, my father started the movie with about 2-3 pages of text, and finished it with 2-3...sentences. But eh, apparently John's private chef was there, and the food was delicious.

[@BriceInkling138]

Your dad was an actor in "Battlefield Earth"?

[@JSwanKilowJ]

@@BriceInkling138 that's what the comment says

[@BriceInkling138]

@@JSwanKilowJ Well, did he himself enjoy taking part in it or did he really hate the idea behind it?

[@damoosh4679]

Which actor?

[@BriceInkling138]

@@damoosh4679 Canadian Gamer's father.

[@mariakelly1059]

Shortly after Battlefield Earth was released, it was widely declared to to be the worse movie of the entire 21st century. Which, you have to admit, is quite an achievement since it had only been released in June 2000.

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

Yeah, it wasn't the best way to kick off the millenium.

[@Schizniit]

Worst*

[@Cleon29Warrior]

But June 2000 is still XX century :/

[@kylejames2508]

When the rest of us were learning to SPELL OUR Name Battlefield Earth was immediately ruining an entire century!

[@ethansprague2005]

​@Cleon29Warrior 2000 is apart of the 1900s? Ok...

[@Adjuni]

Biggest issue with Battlefield Earth is the gold thing. There are asteroids in our solar system with more gold in them than has been mined in the whole of human history. Vastly easier to find and almost effortless to mine.

[@Rgoid]

Adjuni Yeah, if you’ve got a spacefleet.

[@joshuaobryan4896]

@@Rgoid which it is implied that they do

[@kingamoeboid3887]

This comment actually influenced me to create an animated sci fi film that's more fact than fiction. No fictional planets or moons.

[@Adjuni]

@@kingamoeboid3887 Cool. I hope you share it with me some day. :D

[@kingamoeboid3887]

Adjuni the influences were this comment and video and The Nostalgia Critic’s review of Doomsday Machine. My favourite sci fi films are 1: 2001: A Space Odyssey 2: Stalker (1979) 3: Solaris (1972) 4: Metropolis (1927) 5: Things To Come (1936) 6: Blade Runner 7: Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back 8: Star Wars VI: Return Of The Jedi 9: Alien (1979) 10: Star Wars IV: A New Hope I do need to see The Day The Earth Stood Still, Incredible Shrinking Man and Forbidden Planet. I've seen Plan 9 which is my favourite B movie.

[@willmiester4051]

"While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained TO CONQUER GALAXIES!!!" - John Travolta 2000

[@anirudhviswanathan3986]

Will Miester It was also the year where he was awesome in Swordfish.

[@benmasta5814]

actually travolta himself was quoted saying this line in a bar fight, 2 years before writing was even started on battlefield earth

[@christophercarey3232]

To do anything less, is a disgrace to my entire family line.

[@jamessiebold5899]

Lame

[@charlesc.fuentes1033]

"I can't talk too long I gonna poo" John Travolta 2019

[@phantomzone2725]

Thank God this film never had a sequel. My neck isn't strong enough to another slanted adventure.

[@brettbaglio1550]

Phantom Zone It was never rebooted, either

[@edwardjohnson8172]

@@brettbaglio1550 yet.

[@mirceadonciu4983]

@@edwardjohnson8172 Don't give them ideas.

[@brettbaglio1550]

Hey Trey If it will be, it better be faithful to the book - for example, the Psychlos should only speak their native language! Also, NO DUTCH ANGLES!

[@capmar-vell92returns20]

The movie covers only the first half of the book. The second half is about intergalactic economics.

[@sethjones5250]

can't believe you glossed over the fact that the human military hardware had been mothballed for 1000 years and inexplicably still works perfectly, and the stores of gas and jet fuel have miraculously survived untainted.

[@fakedude1626]

It's funny that everyone completely forgot that this was a 1000 years in the future, proving how terrible this movie is.

[@tbeller80]

If we want to make a list: -Any machinery or electronics working after 1000 years -Jet fuel still being viable -Learning to pilot Harriers in a few days - which USMC pilots today require months of training because they're a pain in the ass to fly -Assembling a nuke -Nukes and Harriers (complete with simulator) being at Fort Hood, TX ( a US Army base that has neither jet fighters nor nukes) -Properly handling firearms which they've never seen before. It's amazing that they 1) don't accidentally shoot each other and 2) actually use proper trigger control. The guy playing the #2 human does military movies so there's that. -As stated, wiping the map with the Psychlos, though the global military didn't stand a chance.

[@invictuz4803]

thoes are just technicalities mate, ths isn't cinema shins

[@invictuz4803]

thoes are just technicalities mate, ths isn't cinema shins

[@theshlauf]

I'd like to add all the books in the Library of Congress somehow surviving intact and legible despite being exposed to the elements.

[@docdave15]

"I will be the laughingstock of the universe!" - Toilet chin guy Wait, you're not already?

[@Top_Hat_Man]

"Is That Guy's Chin A Toilet Seat?" -Nostalgia Critic

[@genesismultiverse4896]

i think that was the director before the movie was released

[@Crank-Cinema-Lornography]

WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL DENTAL PLAN

[@ph89787]

Crank Cinema's Holy Lornography Archive LISA NEEDS BRACES.

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

He needs a hole new set of teeth.

[@rithrius5384]

IT FEELS LIKE I'M WEARING NOTHING AT ALL! NOTHING AT ALL! NOTHING AT ALL!

