"John Travolta referred to this film as 'Star Wars A New Hope, but better.' And said this was the 'Schindlers list of sci-fi movies.' Meanwhile, Forrest Whitaker expressed regret for participating in the movie." LMAO loved this reaction. What a whacky movie
I'm seriously torn on whether this or the humorous adventures of Willard "Muh Wife's Name Outta Yo Mouth But My Son's Buddy's Pecker In Hers" Smith as the entirely sanely named "Cypher Rage" is the more hilarious attempt at indoctrinating people with Scientology.
And recently convicted rapist Danny Masterson, his brother Christopher, and Christopher's girlfriend for a while, Laura Prepon. She was in That 70's Show with Danny. She claims that she no longer practices scientology. Other famous members of the cult include actors Elizabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, Ann Archer, the voice of Bart Simpson Nancy Cartwright, Stanley Kubrik's daughter Vivian, Michael Peña, and Giovanni Ribisi. Scientology also had its hooks in a bunch of people who have since left, including Nicole Kidman, Isaac Hayes, the late great jazz keyboardist Chic Corea and many more.
I did a drinking game to this a while ago. We didn’t go the Dutch angles, but we did drink for ever wipe transition. I didn’t remember how the movie ended.
And it's so on brand, since SeaOrg people in Scientology sign like billion year contracts that obligate them to serve across all their reincarnations, with endless options for renewal, endless options for renewal...
Budget, $75 million (declared), $44 million (actual). Box office, $29,725,663. The egregious case of Hollywood Accounting involved in the production led to Franchise Pictures being sued into bankruptcy. The infamous film's creation also crippled plans for a sequel about the second half of the book and put John Travolta's career back in jeopardy after his Career Resurrection with Pulp Fiction, from which he never fully recovered. Co-stars Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker and director Roger Christian, who all hate this film, also fell off the map (Whitaker would come back with his Oscar-winning turn in The Last King of Scotland), one of the writers, J.D. Shapiro, criticized Travolta's creative "input" and personally accepted the Golden Raspberry Award this movie received. Pepper later said that had he been told he was "winning" Worst Supporting Actor beforehand he would have also accepted the award in person The film is also guilty of ruining the chances of any further adaptations of L. Ron Hubbard's work or anything connected to Scientology being taken seriously. The film's financial failure eventually ended up bankrupting Franchise Pictures, but for the exact opposite reason of most of the films on this list - the company lied about how big a loss they took by inflating the reported budget, leading to investors suing the company for even more money.
The film took almost 20 years to 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 20th Century Fox picked it up. 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, 20th Century 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 ever 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 film's director of photography later claimed that the film had the smallest lighting budget he'd ever seen. The Psychlo make-up was 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 by alternative newspaper Mean Magazine. Meanwhile, early previews for the screening were scathing, pretty much ensuring the film would be the complete commercial disaster that it was. 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.
I unironically really liked this movie when I was like 13. Since then I've just heard how bad people think it is. Now I'm concerned it will not hold up to my teenage perception of it.
1:03:45 Nibiru is indeed the Planet X you heard about Eric and also Rick knows from Yu-Gi-Oh as just like anything connected to Ancient Astronaut theories gets recycled qnd used in other new age philosophies, doomsday predictions, conspiracy theories and pop culture. I know I heard about it connected to the 2012 phenomenon and I also believe the the writers of the show Smallville somewhat used the idea of the Nibiru cataclysm as the basis for the series finale where Apokolips was going to crash into Earth.
My guy. You're forgetting the other Scientology lolcow movie starring one Willard Carroll Smith (LOL, that's his actual name) as "Cypher Rage" alongside his brat son.
@RandomNPC001 I was 9. I also remember that year had a TV show called Automan. A police officer/computer programmer created an A.I. At night when the city's power consumption was low. The A.I. could take physical form and could create vehicles to help solve crimes.
Just realized the instant learning machine breaks the plot, because if they have that tech as just a normal thing to them, then they have zero excuse to be ignorant about anything, especially man-animals. If humans could learn a language instantly, we'd probably look down on people who CHOOSE to refuse to instantly learn your language, it would be like an insult, I'm above you so much I won't even learn how to communicate with you despite how easy it would be.
It's a common thing here in the US. It creates a lot of confusion and ignorance. The Amish people here in the USA are also called Pennsylvania Dutch as is their language. But they are descended from Rhineland Deutsch (Pfälzisch in Deutsch) speakers via the many people who emigrated from that area to Pennsylvania in the 1700's.
