Worst movie ever made

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2001)

The single worst movie ever made, and for good reason: none of the plot was original, at all. You want a dying courtesan caught in a love triangle? Try the opera Madama Butterfly, or the hit musical Miss Saigon. You want a heroine dying of consumption in a bohemian atmosphere in Paris? There's this opera called La Boheme I highly recommend. The cabaret singer who falls for the poor writer? Watch the movie/musical Cabaret. The entrepreneur who toys with the affections of his starlet? The black-and-white classic Twentieth Century with John Barrymore will suffice. And not only is it the most derivative movie ever made, the acting was ridiculously bad. Ewan McGregor's crying when Nicole Kidman died actually made me laugh out loud. Sounded more like he was struggling with a hairball. And Kidman can't touch Liza Minelli as the singer in Cabaret. That this pitiful excuse for a movie is even considered to be in Oscar competition with such a staggering, incredible cinematic achievement as Lord of the Rings is a travesty.