After strikes, lingerings of a worldwide plague and a general sense of universal agoraphobia, the decline of the cinematic experience goes without saying. Thankfully, a doll and a bomb movie jump-started The Industry, which still left behind a trail of Pooh for the Razzies® to pick up!According to the press release, Expend4bles leads with seven nominations, followed by Exorcist: Believer and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey with five, Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania with four, and Meg 2: The Trench with three. The Hollywood Reporter dutifully reported these numbers along with the leading nominees in Razzie Awards 2024 Nominations Revealed: 'Expend4bles' Leads the Pack.
Awards season doesn't just mean honoring the best of the best. The Razzies unveiled their annual nominations, which honor the worst of the year. Leading the nominations for the Razzies or more formally known as the Golden Raspberry Awards are 'Expend4bles' which earned 7 including worst picture.Unfortunately, the Razzies made at least two math errors and The Hollywood Reporter didn't catch them. I knew to look for them, as I observed two years ago and repeated last year, "the people behind the Razzies do not have the best math skills and attention to detail, so they make mistakes when counting nominations. This year was no exception..." This year's error was not in the number of nominations for Expend4bles; the bad mercenary movie really does have seven nominations. It's that Exorcist: Believer also has seven, not five. They are: Worst Picture, Worst Actor for Russell Crowe, Worst Supporting Actor for Franco Nero, Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist, Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, Worst Director for David Gordon Green, and Worst Screenplay. Oops. Even if the Worst Screen Couple doesn't count, and I think the category should because it did for Expend4bles and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, it still has more than five. In addition, the Razzies missed that Ghosted also has three nominations, Worst Actor for Chris Evans, Worst Actress for Ana De Armas, and Worst Screen Couple for both of them, tying it with Meg 2: The Trench. Double oops. Still, I expected no better from the Razzies, which is why I looked. I'm just surprised that The Hollywood Reporter hasn't learned to check the Razzies' math.
Enough of that. As I wrote last year, "I pay attention to the Razzies because they usually recognize the worst big-budget genre films and sniff out bad political films. They didn't disappoint me this year, as they recognized some poorly done genre films." In addition, both Expend4bles and Ghosted are action-comedies about politics and government. Both of them are examples of "there is nothing unfunnier than a bad comedy."
Speaking of mistakes, I just missed an opportunity to brag about a prediction. I wrote "it wouldn't surprise me if Waller-Bridge earned a Razzie nomination for [her] role" in 'Barbie' vs. 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' for Best Fantasy Film at the Saturn Awards. Fortunately, that didn't happen, as I also wrote "I think that would be unjustified, as I enjoyed her performance." I was thinking of writing that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would earn a Razzie nomination for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel in my response to Infidel753's second comment, but I didn't follow through. Darn, as the movie earned two nominations for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, as I expected, and Worst Screenplay. I think that makes it the only movie nominated at both the Oscars for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) and the Razzies. Congratulations?
I also didn't blog about the Razzie winners last year, so I conclude by including 43rd Razzie® Award Winners!
Besides “wins” for the iconic actor, marvel character and bizarre biopic, the Razzies for the first time in their history, took a Razzie themselves. After their blunder of nominating someone who should not have been considered, the organization was put through the cyberworld blender. They publicly apologized to the actress, changed the rules for anyone under 18, rescinded the nomination and put themselves in her place on the ballot - which won by a landslide. Watch Razz Berry's acceptance speech.At least the Razzies acknowledged one of their mistakes, which was for judgment, not math. They followed their own advice of "own your bad." Good for them.
Gold Derby hasn't made any predictions for the Razzies or the Oscars yet. When they do, I'll return with their odds. Stay tuned.
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