[@christophercarey3232]

I'm sorry. I have this bad habit of repeating myself Repeating myself Repeating myself Repeating myself Repeat.....I'm an Idiot.

[@trackatlas6626]

@@rithrius5384 STUPID SEXY RITHRIUS!

[@obiwankenobi9141]

This director knows from other better directors that cameras need to be tilted sometimes, but he doesn’t understand why. -Roger Ebert

[@abeartheycallFozzy]

The director has had a long career and is not really bad. Methinks he was overruled by Travolta at every step.

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

@@abeartheycallFozzy Roger Christian was the production designer for the original Star Wars films & Alien, which makes sense for this film to be like those movies, but the total opposite

[@Darthquackius]

"on the cusp of being nostaglic" 7 years later he is reviewing films that are literally still in theaters

[@DrDolan2000]

Nostalgic tie-in

[@Dysturbed-00]

Times is hard. Now if you could just get ALLLL..... the way off his back that'd be great.

[@LiamGers-cx1kn]

Including Rise of Skywalker!

[@greenghoul157]

Nostalgia now means two year old movies and the 2000s is now as nostalgic as the decades before it

[@KrypandeNej1]

There is only so many bad old shows/movies he can cover

[@Achillez098]

My biggest problem with this movie: the final battle. So 1000 years ago, the combined military forces of Earth could only hold off the alien invasion for about 10 minutes But in the final battle, a small group of cavemen who only trained for a few days were able to destroy the alien home planet. And for some reason, those weapons and fighter jets are still operational after 1000 years. THIS IS STUPID!!! STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

Read the book it makes a bit more sense

[@lestatcomedante3907]

@@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf Sad isn't it as the book was so much better and purposely funny as it's suppose to be satire. I may take issue with L Ron Hubbard for various reasons but the book was pretty good. For those of us that read the book this movie is even more of a abomination. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that was so badly adapted that it's essence was so completely lost. I suppose the best way to put this into words is: Reading the book you feel in on the joke while watching the movie makes you feel like the butt of it. Come to think of it the story of how the Psychlo came to be is eerily similar to Scientology and how they rose to power. Which is rather odd if you think about it considering it was meant as a bad thing. A group takes over and alters their world while holding a tight grip on it using the money and power they obtained through various methods.

[@lestatcomedante3907]

Was the movie garbage on purpose in an attempt to fundamentally destroy any interest in the book?

[@evanremillard5640]

Well this is based off of a L. Ron Hubbard book. The man was a horrible author.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@evanremillard5640 by modern standards. he was considered okay in the pulp days. if his 80s books had come out in the 60s and 50s they would have been received far better.

[@starsiegeplayer]

So the psychos invade Earth for gold. But there's more gold in one asteroid (433 Eros) than the entire planet Earth.

[@six2make4]

Ol' Hubbard weren't a fan of research, he just liked making shit up.

[@bobbatcher6021]

Also, radiation is not matter and therefore can not be explosive. Even setting that aside though, an entirely flammable/explosive atmosphere would destroy all life on the planet the first time there was a static spark.

[@gandalftheantlion]

Actually Earth has a lot of gold... its just close to our core because of its density, so we can't reach it.

[@glennmcquade4134]

six2make4 I found the connection between scientology and this movie... they both make no sense.

[@eugenideddis]

starsiegeplayer Well Earth has gold that has been processed by humans which would make it significantly easier... you know, if they'd bothered to actually look for any of it.

[@mugmellow]

Upload of a 7 year old video that is a video looking back at older videos. Damn I feel old

[@belatedwishes7467]

Mugmellow *IKR*

[@ilopominecrafter]

Mugmellow i feel confused

[@varietyhub2948]

7 years, it came out 2017

[@fireproximity4225]

To think it's been 14 years now

[@victorraularaoz2808]

This comment is now 7 years old

[@hunterwilder9665]

Did you know that John Travolta described this film as being the Schindler’s List of science-fiction and being like Star Wars, but better? Just when you thought this movie couldn’t get any funnier

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

In what way is this anything like Schindler’s List

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Well it is better than the prequels so I give him that

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@@genesismultiverse4896 It really isn't.

[@SpaceVENTING]

​@@genesismultiverse4896 This movie isn't even better than The Last Jedi

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@genesismultiverse4896 The Prequels are infinitely better than Battlefield Earth and I say that wholeheartedly and proudly

[@johnnysparkle]

