By Lee Pfeiffer
MSNBC has listed reader's choices for the biggest film turkeys of all time - and the list itself is the biggest turkey of all. Sure, there are the undeniable bombs that one would expect to find in any sane list of worst movies:
Showgirls, Ishtar and
Battlefield Earth. However, these readers must have been into the cooking sherry a bit too early to include
Pulp Fiction (too much profanity),
The Blair Witch Project (the camera was too shaky) and Kubrick's
Eyes Wide Shut, which is regarded, at worst, as a noble failure but certainly not an outright turkey. Even the innocuous
Mr. Bean is not spared. The readers must be of the same school of film criticism as the friend who once accompanied me to a screening of
Lawrence of Arabia. At the conclusion of David Lean's masterpiece, I asked him for his reaction and his sole comment was, "Too much sand."Â To read the entire list,
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