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Razzies: Who's worse, Transformers 2 or Land of Lost?
In advance of tomorrow's Oscar nominations, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has released its nominees for the worst movies of the year, led by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, with seven nods, including worst director, worst picture, worst screen couple and worst actress (the lovely but scary Megan Fox).
That achievement in cinema was matched by Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost, which got seven nominations of its own.
Check out the full Razzie announcement below. The "awards" will be handed out on March 6, the night before the Oscars.
Do you agree with these choices? What's your pick for worst movie of the year?
Box Office Hits, Remakes and Sequels Dominate This Year's RAZZIE® NominationsFollowing a Banner Year for Bad Movies, voting members of The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have sifted through the cinematic rubble and selected what they consider to be last year's Berry Worst "Achievements" in Film. In addition to 2009's top under-achievers, The Gala 30th Annual RAZZIE® Awards will dis-honor The Worst of the "Uh-Ohs," with special awards for the Worst Picture, Actor and Actress of the Decade in ceremonies scheduled for Hollywood's Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at 7:30pm/PST on Saturday, March 6 -- the now traditional Night Before the Oscars®.
Leading the pack among this year's RAZZIE® contenders are one of the year's biggest money-makers and the year's biggest money-loser, each with seven nods. RAZZIE® Repeat Offender Michael Bay helped lead the over-loud, over-long, uber-stupid TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN to a huge box office take...and to a huge haul of RAZZIE® nominations as well. In addition to Worst Director and Worst Picture, the film is up for Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actress (Julie White as the stoned, screaming mother of Shia Le Bouf), Worst Screen Couple (Le Bouf and EITHER Megan Fox OR Any Transformer) and Worst Actress (Fox again, dually nominated for this film and JENNIFER'S BODY).
Keeping up with TRANNIES, TOO in the RAZZIE® race (but decidedly not at the box office) is Last Summer's Biggest B.O. bomb, LAND OF THE LOST, also with 7 shots at taking home spray-painted gold. LOST star Will Ferrell is listed in both Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple (Ferrell & Any Co-Star, Creature or "Comic Riff") and the film itself is also nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actor (the screaching Jorma Taccone as the monkeylike Cha-Ka). Rounding out the Worst Picture list are the Disney dud OLD DOGS, the awful "action-figures-come-to-life" 9-Year-Old-Boy-Movie G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA and the So-Good-It-Was-Held-Back-from-Release-for-2-Years "comedy" ALL ABOUT STEVE (whose star, Worst Actress nominee Sandra Bullock, could pull off the unprecedented feat of "winning" a RAZZIE® one day before winning an Oscar®).
Other well-known names shamed as being last year's worst include 2010 Oscar® co-host Steve Martin (Worst Actor for PINK PANTHER 2), Beyonce (Worst Actress for OBSESSED), Worst Actor of the Decade contenders Eddie Murphy (up for Worst Actor of 2009 in IMAGINE THAT) and John Travolta (Worst Actor of 2009 for OLD DOGS) as well as the twitty Dizz-Knee 'tween idols Miley Cyrus (Worst Actress for HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE) and any two or more of the Jonas Brothers, nominated jointly for Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple -- for their documentary JONAS BROS. A 3-D CONCERT EXPERIENCE. A complete list of nominees is included with this press release.
Nominees were determined by mailing ballots to 647 Foundation members in 46 U.S. states and 19 foreign countries. 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. The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
For more information on the awards' history, or to arrange an interview with Wilson, please visit the official RAZZIE® web site (www.razzies.com) or contact HeadRAZZberry@razzies.com.
By Spaceman Spiff at 1:13 PM ON 02/01/10
Land of the lost should get ALL of the razzies as far as I'm concerned. There is no contest there. In fact any movie with Will Ferral should be razzed.
Except for all the profanity and the leg humping robot, I liked Transformers 2. It wasn't great but it was fun.
By Imagica at 1:30 PM ON 02/01/10
Land of the Lost. Nothing was worse.
By Michelle at 1:38 PM ON 02/01/10
I saw both, and while Transformers 2 wasn't horrible, I have to say that Land of the Lost was HORRIFIC.
By johnj at 1:40 PM ON 02/01/10
At least Land of the Lost was trying to be funny.
