What is Battlefield Earth (movie)?
{{italictitle}} '''''Battlefield Earth''''' is a 2000 American [[science fiction movie]] directed by [[Roger Christian]] and starring [[John Travolta]], [[Barry Pepper]], [[Forest Whitaker]] and [[Kelly Preston]]. It was adapted from the [[novel]] of the [[Scientology]] founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. The movie got very poor reviews from [[movie critic]]s. It also did poorly at the [[box office]], because the money earned from the [[cinema]]s was less than half of its [[budget]]. It won seven [[Golden Raspberry Awards]]. In 2008, it was placed on a list of the ten worse movies of the past ten years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rt_10th_anniversary_launch_guide/news/1747789/3/moldy_tomatoes_the_10_worst_movies_of_the_last_10_years/ |title=Moldy Tomatoes: The 10 Worst Movies of the Last 10 Years |author=Jeff Giles and Alex Vo |access-date=2014-08-09 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=Flixster, Inc |archive-date=2014-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719001443/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rt_10th_anniversary_launch_guide/news/1747789/3/moldy_tomatoes_the_10_worst_movies_of_the_last_10_years/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the movie has a positive [[:wikt:rating|rating]] of only 3% from the [[audience]].<ref>{{cite web|title=BATTLEFIELD EARTH|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battlefield_earth|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=2 July 2017}}</ref> ==Plot== The movie takes place in the year 3000, when Earth is a [[:wikt:ruined|ruined]] [[wikt:wasteland|wasteland]] ruled by the Psychlos, who are a brutal race of giant [[humanoid]] [[extraterrestrial being|aliens]] who have ruled the planet for 1,000 years, and use human [[slavery|slave labor]] to [[:wikt:strip|strip]] its [[mineral]]s and other [[natural resource|resources]], with a special desire for [[gold]]. The humans [[rebellion|rebel]] against the aliens. == References == {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb title|0185183|Battlefield Earth}} * {{tcmdb title|442732|Battlefield Earth}} *