Battlefield Earth
Sadistic Aliens loom… Noble humans rise… Is it the end or a new beginning? Battlefield Earth is an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake. When Jonnie Goodboy Tyler decides to venture out of the small and dwindling community of humans barely surviving in their Rocky Mountain retreat, he has no thought of challenging the order that for a thousand years has held the earth prisoner to the oppressive alien race of the Psychlos. The Psychlos and their vast intergalactic mining corporation have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries, ruthlessly destroying races who dare to resist. How one man - with the aid of a few surviving Scotsmen—tackles the greatest malignant power in the universe makes for a sprawling adventure of thrilling heroics, full of dangerous underground work, interplanetary wars, intergalactic financial intrigue, monster races, and complex political manipulation spread across a vast canvas of epic scale.
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- Battlefield Earth
- I was that way until I took up the "Mission Earth" series by L Ron Hubbard. I did make it through a few books before it just got too terrible and I was like, "why am I doing this to myself?". And I say that as someone who rather liked "Battlefield Earth".
- Around 1985, I bought a used paperback copy of Battlefield Earth, and it had a tear-out form to "Order the soundtrack of a book!" as it was "Soon to be a major motion picture!"
Loved the book, but never ordered the soundtrack, and the wait for the eventual movie was about as long as the wait for more Star Wars after Return of the Jedi.
And maybe even more disappointing.
*Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jazz and there are a couple of songs on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7jbIrqG028aV3uxNy56ZZg?si=CD7... Oh, wow. Umm. I'm so glad my teenage-self didn't spend money on that. :-D
- I loved both - Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth. Still do. Sure it is not Fahrenheit 451 but I do not care. It provides lots of interesting reading.
As for blogs - I've never liked reading about books. I lover reading books instead. I am a bookoholic
- I actually enjoyed Battlefield Earth. I enjoyed the movie because I immensely enjoyed the book. I almost always like SF that in large part written from the point of view of aliens. And some scenes in the movie were quite additionally surprising in showing the character of alien protagonist.
I know native speakers can't not cringe on this movie. And there's an issue with who the author of the book was and what he did. And people can't get out of human perspective while watching this movie and can't believe how aliens can be this stupid to underestimate humans. In the book it's way better shown that aliens have as little respect for and interest in humans as workers do for the monkeys when the go out to clear the jungle with bulldozers and quibble between themselves over pay and job security.
Book have many detailes way more flashed out, so knowing stuff from the book, movie looked way less stupid to me than to average viewer.
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