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Worst Picture:
Basic Instinct 2 Little Man Lady in the Water The Wicker Man BloodRayne
Worst Actor:
Tim Allen, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The Shaggy Dog, Zoom Nicolas Cage, The Wicker Man Larry the Cable Guy (Dan Whitney), Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector Rob Schneider, The Benchwarmers, Little Man Marlon & Shawn Wayans, Little Man
Worst Actress:
Hilary Duff & Haylie Duff, Material Girls Lindsay Lohan, Just My Luck Kristanna Loken, BloodRayne Jessica Simpson, Employee of the Month Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct 2
Worst Supporting Actor:
Danny DeVito, Deck the Halls Ben Kingsley, BloodRayne M. Night Shyamalan, Lady in the Water Martin Short, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause David Thewlis, Basic Instinct 2
Worst Supporting Actress:
Kate Bosworth, Superman Returns Kristin Chenoweth, Deck the Halls, Pink Panther, RV Carmen Electra, Date Movie, Scary Movie 4 Jenny McCarthy, John Tucker Must Die Michelle Rodriguez, BloodRayne
Worst Screen Couple:
Tim Allen & Martin Short, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause Nicolas Cage & his bear suit, Wicker Man Hilary & Haylie Duff, Material Girls Sharon Stone's lopsided breasts, Basic Instinct 2 Shawn Wayans & either Kerry Washington or Marlon Wayans, Little Man
Worst Remake or Rip-Off:
Little Man Pink Panther Poseidon The Shaggy Dog The Wicker Man
Worst Prequel or Sequel:
Basic Instinct 2 Big Momma's House 2 Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Worst Director:
Uwe Boll, BloodRayne Michael Caton-Jones, Basic Instinct 2 Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code M. Night Shyamalan, Lady in the Water Keenan Ivory Wayans, Little Man
Worst Screenplay:
Basic Instinct 2 BloodRayne Lady in the Water Little Man The Wicker Man
Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment:
Deck the Halls Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties RV The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause The Shaggy Dog
Razzie Nominations: Basic Instinct 2 Just As Crappy As Suspected
January 23rd, 2007 at 13:30 by Stuart Heritage
At this time of year, it's easy to trip and fall head-first into the immense Hollywood circle-jerk that is awards season - so when the Razzie nominations come out and ceaselessly poke fun at how bad Basic Instinct 2 was, it's a breath of fresh air.
Well guess what? The Razzie nominations have come out. And guess what else? Judging by the Razzie nominations, Basic Instinct 2 was far and away the worst film of last year, picking up six nominations - among them Worst Actress, Worst Film and - genuinely - Worst Onscreen Couple for 'Sharon Stone's Lopsided Breasts.' But don't for a second think that Basic Instinct 2 ran away with the Razzie nominations - there was also a number of special Razzie slots for that film where a man dresses up as a baby and has sex with his adopted mother, too.
With all this talk about how Babel and The Queen are so powerful and deep that they'll literally change the way you see suicidal knickerless mute Japanese girls and the Queen forever, the Razzie Awards couldn't be more essential. The Razzie Awards remind Hollywood that, yes, it can make films about Brad Pitt sobbing down a phone, but it can also make films where a 48-year-old woman sucks Stan Collymore's fingers until he crashes a car or a film where Marlon Wayans' head is crudely superimposed on top of a baby's head so he can make all sorts of penis jokes.
Last year the Razzie awards reunited Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, for being in the awful Bewitched movie and just generally being an annoying turd respectively, but this year the focus is all on Sharon Stone and Basic Instinct 2 - a film that took the original idea of Basic Instinct and set it entirely in a building shaped like a giant glass penis. Although no amount of Razzie nominations could come near to celebrating Sharon Stone's Bono-endangering, mayhem-causing stay in London to film Basic Instinct 2, the movie's six nods go at least some way to repairing the damage caused.
But Basic Instinct 2 was only one shitty film from last year of interest to the Razzie Awards. Little Man also got Razzie nominations in six categories, Nicolas Cage's Wicker Man - a film so bad that the original director had his name scrubbed from all promotional material - got five. Special praise should also be heaped on Tim Allen, who managed to get three separate nominations in the Worst Actor category alone.
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