10 Movies That Suck So Bad You Can't Believe They Even Got Made

John Travolta had already experienced the ups and downs of movie stardom before Pulp Fiction launched his second act as a leading man, but after starring in a string of critical and commercial hits his decision to mount a big-budget love letter to Scientology marked the beginning of a downward spiral that his career still hasn't managed to recover from.

Travolta was so enamored by Battlefield Earth that he genuinely thought he'd be able to convince Quentin Tarantino to write and direct it, but ultimately George Lucas continued his turn-of-the-millennium quest to ruin sci-fi by suggesting his protege and The Phantom Menace's second unit director Roger Christian for the gig, in what makes a nice companion piece to Episode I if you want your blockbuster sci-fi to haunt your dreams for an eternity.

At a cost of $73m, Travolta was confident that Battlefield Earth would be his own version of Star Wars, except better as he once infamously claimed, but what he got instead was a huge black mark on his filmography that saw his personal beliefs used as a massive stick by critics to continuously beat him over the head with and remind him just how abjectly horrendous Battlefield Earth turned out to be.