In the annals of Hollywood history there have been few feature films of any genre as brutally criticized as 2000's "Battlefield Earth," the controversial adaptation of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's pulpy dystopian novel of 1982.
It was a rollicking space opera set in an Earthly wasteland of the year 3000, lorded over by a cruel race of cat-like, 9-foot-tall aliens called Psychlos, who had enslaved primitive humans to mine for gold. A rebellion rises led by a charismatic tribesman against the oppressors to ensure species' survival.