@GeraldH-ln4dv It's an easy mistake to make. The word Dutch is purely an English language thing. We don't use it ourselves, just one of those things :)
@@_Foehammer I'm descended from some of the people who came here from the Rhineland Palatinate. I asked my grandfather once if we were German and he claimed we were Dutch. But I think a lot of that has to do with him being in his 30's during WWII and people not wanting to be known as being of German descent because of that horror. I know now that my family name originated in a little town called Schornsheim not far from Frankfurt.
It's hard to argue with us old people about bad visual effects and it being the year 2000, I saw Jurassic Park on release in 1993, mofo. VFX didn't get WORSE later in that decade lol.
The tongue girl is Kelly Preston. She was John Travolta's wife, so obviously he had to give her a nicely freaky moment. She passed away from cancer in 2020.
Maybe Im confusing movies but the only thing I know about this one is that it is bad in the boring category so hopefully still a good reaction. Edit: I just watched a highlight so I can't be sure but it seems it wasnt exactly boring watching it drunk/high and as if it were a dutch comedy
I only know I’ve seen this movie because I saw John Travolta looking the way he looks in this and I had to see it, but I couldn’t tell you anything else about it.
Calvin singing the BF1942 theme gave me chills. There are MAYBE 3 people that know what I mean in this entire comment section. They just don't make them like they used to.
Lmao Nibiru is a hand trap in yugioh where if you summon too many monsters it lets you clear the board. its was much fun and very necessary against certain decks in the link format
It is also a real-world trap revealing gullible people who will believe anything they read on the internet with all their heart regardless of whether there's any basis for it or not.
after watching all these bad movie reactions i cant help but notice calvin and aaron slowly move closer together lol?! i think id like to see a video of how you all met and came to make this channel.
They hit on some of that stuff in their 1000th video, their first Q&A i believe. As well as the first 5 podcasts they hit on it as well via various stories from their pre-You Tube days
I remember my props teacher during my theatre design studies in college showed off his portfolio for our first class together, and I saw that he worked on this movie. Specifically, he built a ton of model buildings that they got to blow up. He said it was the most satisfying thing he got to work on during the production of this bad movie. 😂 (He's done a ton of other prop making work, including X-Men: Days of Future Past & Apocalypse, The Day After Tomorrow, and the Barney theatrical movie(!) to name a few.)
I guess that I was one of the dozen or so non-Scientologists who read Hubbard's novel. It was bad. There was no circumstance which could possibly have achieved a good movie from such a bad book.
Winner of 10 Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture. It's still one of the worst Sci Fi Movies Ever Made, holding 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and it still holds 2/10 on IMDB.
I knew that Rick was ordering mashed potatoes one Aaron said that he should have brought some for the reaction lol According to former Scientologist executives, the current leader David Miscavige was sent the dailies every single day. They also say this movie is one of the reasons why he and John Travolta aren't friends like he is with Tom Cruise. Also, they say that Tom Cruise and David Miscavige trashed the movie and Travolta once was it released and bombed at the box office. Aaron said that the "mom from Jack Frost" is in the movie, that's the late Kelly Preston, she was John Travolta's wife and also a hardcore Scientologist.
Shit movie but your reaction made it good guys xD I remember when Travolta said this is going to be better than Star Wars. In that moment I knew this is going to suck big time xD
The book was so much better. I was excited for this when it came out, but they butchered the story. The timeline in the movie sucked. Caveman humans defeated an advanced alien race in a few weeks (WTF)? Learned how to fly aircraft in a few days. So stupid!!! They skipped so much information and world building in the movie. The first half of the book covered like 6 months. After using the learning machine, Jonnie convinced the aliens it would take a long time to mine the gold and was allowed to set up a small community . He convinced them to let him take and set up multiple learning machines to teach other humans to "mine" the gold. They found human bunkers and was able to salvage and repair equipment. I could go on and on, but if they had just stuck to the story timeline by doing time jumps this would have been so much better. What a waste!!
As much as I hate to defend this movie, to be completely fair the invasion of Earth was a thousand years ago so it’s not entirely unreasonable that modern Psychlo’s would underestimate humanity when the concept of them being anything more than animals is that ancient. Still incredibly stupid though.
This is obviously a bad film, but I find it a deeply engaging movie because at any minute you can be asking "why is this what's onscreen?" Why these visuals? Why these performances? Why was this the script? Why would anyone use this many Dutch angles??
