'' Battlefield Earth '' frequently appears on worst film lists , and is included on Rotten Tomatoes ' " 100 Worst of the Worst Movies " list . Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 27th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the first decade of the 21st century . '' The Arizona Republic '' listed it as the worst film of 2000 , and called it a " monumentally bad sci-fi flick . " Richard Roeper placed the film at number five on his list of " 40 movies that linger in the back chambers of my memory vault like a plate of cheese left behind a radiator in a fleabag hotel . " In 2001 the film received the " Worst Picture " award from the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association . James Franklin of McClatchy-Tribune News Service put the film as the worst of his " summer blockbuster bombs " list , giving it a rating of four stars for " traumatic " on his scale of how the films " generate a perverse sense of nostalgia . " Christopher Null of Filmcritic.com listed the film 's villain Terl at number 8 of his " 10 Least Effective Movie Villains " , writing : " we still ca n't imagine how anyone would go face to face with one of these creatures and react with anything other than simple laughter . " '' South Park '' parodied the film at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards . The MTV short was the first time '' South Park '' had satirized Scientology , in a piece titled " The Gauntlet " . The short was primarily a '' Gladiator '' parody , with the characters fighting Russell Crowe in the Roman Colosseum ; it included " John Travolta and the Church of Scientology " arriving in a spaceship to defeat Crowe and attempting to recruit the boys into Scientology . Travolta , along with his fellow Scientologists , was depicted as a Psychlo , as he appeared in the film
2000 MTV Movie Awards
2000 MTV Movie Awards
Battlefield Earth (film)