Worst of the Best Films

Braveheart has been voted the Worst film to have won the Academy Awards for 'Best Picture'. Readers of British Magazine, Empire, chose 'Braveheart' over, 'A Beautiful Mind', 'The Greatest Show On Earth', 'Ordinary People', 'Forrest Gump', 'Terms Of Endearment', 'Around the World In 80 Days', 'Cavalcade', 'Rocky' and 'How Green Was My Valley'. Given a vote, I would have glady spilt mine between Ordinary People and Terms Of Endearment. 'Terms...' kept me away from movies for a whole month.

"Randall Wallace (the writer) might have merited praise for making 14th-century history relevant to audiences who thought King Edward was a potato or a cigar, but his dialogue has all the thudding subtlety of a parody."