29th Golden Raspberry Awards Nominations

Though this site tends to focus more on Oscar and other awards shows that award excellence in film making, I do like to make an exception in mentioning the Golden Raspberry Awards. Now in case you don't know what the Raspberries are, they are basically the anti-Oscar, giving awards to movies that have the least artistic merit to them. This year the nominees are:

Worst Picture:

• "Disaster Movie" and "Meet the Spartans"
• "The Happening"
• "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"
• "The Love Guru"

Worst Actor:

• Larry the Cable Guy, "Witless Protection"
• Eddie Murphy, "Meet Dave"
• Mike Myers, "The Love Guru"
• Al Pacino, "88 Minutes" and "Righteous Kill"
• Mark Wahlberg, "The Happening" and "Max Payne"

Worst Actress:

• Jessica Alba, "The Eye" and "The Love Guru"
• Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith and Meg Ryan, the Cast of "The Women"
• Cameron Diaz, "What Happens in Vegas..."
• Paris Hilton, "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• Kate Hudson, "Fool's Gold" and "My Best Friend's Girl"

Worst Supporting Actor:

• Uwe Boll, "Postal"
• Pierce Brosnan, "Mamma Mia!"
• Ben Kingsley, "The Love Guru", "War, Inc." and "The Wackness"
• Burt Reynolds, "Deal" and "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"
• Verne Troyer, "The Love Guru" and "Postal"

Worst Supporting Actress:

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

Worst Screen Couple:

• Uwe Boll and ANY Actor, Camera or Screenplay
• Cameron Diaz and 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 and Jenny McCarthy, "Witless Protection"
• Eddie Murphy IN Eddie Murphy, "Meet Dave"

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel:

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
• "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans"
• "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
• "Speed Racer"
• "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"

Worst Director:

• Uwe Boll, "Tunnel Rats", In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" and "Postal"
• Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans"
• Tom Putnam, "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• Marco Schnabel, "The Love Guru"
• M. Night Shyamalan, "The Happening"

Worst Screenplay:

• "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans" - Both Written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
• "The Happening" - Written by M. Night Shyamalan
• "The Hottie And The Nottie" - Written by Heidi Ferrer
• "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" - Screenplay by Doug Taylor
• "The Love Guru" - Written by Mike Myers and Graham Gordy

Worst Career Achievement (Special Category!): Uwe Boll (Germany's Answer to Ed Wood)

Nice to see Uwe Boll getting a special award. I hope he walks away with more Raspberries then anyone.

Ebert Loves 'Women'

Far be it from me to judge the great Roger Ebert (who has long been an inspiration) but I have to wonder what it is he was thinking when he gave a three star review to the new Meg Ryan fiasco "The Women." He points out that the movie is not great, but then how could it be? There are too many characters to get involved with. Most of the review is simply a checkoff of who the characters are, what they do, and what they could have done more of. And the movie is still three stars. That's a recommendation. I've been reading Ebert reviews for a long time, and this review sounds like a one and a half or two star film. I'd be interested to see why the movie ended up at three, especially now that the movie has received a low 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's just ten points up from what "Disaster Movie" got.

Weekend Box Office

I think it's about time we check to see how the movies did at the box office this weekend:


Well, the new Nic Cage movie was number one. But only $7 million? Ouch, that can't be good. Nice to see "The Dark Knight" hanging in at number four. I'm sad to see "Disaster Movie" hanging in there, but it won't be long before it's dumped on DVD to be dumped in a land mine two years down the road.

A Blessing If Ever I Saw One

So "Disaster Movie" has been out a whole week and has managed to make a hair over $7 million dollars. Considering the previous so-called "spoof movies" all had big opening weekends despite their quality, this is a great sign that we may be seeing an end to these lousy wastes of celluloid (unless they're filming these digitally, which I highly doubt). So I'm in a good mood and can go to sleep with a smile on my face, as I don't expect the movie to do much better this weekend with the poor reviews it's gotten.

Not Oscar Material

I just want to say that while most sites only reference movies that they consider to be Oscar worthy, it's such a slow period for Oscar movies that I'm going to proudly say that I have not seen "Disaster Movie," I don't plan to see "Disaster Movie," and I doubt we will be seeing this movie get nominated for anything at the Oscars. Of course, if "Norbit" can get an Oscar nomination...