Tim Almond

nourishing obscurity is accepting nominations for the worst movie ever.

There are some good rules. Cinema release, not deliberately designed to be bad.

My immediate thought was to nominate Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven’s terrible movie about Vegas. The problem is that Showgirls is redeemed by being so trashy as to be enjoyable.

Instead, I’m going to give it to Tom and Viv, a movie about T.S.Eliot and his wife. It looked great in trailers, with really high production vales. I don’t have a whole lot of movies about Willem Dafoe is a favourite actor of mine, and Miranda Richardson’s normally very good. So, when I saw it on a friend’s video rack, I asked if I could borrow it. "Take it" he said, "It’s terrible. I never finished it".

Thing is, nor could I. The whole film is just location after location with Miranda Richardson’s character being completely mad and creating a scene, whilst T.S.Eliot stands there looking embarrased, with lots of irritating characters hanging around looking on. Miranda Richardson’s performance is completely over-the-top and grating, and worst of all, there’s nothing engaging about the plot or characters.

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