In this new and uncharted world where bad is good, dumb is smart and criticism is absolutely forbidden, the Razzies® stand ready to rumble. Just don't ask us to kneel! Here are our top three categories' nominees for 2024. Visit razzies.com for the rest!!Wow, even the Razzies have made a political statement with their gallows humor about the horse loose in the hospital again. I'm actually impressed.
On the other hand, their math skills and attention to detail still stink. The Razzies press release reports a five-way tie for most nominations among Borderlands, Joker: Folie a Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis, and Reagan at six nominations each. That's incorrect. Fortunately, 11 Alive in Atlanta checked the math and accurately reported 'Joker 2' leads Razzie nominations.
The sequel scored seven nominations, including Worst Picture.Congratulations on getting it right. That's better than The Hollywood Reporter, which uncritically reproduced the numbers on the press release last year!
That written, Borderlands, Madame Web, Megalopolis, and Reagan actually are tied for second with six nominations each, followed by Unfrosted with four, which the press release reported. It skipped over Kraven the Hunter with three nominations and Argylle with two to list The Crow with two nominations. Sloppy, but I expect no better, which is why I know to check. That's four consecutive years I've found errors and omissions and a fifth going back to 2019.*
Enough of that. As I wrote the past two years, "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." None of the bad genre films surprised me, as I predicted last year, "'here's to hoping Madame Web doesn't earn at least one Razzie Award nomination next year and Johnson doesn't earn one as well for her role.' I'm afraid Madame Web will earn multiple Razzie nominations and might even win some of them. I just hope Sweeney escapes being nominated." Madame Web earned six, including Worst Actress for Dakota Johnson. At least Sydney Sweeney avoided a nomination.
Follow over the jump for more.
I added more predictions in 'Dune: Part Two' leads movie nominations at the Saturn Awards.
This year, there is no Best Superhero Film category. If it still existed, it would probably have had a full field of six nominees, Deadpool & Wolverine, Venom: The Last Dance, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Joker: Folie à Deux, Madame Web, and The Marvels, so lack of superhero films is not the issue; lack of quality superhero films is. In addition to the two Saturn Awards nominees, two were good or at least O.K. films with so-so box office numbers, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and The Marvels, and two are likely Razzie nominees, Joker: Folie à Deux and Madame Web. I'm pretty sure both of them will be nominated for Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel and one of them will almost certainly win. I suspect the Saturn Awards didn't want to recognize such mediocrity during a down year for superhero films. That didn't stop them from nominating other potential Razzie nominees, such as Megalopolis, but the absence of a superhero movie category stands out.Madame Web didn't earn a nomination for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel (I guess it didn't qualify as a Rip-off, although what is Kraven the Hunter?), but six nominations including for Worst Picture makes up for it. On the other hand, Joker: Folie à Deux got a nomination in this category and six more!
I added even more likely Razzie nominees in Best and worst movies of 2024 from Beyond The Trailer, TIME, and WatchMojo.
Grace's bottom ten included Razzie nominees Joker: Folie a Deux, Madame Web, Kraven the Hunter, and Borderlands, a total of four. WatchMojo's worst list comprised nine Razzie nominees, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, Reagan, The Crow, Megalopolis, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Argylle, and Borderlands, in addition to Grace's worst two, Joker: Folie à Deux and Madame Web. Only Uglies failed to earn a Razzie nomination. WatchMojo wins!Top Ten Worst Movies of 2024 today! Beyond The Trailer host Grace Randolph gives a review of the WORST Movies of 2024 at the box office including a breakdown as to why each one made the cut! Find out where Joker 2, Borderlands, Kraven the Hunter, Gladiator 2, Madame Web, Lord of the Rings the War of the Rohirrim, Trap, Saturday Night and Civil War land on this list! And share your own worst movies of 2024 now that you've seen some full movies and not just the trailers!...Kraven the Hunter landing in ninth does not make me optimistic about superhero movies having their own category again at next year's Saturn Awards...Brace yourself for a cinematic trainwreck! We're counting down the most disappointing, cringe-worthy, and downright awful films that graced our screens in 2024. From big-budget flops to misguided adaptations, these movies left audiences wondering how they ever got the green light. Get ready to relive the year's biggest cinematic disasters! Our list includes the chaotic mess of "Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver," the sanitized biopic "Reagan," the derivative "Uglies," and the lifeless remake of "The Crow." We'll also dive into Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious failure "Megalopolis," the uninspired "Harold and the Purple Crayon," and the spy spoof gone wrong, "Argylle." Don't miss our top picks for the absolute worst of 2024! What do you think was the worst movie of 2024? Let us know in the comments.I mentioned Megalopolis as a potential Razzie nominee, and here it is, along with a bunch of other bad speculative fiction films, again including Joker: Folie à Deux and Madame Web. I think WatchMojo's list includes even more Razzie nominees than Grace's!
The one multi-Razzie nominee WatchMojo didn't call was Unfrosted, which might own the distinction of being the first movie with both an Emmy nomination and at least one Razzie nomination. This parody of movies like Tetris comes off as stupid and silly, but, first, complaining about those qualities in a comedy is like complaining about water being wet, and, second, the movie isn't as stupid as it seems. My wife and I both enjoyed it and (re)learned about Post's Country Squares (renamed Toast'em Pop Ups and sold off to the Schulze and Burch Biscuit Company), which lost out to Pop Tarts. It was a good night when we (re)learned something (sort of) new!
I close with an accurate list of Razzie-nominated movies and the number of their nominations.
Joker: Folie a Deux 7 nominations.
Borderlands: 6 nominations.
Madame Web: 6 nominations.
Megalopolis: 6 nominations.
Reagan: 6 nominations.
Unfrosted: 4 nominations.
Kraven the Hunter: 3 nominations.
Argylle: 2 nominations.
The Crow: 2 nominations.
One nomination each: Atlas, Dear Santa, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Mufasa: The Lion King, Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver, Shadow Land, and Strangers.
Like last year, if Gold Derby posts odds, I'll share them here. In the meantime, stay tuned to see if I start covering Oscar nominees next.
*I didn't blog about the 2020 Razzies — I found the idea of dragging Cats boring — and it looks like they paid attention to math and details in that year's press release. I did blog about the 2021 Razzies, but found no tabulation errors then, and I'm not going to look for them now.
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