My choice for the worst movie ever made has been
1492:Conquest of Paradise. As with most things I have an opinion on, most people vehemently disagree.
But any movie that has a Frenchman playing a Corsican living in Italy, who sails from Spain while speaking English gets my nod. Gerard Depardieu's recent
"airline mishap" only reaffirms my opinion of him. Queen Isabella was played by
Sigourney Weaver (!!) and King Ferdinand was bumbled by
Tom Selleck (!!!). The dialog was so bad I almost had to get up and leave the theatre, which I've only done once in my life (
Looking for Mr. Goodbar). Instead I stayed and laughed out loud (
LOL'ed for the younger among my tens of readers) throughout the debacle. My wife and sister can verify this, but they hated the movie as much as I did. The film attains a Rotten Tomato rating of
47%, but then again, film critics are idiots!
Several others wrote in with their own choices, including
Caddyshack II , and
An Inconvenient Truth. Since Al Gore's movie landed him an Oscar, and the Rotten Tomato score is
93%, I'll abstain from commenting further. You all know I keep my politics oblique here! (hee hee hee) But
Larry Mangan again gets the award here for pointing us to
Caddyshack 2 (which I've never seen). The Rotten Tomato score of
8% isn't the lowest score of films I've seen, but it is close. Larry has implored me to avoid renting it to check it out. I happen to adore "bad" movies. ( I love
Adam Sandler...)
Movies with worse Rotten Tomato ratings than Caddyshack II I have seen in the theatre include:
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2. Corky Romano (6)
3. Christmas with the Kranks (5)
4. The Whole Ten Yards (4)
5. The Master of Disguise (2)
6. Witless Protection (with Larry the Cable Guy) (0)
7. Strange Wilderness (0)
I've seen a couple of those wretched films you listed, but I still vote for Caddyshack 2 as worst ever - Robert Stack, Jackie Mason, Dina Merrill....ugh....that and Ackroyd must have seriously need the money to do that movie...LTM
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