Battlefield Earth took almost 20 years to finally get to the big screen: L. Ron Hubbard intended for the book to be turned into a movie from the moment he had it finished, and recruited British director Ken Annakin to help produce a movie adaptation. However, Hubbard's ongoing legal troubles meant that it proved impossible to get finance for the movie. When Hubbard died, John Travolta started trying to get it made into a film, but this proved difficult as he had been sent into a career slump following Staying Alive. It wouldn't be until he had a Career Resurrection in Pulp Fiction that he had enough star power to convince anyone to touch it. He started putting even more effort in 1995, eventually getting MGM interested in the project. J.D. Shapiro signed on as screenwriter - later admitting that he did so mostly for the paycheck and because he'd heard Scientology centres were good places to pick up women - but ended up quitting after not being able to see eye-to-eye with either Travolta or MGM. MGM eventually dropped the film, and it was picked up by 20th Century Fox. A new screenwriter, Corey Mandell, was hired and tried to produce a Pragmatic Adaptation of Hubbard's novel, which Travolta seemed more accepting of. However, Fox then dropped the project themselves, leading to it being taken on by Franchise Pictures, a company that specialized in salvaging Hollywood stars' personal projects - and also massively padding out their budgets, allowing them to pull all sorts of embezzlement scams with the budgets. According to Mandell, Franchise only provided the financing, with the rest of production essentially being handled in-house by the Church of Scientology and Travolta's production company, removing any real oversight of Travolta and allowing things to start going completely off the rails. The screenplay was completely rewritten and turned into a more straightforward translation of the novel, with Mandell and Shapiro both being credited as writers, but subsequently disowning the movie. When filming began, the production team had to move from the U.S. to Canada in order to keep costs down. Even then, the budget ended up ballooning (in no small part due to Franchise padding out the budget immensely) to the point where it became the most expensive film to ever be shot in Canada. Despite this, many of the film's crew complained that the actual budget they were afforded was barely any better than what they'd had to work with on the average TV movie. The Psychlo make-up proved to be challenging for both Travolta and co-star Forest Whitaker. Travolta had envisioned his wife Kelly Preston playing a larger part in the movie, but it was downgraded to a one-scene cameo due to a combination of Preston being busy on another project, and her finding the make-up incredibly uncomfortable and claustrophobic during screen tests. Production ended up taking so long that Travolta had to cancel two other roles in order to finish Battlefield. Right before the film was set to release, a version of the screenplay was leaked and retitled online. Reviews for the screenplay were scathing, pretty much ensuring the film to be the complete commercial disaster that it was. Travolta's career arguably hasn't recovered since. As the icing on the cake, one of the film's main financial backers later sued Franchise Pictures into bankruptcy after finding out the extent of the financial fraud that had taken place with the film's production. German production company Intertainment AG agreed to handle the European distribution of a slate featuring the film in exchange for financing what they thought was 47% of its production costs. Without Franchise Pictures' embezzlement, their financial contribution was closer to 90%.

[@kanati1133]

So this film was pretty much D.O.A.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Huh the more you know

[@AYVYN]

All I took from this is that Scientology centers are good places to pick up women.

[@dylanwesley3964]

@@AYVYN 20,000 dollar entry fee and those women are all yours.

[@AYVYN]

@@dylanwesley3964 I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a woman today

[@riokamichika1101]

I remember the ending of Battlefield Earth, where they pretty much set up a sequel. The Last Airbender and Jem & The Holograms can eat their heart out.

[@MechaG]

Rio Kamichika don't forget the Mario Bros.

[@dragonslayergu1161]

Rio Kamichika don't forget Dragonball Evolution too!

[@jasonblalock4429]

In... slight... fairness, the movie only covered about the first 1/3 of the book, which is something like a thousand pages long. So they actually had a reason that it ends somewhat unresolved and begging a sequel.

[@anthrax6685]

And super Mario brothers the movies

[@thomasnethery6718]

Green lantern fan4stic golden compass and eragon

[@RetroPiero]

"A demon, a monster, a beast!, YARRHGGG!" Love that line.

[@onigames7309]

Me too XD

[@julieporter7805]

Have you heard of subtlety, underplaying, a good actor? YAAHH!!!!

[@jalenikezeue4114]

are we positively Sure that line was in the Script Or were the Actors Just Drunk

[@titan133760]

​@@julieporter7805 Oh no, it's a demon, a monster, a beast! YAAAAGHH!

[@TLSoulDude]

RiffTrax's responge to that was gold: "No, but we see a douchebag."

[@M1GarandMan3005]

When Spoony is actually a better Terl than John Travolta.

[@giuseppeianniello1998]

And to think that John spent years bringing this s**t to life and claiming that it’s better than Star Wars🤣🤣🤣 So it’s true that Scientology ruins careers

[@joshmciver4847]

I miss Spoony. his acting in this review was the best.

[@MegaSheen15]

Did you know that the only reason the book was listed as a bestseller was because Scientologists were instructed to by multiple copies?

[@ReignSupreme2014]

@MegaGug 95 Really? Is that true? It sounds like something Scientologists would do.

[@voilvelev6775]

@@ReignSupreme2014 Nah, its not true.

[@lestatcomedante3907]

To be fair the book was a pretty good satirical sci-fi story but the movie failed on all accounts in telling the story.

[@sorrenblitz805]

@Red Coin actually Battlefield Earth isn't Scientology propaganda, one of the very few books Hubbard wrote that wasn't. It does reflect some of the ideas he would hold as tenets in Scientology, but overall it's just a sci-fi novel.

[@thungoda3082]

I absolutely loved the book. It was fucking great. Didn't know it was by the scientology guy until years later. I read my paperback until it fell apart and then got a new copy. The book was 1030 pages, and the movie used about 4. Seriously, don't judge the book by the movie.

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

There's one thing good about battlefield earth: It's not boring. It's dumb as fuck but it's entertaining and enjoyable as long as you don't actually expect it to be, well, any good.

[@anikmonette2140]

HeyNonyNonymous I didn't see it yet but it seems to be the kind of movie where everyone acts so stupid all the time that you end up cheering whenever a character dies...

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Especially if it's one of the heroes.

[@me6664]

"it came out in 2000, so I sort of considered it on the cusp of being nostalgic" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

It doesn't really matter anymore, he reviews all movies now. And that's cool, he doesn't have limits

[@nodinitiative]

DAMIEN MILLS Nope, there are still a lot of Nostalgic movies he could have reviewed on and now done by other internet reviewers. He now mainly does current or recent popular movies.

