As in like, I get there’s really terrible B-movies and shit like Neil Breen’s work that ends up on BOTW, but what’s the worst movie that actually had a decent sized budget and was made by an actual movie studio and maybe even had some somewhat well known actors in it?

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Battlefield Earth is bad beyond belief. It’s my favorite bad movie. There isn’t even a close second including shitty b-movies. It’s in a class by itself.

    Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American science fiction film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It’s set in the year 3000 and follows a human rebellion against the “Psychlos”, a tyrannical alien species that has ruled Earth for a thousand years. John Travolta, who produced the film, stars as main antagonist Terl alongside Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker.

    Budget: $44 million

    Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It’s not merely bad; it’s unpleasant in a hostile way … I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

    - Roger Ebert