Have you seen every movie ever made?
Anyone who thinks this movie is the "worst movie of all time" hasn't seen enough movies.
Battlefield Earth is only considered "worst" because it's a rare case of a B-movie that cost a lot to make, got a lot of hype, and as a result was eventually seen by a lot of people. It also copped a lot of negative publicity over the Scientology aspect.
If the same number of "film experts" had actually seen every bad movie ever made, a good deal of them would realize that the mere fact it has a identifiable plot, fair acting and reasonable effects, places it above many thousands of direct-to-video releases.
The actual rating for Battlefield Earth should be somewhere in the range of 5 or 6, out of 10.
But thanks to the hive-mentality of idiots using this website, most of whom have seen approximately 100-200 movies in their entire lives, of which they consider this "the worst", it's currently 2.4/10.
All because it's easier to vote "1" and dribble "worst movie evah!", than to stop and think "There are 2.5 million movies on IMDB right now, how do I know this is the worst movie?"
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GroundsTheLimit
11 years ago
Anyone who thinks this movie is the "worst movie of all time" hasn't seen enough movies.
LOL, do you think you're going to live forever? Life is too short to spend it watching crappy movies. Go play outside and don't come back in until it's dinner time!
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katiemp70
10 years ago
You lost me at "fair acting". I have literally seen school plays with better acting.
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Sidewindr
9 years ago
The actual rating for Battlefield Earth should be somewhere in the range of 5 or 6, out of 10.
But thanks to the hive-mentality of idiots using this website, most of whom have seen approximately 100-200 movies in their entire lives, of which they consider this "the worst", it's currently 2.4/10.
I have watched well over 2000 movies and have a collection at present of over 1000 films. This is not the worst movie I have ever seen however I rated it a 3 as this is what I feel it deserves and the IMDB rating of 2.4 is pretty much right on the money +/-1 point. It most certainly does not deserve a 5 or 6 rating as a 5 or 6 rating implies that the movie is average or slightly above average which this movie is not, it is below or slightly below average at best.
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branden-findeisen
8 years ago
You, sir, deserve some applause. I couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, your post is one of the better ones I've ever read in the wasteland that is the IMDB comment boards. Well done. You're absolutely right, it probably fits into the 5-6 range for rating. It's not worse than many of the other films on this site rated in that area.
There is no rational explanation for voting this lower than 4. None. I can't picture how bad a movie really has to be to deserve a 2.4 rating, but this is certainly not that film.
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