[@DarthRushy]

Ralph Bakshi's Cool World is hardly a current or recent popular movie.

[@greoug]

DarthRushy >Mainly he didn't say he only did new movies.

[@CassyVilAudios]

His old cutoff was technically 2003, but now if the SOURCE MATERIAL is nostalgic, it counts as a nostalgic thing for reviewing. So all these reboots and remakes and comic book movies and such count, even though they're technically new.

[@denverarnold6210]

12 years later, and still "makes my nipples tingle with fear" is still my favorite WTF line of the show.

[@RealChiliConQueso]

Even worse than the dutch angles is the fact that they shot this movie in freaking PANAVISION and they still couldn't keep the actors in the frame half the time.

[@JSGirl09able]

Actually I checked out the technical specs for the film and it was actually filmed with ARRI 35mm cameras

[@AlexAceves1994]

I hope they don't shoot the same thing while using digital film cameras like Red Dragon, Arri Alexa and Panavision DXL. Hell, even GoPro cameras can still have better angles than Battlefield Earth has.

[@tristanhartup4936]

"The Psychlos enslaved humanity because they want our gold." Oh, that's just ridiculous, what are they going to do, buy something with it?

[@Timliu92]

Exactly. The premise of the film, excluding all the terrible technical flaws and the bad acting, is already stupid in the first place.

[@nykerianash1590]

Timliu92 why not demand we harvest it and in exchange they leave our planet alone ?

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Yes, incredible as it may seem, Psychlo economy works basically like ours and they value gold for basically the same reason. I think Hubbard wanted them to represent greedy capitalists.

[@Introverder]

It looks for me that they - Psychlops (or whatever is their fucking name) never care about teeth so they wanted to use gold implants instead.

[@ElanaVital83]

Hubbard clearly wanted them to represent psychiatrists. He hated Psychiatry and psychology, mostly because he suspected that he had mental illness himself. He wrote expensive letters about it.

[@vinx.909]

"*ghasp* you don't mean?" "no not that one." "oh" still a great joke.

[@TheHTFAmv]

This is probably one of my favorite reviews

[@Wishbone4evr]

Me too! Scientology got PWNED! x3

[@FizzleFX]

Rainbow Dash always had an odd taste

[@bloodstoneore4630]

10:15 look, they predicted 2017

[@ericwood3709]

NunyaBusiness I don't know why people want to tie this silly thing to scientology. It's a 1982 sci fi novel turned into an inferior movie, and neither really has anything to do with Hubbard's BS "religion" from what I can tell.

[@AxenfonKlatismrek]

in fact this is my Number one Review. this is why i was making subtitles

[@Nasser851000]

"While you were still learning how to spell your name!..."

[@stebsis]

ctl eurocollege yes, that is a quote from the video, bravo. can you now tell me what a cow says?

[@Nasser851000]

Amooooosing XD

[@KB-bh9hp]

The writers were just learning how to spell their names when they created this movie,that would explain why everything in this film seems to be created by a 2 yr old lol.

[@1800Hernandez]

have you ever heard of subtlety, underplay, a good actor? YAAAAHHHH

[@vero-kd8vg]

I WAS BEING TRAINED TO CONQUERGSLAXIES!!

[@kingsleycy3450]

Gold is such a plentiful resource in the universe that conquering a planet for its gold is like attacking your neighbor for his chicken dinner.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Or the toilet paper

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

Depends on how good the chicken dinner is

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

@@genesismultiverse4896I’m actually surprised that didn’t happen back during the pandemic due to shortages

[@itsatrap1017]

“We finally get to see what this advanced alien race that enslaved humanity looks like........... 6:19 Jamaican Klingon Clowns. I got to admit, Movie, I gave you a lot more credit than you deserved!”

[@brodiemcgrath7741]

10:11 The original REEEEEEEEEEEE?

[@christophercarey3232]

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Enough of this shit!

[@Kimmy0721]

I almost pissed myself laughing so hard

[@victorm152]

But funnier, especially because Doug makes faces like Jerry Lewis

[@bandandra9584]

SJW’s be like 10:11

[@cartoonmaster2401]

What does that meme even mean? XD

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

18:51 I like how Doug makes it looks like he’s interacting with the movie’s characters, I wish he did that more these days.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Marvin the Martian could beat these aliens.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

They make me very angry!

[@HeartsAsStrongAhhHorses]

E.T could single handedly destroy their entire planet

[@Rgoid]

The Vogons could beat them.

[@JB-ms4su]

Invader Zim could beat the Psychlos

[@johnnyngo2896]

The Crites or the Xenomorphs would kick the Psycholo's asses.

[@shropshirec]

Saw Gerrara was into some weird stuff between the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War.

[@patrickwalsh7088]

His sisters death hit him hard.

[@elephantpowerproductions]

Hehehehehe. Brilliant

[@AzelfandQuilava]

*GOLD! DECEPTIONS! EVERYDAY MORE GOLD!*

[@SeenAGreatLight]

1:59 That whole "YOU DON'T MEAN--?" bit was one of the funniest Nostalgia Critic moments of all time to me!

[@mechmaster315]

Given anyone watching this now: He later did some bad movies and some newer ones dropped

[@willverschneider1102]

It seems like any modern sci fi movie with "Earth" in the title is gonna suck. Battlefield Earth, After Earth, The Day The Earth Stood Still (the remake).

