Battlefield Earth

If 1950s sci-fi schlockmeister Ed Wood could have gotten his hands on $60 million and CGI special effects, he might have made a movie as hilariously gawd awful as Battlefield Earth. A bloated, brain-dead, narcissistic, almost completely nonsensical cinematic disaster about an enslaved human race rebelling against their alien masters in the year 3000, the film is characterized by such bad writing and acting (John Travolta is off his leash as leader of the KISS-meets-Klingons invaders), and absurdly implausible circumstances (cave-dwelling "man-animals" teach themselves to fly 1,000-year-old Harrier jets to attack their captors), that it just begs to be viciously ripped apart. Of course, the satisfaction of viciously ripping it apart makes the film a little more tolerable. Not recommended. (R. Blackwelder)