Battlefield Earth (2000)
Yellowbeard 3 points 4 years ago*.

Honestly, battlefield earth is a fine book - but there’s 1300 pages of it. They would’ve needed at least a trilogy to do it justice, they left out a lot of genuinely funny and cool things to fit it into a single movie. This version bombed so hard it’ll be a long time before any studio touches it again.

Canuckian 0 points 4 years ago.

agreed..i read the nbook a long time ago and i remember how disappointed i was in how loosely this movie is based on the book…i mean, the overall plot is the same, but as you said, the book was massive and there is no way they could have put it all into one movie, a trilogy at least to do it justice…the book was amazing, probably one of my all time fave sci-fi reads. I highly suggest giving it a go..forget who wrote it and the controversial nature of his other hobbies, just read this for what it is, a GREAT sci-fi novel. If you liked the movie, then you will LOVE the book, trust me.