[@DJSanders23]

Even the first “the day the earth stood still” isn’t a great film. It suffers from “Godfather” syndrome. Because it was so incredibly influential in terms of what it achieved cinematography wise then it glosses over the glaring flaws and poor acting.

[@SirKirk2000]

Will Ver Schneider what about Earth to Echo? That was good.

[@lonewolfgamingplus379]

Planet Earth is amazing documentary

[@marisastoletheprecioussara118]

Why cant humanity just lost and earth get destroyed

[@fleetadmiralauto6506]

Eh, the Day The Earth Stood Still remake was okay. The other ones were just bad.

[@lizzybethnj617]

I remember everything Thursday my family had movie night and everyone got to pick a movie and my dad picked this one I remember my mom just getting up in the middle of this shit and yelling Eddie what the hell did you pick this is terrible, turned off the tv and that was the end of my dad picking movies on movie night.

[@lizzybethnj617]

Steamy Ramen thanks I'm glad she said something because my dad likes shitty movies lol

[@pablocruz5613]

Poor Edie

[@SketchTurnerZero]

Wow. Your mom is a bitch

[@hunk2645]

God you mom has the rights to do it

[@thungoda3082]

Every time my mom picked one it would have a graphic sex scene, so it could be worse. We made her start picking G rated movies.

[@Razgriz85]

Didn't mention that the fighter jets they learned to fly have been sitting for almost 1000 years with ammo and fuel that are still viable. The annoying kids in Jurassic World being able to fix jeeps that have been sitting for several decades is more plausible.

[@gerardbooker8627]

This made me realize that The Psyclos would stand absolutely no chance against the Yautia(The Predator race)

[@Rogue.Rainbow]

The Yautia wouldn’t even bother with them. They’d see actually fighting them as a waste of time.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

And the Xenomorphs will finish the all the Psychlos off with zero issues at all.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

​@@Isaac-gh5kuactually the xenomorphs wouldn't even try the psychlos as hosts

[@isukeinukai6941]

Since Battlefield Earth came out in 2000, I'm guessing that this is the movie that started the Dutch Angle craze of the early 2000's.

[@SpoopySquid]

If someone would remake this film - but remove the deadbeat seriousness and up the irony/black humour - it could make a pretty good B-flick. Again, just make sure to take it as seriously as any L. Ron Hubbard work should be taken. That is, not at all

[@lestatcomedante3907]

Funny thing is the book was meant as satire and is a pretty good read.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Could be used in tech tho

[@SteveCrafts2k]

Here's what I'd do to remake it: 1) Remove the slanted camera. That much should be obvious. 2) Not only would I bring in talented actors, I would also bring in a better Special Effects team, a better designer, better cameramen, better editors, etc. 3) I want to retain the serious tone of the original, but I also want to bring in nuance and down-to-earth moments that doesn't make the seriousness a hindrance. 4) For the Psychlos, I'm going to use this battlefieldearth.com/portfolio-item/terl/ for the designs. I'll redesign the armor, though.

[@brettbaglio1550]

SteveCrafts2k You forgot number 5: Have the Psychlos speak only their native language!

[@SteveCrafts2k]

​@@brettbaglio1550 I'm pretty sure their English voices will be revealed after their language is programmed into Johnny. But onto number 7, 7) The rarest material on Earth is actually Rhodium, not gold. So to reflect this, I'll make it so that the Psychlos are forcing the humans to mine Rhodium.

[@warlock984]

Is anyone else somewhat bothered by the fact that the 'heroes' apparently cause the deaths of billions of potentially innocent people to create their leverage or whatever?

[@anikmonette2140]

I am. But the hero(es) is only as pathetic as the villain(s), so I'm not surprised in the least...

[@jeremyneill227]

Yeah, you don't usually see genocide as the heroic resolution to these kinds of stories.

[@JounLord1]

Its not nice but well, its not like the alternative is any better. The psychlos had already genocided billions of humans and were planning of doing it again to the few thousand left. Its self defense, it was the humans or the psychlos and they started it. If I shoot someone trying to kill me I'm not the dick in the situation. According to the book Johnny had just planned to take out the capital city but because of all the tunnels in the planet caused a chain reaction that turned Psychlo into a new sun. Its not the humans fault that their only weapon capable of hurting the psychlos kinda sorta was their kryptonite.

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Not at all. It was self defense. The psychlos would have exterminated the humans. And exterminating your enemy is the best and safest way to prevent another conflict with said enemy. We don't do it because if you genocide a people, all the other peoples will turn against you (like we do with the Nazi), not because of abstractions like decency, but because they'd be afraid they would be next. We may paint it in moral colors, but it's the survival instinct that dictates these things. BTW, in the book it's made clear they're all evil because they're implanted with something when they're born that makes them all into sadistic monsters, because seeing suffering in others gives them a physical reaction nearly equivalent to an orgasm.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Wing Commander 3 has the hero destroy the Kilrathi homeworld in the last mission. Hooray forum genocide.

[@KTChamberlain]

I love how wide Bargo's eyes get when he says, "No, Critic, there is one movie you have overlooked." Ah, could those eyes get any bigger? Such great delivery on that line too.

[@SATANS_SPHYNX]

Fun fact: Roger Christian is actually a very accomplished set/art director, winning an Oscar for his work on Star Wars (and being nominated for one for Alien). He should stick to art direction.

