10 Most Insufferable Movies Since 2000

3. Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth
Warner Bros.

L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, said: €œWriting 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.€

There'€™s a reason why The Church of Scientology has its headquarters in California €“- it'€™s the cult capital of the world, full of people so desperate to believe in something that they'€™ll follow the ideas of a hack sci-fi author. Some disciples are so famous that they can get movies made based on Hubbard€™s books, little realizing he was laughing while he wrote them.

In Battlefield Earth, aliens with Rasta-style hair and shoestrings dangling from their noses take over the world, then train the €œman animals€ to use the technology that will eventually be used to overthrow them. As sci-fi, the movie€™s a washout, but as a joke played on the viewer, it€™s one of the funniest you€™'ll ever see.

Contributor

Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'