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Worst of the Worst
by Jason English - February 26, 2007 - 8:00 AM

The 27th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards were handed down this weekend, celebrating the worst of cinema. Basic Instinct 2 was the big winner, taking home Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Prequel/Sequel and Worst Actress for Sharon Stone.

So if you’re tired of all the water-cooler Oscar buzz and like being negative, arm yourself with a little Razzie trivia.

  • In 1998, Brian Helgeland won the Oscar for Best Screenplay (L.A. Confidential) and the Razzie for Worst Screenplay (The Postman). This never happened before or since.
  • James Coco (Only When I Laugh, 1982) and Amy Irving (Yentl, 1984) were both nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie for the same performance.
  • Sylvester Stallone has been nominated thirty times, winning ten. Both are records.
  • Showgirls and Battlefield Earth are tied atop the all-time rankings, each earning seven Razzies.
  • Demi Moore, Pauly Shore and Sly Stallone have all won back-to-back Worst Actor/Actress honors.

By the way, if you’re looking for the perfect gift for a movie snob, how about a Voting Razzie Membership?

And while we’re trashing bad movies, what’s your all-time least favorite? I’ll need to think about this one.

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Comments (15)

  1. No one ever agree with me, but I think Dirty Dancing is one of the worst movies ever. I swear that it is so terrible I think Burt Reynolds has to be in it somewhere.

    posted by allison on 2-26-2007 at 8:52 am

  2. I actually walked out of the theater when I had gone to see Give My Regards to Broad St.in 1984 with music and story? by Paul Mc Cartney and Wings.

    posted by CropTillDawn on 2-26-2007 at 9:34 am

  3. “Hulk” (2003), which was ironically directed by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee of “Brokeback Mountain” fame.

    “Home Fries” is also very low on the scale.

    posted by Kate on 2-26-2007 at 10:36 am

  4. I would have to say Ultra Violet, but mostly because my expectations were so high. I am a huge fan of martial arts and Milla Jovovich. This movie could have become my favorite of all time but fell so far short that I hate it.

    Paper thin script, unimaginative fight choreography, cliche` cinematography. They must have realized how bad it was before post-production because the Computer Generated Images look like they were done in 1984 by middle schooler on a Commodore 64. We are talking 256 colors. Seriously, Tron had better CGI.

    posted by n2y2 on 2-26-2007 at 11:10 am

  5. It is worth noting that Ben Affleck was nominated for worst couple with Liv Tyler in Armageddon, again with Jennifer Lopez in Gigli, and and once more with Liv Tyler AND J.Lo in Jersey Girl.
    I think it’s the chin

    posted by JD on 2-26-2007 at 11:20 am

  6. I was a big fan of Ghostworld but Art School Confidential was one of the worse movies I have ever seen. Other ones would be The Cable Guy and You’ve Got Mail.

    posted by Jack on 2-26-2007 at 11:25 am

  7. I agree with Ultraviolet, which I had the misfortune of seeing the theatres.

    American Beauty has to be the worst movie to win Best Picture

    posted by Chris on 2-26-2007 at 11:58 am

  8. I loved “Hulk” and “The Cable Guy.” My all-time worst is “Cube 2: Hypercube,” a film so misguided that it ruins the name of the really good “Cube.” It even subscribes to the theory that the fourth dimension is time, which brings forth the question, how do you make a shape in time? Because all I’ve managed to make are lines.

    posted by Sillstaw on 2-26-2007 at 1:07 pm

  9. i really have to say the worst movie i’ve ever seen is Screwball Academy. This 80’s T&A comedy is no wild romp. there isn’t even a coherent plot. only worth seeing for the beach montage set to the 80’s DC punk heroes, the slickee boys, and the attempted rape of skinny dipping hotties by wild biker/rednecks. this one smells rotten.

    rafael

    posted by rafael on 2-26-2007 at 1:11 pm

  10. Wing Commander; admittedly I only went to see the trailer for Episode II, but after 10 minutes of some of the worst dialogue I’ve ever heard, I bolted. Yeah, even worse than George Lucas.

    posted by Johnny Cat on 2-26-2007 at 1:20 pm

  11. Batman & Robin is the only movie to ever cause me real physical pain– and I sat through Battlefield Earth!

    posted by Andie on 2-26-2007 at 3:37 pm

  12. Crank was pretty disgusting and I loved The Transporter. That’s a hard question, I’m sure I’ve hated something more. Maybe-Catwoman.

    posted by Jenna on 2-26-2007 at 6:57 pm

  13. There is a little known zombie movie called “Hard-Rock Zombies” out there that is by far the worst of the worst. My boyfriend and I spend out time watching bad b-movie horror flicks and this is the one we use as our basis for comparison on our scale of 1-10. this being by far the 1.

    posted by Sara on 2-26-2007 at 8:10 pm

  14. I HATED Epic Movie…I didn’t want to see it in the first place and it was the only movie i’ve ever seen that I actually would have walked out of if i could have.

    posted by Ashley on 2-26-2007 at 10:13 pm

  15. I hated The Fantastic Four. War of the Worlds was only bearable because i had an amazingly sarcastic friend with me and we only paid a dollar fifty to get in the theater.

    posted by hana on 2-27-2007 at 2:56 pm

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