[@RandomAticsJR]

I'll add on to that, this isn't the only movie he's directed

[@demisauce]

I know this originally aired in 2010, but it's the first time I am seeing it. What makes this gold for me is I just saw another video title "Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist Ep.01- The Psychlols" by Media Zealot which JUST covered this movie. He did a three part series on a bunch of different races like this too.

[@Mailed-Knight]

Oh yeah I just saw that as well.

[@ericwood3709]

Civilizations that split infinitives do not deserve to exist.

[@RoyalRoseTrue]

100 Episodes of A Screaming Critic.

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

Pretty much, that's why we love him.

[@RoyalRoseTrue]

100 Episodes of a Screaming, Nostalgic Critic!

[@CeticWales]

Well over 100 episodes by now

[@RoyalRoseTrue]

Consider this the Most Famous Episode of the Most Infamous Movie the Critic reviewed!

[@Leongon]

in 420p

[@nspcrazy1122]

There are few jokes in the universe as clever as, "Have you ever heard of subtlety, underplay, a good actor? HAW!" & "I feel like Moses is parting the dissolving scene.". Also, Spoony was a better Terl than John Travolta.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Also THIS IS STUPID

[@QuiteDan]

10:11 *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

[@pablothecoffeelover2551]

dandeentremont WWRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hailanluu2169]

ENOUGH OF THAT SHIT

[@rossenator101]

Hải Lân Lưu I’LL BE BAC......

[@supersaiyanwhitef2739]

@@pablothecoffeelover2551 road rolla

[@cameliongrim183]

Omg, they're fortnite players, RUN!!!

[@Mprator]

1000 years of presumably hardcore gold mining and there is still gold left?

[@batnacks]

As far as I know gold is used in phones so yes

[@danieldukai1380]

Back when Spoony was actually cool. Sad times, man.

[@skullguy8504]

what happened?

[@lunayoshi]

He got a bit hostile on Twitter (putting it mildly) and alienated himself from half of the Channel Awesome team. They've reconciled, but he doesn't make videos anymore. He was diagnosed as Bipolar, which explains the behavior, but still... I think he streams Let's Plays, but I haven't followed him in years.

[@CaptAwesumNo1Zone]

I miss Spoony, nobody was as harsh on shitty games and movies like he was, he was the Rick Flair of KZbin critics

[@Encephthy]

Radiation = explosion, because science.

[@DrPluton]

Encephthy, in the book, the atmosphere was primarily methane and oxygen. In that environment, ignition equals explosion.

[@Encephthy]

That makes sense, well, as much sense as building a military based on a planet with an atmosphere that could ignite if two pieces of anything rubbed together. My issue was with what the movie implied, that a "radioactive" atmosphere would make it explosive. Which is total nonsense.

[@Mailed-Knight]

Of course don't you know anything about science!!! It's radioactive that can't be good!!!

[@TheNthMouse]

Obviously, since nukes are radioactive, that must mean that radiation is explosive: don't light a match next to a nuke /sarcasm.

[@jerb5965]

It's not science at all....*screaming* ITS SCIENCE-TOLOGY

[@AlmightyNorppa]

Checked the comment section and I'm really surprised at how many people find it hard to grasp that this episode first aired in 2010.

[@likeabadgirlshouldx4928]

It isn't the biggest crime?

[@dracosamm]

Kudos to y'all on your 100th episode Nostalgia Critic and friends

[@giuseppeianniello1998]

Fun fact Battlefield Earth won 9 Razzie Awards throughout the 2000s. It won: Worst Picture, Director (Roger Christian), Actor (John Travolta), Supporting Actor (Barry Pepper), Supporting Actress (Kelly Preston), Screen Couple (John Travolta and any actor who was unfortunate enough to share the screen with him), Screenplay (JD Shapiro and Corey Mandell), Worst Drama of the Razzies 25 Years in 2005 and Worst Picture of the Decade in 2010. NOTE: Forest Whitaker (who plays Ker) was also nominated for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost against Pepper.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

So this was like the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest of the Razzies?

[@roberttreacy8271]

7:10 Fun fact: Forest Whitaker later expressed regret taking part in this film, and I can't say I blame him.

[@jayblade2000]

"I'M REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY ANGRY!"

[@jesuschavez5875]

I'm really angry.

[@davidrobb2772]

@@jesuschavez5875 No, no no. I'M REEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLLY ANGRY!!!

[@jesuschavez5875]

@@davidrobb2772 I'm REEALLY angry.

[@BlaineCraner]

@Dick Trickle REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@onigames7309]

@Dick Trickle EEEEEE... ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT!!

[@jojothebard6687]

Man, I miss Spoony.

[@xenxander]

Well he hooked up with a chick that was wrong for him, and he used his depression as a reason not to work. I make fun of ANYONE with clinical depression because I FUCKIN' HAD it myself, 100% diagnosed, and you know how I got over it? Not by pills or therapy.. I pulled my head out of my ass and began to realize the world doesn't revolve around me and isn't supposed to exist merely to make me happy. Yeah. That's fuckin' it. That's the secret to curing depression. No seriously, I was almost put on suicide watch during my depression (something I don't admit often) but.. I pulled through. I know what depression is. Sure you can argue that Noah is "Bi-Polar" and that's not the same but it's similar. Bi-Polar simply means depression 'part of the time' so... he has even less of an excuse.

[@christiancrusader9374]

Xen Xander everyone deals with it differently.

