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The Changeling (1980)
Has its moments, but days of a bad plot
"The Changeling" started off in a promising way. It was spooky, was filmed at interesting angles, and seemed to have a touch of class. I was very interested for about half the film.
However, once the mystery was over, the movie devolved into a farce. I wish I could say that I enjoyed it, but for the last half of the movie, "there was no there there, to quote a famous line. The end was completely ludicrous, to boot.
The supposed villain of the film was not villainous at all, and the viewer winds up feeling sorry for him rather than satisfied. In retrospect, i suppose that could be in keeping with the identity of the ghost in this haunted house story, but it just didn't work.
5 out of 10, based on the first half being pretty good.
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Terrible!
I saw this movie as a free sneak preview tonight, and it was terrible. Bad dialogue, bad acting, plot holes a mile wide, and a lousy story.
I don't want to spoil it (well, it wouldn't hurt it much!), but I have a sneaking suspicion that military hardware would not survive in an operable condition for 1,000 years without any maintenance. Heck, even with maintenance.
I thought John Travolta, as a Scientologist, would *like* L. Ron Hubbard and would want to put his best foot forward in this adaptation of his book, but UGH. The only highlights of the show were Kelly Preston's (Travolta's real life wife) one minute on-screen and the fact that all the aliens ran around in Gene Simmons KISS boots.
Don't waste your money. Not even worth a rental.