RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Features
  • | Columns
  • | Guides
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
News
Razzies Name 2008's Worst Movie Nominees
Did your (least) favorites make the cut?
by Jen Yamato | January 21, 2009
Discuss Article

No awards season would be complete without the Golden Raspberry Awards (AKA The Razzies), awarded each year to the very worst movies to hit Hollywood. This year's winners will be announced on Oscar weekend; could multiple-nominee The Love Guru take home top honors? See the full list of nominees below.

This year, a few standout films and filmmakers nabbed multiple nominations, making for really good odds come February 21, when the Golden Raspberry winners will be announced. Leading the pack is Disaster Movie (2 percent on the Tomatometer), which managed to earn six nominations; The Hottie & the Nottie (5 percent), up for honors in five categories; and Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which also earned the Teutonic Terror a Worst Career Achievement Razzie.

The complete list of nominees:

Worst Picture Nominations

Disaster Movie & Meet the Spartans (double nominee from the same writer-directors)

The Happening

The Hottie & The Nottie

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

The Love Guru

Worst Actor Nominations

Larry the Cable Guy, Witless Protection

Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

Mike Myers, The Love Guru

Al Pacino, 88 Minutes & Righteous Kill

Mark Wahlberg, The Happening & Max Payne

Worst Actress Nominations

Jessica Alba, The Eye & The Love Guru

The cast of The Women (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Meg Ryan)

Cameron Diaz, What Happens in Vegas

Paris Hilton, The Hottie & The Nottie

Kate Hudson, Fool's Gold & My Best Friend's Girl

Worst Supporting Actor Nominations

Uwe Boll (as himself), Uwe Boll's Postal

Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!

Ben Kingsley, The Love Guru & War, Inc. & The Wackness

Burt Reynolds, Deal & In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Verne Troyer, The Love Guru & Uwe Boll's Postal

Worst Supporting Actress Nominations

Carmen Electra, Disaster Movie & Meet the Spartans

Paris Hilton, Repo! The Genetic Opera

Kim Kardashian, Disaster Movie

Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection

Leelee Sobieski, 88 Minutes & In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Worst Screen Couple Nominations

Uwe Boll and any Actor, Camera, or Screenplay

Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas

Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, The Hottie and the Nottie

Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection

Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel Nominations

The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good

Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Speed Racer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Worst Director Nominations

Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and Uwe Boll's Postal

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Tom Putnam, The Hottie & the Nottie

Marco Schnabel, The Love Guru

M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening

Worst Screenplay Nominations

Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

The Happening

The Hottie and the Nottie

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

The Love Guru

Worst Career Achievement

Uwe Boll


Related Items
Movie: The Clone Wars
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Meet the Spartans
My Best Friend's Girl
The Eye
The Women
Righteous Kill
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
War, Inc.
88 Minutes
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Postal
Mamma Mia!
The Hottie & the Nottie
Speed Racer
Deal
Meet Dave
Tunnel Rats
What Happens in Vegas
The Wackness
The Love Guru
The Happening
Witless Protection
Fool's Gold
Max Payne
Celeb: Uwe Boll
Cameron Diaz
Kim Kardashian
Marco Schnabel
Carmen Electra
Jenny McCarthy
Leelee Sobieski
Mark Wahlberg
Mike Myers
Burt Reynolds
Al Pacino
Eddie Murphy
Ben Kingsley
M. Night Shyamalan
Jessica Alba
Kate Hudson
Joel Moore
Paris Hilton
Larry the Cable Guy
Tom Putnam
Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg
Christine Lakin
Ashton Kutcher
Verne Troyer
Pierce Brosnan
Bookmark and Share
Comments (1-20 of 70 posts) | Reply
jrod1978
jrod1978 writes:
on Jan 21 2009 10:26 AM

Gotta love the Razzies. I wish that they were televised. Anyone else?

(Reply to this)
AniMill
AniMill writes:
on Jan 21 2009 10:27 AM

"The Love Guru" (because it was supposed to be bad) or "The Happening" (because it was supposed to be good)

(Reply to this)
jokerboy1991
jokerboy1991 writes:
on Jan 21 2009 10:28 AM

Man, its starting to not even be funny when people make fun of Indiana Jones. Should it really be in the same category as Disaster Movie and The Happening?!?!?!

(Reply to this)
laidtowaste
laidtowaste writes:
on Jan 21 2009 10:34 AM

I love that Hollywood is celebrating the end of these people's careers. Survival of the fittest, Uwe.

(Reply to this)
CalvinandHobbes23
CalvinandHobbes23 writes:
on Jan 21 2009 10:40 AM

ya i know, it was a bit of a dissapointment, but it wasn't that bad

(Reply to this)
coolio d.
coolio d. writes:
on Jan 21 2009 10:49 AM

ben kingsley for the love guru I agree with but I liked him in the wackness

(Reply to this)
blattman
blattman writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:04 AM

I did like Repo, but Paris earns her spot for it. She truly sucks as an actress. Go figure.

(Reply to this)
SplendidIsolation
SplendidIsolation writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:07 AM

Ben Kingsley getting Razzie noms for War Inc. and Wackness is wrong.

(Reply to this)
Hari Seldon
Hari Seldon writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:15 AM

They have to nominate undeserving movies like Indiana Jones each year simply for the how dare they controversy created by doing so. If not, who would even notice the Razzies?

(Reply to this)
sugarflowlistical77
sugarflowlistical77 writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:16 AM

Yeah, the Wackness was a good movie, for which Ben Kingsley's performance was almost uniformally praised. That's the only thing that I don't like about the razzies, if an actor has a bad year, the razzies will **** on everything they were in that year.
Anyway, in 2008, in my opinion Ben Kingsley was 2 for 2. Love Guru and War Inc. were losses. But Transsiberian and the Wackness were excellent films! He had a better year than Pacino.


(Reply to this)
nathanpoitras
nathanpoitras writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:19 AM

Great list, I wish this was televised! I'm sure if Kingsley or Wahlberg don't win this time, they'll get many more chances in the coming years.

(Reply to this)
Kokushi
Kokushi writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:22 AM

Indy 4 was ok with HORRIBLE cgi but clone wars and the happening level, no way.

(Reply to this)
Kokushi
Kokushi writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:23 AM

And Ben Kingsley was great in The Wackness

(Reply to this)
vashfanatic
vashfanatic writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:53 AM

Indiana Jones 4 wasn't a bad movie (I enjoyed it, though no where near as much as 1 and 3), but somebody needs to send a message to George Lucas to stop making unnecessary sequels and prequels just to get a quick buck.

On a similar note, Star Wars: Clone Wars should have gotten a nomination for "ugliest computer animation ever."


(Reply to this)
dalonoman
dalonoman writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:54 AM

Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull is the worst movie of the year to me- I had to scoop out my brain, wash it in soap then sew it back in after watching that. Awful what they did to poor Indie! Awful!

(Reply to this)
Shatter24
Shatter24 writes:
on Jan 21 2009 11:55 AM

Kind of rough on Indy weren't they? I agree that maybe just trying to shock people with the nomination (while it was somewhat disappointing it wasn't one of the five worst). Also, I kind of liked "The Happenning", though I know the concept was pretty far out there. Maybe it was a "its so bad its good" feeling, but I enjoyed the B movie thriller aspect of it (comparable to '50s sci fi). As a director, Shymalan has a great eye for putting scenes together and creating great visuals. He just has to take a break from writing his own stuff for awhile.

(Reply to this)
Dunk
Dunk writes:
on Jan 21 2009 12:06 PM

While I like the concept of the razzies and many of the nominations make sense, they do go a little overboard when they want to dump on someone in particular. Ben Kingsley for the Wackness? Insane. I also would have to say that Paris Hilton was perfectly acceptable in Repo (she was basically playing herself). Sure, she is a horrible actress and I'm sure deserved the nom for Hottie/Nottie (of course, I didn't see it), but not for Repo.

(Reply to this)
swivelhipsmcgee
swivelhipsmcgee writes:
on Jan 21 2009 12:07 PM

yes Indy Jones should be here in fact it should win the razzie because it is one thing to deface a paint by numbers piece of crap. but lighting the mona lisa on fire is a much more serious crime. I mean aliens in indy jones are you ****tting me, seriously some one needs to send spielberg and lucus to a mental hospital because they have lost their minds. Next movie ET2 where ET attacks the white house and tries to take over the world they could put shia leboef and will smith in it as jet pilots trying to save the world from evil ET and his evil army of children on flying bicycles.