[@CanItAlready]

That sounds more like brooding than depression. A legit chemical imbalance can't be fixed by suddenly realizing you're not the center of the universe.

[@RxsegoldFiend]

Xen Xander Woooooow you’re a big guyyyyy!!! *intense claps* I am soooo prouuuud of youuuu woooooow

[@isthisnamegood]

So chemical imbalances just need you to "Get over it" realize you're not "The center of the universe" Looks to me like you still think that frankly. That your case is every case and you know more then anyone else.

[@aronjanssonnordberg307]

I'm watching old Nostalgia Critic episodes, with endless options for renewal, with endless options for renewal, with endless options for renewal.

[@andrewryan2400-z3d]

9:25 spoony’s impression is so spot on, it deserves an Oscar

[@RoyalCrustle]

2010: "This movie from the year 2000 is just on the cusp of being nostalgic." 2017: "Here's a review of a movie that came out a few months ago." Boy, the meaning of the word "nostalgic" sure has changed. :P

[@cartoonnetworkdisneyxdsupe6864]

Royal Crustle Well, remember he changed up the rules so that it has some sort of nostalgic connection. Not specifically something that came out a while, but is based on some sort of nostalgic property.

[@dorkfish1275]

Boss baby, norm of the north emoji movie, need I go on?

[@CDexie]

That's for the best imo, why restrict the videos lile that?

[@Rgoid]

Dorkfish Don’t forget Captain Underpants.

[@rockycuro7737]

@@dorkfish1275 those were special occasions. Norm was for 10 years of nostalgia critic, emoji movie was for some special reason I can't remember and boss baby came after a flood of requests for it after he did emoji movie

[@Phox532]

I'm easily probably five of the thousands of views of this video and this episode still gets me every single time I watch it. A periodically go back and re-watch this episode and the water world episode just because they're so good

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

Can you believe this movie is 20 years old? Wonder how John Travolta is looking back But man this review brings back so many memories.... My buddy Tom and I had a ball watching it back in the day

[@cyborgparrot1996]

This deserves a Million Views, the jokes, NC reactions & responses, and Spoony's performance as Turel is just fucking hilarious.

[@psychomammoth9640]

1:58 I love this bit, especially his screaming of Battlefield Earth and the mentioning of feared nipples.

[@retrollennialdungeonz2451]

10:11 DIO: "WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

[@retrollennialdungeonz2451]

*continues*

[@mss490]

Abraham Zambrano FREE KEKISTAN!

[@redpandah3309]

O God you right

[@UnagiTempura]

Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵 im a simple woman. i see a jojo reference, i like.

[@kristofgriffin384]

Even Speedwagon is annoyed!

[@JokersPalace3384]

20:50 Best. Rant. Ever!!!

[@vasyear]

I think the pearl harbour one is better

[@samwhitacre]

20:44 My rant on Holmes and Watson, which became one of the worst British comedies of all time.

[@thealchemist51]

this review make me miss Spoony....I wish he would come back

[@benm5970]

I love how the jets as well as the fuel are still fully functional after sitting there and rusting for a thousand years

[@timthememer2785]

FOOL! While you were still learning how to *SPELL YOUR NAME*, _I_ was being trained *TO CONQUER GALAXIES!*

[@christophercarey3232]

To do anything LESS, is a disgrace to my entire FAMILY LINE.

[@actionjackson4982]

Let me just work on my dying words. *clears throat* OOOHHHH----

[@1800Hernandez]

"has anyone ever seen one? a demon, a monster, a beast, YAAAAHHHH" "have you ever heard of subtlety, underplay, a good actor?, YAAAAHHHH" XD

[@baconninja3126]

20:00 a Small explosion also counts as a rocket booster or engine. think about how they even get of the planet

[@darksideofthemoon488]

2:57 "This movie has nothing to do with Scientology." Actually yes it does, because the Psychlos are supposed to represent Psychology Practice and all its treatment which Scientology is fully against especially when L. Ron Hubbard's second wife demanded that he should see a Psychologist and also when the Psychological community denounced his book Dianetics as unreliable as a self-help book.

[@Cajek2]

darksideof themoon did not know that thank you

[@onigames7309]

Yep. Hubbard was basically butthurt about psychology due to the rejection of his book.

[@andresacosta4832]

Also in the book there are aliens called Catrists who are sort of important near the end. That and Jonnie heals himself just by thinking about it (Dianetics, anyone?). Also the Clinkos were called "Chinkos" because LRH was a super racist

[@comiccinema8177]

18:33 “No. They're not... They're honestly not... SON OF A BIIIIIIIIITCH!!! TERL!” My favorite part of the vid. The delivery is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

[@tthomaselli2]

I still laugh at what The Nostalgia Critic said at 17:38-17:41.

[@sumanoskae]

10:12 You were expecting Nostalgia Critic, but it was me, Dio!

[@Scofferify]

I miss Spoony.

[@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks]

Scoffs where is he? Is he alive???

[@lunayoshi]

@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks He's still alive and is very very much on Twitter. That's kind of all he does now. Doesn't put out videos anymore. :\ It's a shame because I really liked his content.

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks I heard he stopped because he was too depressed.

