Few enough surprises in the 2012 Razzie nominations, except perhaps if you don't consider Adam Sandler to be perhaps the most toxic cultural force in American society today. All good people feel that way, though, and you are certainly a good person since you read Screened, you're in our boat. Sandler managed to "win" the game of nominations this year, with 11, more than double the previous record for most nominations in a single year, previously held by Eddie Murphy with five.
None of the rest of the nominations are particularly surprising, and it's nice to see that someone else is not quite on the Ken Jeong bandwagon that's so hip nowadays. Any of the rest of the categories below surprise you? Anyone going to stand up to defend the honor of Nic Cage?
Worst Picture
- Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
- Jack & Jill
- New Year's Eve
- Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I
Worst Actor:
- Russell Brand, Arthur
- Nicolas Cage, Drive Angry 3-D, Season Of The Witch, and Trespass
- Taylor Lautner, Abduction and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
- Adam Sandler, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
- Nick Swardson, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Worst Actress:
- Martin Lawrence (As 'Momma'), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
- Sarah Palin (As 'Herself'), Sarah Palin: The Undefeated
- Sarah Jessica Parker, I Don’t Know How She Does It and New Year’s Eve
- Adam Sandler (As 'Jill'), Jack & Jill
- Kristen Stewart, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Supporting Actress:
- Katie Holmes, Jack & Jill
- Brandon T. Jackson (As “Charmaine”), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
- Nicole Kidman, Just Go With It
- David Spade (As “Monica”), Jack & Jill
- The Underwear Model (Aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Worst Supporting Actor:
- Patrick Dempsey, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- James Franco, Your Highness
- Ken Jeong, Big Momma’s #3, Hangover Part 2, Transformers #3 and Zookeeper
- Al Pacino (As 'Al Pacino'), Jack & Jill
- Nick Swardson, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
Worst Screen Ensemble:
- The Entire Cast of Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
- The Entire Cast of Jack & Jill
- The Entire Cast of New Year’s Eve
- The Entire Cast of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- The Entire Cast of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Director:
- Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- Tom Brady, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
- Bill Condon, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
- Dennis Dugan, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
- Garry Marshall, New Year’s Eve
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
- Arthur
- Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star (Rip-Off of Boogie Nights and A Star Is Born)
- The Hangover Part 2 (Both a sequel and a remake!)
- Jack & Jill (Remake/Rip-Off of Ed Woods’ Glen or Glenda)
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Screen Couple:
- Nicolas Cage & Anyone Sharing the Screen with Him in Any of His Three 2011 Movies
- Shia Lebeouf & The Underwear Model (Aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), Transformers #3
- Adam Sandler & EITHER Jennifer Aniston OR Brooklyn Decker, Just Go With It
- Adam Sandler & EITHER Katies Holmes, Al Pacino OR Adam Sandler, Jack & Jill
- Kristen Stewart & EITHER Taylor Lautner OR Robert Pattinson, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Screenplay:
- Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star, Written by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert and Nick Swardson
- Jack & Jill, Screenplay by Steve Koren & Adam Sandler, Story by Ben Zook
- New Year’s Eve, Written by Katherine Fugate
- Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Written by Ehren Kruger
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I, Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, from the novel by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight and Jack & Jill richly deserve this.
Well deserved.
That list is full of some great jokes, props to the writers or Rorie if he added them. Listing Rosie Huntington-Whitley as simply "The Underwear Model" and having Adam Sandler be nominated that many times made me laugh.
It deserves all of those "awards" and even more. I wasn't aware that being a documentary means you're an actor but if it means giving a razzie to Sarah Palin, I'm all for it. At first I thought the director of Bucky Larson was the Patriots QB Tom Brady. I could understand some of Nic Cage's films getting noms for worst picture but never could I imagine being nominated for Worst Actor because he's pretty much always great even in the worst of films. Also Bill Condon's name should have the letter "M" at the end instead of "N.
I feel like there were worse movies than Transformers last year that probably could have fit "Worst movie" better.
@Hadoken101: I don't know, Transformers was pretty darn dire.
@WinterSnowblind: Agreed, but stuff like The Smurfs, Shark Night 3D, and The Zookeeper came out last year and that's some pretty stiff competition in the utter trash category.
The worst actress category is pretty spot on.
Adam Sandler has the distinction of earning all these nominations and laughing his ass off all the way to the bank.
Excelsior!
Twilight and Transformers are bad movies but they are far from being the worst of the year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't an episode of South Park predict Jack and Jill like five years ago?
I can think of a variety of films worse than Transformers (not that I think highly of Transformers). The Change Up really dodged a bullet.
@Bumbuliuz said:
@FinalDasa said:
Everything else that follows is just repeating these guys.
I feel that there are worst movies than Transformers to give razzies to.
I feel bad for Transformers 3, Twilight and most of these other films. When you have shit as vile as Jack & Jill, Bucky Larson and Big Momma's 3, this might as well have been renamed "Adam Sandler VS Nick Swardson VS Martin Lawrence" this year. I never thought I'd feel bad for Twilight, but at least it was competently made. Unlike these three - though I'm sure it deserved the nominations in the acting categories. But again, even Kristen Stewart and company probably don't deserve to be lumped together with Nick Swardson.
Seriously, Transformers was pretty awesome. I'm getting real sick of people bashing it. The second one was genuinely terrible, but the first and third are great, fun movies with killer VFX and animation.
@spilledmilkfactory said:
I think that was from the episode "You're Getting Old", which aired last summer.
I love how there's two actors nominated for Worst Actress and 1 actor nominated for Worst Supporting Actress.
Doesn't matter. His movies make money. I doubt he'd care what a bunch of jack-ass think.
@Floppypants:
The change up was never up for any nominations.