Battlefield Earth was one book, but only the first half is shown here. I think Travolta had plans to make the second half once this became a huge hit, but of course it did not. Seriously, the book was okay, just enormous. Twelve year old me was entertained by it. But 55 year old me just can't get past the Scientology-ness of it.
Another great example of Aaron being the most pedantic person in the crew, AND the person who knows the least, AND why those two things are synergistic: pedants pay attention to the wrong things, and think about things at the wrong level. What's important about this movie that has 1000 insane ideas in it? The Dutch angles and the logistics of incidental nonsense.
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"drink if there is a dutch angle" me: "are you kidding? this film is Dutch Angle the movie"
I was ready to dial 911 for them once I heard this.
@@AddSerious more Dutch angles than a geometry class in the Netherlands
Rick ordering those mashed potatoes for them was so sweet😊
Why am I so genuinely touched? It’s potatoes!
That's real friendship right there
Dutch angles in the drinking rules for this movie is absolutely savage.
"John Travolta referred to this film as 'Star Wars A New Hope, but better.' And said this was the 'Schindlers list of sci-fi movies.' Meanwhile, Forrest Whitaker expressed regret for participating in the movie." LMAO
loved this reaction. What a whacky movie
I felt bad for Forrest Whitaker for being in this movie.
I need to see Rick’s first time seeing megalopolis I saw it in theaters and wow
I’ve heard awful things about it… hopefully they react to it when it comes our digital
Go back to the *ClUuUuUuUuB*
This is an actual Movie about the cult that Tom Cruise and John Travolta are apart of and that’s a real sentence that can be said
I keep wondering who the scientologists in the cast are & the ones who just needed to pay the bills.
I'm seriously torn on whether this or the humorous adventures of Willard "Muh Wife's Name Outta Yo Mouth But My Son's Buddy's Pecker In Hers" Smith as the entirely sanely named "Cypher Rage" is the more hilarious attempt at indoctrinating people with Scientology.
@@allyourmoney This is incompetent to a degree where I could believe every single one of them is a cult member.
Sentences have punctuation. /pedant
And recently convicted rapist Danny Masterson, his brother Christopher, and Christopher's girlfriend for a while, Laura Prepon. She was in That 70's Show with Danny. She claims that she no longer practices scientology. Other famous members of the cult include actors Elizabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, Ann Archer, the voice of Bart Simpson Nancy Cartwright, Stanley Kubrik's daughter Vivian, Michael Peña, and Giovanni Ribisi. Scientology also had its hooks in a bunch of people who have since left, including Nicole Kidman, Isaac Hayes, the late great jazz keyboardist Chic Corea and many more.
I did a drinking game to this a while ago. We didn’t go the Dutch angles, but we did drink for ever wipe transition. I didn’t remember how the movie ended.
I'm surprised you are awake now.
9:10 - the fact that none of them seemed to notice and appreciate Rick's "painful / pane-ful" joke fills me with a deep and irreconcilable sorrow
That "WITH ENDLESS OPTION FOR RENEWAL!" has been burned into my brain for decades, but no one ever gets the reference.
You're hanging out with the wrong people.
And it's so on brand, since SeaOrg people in Scientology sign like billion year contracts that obligate them to serve across all their reincarnations, with endless options for renewal, endless options for renewal...
I blame the Nostalgia Critic review for "WHILE YOU WERE STILL LEARNING TO SPELL YOUR NAME!" being burned into mine
@@Patrick-jd1ku Same!
The joy on everyone's face with the mashed potato reveal.
Budget, $75 million (declared), $44 million (actual). Box office, $29,725,663. The egregious case of Hollywood Accounting involved in the production led to Franchise Pictures being sued into bankruptcy. The infamous film's creation also crippled plans for a sequel about the second half of the book and put John Travolta's career back in jeopardy after his Career Resurrection with Pulp Fiction, from which he never fully recovered. Co-stars Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker and director Roger Christian, who all hate this film, also fell off the map (Whitaker would come back with his Oscar-winning turn in The Last King of Scotland), one of the writers, J.D. Shapiro, criticized Travolta's creative "input" and personally accepted the Golden Raspberry Award this movie received. Pepper later said that had he been told he was "winning" Worst Supporting Actor beforehand he would have also accepted the award in person The film is also guilty of ruining the chances of any further adaptations of L. Ron Hubbard's work or anything connected to Scientology being taken seriously. The film's financial failure eventually ended up bankrupting Franchise Pictures, but for the exact opposite reason of most of the films on this list - the company lied about how big a loss they took by inflating the reported budget, leading to investors suing the company for even more money.
