10 Best Bad Movies Since 2000

10. Battlefield Earth

Scholars debate whether he actually said it, but this quote is often attributed to Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard: “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”

Based on Hubbard’s novel, Battlefield Earth is one of the most terrifying films of the 21st Century. It shows the kind of pictures Hollywood will make when Scientologists replace all the creative personnel with pod people. It’s also proof that stars should never, ever be allowed to realize their dream projects.

In what’s surely a cinematic first, aliens with Rasta-style hair and shoestrings dangling from their noses take over the world. Then they train the “man animals” to use the technology that will eventually be used to overthrow them. As sci-fi, the movie’s a washout, but taken purely as a cinematic joke it’s one of the funniest you’ll ever see.