Battlefield Earth

Easter egg: Go to the "languages" menu. Highlight any language you want and hit right once to see a symbol appear on the space ships. There will be a short clip of a man doing a stunt.

Easter egg: Go to the second page of the "special features" menu. Enter the "cast and crew" menu. Once here, highlight any person and hit right to make a symbol appear on the picture of the city. This is a short clip of men doing stunts.

Easter egg: Go to the second page of the "special features" menu. Once there, highlight any one of the special features and press right to make a symbol appear on the pyramid. There will be about a ten second clip of behind the scenes footage.

Easter egg: Go to the first page of the "special features" menu. Once there, highlight any one of the special features on the page and press right once to see a short clip of how the filmming crew put on make-up.

Factual error: The cavemen Harrier pilots are shown using the hover mode frequently. Harriers, even with drop tanks as depicted in the film, can hover for at most 5-10 minutes, as the thrust required to keep the aircraft in the air without any lift consumes massive amounts of fuel and overheats the engine, and real-life Harrier pilots are instructed never to hover for long periods of time, unless absolutely necessary. The amount of time the cavemen spent hovering (hiding out of sight in a parking garage, sneaking up on the Psychlo gunships, etc.) would have easily caused their fuel to run dry.

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Ker: I don't know what you're so down about. You still get to be head of security, which, from what I can tell, is a pretty cushy job.
Terl: Well, I can assure you that I was not groomed since birth to have some cushy job that even a moron like you could perform. While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies! To do anything less is a disgrace to my entire family line.

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Trivia: John Travolta made the film with Franchise Pictures. A few years after the film, it was revealed in a court case that Franchise had fraudulently overstated the budget of Battlefield Earth by $21 million to scam investors. After losing the case, Franchise filed for bankruptcy, and Travolta fired his manager, who set up the deal with Franchise in the first place.

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Chosen answer: Huge robotic ships programmed to fly on a set course and drop poison gas.

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