Rick’s the ultimate friend sorting those mashed potatoes. So damn classy!
The way you worded that made me think of another movie
The line is “these mashed potatoes are so creamy.”
I’d be surprised if you know it.
@@adrianporter5749 Close Encounters?
@@Smokie_666 if it’s in there, I’ve never seen it. It’s not from a sci-fi movie of any kind.
Not making a "double dutch" joke at the security camera scene is wild.
The film took almost 20 years to 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 20th Century Fox picked it up. 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, 20th Century 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 ever 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 film's director of photography later claimed that the film had the smallest lighting budget he'd ever seen.
The Psychlo make-up was 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 by alternative newspaper Mean Magazine. Meanwhile, early previews for the screening were scathing, pretty much ensuring the film would be the complete commercial disaster that it was.
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.
I unironically really liked this movie when I was like 13. Since then I've just heard how bad people think it is. Now I'm concerned it will not hold up to my teenage perception of it.
Drinking at Dutch angles will kill them D:
"While you were still learning how to SPEll YoUR NamE! I was being trained to conquer galaxies!"
What a treasure of a line
Eric: that’s a sweet title
Me: it gets the people going
1:03:45 Nibiru is indeed the Planet X you heard about Eric and also Rick knows from Yu-Gi-Oh as just like anything connected to Ancient Astronaut theories gets recycled qnd used in other new age philosophies, doomsday predictions, conspiracy theories and pop culture. I know I heard about it connected to the 2012 phenomenon and I also believe the the writers of the show Smallville somewhat used the idea of the Nibiru cataclysm as the basis for the series finale where Apokolips was going to crash into Earth.
The main character has to have the dumbest name in fiction. Johnnie Goodboy Tyler.
My guy. You're forgetting the other Scientology lolcow movie starring one Willard Carroll Smith (LOL, that's his actual name) as "Cypher Rage" alongside his brat son.
I played Aaron saying holly shit 5 times in a row im crying 😂
With endless options for renewal. ( With endless options for renewal). (With endless options for renewal.)
Manimal was a 1983 TV show. Johnathan Chase had the power to change into animals. He used his power to help the police solve crimes.
Used to love that show. I was a kid when it first aired and I always thought it had several season, when in fact it only had 13 episodes!! 🤣🤣🤣
@RandomNPC001 I was 9. I also remember that year had a TV show called Automan. A police officer/computer programmer created an A.I. At night when the city's power consumption was low. The A.I. could take physical form and could create vehicles to help solve crimes.
I can't ever forget the Guy with the Glasses review of this with the sing-song reading "In the Yeeeaaaaar threeeee Thouuuuuuuuusand!"
Clever putting your video thumbnail at a dutch angle. Bravo.
Just realized the instant learning machine breaks the plot, because if they have that tech as just a normal thing to them, then they have zero excuse to be ignorant about anything, especially man-animals.
If humans could learn a language instantly, we'd probably look down on people who CHOOSE to refuse to instantly learn your language, it would be like an insult, I'm above you so much I won't even learn how to communicate with you despite how easy it would be.
As a Dutch person can I just say you guys mistranslated Deutsch (German) into Dutch. We have nothing to do with this madness :p
It's a common thing here in the US. It creates a lot of confusion and ignorance. The Amish people here in the USA are also called Pennsylvania Dutch as is their language. But they are descended from Rhineland Deutsch (Pfälzisch in Deutsch) speakers via the many people who emigrated from that area to Pennsylvania in the 1700's.
@GeraldH-ln4dv It's an easy mistake to make. The word Dutch is purely an English language thing. We don't use it ourselves, just one of those things :)
@@_Foehammer I'm descended from some of the people who came here from the Rhineland Palatinate. I asked my grandfather once if we were German and he claimed we were Dutch. But I think a lot of that has to do with him being in his 30's during WWII and people not wanting to be known as being of German descent because of that horror. I know now that my family name originated in a little town called Schornsheim not far from Frankfurt.
It's hard to argue with us old people about bad visual effects and it being the year 2000, I saw Jurassic Park on release in 1993, mofo. VFX didn't get WORSE later in that decade lol.
