The Golden Raspberry Awards - 31st Annual Razzie nominations

[Charlie Goose]

As has been shown in recent years, I think the Razzies are getting away from the real spirit of the awards. Instead of sticking with truly awful movies, in a lot of cases they're just nominating movies that are very popular.

http://razzies.com/history/31stNoms.asp

2010 was a year when those obnoxious “surcharges” for 3-D glasses boosted movie studios’ bottom lines, while actual attendance dropped once again. It was a year when most of what Hollywood released was either a remake, a “reboot” a “re-imagining”...or an outright rip-off. In other words, it was a banner year for only one of Tinsel Town’s best-known award shows...the one that dis-honors Worst Achievements in Film. Voting members of The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have sifted through the cinematic rubble of last year and selected nominees for The 31st Annual RAZZIE® Awards, with “winners” set to be announced in ceremonies at Hollywood’s Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at 7:30pm/PST on Saturday, February 26 – the now traditional Night Before the Oscars.

Leading the pack among this year’s RAZZIE® contenders are the third installment of an enormously successful franchise (with a berry opinionated fan-base) and one of 2010’s biggest critical disasters, with 9 nods each. RAZZIE® Repeat Offender M. Night Shyamalan “re-imagined” the faux-anime TV series The Last Airbender into a jumbled, jump-cut mess of a movie that fans of the TV show hated even more than critics did (if that’s even possible!). In addition to Worst Director and Worst Picture, the film is up for Worst Remake, Worst Screenplay, Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble (the entire cast) and a brand-new RAZZIE® category for 2010, Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D. Neck-and-neck with Airbender in the RAZZIE® race (while taking a decidedly bigger bite it at the box office) is last year’s 4th biggest money-maker, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, also with 9 shots at taking home spray-painted gold. All three of the principal characters of Eclipse are individually nominated for their acting, and the entire cast is also up for Worst Screen Ensemble. Rounding out the Worst Picture list are the aptly titled Twilight “parody” Vampires Suck, the bling-obsessed superslick chick flick Sex & The City #2 and the decidedly un-romantic rom-com/revenge fantasy The Bounty Hunter.

Other notable nominees include a trio of long established divas, Cher, Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand all vying to be named Worst Supporting Actress, ’tween bong enthusiast Miley Cyrus nominated for Worst Actress, and Jack Black, Gerard Butler and Ashton Kutcher up against Twilight’s Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson for Worst Actor. Links to a complete list of nominees are on the right.

The RAZZIES® were created in 1980 as a logical antidote to Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self-congratulatory awards by John Wilson, author of The Official Razzie Movie Guide and Everything I Know I Learned at the Movies. Nominees were determined by mailing ballots to 637 voters in 46 U.S. states and 17 foreign countries. Electronic voting and certification of this year’s Final RAZZIE® Ballots will be handled by Vote-Now.com. The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

For more info on the awards’ history, please visit the official RAZZIE web site, follow the RAZZIES on Twitter, or tune in to the just-launched RAZZIE® Channel on YouTube.

Worst Picture
The Bounty Hunter
Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media

The Last Airbender
Paramount / Nickelodeon Movies

Sex & The City #2
Warner Bros. / New Line / HBO Pictures

Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Summit Entertainment

Vampires Suck
20th Century-Fox / Regency Enterprises

Worst Actor
Jack Black
Gulliver’s Travels

Gerard Butler
The Bounty Hunter

Ashton Kutcher
Killers and Valentine’s Day

Taylor Lautner
Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Valentine’s Day

Robert Pattinson
Remember Me and Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Actress
Jennifer Aniston
The Bounty Hunter and The Switch

Miley Cyrus
The Last Song

The Four “Gal Pals”
Sex & The City #2
(Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall,
Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon)

Megan Fox
Jonah Hex

Kristen Stewart
Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus
The Spy Next Door

George Lopez
Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine’s Day

Dev Patel
The Last Airbender

Jackson Rathbone
The Last Airbender and Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Rob Schneider
Grown Ups

Worst Supporting Actress
Jessica Alba
The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers,
Machete and Valentine’s Day

Cher
Burlesque

Liza Minnelli
Sex & The City 2

Nicola Peltz
The Last Airbender

Barbra Streisand
Little Fockers

Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D (Special category for 2010!)
Cats & Dogs #2:
Revenge of Kitty Galore

Clash of The Titans

The Last Airbender

Nutcracker 3-D

Saw 3-D (aka Saw VII)

Worst Screen Couple/Worst Screen Ensemble
Jennifer Aniston & Gerard Butler,
The Bounty Hunter