By ChuckEye at 1:49 PM ON 02/01/10
When I was living in Hollywood, I was a voting member of the Razzies (membership was something like 20 bucks...) The year I went to the awards, I sat behind Tom Green, who was kind enough to show up to receive his Razzie for "Freddie Got FIngered".
Remember, to those of you who don't walk away with the gold (spray paint) this year... It's a dishonor just to be nominated.
By IronOre at 2:03 PM ON 02/01/10
Transformers 2 is easily the winner for all of the awards it was nominated for. It not only was horribly acted/directed/written, it took itself seriously in all its glorious melodrama.
By closettrekkie at 3:20 PM ON 02/01/10
How about a list for TVshows gone to tv heaven or hell depending on your point of view??
Come on how about a poll?
I.ll start the ball rolling ......
Lost Good start shame about the 2nd and 3rd series and the rest ......
By Meezer at 3:29 PM ON 02/01/10
I guess they didnt see Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading. If you haven't seen it, let me help. Burn Before Watching.
By Son of a Maui Portagee at 3:34 PM ON 02/01/10
I always find something redeeming in any cheesefest that Nimoy's contributed so I'd have to go with ROTF for the Razzie.
By Oldcode at 3:56 PM ON 02/01/10
Transformers was pretty bad, but anything with WF in it gets my vote.
I don't understand why this guy gets work. He is not funny.
By tb83 at 4:20 PM ON 02/01/10
i dont know about u but the GI JOE movie was pretty bad.
By Federalagent at 5:06 PM ON 02/01/10
I liked Transformers 2, I dont know why it made it on this list. Those whom make the Razzies should put themselves on the list. I have seen movies that were top Boxoffice records that ended up on Razzies...
By shadow at 5:24 PM ON 02/01/10
Transformers 2 is practically the worst movie I have ever seen to date. Michael Bay should be ashamed of himself for creating a monstrosity of disgust. To handle a great franchise like Transformers and turn it into one of the worst movies of the last decade is irresponsible. I hope one day that the Transformers will get a reboot. I hope they will have a talented director that can do the job right rather than a George Lucas wannabe that thinks more of explosions and cgi rather than story.
By hermy at 6:55 PM ON 02/01/10
What is sad after hearing all the early bad reviews of transformers 2.i wanted to give it a chance.but it was one on the few movies that made me look at my watch.so it gets my vote.and whats sad is it made a ton of money.even people who said they liked it wern't doing cartwheels over that CGI circlejerk of a movie
By dakalmog at 8:14 AM ON 02/02/10
If Megan Fox wins the Razzie for worst actress, Michael Bay should collect it for her. After all, that performance (or lack of one) was really his fault.
By Taiso at 10:22 AM ON 02/02/10
Transformers 2 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
It's so bad it should get all of next year's Razzies, too.
Shame on everyone that went and saw it.
And I'm not even a Transformers fan, so this is not nerd rage.
It was just a lousy movie.
By stogoe at 11:08 AM ON 02/02/10
I thought Burn After Reading was hilarious. Not everyone's taste, for sure, but not the Worst Film of 2009 by any non-spite-based reckoning.
Will Ferrell has done good work in the past - Old School, Anchorman, and Zoolander come to mind - but Land of the Lost was truly and utterly crapalicious. I didn't see Michael Bay 2: the Two-ening, so I have no basis on which to judge its soul-crushing horror. Land of the Lost gets my vote.
By Gozer at 3:29 PM ON 02/02/10
Meezer: "I guess they didnt see Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading. If you haven't seen it, let me help. Burn Before Watching."
The film itself was okay, but Pitt's performance was great. He was so funny playing an airhead, and it was the little comedic touches that made it, like chewing gum while running on a treadmill and doing that silly dance while sitting in his car on stakeout.
By Elgion at 3:32 PM ON 02/02/10
Land of the Lost was the worst movie I have ever sat through entirely. It should win a lifetime razzie for the worst movie ever. It was worse than "Plan 9 from Outer space"!
By VampireD21 at 3:18 PM ON 02/04/10
Who says Transformers 2: Revenge of the Bay wasn't awful? How can you honestly watch Bay's racist stereotype twins and not want to turn away from this cinematic abortion? Who needs to make up new Transformers when you have a STABLE OF DOZENS TO CHOOSE FROM! Michael Bay - Whattadouche
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