"An art film, minus the art."
"This movie is really funny to watch just because it's a bad movie...but fun because of how stupid it is. I also realize how M16s still work after a thousand years of neglect but then again Harriers work."
—Excalibur01 of imfdb.org
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."Battlefield Earth's primary colors are blue and gray, adding to the misery. Whenever we glimpse sunlight, the screen goes all stale yellow, as though someone had urinated on the print. This, by the way, is not such a bad idea."
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.
— Roger Ebert's review.
."Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way."
"Battlefield Earth should have been a Tyler Perry movie!"