I'm so sorry you watched this... don't know if you were warned beforehand but.... now you can not unsee it! Rock On.
The tongue girl is Kelly Preston. She was John Travolta's wife, so obviously he had to give her a nicely freaky moment.
She passed away from cancer in 2020.
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Still pretty cool
I personally dont see how this movie got made without Scientology blackmailing a few actors and Producers In the industry.
Man, I am loving the Mystery Science Theater vibes of this reaction series 😅 well done guys
Maybe Im confusing movies but the only thing I know about this one is that it is bad in the boring category so hopefully still a good reaction.
Edit: I just watched a highlight so I can't be sure but it seems it wasnt exactly boring watching it drunk/high and as if it were a dutch comedy
I thought this movie was part of the battle star Galactia universe when I watched it…
Hence I’ve never watched battlestar
I only know I’ve seen this movie because I saw John Travolta looking the way he looks in this and I had to see it, but I couldn’t tell you anything else about it.
Calvin singing the BF1942 theme gave me chills. There are MAYBE 3 people that know what I mean in this entire comment section. They just don't make them like they used to.
32:26 Proper "bro move" by Captain Caveman. Noice!! 👍🏼
1:03:03 _“Nibiru”?_ *_“Annunaki”?!_* Ok, you guys need to react to “Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated”. 😁
Lmao Nibiru is a hand trap in yugioh where if you summon too many monsters it lets you clear the board. its was much fun and very necessary against certain decks in the link format
It is also a real-world trap revealing gullible people who will believe anything they read on the internet with all their heart regardless of whether there's any basis for it or not.
Love a reacriom with with a drinking game. Always such a fun time
Love your profile pic!
"the director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why" - Roger Ebert 😅
I love the guys being concerned when Rick walks off
Only for the reason he did being him bringing in mashed potatoes
Ok, I admit it i cracked up at the mashed potatoes.
I read the book when it first came out and enjoyed it a lot. But I was 12 or 13 and burning through scifi books like crazy.
after watching all these bad movie reactions i cant help but notice calvin and aaron slowly move closer together lol?! i think id like to see a video of how you all met and came to make this channel.
They hit on some of that stuff in their 1000th video, their first Q&A i believe. As well as the first 5 podcasts they hit on it as well via various stories from their pre-You Tube days
I remember watching this movie in theaters
"A measly nine-minute fight."
That's the one part of this film I like. It makes sense.
I remember my props teacher during my theatre design studies in college showed off his portfolio for our first class together, and I saw that he worked on this movie.
Specifically, he built a ton of model buildings that they got to blow up. He said it was the most satisfying thing he got to work on during the production of this bad movie. 😂 (He's done a ton of other prop making work, including X-Men: Days of Future Past & Apocalypse, The Day After Tomorrow, and the Barney theatrical movie(!) to name a few.)
28:06 honestly thought the movie was almost over.😂 😂
Wishful thinking!
I saw this in theaters when it came out, the only people in the theater were my friend and I and one other person.
For some reason my Dad had bought this DVD growing up... and for some reason I've watched this movie *so* many times 😭
This wasn’t on my bingo card but a welcome surprise 😮
MVP Rick coming in with the movie snacks was so nice!
I guess that I was one of the dozen or so non-Scientologists who read Hubbard's novel. It was bad. There was no circumstance which could possibly have achieved a good movie from such a bad book.
Yeah, I tried reading it back in high school and stuck with it for 300 pages or so, but then things started getting REALLY weird
Winner of 10 Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture.
It's still one of the worst Sci Fi Movies Ever Made, holding 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and it still holds 2/10 on IMDB.
I knew that Rick was ordering mashed potatoes one Aaron said that he should have brought some for the reaction lol According to former Scientologist executives, the current leader David Miscavige was sent the dailies every single day. They also say this movie is one of the reasons why he and John Travolta aren't friends like he is with Tom Cruise. Also, they say that Tom Cruise and David Miscavige trashed the movie and Travolta once was it released and bombed at the box office. Aaron said that the "mom from Jack Frost" is in the movie, that's the late Kelly Preston, she was John Travolta's wife and also a hardcore Scientologist.
Just shared this with my podcast group and noticed y’all Dutch angled the thumbnail. 😂😂
Was drinking along with this and was some of the best times I've had recently 🤣🤣🤣
Taking a shot every time there's a Dutch angle is a death sentence
I love Aaron reaction to the security camera being a dutch angle/
I liked the book in 9th grade. I think I read all of L Ron Hubbard's sci-fi books then and they were all good.
