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“A vivid movie of the mind!” ( Audio File Magazine ) “It's like a full-blown feature film inside your head.” ( Audiobook Heaven ) “This futuristic tale, featuring aliens and humans fighting for survival, comes across as compelling and believable.” ( Booklist ) “The sheer scope of this production of the epic sci-fi adventure Battlefield Earth is breathtaking.” (Stefan Rudnicki) Performed by over 65 actors playing 198 characters with 150,000 sound effects. 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.Įxperience the unabridged audiobook in fully immersive HD sound of the story that changed the shape of science fiction forever. The Psychlos and their vast intergalactic mining corporation have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries, ruthlessly destroying races who dare to resist. 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. It’s future-schlock doomsville.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. The entire movie seems lit by a 40-watt blue bulb. Hasn’t Hollywood picked over the crumbling urban carcass of Blade Runner long enough? Battlefield Earth incorporates elements from Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, Logan’s Run, and - in one ludicrous sequence - Top Gun, and most of this patchwork has a grimly tacky, backlot look, even chintzier than that of John Carpenter’s Escape From… films. Directed by Roger Christian, a former set decorator who worked on some of the Star Wars films (he did second-unit duty on The Phantom Menace), Battlefield Earth is just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.
Travolta, well known as a follower of Hubbard’s, is one of the producers, but he claims that both the book and the movie have nothing to do with Scientology, and he may be right. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of Scientology. Battlefield Earth is based on a 1982 dystopian-fantasy novel by L.