Josh Brolin’s Face &
Megan Fox’s Accent,
Jonah Hex

The Entire Cast of
The Last Airbender

The Entire Cast of
Sex & The City #2

The Entire Cast of
Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Director
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Vampires Suck

Michael Patrick King
Sex & The City #2

M. Night Shyamalan
The Last Airbender

David Slade
Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Sylvester Stallone
The Expendables

Worst Screenplay
The Last Airbender
Written by M. Night Shyamalan, based on the TV series created by Michael Dante Dimartino and Brian Konietzko

Little Fockers
Written by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey, based on characters created by Greg Glenna & Mary Roth Clarke

Sex & The City #2
Written by Michael Patrick King, based on the TV series created by Darren Star

Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer

Vampires Suck
Written by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Clash of The Titans

The Last Airbender

Sex & The City #2

Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Vampires Suck

[Tarantino]

Yawn.

[Boba Fett]

Nice cheap shot at Stallone, who the Razzies have loved to lambast for years.

[Rypro 525]

Alba doesn't deserve one for The Killer Inside Me. I actually thought she was very good in that.

[Supermallet]

Stallone deserved it this year.

I was hoping for more variety. There were plenty more stinkers than the four they decided to pick on.

[dino88]

Saw 7 was robbed. I just watched it and it definitely deserves a nomination for Worst Picture. I haven't seen any of the films nominated.

They also dropped the ball by not nominating Harrison Ford for Extraordinary Measures.

[RichC2]

Saw 7 was robbed, I agree.

That said, while they stuck with big movies these actually were some of the worst movies of the year. But still a surprisingly boring lineup.

[Jaymole]

Originally Posted by Suprmallet

Stallone deserved it this year.

Stallone deserves it every year, even for years he isn't in a single film.

[MrSmearkase]

Very predictable, and not at all clever.

[inri222]

Originally Posted by Suprmallet

Stallone deserved it this year.

Definitely in 1983

[ChineseCheckers]

^Oh god! what is that!?!?!?!

[RichC2]

Apparently Stallone had something to do with gay porn in 1983.

I'm gonna go pour bleach in my eyes now.

[Groucho]

People really don't know what that is? It's a still from Stayin' Alive.

As for these awards, they should have put that Tron thing in every category.

[Jaymole]

I always get a good laugh at Stallone's cameo (a la Hitchcock) in Stayin' Alive...it perfectly fits his ego:

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by Jaymole

Stallone deserves it every year, even for years he isn't in a single film.

He should be in line for some sort of lifetime achievement award by now, Copland excepted.

[Mr. Cinema]

I'm surprised Jonah Hex didn't get nominated for Worst Picture.

[DRG]

Yeah, they make too many nominations based on reputation... they will automatically nominate anyone who is a walking punchline. I mean, you've got Miley, Streisand, Stallone, Schneider, Cher, Liza... Not to say some (or even most) aren't deserving of the dishonor, but it always just feels like a kneejerk reaction - like the Razzie crew starts the process off by saying "What ridiculous celebrities appeared in movies this year?" It's just a lazy formula at this point, ironic because the Razzies typically go after lazy formulaic films.

[Ash Ketchum]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

He should be in line for some sort of lifetime achievement award by now, Copland excepted.

Stallone did a biopic about Aaron Copland??? Awesome! Did Stallone play Copland or Leonard Bernstein?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland

[darkhawk]

My wife definately agrees with all the nominations for Twilight Saga: Eclipse

[Goldberg74]

Originally Posted by darkhawk

My wife definately agrees with all the nominations for Twilight Saga: Eclipse

My wife respectfully disagrees with your wife.

[Charlie Goose]

Valentine's Day should've been nominated in every category. It was absolutely the worst movie of the year, and one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

[Supermallet]

Originally Posted by Groucho

As for these awards, they should have put that Tron thing in every category.

Full agreement.

[Double_Oh_7]

Originally Posted by Charlie Goose

As has been shown in recent years, I think the Razzies are getting away from the real spirit of the awards. Instead of sticking with truly awful movies, in a lot of cases they're just nominating movies that are very popular.

Are you saying The Bounty Hunter, The Last Airbender, etc. weren't truly awful?

[darkhawk]

Originally Posted by Goldberg74

My wife respectfully disagrees with your wife.

She doesn't like this movie like she likes the other two. With as many times as she's read the books, she hates what they did to Eclipse. Leaving out so much of the book and changing even more. I didn't mind the movie. I thought it was pretty good. She keeps telling me that that's because I never read the books. She hates how they made Jacob act like he's turning into the Hulk.

[Solid Snake PAC]

You mean to say he's supposed to turn into a pussy? Is that what the books do to that character?