Questions about movies (SPOILERS)

[Heretic Apostate]

"We need . . . BIGGER GUNS" What movie is this quote from? I've heard of this movie, but I don't know what the name of it is. It's something about an alien coming to earth, and the hero(es) have to take it on.

Next question: Is Battlefield: Earth (the John Travolta monstrosity) worth it if I can rent it for a little more than $1.00?

Finally, what is it with movies lately? It used to be you'd always know that at least one lanky, lovely, yummy woman would survive, but lately it isn't so. View "Pitch Black" and "Deep Blue Sea." The yummiest women are getting killed, and it's just not right!

 

[Crothian]

"We need Bigger Guns" is from the cult movie Split Second. It's a fun movie set in the future in a flooded London.

Battlefield Earth is one of the few movies that I couldn't sit through. Luckily, I didn't pay any money to see, it was on HBO. However, there are people I know who do think it would be worth a buck. So, hard to say.

And lastly, it's good that the "yummiest" women are starting to die in movies. It makes them much more interesting when you can't determine who dies within the first five minutes.

 

[WayneLigon]

"We need . . . BIGGER GUNS"

Quote is from Godzilla, 1993.
'Split Second' with Rutger Hower has a similar quote 'We need to get bigger guns. BIG %$^%% GUNS!'

Yeah, Battlefield Earth really is. It's not the 'zero stars' blowfest most critics made it out to be; honestly, I think they were just trying to stick it to Travolta himself. Less than two minutes of footage or exposition could have fixed almost all the problems people have with the movie (Yeah, paper books don't last 1000 years; eh).

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Split Second, that's the one I'm thinking of. Unfortunately, the local bargain video renter (Raley's, a grocery store) replaced their older selections recently, and that one disappeared. I picked up Adrenalin (the one about the virus that turns people into psycopaths) thinking it was what I was looking for.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Re: Re: Questions about movies (SPOILERS)

It's not the 'zero stars' blowfest most critics made it out to be; honestly, I think they were just trying to stick it to Travolta himself.

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Ahem.

If any movie should be given negative stars, it should be Battlefield Earth. It's so bad it made the other movies playing in the same multiplex bad just by proximity.

Look, I like a "good" bad movie more than the next guy. I've seen Event Horizon twice and never laughed harder. I watched Glen or Glenda with a straight face. I've seen Manos: Hands of Fate a dozen times. I even wanted to name my dog Torgo (got vetoed on that one). But Battlefield Earth is just putrid. You could have made 20 good movies for what it cost to make this bad one. Hell, you could have made 100 cheesy movies that would have at least been fun to watch. And lest you say I hate Travolta, let it be known that I've enjoyed many of his films (anyone as good as he was in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction can't be dismissed out of hand), it's just that he's been playing the same gonzo character since Broken Arrow.

Would I pay a dollar to watch it? I paid more actually, but I didn't know going in how bad it would be. Would I pay a dollar now? No. Would I watch it for free? No. Would I watch it if you paid me? It'd have to be at least 10 bucks, and only as long as something better wasn't on.

 

[Chauzu]

I'm getting an urge to rent Battlefield Earth to see how horrible it truly is...

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I'm getting an urge to rent Battlefield Earth to see how horrible it truly is...

Me, too. It's only a buck, and I've seen movies just as bad as this sounds. (Okay, I rewound and popped out the tape after 20 minutes, but still...)

 

[Kai Lord]

Re: Re: Questions about movies (SPOILERS)

Quote is from Godzilla, 1993.

1998. 1993 was Jurassic Park.

 

[Shadowdancer]

"Battlefield Earth" was OK for the first part. But the problem arose when they had to condense the final 500 pages of the book into 30 minutes in the movie. Plus they punted on the ending.

I'd pay the $1.