I should point out that the movie version of Battlefield Earth is extremely fun–namely because it’s one of the worst movies, science fiction or otherwise, that I’ve ever seen. I caught an opening day screening with another aficionado of horrendously bad cinema, and we had a blast. The rest of the audience, apparently expecting something like a good movie, seemed pretty irritated. (Perhaps they would’ve been happier with this reedited version, which is indeed a major improvement.) But come on… John Travolta as a war-mongering alien in dreadlocks and oversized platform boots—what’s not to love?