[@silentcipher5130]

i swear when i first saw this movie i thought i was watching a first year film students project made direct to dvd

[@sidetracker3496]

Funny Fact: this video was the first ever recorded use of a REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@noahjulius5062]

My favorite Nostalgia Critic videos are: Battlefield Earth Neverending Story 3 The Last Airbender Patch Adams The Magic Voyage Batman and Robin After Earth Master of Disguise Cool as Ice Ghost Dad Felix the Cat Green Lantern The Amazing Spiderman 2 Doug's First Movie Fan4stic Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides The Life of Timothy Green Rapsittie Street Kids Beauty and the Beast (2017) Pixels The Emoji Movie Robocop (2014) Double Team Steel

[@johncwooten6595]

Also why are they still using bullets? It's 3000 not 2000. I mean where are the phaser gun.

[@paradoxzee6834]

Not really people in the past did think that by the year 2000 we will have flying cars.... its the year 2017 and there are no flying cars to buy. So we can assume in the future they still use bullets

[@pablocruz5613]

+Steamy Ramen but far less efficient. A bullet does FAR more damage than any laser of a handheld side. Hell, we have handguns that can deal far more damage more quickly than any laser.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

+GM Creed Didn't the Psycho-Clos use green blaster bolts? Humans had not exactly much chance to develop new tech when they were conquered in 2000 and are still subjugated in 3000 CE... Also: just look at how much "futuristic" tech the US Army, Air Force and Navy had in the development stage since the 1960s and how much of it they had to can, because it was too expensive to make it work... And that was just 1-2 generations of "conventional" tech further than what was already in use... The Osprey Tiltrotor almost did not make it into actual use and the F22 and F35 programs are constantly fighting to not die the budget-death with ridiculous program cost overruns... Dozens of Tank, Armored Vehicle, Handweapon/Gun and similar proposals have been tried and cancelled.

[@johncwooten6595]

Feno 3000 I wasn't talking about the humans, I was talking about the Psychlos. And did they use the green colored bullets after the green colored room at the beginning? If not, then they were using bullets. Besides, they could have been made from some sort of alloy.

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Still not viable as weapons and will never be. Laws of physics and all, you know...

[@mrprotheroe4981]

10:11 this is one of the funniest Nostalgia critic moments for me

[@grimpthemeltedchimp4705]

Sometimes I wonder what the director of one of these bad movies would say if they were on one of the critics reviews... would they defend the abomination? Agree with NC and ask for it to die? Or just deny it's existence and the request to be on the show?

[@irllcd13]

Will Plummer uwe boll thinks he's actually brilliant and everybody just doesn't get his movies. he challenged people that criticize him to a fistfight irl

[@manicpixiefangirl4189]

Will Plummer Well, the DP of this movie also did Hell or High Water from what I'm told. Guess you never can tell.

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Well, Jar Jar Abrahms said people who didn't like The Last Jedi are afraid of strong women (apparently he thinks only men didn't like that horrible movie) and that's the only reason they didn't like the film, so there's that. Yes, they probably would defend the movie and call the critics meanies.

[@JCole78]

Pretty much everyone attached to this film has said it turned out to be a horrible movie except for Travolta that is, but he had bee trying to get the movie made since the early '80s.

[@FallenAngel1508]

"To be....or not to BE!!!!!" 😂😂😂

[@Charlie94781]

11:09 That politician has more chins than Jabba the Hutt

[@TheLoneSmoker]

Damn... I miss Spoony.

[@somerandolad]

We all do :(

[@TheDorianTube]

24:49 He was the Art director of the first Star Wars and first Alien and second unit director for the Phantom Menace (whatever that means) (wiki)

[@bcdside]

Doug, PLEASE do an episode on "Fateful Findings," a hilariously bad movie!

[@chrisrosales6362]

Terl: Reeeeeeaaaaaa~ Critic:Reeeeeaaaaaaa~ Dio: WWWRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY~!!

[@brettbaglio1550]

Chris Rosales Normies: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~

[@ThisisalGOOGLESCHANNEL]

8:46 is that John Travolta doing an impression of Nostalgia Critic doing an impression of John Travolta????

[@taydrabrookshire347]

The angles make it look like every bootleg movie on KZbin that’s been edited to holy hell to avoid copyright strikes

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Noah/Spooney as Terl is hilarious, he does a really good Travolta impression.

[@RoyalRoseTrue]

Consider this the Most Famous Episode of the Most Infamous Movie the Critic reviewed in his 100th Episode.

[@martythetickler]

This is still one of the best reviews in NC history. And Spoony is awesome in it.

[@sesfilmsllc]

And remember folks this came out of the mind of L Ron Hubbard.

[@boryolmung9548]

No,John Travolta's mind.

[@juliancoleman8459]

there is gold in S P A C E thanks Joe

[@Wiiguy1606]

My favorite joke in the review is when he makes fun of the tilted angle. Especially, when he and his chair "sinks" out of view with a "Whoa!". Also if you're watching this review or movie on a handheld device, here's a challenge for you: In spite of the tilted angles, can you keep the ground of the movie leveled with the outside ground you're standing on for as long as possible? I'll bet you'll be shaking your device this way!

[@fakedude1626]

I love that even after 7 years, Doug still looks the same with the same beard and hair

[@ThreadTrekker47]

They LIVE on the planet PSYCHLO, where the EVIL Meanosaurus and the NASTY Bandamagoo eat up ALL the Oompa-Loompas!

[@Colinkrauss1]

“We are the most intelligent, advanced, and powerful beings in the world” “What’s your name?” “Terl. And this is Ker. Over there is Olp, Fud, Sock, and Derp.”