I was on a subway headed back uptown, and a mother got onto the train with her two kids, a boy who was about six years old and a girl who was around three. The girl sits down, and making sure that her brother noticed, she yanked out a small pamphlet from her back pocket and started to read it. Her mom was laughing hysterically, in tears, and the little boy was just confused as he could be. You women want Mel Gibson most. The Washington Post had a good look at Battlefield Earth , and the motivations behind the movie, in November of last year .
Slate has a mini-compendium of the terrible reviews of the movie, as well.