Line #3 Narm/BattlefieldEarth


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[RepeatCut WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL! WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!]] [[EvilLaugh TAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]'']]
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4	The movie as a whole is supposed to be a drama, but it's [[SoBadItsGood so bad that you'll laugh hard]].
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6	!!Terl
7	* "You are out of your [[HoldYourHippogriffs skull-bone]] if you think I'm going to write on the report "Shot by man-animal" as the cause of death unless I see it!"
8	* "Crap-lousy ceiling!"
9	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xACbVe7o9Rs While you were still learning how to]] '''[[MemeticMutation SPELL YOUR NAME]]'''... I, was '''''BEING''''' trained, '''TO CONQUER GALAXIES!'''"
10	* "'''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2d0-OPQ4Rs DO YOU WANT LUNCH?!]]'''''"
11	* "Hell, it could even be... ''jarring music'' '''[[DecapitationPresentation OUR]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntiPIVSiysQ FRIENDLY BARTENDER]]!'''" ''cue Ker's [[DullSurprise blank surprise]]''
12	** What's more, TheReveal relies on knowing that the bartender was helping Ker bring down Terl because the latter was about to ruin the reputation of the bartender and his family ForTheEvulz. Unfortunately, that bit of info was only in a [[DeletedScene scene deleted from the DVD “Special Edition”]], which instead makes it look like the bartender decides to betray Terl as revenge for not paying for his drinks.
13	* "If '''ANY''' of you rat-brains knew '''ANYTHING''' about firearms, you would know that you '''NEVER STORE''' loaded weapons!"
14	* The absurdly overwrought scene where Terl [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM7NvGzyfF0 goes postal on a field of cows.]] A combination of awful SpecialEffectsFailure, Terl's look of villainous focus, and the horrified expressions of the humans (they're just cows!) is golden.
15	** The line before said cow-shooting, "I graduated top marksman in my class and I can kill any one of you at over a thousand paces," comes across like the InsufferableGenius that we all know from school rather than a fearsome military commander.
16	** Even the ''gun'' Terl's using looks stupid, because the overly long handle makes it look huge in Terl's hands, as if he's a child playing with a gun intended for a full-sized adult.
17	** A word of advice to directors attempting to shoot scenes of [[KickTheDog awful villainous cruelty]] - if you're trying to avoid making the scene overly gory, try using BloodlessCarnage or a GoryDiscretionShot, but not '''both'''.
18	* "Just because [[CaptainObvious you can speak Psychlo, doesn't mean that you become one!]]"
19	* His line from a DeletedScene: "...but I'm sure you'll find plenty of recipes; I have prepared a raw rat! ''laughs''"
20	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16yMagZ5hv8 Attention, this is Terl your chief of security! Exterminate all man-animals at will! AND HAPPY HUNTING!!!]]"
21	* "Well, as a friend I could forget to file the report. But unfortunately... '''I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND!'''"
22	* "That's right, '''WE''' don't, '''''I''''' do!"
23	** Hell, his high-pitched voice and weird[[labelnote:*]]Granted, he's an alien, but still...[[/labelnote]] accent makes him hard to take seriously. Not to mention [[IdiotBall his sheer idiocy]] (shared with other Psychlos).
24	* Terl [[spoiler:[[ExplosiveStupidity blowing off his]] [[DullSurprise right arm]]]].
25	-->'''Johnny''': [[SincerityMode Trust me, you]] ''[[SincerityMode don't]]'' [[SincerityMode wanna do that]].
26	-->'''[[spoiler:Terl]]''': Trust me, there's nothing I want more! ''click [[ExplosiveStupidity BOOM]]''
27	* Terl captures a bunch of humans just to fix his office's ceiling. Really, Terl?
28	* The Psychlos' SinisterSurveillance systems are laughably ineffective. If the {{Incredibly Obvious Bug}}s are of no indication, they have a UAV that only takes photos and ''flying over the human miners'' occasionally instead of recording videos or circling around them. This makes Terl's following line laughable as a result: "I'll be watching you..."
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30	!!Johnny
31	* Pick any scene where Johnny yells "[[BigNo NO!]]"
32	* "A demon? A monster? '''[[ChewingTheScenery A BEAST?!]] [[LargeHam YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!]]'''"
33	* Johnny yells "We have enough problems without killing each other over food!", [[HypocriticalHumor having just beaten the crap out of someone over food]].
34	%%* "Yes we can!" [[HilariousInHindsight Becomes a lot more hilarious]] [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama 9 years later]]...
35	* "What if they said we took this one chance... '''''AND FOUGHT?!'''''"
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37	!!Other Characters/Unattributed
38	* The waitress in the Psychlo bar with the OverlyLongTongue.
39	-->"I'm gonna make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of Kerbango." ''licks Terl''
40	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8z7-DIa1As We've decided to keep you here, for another 50 CYCLES! WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!]] ''[[RepeatCut WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL! WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!]] [[EvilLaugh TAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]''"
41	** Almost as bizarre is the way Zete ends the conversation, which produces an effect that tries to go for MindScrew, but ends up making it sound like the DVD is skipping:
42	--> “Those options of courThose options of course being at Home Office’s discretion, not yours. The senator... has a lot of frienHas a lot of friends.”
43	* "Have you blown a head gasket?"
44	** "I... will be the '''LAUGHING STOCK''', of the '''UNIVERSE!'''"
45	* "War... ning. Warning, warning, warning. Warning. War, ning. Get it?"
46	* "Piece of cake."
47	* The [[MundaneMadeAwesome absurdly over-dramatic]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZujb23cwX0 hose scene]], which is basically just a full minute of the Psychlos spraying their captives with not-particularly-intense streams of water, but the slaves [[LargeHam thrash around violently]] like they're being sprayed with sulfuric acid. The effect is less like oppressed people being abused by their cruel overlords, and more like a bunch of ill-trained dogs who hate taking baths. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Why does this scene need to be here?]]
48	* The Psychlos [[MistookTheDominantLifeform thinking the dogs are the superior species]].
49	* The fact that [[RagnarokProofing flight simulation computers and fighter jets still work perfectly after centuries of inactivity]] and that the humans manage to fly the jets with no problems after using the flight simulator for less than a day.
50	* Apparently, humanity has regressed so badly that [[FutureImperfect they think]] [[AllHailTheGreatGodMickey fast food and automobiles are the stuff of legends]], statues are immortals punished for falling in love with mortals, and mannequins are people punished for offending the gods.
51	* "Johnny, this is not living. This is... this is [[CaptainObvious cages!]] Cages!"
52	* The humans' war cry consists of random screaming, wolf-howling, and what sounds like a really cheesy imitation of Native American chants.
53	* Mickey says "Five guards from the south, heavily armed and moving fast!" The camera cuts to the Psychlos moving '''''incredibly slowly on stilts.''''' Mickey's actor Christian Tessier recalled seeing the film at an LA cinema and someone in the room burst out laughing at that moment.
54	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gh0rCM6SEU The Psychlos' extreme fondness for the word "leverage"]].

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