The Golden Raspberry Awards / Razzie Awards Thread
#551
DVD Talk Special Edition
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Movie-making is an entertainment-for-profit industry, enjoyable for what it is, but completely undeserving of being placed upon a pedestal for worshipping or taken so seriously. Anything that takes the piss out of it from time to time (think Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes) is okay with me.
Sorry, Decker ...
Sorry, Decker ...
#552
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
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If you think the Oscars aren't important, that's fine. Feel free to ignore them. But for movie-making and for the industry itself, they absolutely are. That's not really debatable.
#553
DVD Talk Legend
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I think they exist to entertain - basically a spoof on the Oscars... even if I don't necessarily find them entertaining myself.
The Oscars are important for the movie-making industry, but as a viewer of films - I don't find much value in what they offer.
It's a circle-jerk of self-important people thinking their opinion is important to the rest of us. They're not.
#554
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
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That’s fair.
#555
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The razzies are long past the point where they're taking the piss out of movies. Or even entertaining. There was a time when it was more or less in good fun and it was even better when some of the winners played along. Now it's just a weird and mean spirited exercise in "look at me". It's completely pointless. You might say the same about the Oscars, but they're at least important to someone. I'm not sure the razzies even meet that criteria.
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John Pannozzi (01-30-23)
#556
DVD Talk Hero
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The Razzies... aren't relevant anymore. There's already enough snark on the internet, and there's really no point in them anymore. You only ever really hear about them whenever they do something like this or the Bruce Willis thing. Nobody cares. The original mandate of the Razzies seemed to be to poke fun at bad, overwrought, or over-hyped mainstream movies and the actors who made them. These days there's just such a general blandness to everything Hollywood does that they end up nominating the little girl in that Firestarter remake that barely made a blip anywhere.
The Oscars... the one night every year where Hollywood puts on tuxedos and fancy dresses, borrowed bling-bling, and walks down a red carpet to a big circle jerk and gives itself a four hour handjob on live tv that lasts so long the eleven o'clock local news is delayed.
The Oscars... the one night every year where Hollywood puts on tuxedos and fancy dresses, borrowed bling-bling, and walks down a red carpet to a big circle jerk and gives itself a four hour handjob on live tv that lasts so long the eleven o'clock local news is delayed.
#557
DVD Talk Hero
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The Oscars... the one night every year where Hollywood puts on tuxedos and fancy dresses, borrowed bling-bling, and walks down a red carpet to a big circle jerk and gives itself a four hour handjob on live tv that lasts so long the eleven o'clock local news is delayed.
Someone like Meryl Streep probably has an entire room, literally filled from floor to ceiling with awards. It’s almost comical how many awards they hand out in Hollywood.
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John Pannozzi (01-30-23)
#558
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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The guy at the deli made me the best sandwich yesterday. I am going back today to give him a trophy.
#560
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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I used to think this but then I learned about “Awards Season” and realized it’s not the one night of the year. They’ve been dressing up for months going from awards show to awards show jerking each other off. Granted the other shows aren’t live on national tv, but still…
#561
DVD Talk Legend
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Expendables 4 the Oppenheimer equivalent for the worst movie of 2023 with 7 nominations
Maybe not worst movie but it was not good either.
Maybe not worst movie but it was not good either.
The most-nominated film is “Expend4bles,” the fourth entry in the action-packed, but critically underwhelming, “The Expendables” franchise. It received seven nominations. Tied for second place with five noms are “The Exorcist: Believer,” the revival of the classic horror series, and “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a blood-soaked take on everyone’s favorite honey-loving bear. Two big-budget superhero movies, DC’s “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” both got four nominations.
WORST PICTURE
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Meg 2: The Trench
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST ACTOR
Russell Crowe / The Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel / Fast X
Chris Evans / Ghosted
Jason Statham / Meg 2: The Trench
Jon Voight / Mercy
WORST ACTRESS
Ana de Armas / Ghosted
Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde
Salma Hayek / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
Dame Helen Mirren / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Cattrall / About My Father
Megan Fox / Expend4bles
Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Douglas / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
Bill Murray / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) The Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries” / Expend4bles
Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) / Ghosted
Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers(!) in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and The Dial of…Still Beating a Dead Horse
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST DIRECTOR
Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
Peyton Reed / Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Waugh / Expend4bles
Ben Wheatley / Meg 2: The Trench
WORST SCREENPLAY
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and the Dial of…Can I go home now?
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
WORST PICTURE
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Meg 2: The Trench
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST ACTOR
Russell Crowe / The Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel / Fast X
Chris Evans / Ghosted
Jason Statham / Meg 2: The Trench
Jon Voight / Mercy
WORST ACTRESS
Ana de Armas / Ghosted
Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde
Salma Hayek / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
Dame Helen Mirren / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Cattrall / About My Father
Megan Fox / Expend4bles
Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Douglas / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
Bill Murray / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) The Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries” / Expend4bles
Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) / Ghosted
Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers(!) in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and The Dial of…Still Beating a Dead Horse
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST DIRECTOR
Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
Peyton Reed / Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Waugh / Expend4bles
Ben Wheatley / Meg 2: The Trench
WORST SCREENPLAY
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and the Dial of…Can I go home now?
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
#562
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Two Jason Statham movies!!!
I only saw part of Meg 2 and that was enough.
At least he has sort of redeemed himself with The Beekeeper...
I only saw part of Meg 2 and that was enough.
At least he has sort of redeemed himself with The Beekeeper...
#563
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Russell Crowes performance in Popes Exorcist wasn’t a bad performance.
#564
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
#565
DVD Talk Legend
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers could be a nominee every year but maybe he has suffered enough and don't want to pile it on.
#566
DVD Talk Hero
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As much as I dislike the “Razzies” I can’t argue that Meg 2 isn’t worthy of Worst Picture. Is there something lower than a Razzie? That’s where Meg 2 belongs.
#567
DVD Talk Legend
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I have taped Meg 2 but always erase it when space is about to run out on my DVR and might keep prolonging this until it disappears from HBO and ends up on TNT.
#568
DVD Talk God
#569
DVD Talk Legend
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I know but not that eager to watch it
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#573
DVD Talk Hero
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I don’t get the pile-on for Ghosted. It was a perfectly fine, disposable “action rom-com” with some decent set pieces. Hardly the worst of the year.
Hell, if they are looking for Netflix streaming movies to criticize, Rebel Moon should be sweeping the categories.
Hell, if they are looking for Netflix streaming movies to criticize, Rebel Moon should be sweeping the categories.