It's better than Forrest Gump.

And Titanic, but that kind of goes without saying.

Oh, Titanic isn't THAT bad. I mean, the romance stuff is shitty, but it's not nearly equal to this fucking monstrosity.

This is a made movie.

The most accurate movie review of all time.

Yes, and in fact I must insist on a "Dutch Angle" tag.

I concur

Uh.

Atlas Shrugged?

Uh.

Sadly, Battlefield Earth appears to have been profitable (unless the fraud inherent in its production took care of that). It still makes Atlas Shrugged even more ironic, but still...

If you go to SFDebris.com, they have a multi-part analysis of the amazing series of blunders, crimes, and nigh-unbelievable douchebaggery that went into Battlefield Earth.

You can still make horrendous movies, but you can't make them with this movie's budget.

It wasn't profitable. It probably would have roughly broken even, but the production company engaged in all sorts of fraudulent bookkeeping (Scientologists committing fraud???) and were later sued by investors which effectively ended the CoS's plans to fund a sequel.
There are also rumors that Travolta, despite being and ardent Scientologist himself, purposefully engineered part of the demise of the film behind the scenes (as well as his shitty on-screen performance) because he was mad that he didn't get to play the hero due to his age.

At one point, Hubbard had close ties to the Ordo Templi Orientis (Aleister Crowley's church/group/whatever), before he split and made off with tens of thousands of dollars and Crowley's then-wife.

Still the only entertaining thing Hubbard ever did.

Depends on the angle that you see it. He was present for the Babalon Working, but I don't think Hubbard was ever really in with Crowley personally. Crowley's notion of "wife" was pretty alien to us mundanes. She was just another Scarlet Woman to him. That money was Parsons', not Crowley's, and Crowley would've seen right through Hubbard if it HAD been Crowley's money. Parsons was a walking wallet to both of them.

A perfect adaptation of source material