Corrected entry: The cavemen, who previously had no concept of the principles of flight, are taught how to fly a Harrier on a simulator in one afternoon.
rswarrior
27th Aug 2003
Battlefield Earth (2000)
24th Aug 2010
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: Seeing how the Psychlos have spent centuries conquering Earth in search of gold, how could they not know anything about Fort Knox sooner? Couldn't they have demanded of the humans to reveal the location of this precious mineral?
Correction: They conquered the Earth's military in 9 minutes. It's more than possible the remaining humans either wouldn't know anything at all about Ft Knox, or, even if they knew something about it, wouldn't know where it was, or where the gold is stored.
27th Aug 2003
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: Travolta sends Pepper and crew to mine gold. He gives them all the equipment for mining including a working spacecraft. In essence, he is setting a "Batman Trap" by providing them the means of escape. The group waits for Travolta to depart and almost immediately leaves to train and gather weapons. For some reason Travolta doesn't notice that they are flying around the country or doesn't care.
Correction: You just answered your own submission. The Psychlos don't care that humans are running around the country. Humans are nothing more than trained animals to them. In their arrogance, they don't think humans possess enough intelligence to formulate a rebellion.
18th Mar 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: When Jonnie and the other humans raid Fort Hood, a US Army base, for weapons and supplies, they acquire several caches of weapons, among them Colt 9mm SMGs, evidenced by their undersized magazines and short barrels. The US Army does not field such a weapon, so why would it be in a US Army base? (01:37:00)
Correction: The movie doesn't occur in modern time, but in an unspecified future. It's more than possible the weapons could have been stored at Ft Hood sometime during the 1000 years of Psychlo occupation.
27th Aug 2003
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: The "cavemen" learn to fly Harrier jets simply from reading the instructions manual. And if this isn't amazing enough, they also manage to perform maneuvers that professional Harrier pilots are not able to perform.
Correction: They didn't learn everything from an instruction manual. They practiced in a simulator for 7 days before the final battle.
18th Mar 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: At the end of the Denver air battle, one of the cavemen (presumably the leader) pursues a Psychlo gunship, and attempts to engage it, but when he runs out of missiles, he gets in position to ram the Harrier into the gunship. Before he crashes into it, he presses the Eject button, yet it doesn't work and he along with the plane slam into the gunship. Strangely, he is seen later during the end scenes, after Psychlo is destroyed. The ejection system was explicitly shown not to work, and even if it did, he wouldn't have been able to clear the plane in time before it impacted the gunship. (01:33:55 - 01:43:55)
Correction: There is nothing to indicate the eject button didn't work. The scene cuts immediately after hitting the button, then the shot from outside shows the jet hitting the Psychlo ship. The shot cut quickly, true, but just because we don't see the seat ejecting is no reason to think it failed. Since he does show up during the end scenes, it's safe to assume he ejected safely.
13th Mar 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: Before the revolt, Ker has a discussion with Terl about the gold that ends in Ker's hand getting shot off. Yet Ker does not scream in pain, nor does any blood gush from the wound. Plus, the wound appears to have been cut with a knife, it is so precise and unlike a gunshot wound. (01:26:25)
Correction: He doesn't scream because Psychlos have a high tolerance to pain. No blood immediately appears, but we don't know the Psychlo's physiology or how long it may take to bleed. The weapon is an alien technology, we don't know how a wound is "supposed" to appear when a hand is shot off.
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Correction: They're not cavemen with limited intelligence, they are future humans. They also were given super speed learning via the Psychlos' forced learning machines.
rswarrior