The Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation has announced its “Razzie” nominations for the worst efforts in movie-making in 2008. Topping the list is The Love Guru:
Voters for 2008′s worst movies love Mike Myers. They really love him.Myers’ comedy flop “The Love Guru” led the field Wednesday for the Razzies with seven nominations, among them worst picture and worst-acting slots for Myers, Jessica Alba, Verne Troyer and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.
The other worst-picture contenders were “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans,” Hollywood spoofs that shared a nomination for a “badly beaten dead horse of a concept”; the fright flick “The Happening”; Paris Hilton’s romantic comedy bomb “The Hottie & the Nottie”; and the sword-and-sorcery fantasy “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.”
I managed to avoid Guru. Did anybody here actually see it?
Here’s some more history on the Razzies from Time magazine including this:
So where did the idea for the Razzies come from? Wilson blames attempting to host an Oscars party while living in the Pacific Time Zone. “The Oscars come on at five and are over some time around nine, and when you have that many people over, you have to have something to do, so I set up a cardboard podium and invited people to offer up nominees for the worst film of the year.” The first Razzie statues were sculpted pieces of foam, and the inaugural Worst Picture award went to Allan Carr’s Can’t Stop the Music, a musical comedy that fictionalized the story behind the Village People. “I happened to pay 99 cents for a double feature of Can’t Stop the Music and Olivia Newton John in Xanadu and was refused my money back afterward,” Wilson says.
What’s the worst movie you have ever seen?
I’m tempted to say SOLARBABIES, but that was so bad it was kinda good.
I’ll have to say THE PHANTOM MENACE would be pretty high on that list, too.
You’re asking us to recall repressed memories!?
I know I’ve watched some stinkers, but for the most part I’ve avoided them. One that really get’s my nomination – for no other reason than I’ve seen the trailer – is Surf Nazis Must Die . I think the worst movie I’ve sat through is Krull. I remember sitting in the theater thinking the better name would be Dull.
Of course, both of those films were made; and that’s two more credits than I have.
Definitely a flick called “Boardinghouse” which had the look of a movie made by a bunch of people goofing around with a camcorder, yet somehow it (at least in VHS form) got a national release. My sister and I, sadly, rented this more than once from the video store just so we could invite our friends over and laugh like crazy.
Just checked and there is an IMDB listing for this movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083670/).
But, this movie was really beyond bad.
I can also recall sitting through a well reviewed movie called “Strangers in Good Company” which as I recall can pretty much be summed up by the description: a bunch of old ladies on a bus that breaks down out in the country somewhere. Might have worked as a comedy, but it was a drama that seemed to never end.
I did see, “The Love Guru.” And as I remember I did laugh quite a bit early on. This film COULD have been “40 Year Old Virgin” good, BUT it needed more drafts from other writers (voices) to make that happen. This story suffers from a case of over Mikemyersidis.
Worst movie I ever seen. Hmm…. “Ultraviolet” (2006: Milla Vovivich) comes to mind. “The Royal Tenenbaums”
was especially aweful too.
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA