Battlefield Earth movie corrections

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. See more...

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Battlefield Earth (2000) - 4 corrections

starring John Travolta (add more)

Genres: Action, Sci-fi

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Terl and Ker constantly refer to humans as 'stupid man animals'. In fact all of the Psychlos have difficulty in recognizing the 'man animals' of being capable of anything much. So who exactly did they think was responsible for the many buildings and structures still standing, cats? [First, Psychlos are arrogant beings. That alone explains this. Second, the Psychlos find the humans to be inept in relation to themselves. True enough given the Psychlos level of technology. Even with that in mind, it is glaringly obvious that the humans inhabiting the present world are no where near as technologically capable as those who inhabited the world when the Psychlos first arrived. This is more of a plot *point* than a plot hole. At any rate, it's certainly not a movie mistake.]

Corrected by Phixius

One character says, "Piece of cake" a couple of times in this movie. Why would that phrase have survived 1000 years? Surely none of the characters have ever had cake nor even seen the ingredients needed to bake one. Perhaps "Handful of dirt," or "Dead rat on a stick" would have been more appropriate. [It is a normal movie convention to use terminology which the viewing audience understands, even if it might be factually incorrect. The audience of today would have no clue what was meant by "Handful of dirt" or "Dead rat on a stick". Therefore the term "Piece of cake" is used for our benefit and is not a mistake. (See similar corrections for movies such as "Troy" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" for comparison).]

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. [They were taught using the same subconcious learning implant device that the main character used near the beginning of the movie.]

An essential part of a nuclear weapon's detonation mechanism is a radioactive isotope of tritium, which has a half life of just 12 1/2 years. The tritium in every nuke on earth has to be replaced every ten years or so. After 1,000 years that in the nuclear weapons the 'Man-animals' find would have completely decayed into harmless hydrogen and the bombs would be big shiny paperweights and not much else. [While most modern nuclear weapons carry deuterium-tritium (D-T) gas as a fusion booster in order to maintain yield and reduce size, D-T gas is not needed to detonate nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are mostly detonated in one of two ways - the Gun Device (essentially rapidly slapping two subcritical masses together to make a supercritical mass - only works with U-235 though) or the Implosion Device - in which high explosives surround a subcritical mass - which when detonated form an imploding shock wave which compresses the fissile material to supercriticality. The second is used more often in modern weapons. Even if the D-T gas has degraded the weapon can still be detonated, but it would not have as much yield.]

Corrected by Zwn Annwn

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