Even this movie can feel good with you guys. Ah no, it's just you guys who are great! hahahaha great reaction!!!!!!
9 weeks of bad movies? Can we please have something good to watch next time?!
Shit movie but your reaction made it good guys xD I remember when Travolta said this is going to be better than Star Wars. In that moment I knew this is going to suck big time xD
Saw this in a huge cinema. We were the only ones there, what a treat for this comedy.
The lead character's name is Johnny Goodboy .... OMG L. Ron Hubbard was such a hack.
The book was so much better. I was excited for this when it came out, but they butchered the story. The timeline in the movie sucked. Caveman humans defeated an advanced alien race in a few weeks (WTF)? Learned how to fly aircraft in a few days. So stupid!!!
They skipped so much information and world building in the movie. The first half of the book covered like 6 months. After using the learning machine, Jonnie convinced the aliens it would take a long time to mine the gold and was allowed to set up a small community . He convinced them to let him take and set up multiple learning machines to teach other humans to "mine" the gold. They found human bunkers and was able to salvage and repair equipment.
I could go on and on, but if they had just stuck to the story timeline by doing time jumps this would have been so much better. What a waste!!
Maybe you should watch and react a little know movies names DEATH To SMOOCHY
I've never seen BW get so drunk during a movie reaction before. Love these guys. 😂
Take a shot every time Aaron says "Dutch"
"35 degree dutch"
"What does it add?"
Nausea... lots of nausea.
47:55 If you want more cavemen/sci-fi, you could watch "Yor, The Hunter From The Future".
there is a vault level in the goldeye game for the gamecube. its the one where you play an ex-mi6 agent and not James bond.
Rick is the best! Wish I could order food and join yall lol
As much as I hate to defend this movie, to be completely fair the invasion of Earth was a thousand years ago so it’s not entirely unreasonable that modern Psychlo’s would underestimate humanity when the concept of them being anything more than animals is that ancient.
Still incredibly stupid though.
22:25 You guys should check out a smaller Canadian film starring Barry Pepper called The Snow Walker from 2003
This is one of my favorite good bad sci-fi movies. How do those jets still work? Who knows, who cares.
Im high as shit and im having a good time - eric 😂
My movie/tv motto. Is this a bad movie yes, have i watched it more than once, also yes.
25:36 same here. I watched the Nostalgia Critic’s video so long ago 😂😂
4:28 "It can only be good or bad, it can't be either."
Eric's gummi-brain is truly a thing to behold. 👍🏼😃
I'm surprised Eric didn’t recognize Kim Coates(Tig from SOA)and if he did , not mention him
This is obviously a bad film, but I find it a deeply engaging movie because at any minute you can be asking "why is this what's onscreen?" Why these visuals? Why these performances? Why was this the script? Why would anyone use this many Dutch angles??
Alien 4: Battlefield Earth. I'm sad now because that would have been AWESOME!!!
Battlefield Earth was one book, but only the first half is shown here. I think Travolta had plans to make the second half once this became a huge hit, but of course it did not. Seriously, the book was okay, just enormous. Twelve year old me was entertained by it. But 55 year old me just can't get past the Scientology-ness of it.
Scientology is no more culty or ridiculous than other religions.
Another great example of Aaron being the most pedantic person in the crew, AND the person who knows the least, AND why those two things are synergistic: pedants pay attention to the wrong things, and think about things at the wrong level. What's important about this movie that has 1000 insane ideas in it? The Dutch angles and the logistics of incidental nonsense.
This movie is so Dutch, it sent me a Tikkie after watching it.
Bad movie reactions are the BEST reactions 😂🤣
ah yes the movie of a book written by "sci fi author" and cult leader of Scientology - L. Ron Hubbard
Did there really need to be a drinking condition after Dutch Angle?!?!?
honestly, i love the shit out of this film because it's so bad, it's fun to laugh at and i pray for the day they can get it on MST3K
no good November is by far my favorite month
This should be called Dutch Angle The Movie.
56:26 LOVE YA BRO ERIC!!!!!!!😂
They should've just renamed the film "Dutch Angle Earth"
You guys need to watch beastmaster, I think it's awesome but most people don't, feel like itd be a great bad movie watch
Damn I hope you spaced out the filming of these 😂😂😂😂😂
Wait people think this movie is bad? Insane!
Do you want lunch?