Cameron Diaz may play the title role in "Bad Teacher," but many, many terrible teachers have come before her to the big screen. The film, which opens this week, joins a proud tradition of movies featuring educators with questionable intentions.
In fact, Diaz looks like a candidate for a Golden Apple award for teaching excellence when compared with some of the classroom authority figures envisioned by John Hughes and Ingmar Bergman. Any child would be lucky to have her in charge if their alternative involved a psycho from Park Chan-wook's "Lady Vengeance" or Arnold Schwarzenegger as an undercover cop.
While Diaz may be worthy of the label "Bad Teacher," these ten characters deserve to be recognized as "The Worst Teachers in Movie History."
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10. Detective John Kimball, "Kindergarten Cop" (1990)
Male action stars fought bad guys in all kinds of unlikely places and with shockingly mismatched partners during the 1990s. Hulk Hogan had "Mr.
In fact, Diaz looks like a candidate for a Golden Apple award for teaching excellence when compared with some of the classroom authority figures envisioned by John Hughes and Ingmar Bergman. Any child would be lucky to have her in charge if their alternative involved a psycho from Park Chan-wook's "Lady Vengeance" or Arnold Schwarzenegger as an undercover cop.
While Diaz may be worthy of the label "Bad Teacher," these ten characters deserve to be recognized as "The Worst Teachers in Movie History."
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10. Detective John Kimball, "Kindergarten Cop" (1990)
Male action stars fought bad guys in all kinds of unlikely places and with shockingly mismatched partners during the 1990s. Hulk Hogan had "Mr.
- 6/24/2011
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