Battlefield Earth: John Travolta’s $75 Million Sci-Fi Disaster with Cassie Willson and Katie Marovitch | 96
The Big Flop
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
John Travolta spent 18 years trying to turn L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth into the next Star Wars. Instead, he delivered a cinematic disaster that made Waterworld look like Citizen Kane. With alien dreadlocks, nonsensical plot twists, and more Dutch angles than Amsterdam, Travolta's passion project became Hollywood's punchline of the decade.
Bitcherton co-stars Cassie Willson and Katie Marovitch join Misha to revolt against Battlefield Earth.
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| 0:37.9 | It was all about Scientology and about how the church believes women should remain silent while giving birth. |
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| 0:54.7 | his devotion to El Ron Hubbard all the way to making the worst movie of the decade. |
| 1:00.9 | Hop in. |
| 1:01.6 | It's going to get crazy. |
| 1:03.7 | Hubbard's most popular science fiction book, and according to two surveys, the most favorite book of the century. |
| 1:09.6 | The Creed for the New York Times said, |
| 1:11.6 | Battle through Earth is about the extinction of the human race. |
| 1:14.6 | And after seeing this movie, I'm all for it. |
| 1:17.9 | This is one of the ugliest, the most incomprehensible movies I've ever seen. We are on a sinking ship. |
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