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2008 Razzie Award Nominees Anounced

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:58:13 +0000

The Oscars attempt (emphasis on the word, “attempt”) to recognize cinemas greatest achievements each year. The Razzies, on the other hand, recognize cinema’s greatest underachievements each year.

After seeing the nominees for this year’s Razzie Awards, I’m beginning to think that the Razzie judges need to be given jobs on the Oscar selection committee. Maybe then the Oscar noms would be a little bit more spot-on.

Here are the 2008 Razzie Award nominees for your viewing displeasure.

WORST PICTURE

Disaster Movie & Meet The Spartans (Two bad movies, one tired-ass concept)
The Happening (Ouch, M. Night that’s gotta hurt!)
The Hottie and The Nottie
In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
The Love Guru (Like no one saw that one coming.)

WORST ACTOR

Larry The Cable Guy, Witless Protection
Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave
Mike Myers, The Love Guru
Al Pacino, 88 Minutes & Righteous Kill (double ouch!)
Mark Wahlberg, The Happening & Max Payne

WORST ACTRESS

Jessica Alba, The Eye & The Love Guru
The cast of The Women, (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)
Cameron Diaz, What Happens In Vegas
Paris Hilton, The Hottie and The Nottie
Kate Hudson, Fools Gold & My Best Friend’s Girl

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Uwe Boll, Uwe Boll’s Postal
Pierce Brosnan, Mama Mia!
Ben Kingsley, The Love Guru & The Wackness
Burt Reynolds, Deal & In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Verne Troyer, The Love Guru & Uwe Boll’s Postal

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Carmen Electra, Meet The Spartans & Disaster Movie
Paris Hilton, Repo: The Genetic Opera
Kim Kardashian, Disaster Movie
Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection
Leelee Sobieski, 88 Minutes & In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

WORST SCREEN COUPLE

Uwe Boll and any actor, camera or screenplay
Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas
Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, The Hottie and The Nottie
Larry The Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection
Eddie Murphy IN Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL

The Day The Earth Blowed Up Real Good
Disaster Movie & Meet The Spartans
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull
Speed Racer
Star Wars: Clone Wars

WORST DIRECTOR

Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In The Name of The King & Postal
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Meet The Spartans & Disaster Movie
Tom Putnam, The Hottie and The Nottie
Marco Schnabel, The Love Guru
M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening

WORST SCREENPLAY

Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Meet The Spartans & Disaster Movie
M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening
Heidi Ferrer, The Hottie and The Nottie
Doug Taylor, In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Mike Myers & Graham Gordy, The Love Guru

WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT (SPECIAL CATEGORY)

Uwe Boll (”Germany’s answer to Ed Wood”)

Personally I’m just happy that I didn’t see most of the movies on this list. The Happening caught me off guard, though; if I could get my time and money back for that one, I would. And poor Uwe Boll–The Razzies are really raking him over the coals, creating a special category just to highlight his failures.

On a side note, I’m glad to see that the debacle that was Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull is also getting the recognition it deserves: as a steaming pile of…well, you know.

Do the 2008 Razzie Award Nominations seem about right to you? Let us know.

Source: The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation Official Website

Meet The Spartans Box Office = Sign Of The Apocalypse

Vic Holtreman — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:28:28 +0000

Are you freaking kidding me? Meet the Spartans is number one at the box office this weekend?

It’s estimated that it brought in $18.7MM vs second place Rambo at $18.2MM. Cloverfield fell 68% from last weekend – a second week drop of that magnitude usually means that a movie has received horrible word of mouth advertising. I knew it was going to split audiences big time into love it or hate it, but it seems that everyone who was going to see it went on opening weekend.

I’m curious to see how Rambo holds up in it’s second weekend: Will word of mouth bless it or bash it? Of course next weekend is the Super Bowl so movie receipts will no doubt be down regardless.

But back to the title of this article… Are people really THAT desperate for anything resembling a comedy that they pushed Spartans over the top? Or dare I say that people just have incredibly low standards?

If there’s a huge drop next week for that movie there may still be hope for mankind – but if it only drops about 50% I will weep for the future of cinema since it will encourage studios to pump out more dreck.

I mean seriously… Meet the Spartans is sitting at a 5% favorable rating at RottenTomatoes.com and even over at IMDB.com where the voters are much more forgiving, it’s currently sitting at only 2.6/10.

Of course I’m supremely confident that no regular Screen Rant readers contributed to this box office travesty…

Meet The Spartans Trailer: No Need To See The Whole Movie

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:15:10 +0000

Does anyone honestly think that Meet the Spartans, the next spoof movie from the folks that brought us Epic Movie and Date Movie is actually going to be worth sitting through?

Well I suppose that the same people who actually thought that AVP-R was great might think so.

Seriously, just watch the trailer below, chuckle a bit at some of the marginally funny bits and call it a day. There’s no need to waste $10 and an hour and a half of your life sitting through this thing because everything even remotely funny in this movie is right here:

Meet the Spartans Trailer

I don’t know exactly when it opens, nor do I care (and neither should you).