Battlefield Earth sets a new standard for cinematic atrocity by being not merely stunningly ludicrous, badly executed, and idiotic, but consciously, purposefully and unrepentantly ugly. There is one woman in Battlefield Earth who is attractive, but she is living, along with all other humans, the lifestyle of a Neanderthal. There are also some shots of mountains and gold bars. Those three things, the woman, the mountains, and the gold bars, completely exhaust the visually attractive elements of this movie. Alien invaders from the planet Psychlo have conquered Earth.
Humans live either as slaves or as primitives, in caves, wearing furs and cooking over open fires.
All knowledge has been lost. The humans, who look like people who have long since lost the concept of indoor plumbing, look vastly better than the Psychlos, who look like what would happen if Dr. Frankenstein experimented with Rastafarians, a junkyard full of rusted scrap metal, a graveyard of failed cosmetics, and a wasteland of diseased plastics. I suspect that psychotherapists in Hollywood are going to be seeing a number of people who will need professional help to recover from working on this movie. One of them, shockingly, will NOT be the star, John Travolta. He plays Terl, the head Psychlo.