2018 marks the 38th time little golden statues have been awarded to films of a certain competence... and no, I'm not talking about the Oscars—I'm referring to the Razzies! The awards, which consist of gold spray-painted raspberries atop reels of film and boast a cost of $4.97 each, are given out to the best of the worst in cinema.
The runaway stinker this year was The Emoji Movie, taking home four golden Razzies. As someone who may or may not have paid actual money to take his son to see this movie, I feel I should be given an award as well, or at least my money back : /
And this year's Razzie nominees and winners (shown in gold)... er, I mean, losers, are...
WORST PICTURE
The Emoji Movie
WORST ACTOR
Jamie Dornan for Fifty Shades Darker
Mark Wahlberg for Daddy's Home 2 and Transformers: The Last Knight
Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Zac Efron for Baywatch
WORST ACTRESS
Tyler Perry for Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
Katherine Heigl for Unforgettable
Emma Watson for The Circle
Jennifer Lawrence for Mother!
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Russell Crowe for The Mummy
Josh Duhamel for Transformers: The Last Knight
Mel Gibson for Daddy's Home 2
Anthony Hopkins for Collide and Transformers: The Last Knight
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sofia Boutella for The Mummy
Laura Haddock for Transformers: The Last Knight
Goldie Hawn for Snatched
Susan Sarandon in A Bad Moms Christmas
WORST REMAKE or SEQUEL
Transformers: The Last Knight
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
WORST DIRECTOR
Michael Bay for Transformers: The Last Knight
James Foley for Fifty Shades Darker
Alex Kurtzman for The Mummy
Anthony Leondis for The Emoji Movie
WORST SCREENPLAY
The Emoji Movie
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Transformers: The Last Knight
WORST SCREEN COMBO
Any Combination of Two Humans, Two Robots, or Two Explosions from Transformers: The Last Knight
Any Two Obnoxious Emojis from The Emoji Movie
Johnny Depp and His Worn Out Drunk Routine from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Tyler Perry and Either the Ratty Old Dress or Worn Out Wig from Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
And last but not least, in the "So Rotten You Loved It" category this year (conducted by a poll with help from movie review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes), Baywatch took home the trophy and even had one of it's stars step up and accept the award...
It’s the #Oscars and Hollywood’s biggest night!
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) March 4, 2018
So let me go ahead and take this “L” right on the chin for Baywatch.
Win some, lose some.. but hey, that’s the way love goes. @RazzieAwards #Baywatch💩🥪 #AndTheWinnerLosesOn pic.twitter.com/2ICyzfVHSV
Here's video of the entire list of winning losers:
Have you seen any of these films? What did you think, are they really that bad? Whether you dare to check out any of the Razzied films above, Oscar winners, Criterion Collection movies, the newest blockbusters, or stream selections from our Digital Media Portal, you can find it all by browsing through our online catalog!
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