10 Risky Movie Moments That Totally Failed

Granted, making a sci-fi movie that's thinly-veiled Scientology propaganda is a pretty big risk in of itself, and one that unsurprisingly tanked critically and commercially.

But the Razzie-winning Battlefield Earth didn't even deliver basic competence in the cinematography department either, as director Roger Christian ill-advisedly insisted that almost every shot in the film be set at a Dutch angle.

A Dutch angle is when the camera is canted to the side, and while it can certainly be used effectively to convey a sense of unease, it's generally deployed sparingly by filmmakers given that its overuse can make a scene look silly.

But in an apparent attempt to replicate the aesthetic of a comic book, Christian made sure almost every shot in Battlefield Earth was dutched. 

It's ultimately just another reason to ridicule an already-terrible movie, but even if Battlefield Earth were somehow good, the perma-Dutch style would be a massive, distracting mark against it, making it difficult to take it even remotely seriously.