(Reply to this)
Goatmeal
Goatmeal writes:
on Jan 21 2009 12:18 PM

The Razzies are a complete joke for the most part. I stopped paying attention to them long ago. They practically compile a list panned films with A actors just to turn heads and draw attention. With the exception of the Uwe Boll, Disaster Movie/MTS' and Happening nominations, practically most of the other films are out of place. The fact that the Razzies believe that films (or the acting found in) such as KotCS, Speed Racer, Righteous Kill and Max Payne are more deserving of a nomination than films like; Saw V, Babylon A.D., The Spirit, 10,000 B.C., Punisher: War Zone etc., is proof that the nominations are a farce.

(Reply to this)
Scorpio82
Scorpio82 writes:
on Jan 21 2009 12:26 PM

No kidding. They're only ganging up on the movies that got media attention. Anybody who sticks Indiana Jones and Speed Racer in with Disaster Movie is just being an a-hole.

(Reply to this)
Read More Comments
Page | 1 2 3 4
Post Your Comment
You must be registered to post comments. Login or Register.

Related Links

Disaster Movie
  • Pictures
  • Posters
  • News
  • Forum

Related Articles

  • Razzies Name 2008's Worst Movie Nominees (70)
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Coen Brothers Ring in a New Weekend at the Box Office (21)
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Worst Box Office in 5 Years (39)
  • UK Critics Consensus: Rocknrolla Rocks, Disaster Movie = Movie Disaster (0)
  • RT's Summer in Review: The Best, The Worst, and Our Favorite Films! (79)
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Tropic Thunder Triumphantly closes Summer (35)
  • Box Office Guru Preview: Vin Diesel Leads Final Charge of Summer (25)
  • Total Recall: History of the Spoof Movie, Part One (42)
  • Lionsgate Blitzes Fourth-Quarter Box Office Opens in new window (2)

Most Discussed

  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Avatar, Sherlock, and Alvin Team Up To Break Records (327)
  • RT's Best of the Decade! (177)
  • RT Editors Choose Their Favorite Films of 2009! (101)
  • Critics Choose Must-Sees and Worsts of 2009 (42)
  • Weekly Ketchup: Peter Jackson's Secret Sci-Fi Project (37)
  • Critics Consensus: Sherlock Holmes Is Worth Investigating (34)
  • RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: 9 and Paranormal Activity (28)
  • Total Recall: New Year's Eve Movies (12)
  • Friday Harvest: Sherlock Holmes, Toy Story 3, and more! (10)
  • What We're Watching on Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox! (0)

Latest News

  • Total Recall: New Year's Eve Movies (14)
  • Critics Choose Must-Sees and Worsts of 2009 (42)
  • RT Editors Choose Their Favorite Films of 2009! (101)
  • What We're Watching on Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox! (0)
  • RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: 9 and Paranormal Activity (28)
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Avatar, Sherlock, and Alvin Team Up To Break Records (327)
  • Weekly Ketchup: Peter Jackson's Secret Sci-Fi Project (37)
  • Friday Harvest: Sherlock Holmes, Toy Story 3, and more! (10)
  • Critics Consensus: Sherlock Holmes Is Worth Investigating (34)
  • RT's Best of the Decade! (177)

Latest Interviews

  • Five Favorite Films With Peter Jackson (72)
  • Robert Downey Jr. talks Sherlock Holmes & Iron Man 2 - RT Interview (21)
  • Director Ruben Fleischer Talks Zombieland (2)
  • "I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist (17)
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview (12)
  • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary (24)
  • James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview (8)
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview (16)
  • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus (24)
  • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview (9)

Latest Features

  • RT's Best of the Decade! (177)
  • Five Favorite Films With Peter Jackson (72)
  • The Effects of Where the Wild Things Are (34)
  • The Gimmicks That Changed Cinema: Part 2 (7)
  • The Gimmicks That Changed Cinema: Part 1 (37)
  • Five Favorite Films With Avatar's Sam Worthington (60)
  • Exclusive: The World of Where the Wild Things Are (10)
  • Sundance 2010: RT's 10 Most Anticipated Movies (43)
  • 10 Horrifically Profitable Films (46)
  • Ban Them All! 10 Infamously Controversial Movies (107)

Sponsored Links

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo
About Us | Advertise | Contact Us | Press | Careers
IGN | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | Direct2Drive | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Game Sites | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | GIGA.DE | What They Play | Battlefield Heroes
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. | Support | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! RSS Feeds
IGN’s enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA.
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.