Battlefield Earth May 1. People went to work. The Los Angeles Times reported a slight drop in the average cost of fuel. Then- president Bill Clinton sought stiffer penalties for poorly manufactured products aimed at children. And Battlefield Earth appeared in some 3,0.

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· · Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. 2000’s Battlefield Earth was critically mauled. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some remarkable things about this strange film.

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America. The public reaction to Battlefield Earth’s release was a bit like a football landing in a field full of cows; a few people looked up for a moment, made a noise, and carried on with what they were originally doing. The critical reaction, on the other hand, was borderline hysterical.“A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard- pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth” wrote the Washington Post. A cross between Star Wars and the smell of ass” said Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. “Everything about Battlefield Earth sucks,” added Jonathon Ross on Film 2. Everything.”Battlefield Earth began as a sci- fi novel by L Ron Hubbard, popular author and founder of the Church of Scientology.

For actor John Travolta, a scientologist, adapting Battlefield Earth became a consuming passion – particularly after Hubbard sent the actor a signed copy of the book, and expressed his wish that Travolta make a movie out of it “in the vein of Star Wars”. With Travolta’s star wattage positively humming again after the Oscar- nominated success of Pulp Fiction reversed his fortunes, the actor used every inch of his Hollywood influence to get Battlefield Earth made. The film’s scientology connection and expensive premise made most studios nervous, but Travolta eventually found support in a company by the name of Franchise Pictures – a new venture set up by a businessman who’d previously made his fortune from a dry cleaning chain and a successful LA nightclub. In spite of Travolta’s attempts to talk up the movie’s chances (he unwisely described the script as “the Schindler's List of science fiction” in one interview), the overall air of negativity surrounding Battlefield Earth refused to go away. The film was quickly dubbed a bomb, and it’s commonly described as one of the biggest flops ever to emerge from Hollywood. Is Battlefield Earth really as bad as everybody said it was? More than a decade on, isn’t it about time the movie went through a period of critical reassessment?

Join us, reader, as we try to find ten remarkable things about this oft- maligned film. It features some of the stupidest aliens in cinema. A thousand years in the future, the planet will be dominated by a race of giant aliens called Psychlos. Its numbers devastated, humanity has devolved into a huddle of long- haired cave- dwellers; a percentage of humans are kept as slaves by the invaders, who refer to them as ‘man- animals’, keep them in cages, and occasionally feed them with gruel pumped in via a fire hose. Watch Le Sauvage Online Fandango. Exactly how the Psychlos conquered Earth isn’t made clear, since they’re easily the most cretinous race of aliens ever to appear on a cinema screen.

Standing at around ten feet tall, with hair like the cast of Rock Of Ages, bad teeth, giant hairy hands and a penchant for leather trench coats, their refuge is a giant greenhouse in Denver, Colorado. There, they live in self- induced squalor, alternately dragging their pet man- animals around and forcing them to engage in slave labour, or scheming against each other, or getting drunk.

Terl (John Travolta) is the most cunning of the Psychlos, which isn’t saying much. He spends most of the film bossing around his underling Ker (Forest Whitaker, who looks like the Cowardly Lion here, bless him) and formulating a plan that involves using humans to gather huge quantities of gold from high- radiation areas – this will, he hopes, provide his ticket back to the Psychlo home planet. The Psychlos are so shockingly stupid – yes, even more stupid than the aliens of Mac & Me or Morons From Outer Space – that watching them becomes oddly compelling. They refuse to believe that humans are capable of reason, even though the remnants of their culture – buildings, statues, a giant plastic dinosaur – are scattered all over the place. Even when the film’s hero Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper) snatches a gun from a Psychlo and kills him with it, Terl refuses to believe that a man- animal could operate a firearm. As an experiment, Terl gives Jonnie back the gun, which he promptly uses to kill another Psychlo.“Well, I’ll be damned,” Terl says. One final example of the Psychlos’ stupidity.

Obsessed with gold, the aliens plan to occupy Earth long enough to strip mine it of all its shiny minerals. Yet somehow, in all their millennium- long occupation of the planet, they’ve never stumbled upon Fort Knox – which houses one of the largest reserves of bullion Earth has to offer. Clearly, they’d never bothered to watch Goldfinger, the idiots. Acting. The Psychlos aren’t just stupid, selfish and ungainly – they also behave like a group of unemployed Shakespearian actors after two bottles of sherry. They hold interminable meetings in which they’re essentially nasty and petty to each other, and they have a fascinating habit of concluding their sentences with lengthy, maniacal belly- laughs. Then there are the humans, who shout a lot and seldom blink. Barry Pepper and his group of fellow actors appear to have modelled their performances on Mel Gibson’s earnest turn in Braveheart, which means lots of bared teeth, bellowed shouts of defiance (“You can surrender and rot in those cages if you want to, but I’m not going back!”) and lots of frantically waving arms.

Battlefield Earth is a film with its acting volume turned way up to eleven. It’s as though someone's standing behind the camera shouting, “Emote, damn you, emote!” like Dr Zoidberg’s mad filmmaking Uncle Harold in Futurama.

But over the cacophony of noisy performances, one actor’s shrill turn parps loudest of all: 3. John Travolta. John Travolta clearly enjoys playing the most villainous of the Psychlos, Terl. He’s despicable. He wears a huge cod- piece, and he’s fond of making grandiose statements while drunk in a bar.

When you were still learning to spell your name,” Travolta huffs at Forest Whitaker, while tossing a hairy hand to the air, “I was being trained to conquer galaxies!”Like a drunken Gielgud, Travolta mugs and crows through Battlefield Earth as though his life depends on it. In one scene, he proves his prowess as a marksman by shooting the legs off a field full of cows. In another, he shrieks, “Exterminate all man- animals at will.