270: Battlefield Earth

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Action Movie Month continues with one of the worst films of all time: John Travolta's passion project, the adaptation of Battlefield Earth! We discuss terrible villain design, terrible everything else, and wonder what it must have been like eating lunch with John Travolta.

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0:00.0	I hate it, but I love it.
0:25.8	I hate Baila, everybody.
0:27.7	I hate Baila.
0:28.7	I hate it, but I hate it, but I love it.
0:31.7	I am Cattongus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.
0:36.7	We are continuing Action Movie Month this week with, oh boy, Battlefield Earth.
0:41.7	Battlefield Earth, a saga of the Year 3000, is full title.
0:45.7	Yep, that is the movie we are talking about this week.
0:50.7	Well Cat, you are furious, tell me why.
0:53.7	I'm not furious.
0:55.7	This movie just sucks.
0:57.7	does. It's, oh man. So like, this is a Scientology movie that
1:04.8	John Travolta had been trying to get made for decades to the point
1:08.0	that like he had to switch which character he could play because he
1:10.7	was too old to play the hero. It's so terrible. Everything
1:16.8	looks so cheap. The CGI looks like it's from a made for TV
1:20.6	movie. Oh God, this movie's so embarrassing. It really is so
1:28.2	embarrassing. I mean, do not, do not be confused. This is
1:32.5	absolutely unihated, but I hate it. But the reason I put it on
1:36.0	the list was because I was thinking about staying alive and
1:39.6	how staying alive ruined John Travolta's career once. And I was
1:44.7	thinking to myself, how funny it was to have this man twice a
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