Our fearless – and quite possibly senseless – movie janitor is watching every movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Join us now for another installment of Unwatchable.

This entry requires a bit of an explanation. As I’ve mentioned before, the IMDb Bottom 100 list is a fluid entity. There is no single version of this list because you, the loyal bad movie viewer, alter it every time you cast your vote. I am working from a version I downloaded two months ago when I began this project, and although that list may have many crapulescent movies in common with the current version, they may rank higher or lower on the list – and of course, many entries have since been supplanted by fresh, steaming piles from the cineplex.

So why am I telling you this? Well, for the first time since I began the Unwatchable project, a Bottom 100 entry has defeated me. I don’t mean I couldn’t get through the movie – that would be antithetical to everything I stand for – I mean I couldn’t find the movie at all.

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Our fearless – and quite possibly senseless – movie janitor is watching every movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Join us now for another installment of Unwatchable.

Bo Derek became the natural successor to Farrah Fawcett as poster girl of choice in the bedrooms of adolescent boys with the 1979 release of 10, in which the cornrowed, bikinied Derek played Dudley Moore’s object of lust. (For some reason her acting debut in 1977’s Orca, in which her leg was bitten off by a killer whale, did not catapult her to stardom.) Director John Derek was ahead of the game, having met 16-year-old Bo on the casting couch years earlier. Better known for trading in a series of hot blonde wives for younger models than any filmmaking acumen, Derek abandoned wife Linda Evans (who had earlier replaced Ursula Andress) for Bo, with whom he made four movies. Bolero is one of them, and perhaps not even the worst one, though I’d hate to have to live on the difference.

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