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WORST PICTURE:
The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good
High School Musical 3
The Love Guru
The Happening
Meet Dave


WORST ACTOR:
Eddie Murphy
Al Pacino
Tom Cruise (Valkyrie)
Mike Myers
Mark Wahlberg

Worst Actress
The cast of “The Women”
Cameron Diaz
Diane Keaton
Vanessa Hudgens
Eva Longoria-Parker

Worst Screen Couple:
Any couple from HSM 3
Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher
Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey
Larry the Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy
Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave)

Worst Director:
Uwe Boll
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Sylvester Stallone
Roland Emmerich
M. Night Shyamalan

Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip-Off:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Women
The X-Files: I Wanna Be Leaving

Worst Career Achievement:
Uwe Boll
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Big Magilla wrote:Worst Actress
Norma Shearer - Idiot's Delight
I'm impressed they made this call in real time. I'm not remotely a fan of Shearer's overall, but this performance is teeth-achingly awful.

I generally pay no attention to the Razzies for the reasons Eric and Magilla cite -- why give even a second's attention to these beyond-worthless films? -- though I have to say there's an equally annoying tendency among the Lampoonists to simply select out popular/awarded films they consider insufficiently chic and trash them. (Though the list you made up for this year, Eric, contains none such, and would make a perfectly viable pool of contenders for me)
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Well, so much for my quixotic hopes. Continue piling on strawmen, Razzie voters.



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It's been narrowed down even more...

Worst Picture
Speed Racer
Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans
The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good
High School Musical 3
The Hottie & The Nottie
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
The Love Guru
Postal
Rambo
The Happening
Meet Dave
Witless Protection

Worst Actor
Zac Efron (High School Musical 3)
Dane Cook (My Best Friend's Girl)
Larry the Cable Guy (Witless Protection)
Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave)
Al Pacino (88 Minutes and Righteous Kill)
Keanu Reeves (The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good)
Sylvester Stallone (Rambo)
Tom Cruise (Valkyrie)
Will Ferrell (Semi-Pro and Step Brothers)
Ashton Kutcher (What Happens in Vegas)
Mike Myers (The Love Guru)
Adam Sandler (Bedtime Stories and You Don't Mess With the Zohan)
Mark Wahlberg (The Happening and Max Payne)

Worst Actress
Paris Hilton (The Hottie & the Nottie)
Jessica Alba (The Eye and The Love Guru)
The cast of “The Women”
Camilla Belle (10,000 B.C.)
Cameron Diaz (What Happens in Vegas)
Kate Hudson (Fool's Gold and My Best Friend's Girl)
Diane Keaton (Mad Money)
Jennifer Connelly (The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good)
Zooey Deschanel (The Happening)
Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical 3)
Eva Longoria-Parker (Over Her Dead Body)
Reese Witherspoon (Four Christmases)

Worst Screen Couple:
Any couple from HSM 3
Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher (What Happens in Vegas)
Paris Hilton & Joel David Moore (The Hottie & the Nottie)
Kate Hudson & Dane Cook (My Best Friend's Girl)
Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey (Fool's Gold)
Larry the Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy (Witless Protection)
Any couple from Mamma Mia
Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave)
Al Pacino & His Hair (88 Minutes and Righteous Kill)
Mark Wahlberg & Zooey Deschanel (The Happening)
Mark Wahlberg & Mila Kunis (Max Payne)
Sylvester Stallone & His Ego (Rambo)

Worst Director:
Uwe Boll (In the Name of the King, Postal, and 1968: Tunnel Rats)
Scott Derrickson (The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good)
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans)
Tom Putnam (The Hottie & the Nottie)
Marco Schnabel (The Love Guru)
Sylvester Stallone (Rambo)
Jon Avnet (88 Minutes and Righteous Kill)
Diane English (The Women)
Roland Emmerich (10,000 B.C.)
Brian Robbins (Meet Dave)
Kenny Ortega (High School Musical 3)
M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening)

Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip-Off:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Rambo
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Disaster Movie
Meet the Spartans
An American Carol
The Women
The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good
Prom Night
Speed Racer
The X-Files: I Wanna Be Leaving

Worst Career Achievement:
Uwe Boll
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Madonna
Keanu Reeves
Sylvester Stallone




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I'm not the only person believing that is the list-from-which-to-choose. I read an article, I think over at Variety, that talked about the list and spoke of it as a semi-final list of sorts.
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OscarGuy wrote:They can't nominate either Australia nor Mamma Mia because neither film is on their "finalists" list.
I'm not sure that it's really a "finalists" list. I think that every movie that was released in 2008 is eligible, just like the Oscars. I think that list was more like an FYC campaign to remind voters which movies sucked in 2008.
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The Harvard undergrads who voted these things were not stupid, mischievous and snobbish perhaps, but not stupid, and they were hardly the same people through the years.
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Big Magilla wrote:Top 10 Worst Pictures of 1994
Forrest Gump
Well they certainly got this one right.
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flipp525 wrote:
Eric wrote:they also awarded Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice worst actress.

That's just dumb.
Definitely, stupid people
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Eric wrote:they also awarded Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice worst actress.
That's just dumb.
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Yeah, though even I'll admit they took things a bit far. In 1982, if memory serves, all five best picture Oscar nominees made their top 10 worst, and they also awarded Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice worst actress.
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I agree with Eric on this one. There is no point in stating the obvious. I much prefer the Harvard Lampoon lists (1939-1994) which took on the sacred cows, sometimes listing films that were big box office hits and award winners of note, makign for much more interesting conversations.

In their first year they selected:

Ten Worst Pictures of 1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
Winter Carnival
The Rains Came
St. Louis Blues
Idiot's Delight
20,000 Men a Year
Bad Little Angel
Five Little Peppers
The Man in the Iron Mask

Worst Actor
Tyrone Power - The Rains Came

Worst Actress
Norma Shearer - Idiot's Delight

At their midpoint they selected:

Top 10 Worst Pictures of 1966
The Fortune Cookie
Hurry Sundown
Fantastic Voyage
Torn Curtain
The Oscar
Is Paris Burning?
The Blue Max
A Countess from Hong Kong
Penelope
The Bible

Worst Actor
George Peppard - The Blue Max

Worst Actress
Ursula Andress - Casino Royale

Worst Supporting Actor
John Huston - The Bible

Worst Supporting Actress
Leslie Caron - Is Paris Burning?

Top 10 Worst Pictures of 1967
Valley of the Dolls
Carmen Baby
The Comedians
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Reflections of a Golden Eye
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Doctor Dolittle
Up the Down Staircase
One Million Years B.C.
The Fox

Worst Actor
Richard Burton - Doctor Faustus / The Comedians

Worst Actress
Raquel Welch - One Million Years B.C. / The Biggest Bundle of Them All / Bedazzled


and in their last:

Top 10 Worst Pictures of 1994
Forrest Gump
It Could Happen to You
Speed
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Reality Bites
Philadelphia
True Lies
The Lion King
Schindler's List
The Crow

Worst Actor
Eric Stoltz - Naked in New York

Worst Actress
Patricia Arquette - True Romance
Moira Kelly - With Honors
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I´m going with Meg Ryan (or, should I say her remains?)
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Not that I want to get into this discussion, but there is most definitely a difference between ambitious failures and movies that attempt nothing and achieve it. There is no point in commemorating movies that ought to be forgotten. So no, I take no more joy in the latest Eddie Murphy movie sweeping the Razzies than I do in shallow-but-inoffensive middlebrow pap dominating the Oscars.
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I can't believe you're actually quibbling about a group that honors the worst of the year actually going after the worst of the year? Do you take some kind of cathartic joy over failures that aren't remotely close to the worst films of the year being recognized for such?
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