2. Battlefield Earth
Well, full disclosure… Battlefield Earth did not truly strike up a ton of controversy. What’s most interesting about this little John Travolta number is just how little controversy it did manage to cause. It failed even to generate numbers at the box office, let alone audience members who were truly stirred by the content of the piece. It is entirely likely that those who did venture to see this interesting film in theatre (or people like this author who caught it later on the age old VHS), never even happened to know just what the film was about. Turns out the ‘Worst Picture of the Decade’ (2010), was based on a novel by fraud, and founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. A stir that was caused around Hollywood was Travolta’s incessant pitching of the film to production houses all over. Eventually landing a production house near as fraudulent as Hubbard himself, Travolta also sunk millions into the project to ensure its fruition. Meant to be a sequel, the film was so critically and commercially reviled that it flopped fantastically, and a sequel to the Scientology saga of human slavery never saw the light of day.
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