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The 2011 Razzie Awards: It's Sad When Even the Razzies Sell Out

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (20)

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Like the Golden Globes’ annual nominations for the undeserving but popular (Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Burlesque in 2010), the Razzies have become less about celebrating the absolute worst that cinema has to offer and more about awarding the worst-of awards to whomever might be the biggest gossip fodder of any given year. There were a lot of seriously bad films and performances in 2010, and the winners below are certainly among them. But they’re not the absolute worst. But, then, who pays attention to Skyline? And Kristen Bell (When in Rome) just doesn’t have the gossip-blog driven power of Jessica Alba. So, instead of awarding the truly worst of the worst, the Razzies simply pile on the Sex and the City bandwagon of hate. It’s become like the MTV Movie Awards: Recognizing the most popular instead of the worst.

Here are your losers.

Worst Picture Winner 2010
The Last Airbender

Worst Actor Winner 2010
Ashton Kutcher (Killers and Valentine’s Day)

Worst Actress Winner 2010
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City 2)

Worst Supporting Actor Winner 2010
Jackson Rathbone (The Last Airbender and Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Worst Supporting Actress Winner 2010
Jessica Alba (The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and Valentine’s Day)

Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D
The Last Airbender

Worst Screen Couple / Worst Screen Ensemble Winner 2010
Sex and the City 2 Cast

Worst Director Winner 2010
M. Night Shyamalan (The Last Airbender)

Worst Screenplay Winner 2010
The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan)

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Sex and the City 2









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Comments

I don't know, The Last Airbender and Sex and the City certainly deserved all of their wins for sure.

Posted by: Adam C at February 27, 2011 10:41 AM

Did you see The Last Airbender? It was truly the worst film I saw in the theater this year. NO DEBATE.

Posted by: coveredinbees at February 27, 2011 11:03 AM

Please do not besmirch Kristen Bell. We need her to keep working to that she can continue her true calling, which is appearing on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Posted by: Confucius Jackson at February 27, 2011 11:23 AM

So did Sandra Bullock show up to give her Razzie back and buy everybody a drink like she said she would?

-Ralphie

Posted by: Ralphie at February 27, 2011 11:50 AM

I thought the point was to humiliate popular stars by throwing their terrible choices in their faces. The people who made Skyline won't care--they've suffered enough humiliation. But let's take the starletards down a peg or two.

I'm all for that.

Posted by: figgy at February 27, 2011 11:51 AM

All I heard from anyone who saw it was how poor and horrible Last Airbender was -- how the characters were lame and how you couldn't see the film.

I'd say it's a well-earned victory.

Posted by: Fredo at February 27, 2011 12:39 PM

Burlesque. Is there not some sort of fine in place for uttering the name of that celluloid atrocity?

Posted by: peanut at February 27, 2011 1:17 PM

I cannot even disagree with any Razzie The Last Airbender won. I mean, it was a horrible, horrible movie that just barely even included a general theme and characters from its source material (and never mind that Firebenders couldn't make their own fire... oh damn, my dork is showing again.)

Posted by: Kelly O at February 27, 2011 1:47 PM

@Confucius Jackson:

Given the number of times over the last thirty years that Sandra Bernhard appeared on Letterman when she didn't have projects to shill, I think Kristen Bell can manage with even less, somehow.

Posted by: Jerry at February 27, 2011 2:44 PM

The problem now is that actors actually come to pick up their Razzies in person, pretending to be in on the joke. Back when Tom Green picked up his award for Freddy Got Fingered it was a pretty subversive act (and maybe the last bit of good comedy he'll ever do). Then Halle Berry picked up her Catwoman award and, even then, you had to kind of admire her for being a good sport. But now the jig is up, and you know this time around that at least two of the SATC cast will be at the ceremony, and it won't nearly be as much fun.

The Razzies are pretty close to being co-opted at this point -- time to find a new way to give bad Hollywood careerists the finger, I'm afraid.

Posted by: spoobnooble at February 27, 2011 5:57 PM

Why does Hollywood keep giving movie money to M Night Shamalamalyn? The Sixth Sense was a fluke.
Very bad film maker.

Posted by: jan at February 27, 2011 6:01 PM

I'm not seeing how they went wrong here.

*shrugs*

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at February 27, 2011 7:04 PM

The Last Air Bender was difficult to get through even with Rifftrax.

Posted by: Diablo at February 27, 2011 8:04 PM

I disagree with your assessment Dustin. We don't need to recognize the absolute worst of the worst, that could be some indie that nobody saw for example. No, the Razzies are doing what's right: calling bullshit on movies that should not be popular, but are.

Posted by: Zeff at February 27, 2011 8:21 PM

I can't believe the kid who looked pretty and 15 in Airbender is Jasper from Twilight.

Posted by: Razorburn at February 27, 2011 9:50 PM

I cannot agree more with The Last Airbender being the here. It was such a disappointment!!! I hope M. Night Shyamalan is not thinking of a sequel... http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Facepalm.png

Posted by: Cynthia at February 27, 2011 11:49 PM

While Airbender was an awful movie, I don't feel that it deserved the razzie for Eye-gouging use of 3-D. I watched the movie in 3-D and did not even notice any 3-D being used. How can a movie with no real 3-D win this award?

Posted by: David at February 28, 2011 12:55 AM

The Last Airbender was the worst movie anyone saw. It's not a debate. Therefore though what you say might be true, questioning the qualifications of this year's winners as proof wasn't your best move.

Posted by: ed newman at February 28, 2011 10:55 AM

Say what you will about Sex and the City 2 (and I'll say a lot too, since I was forced to see it in the theater), but the acting was not terrible. It was boring and predictable, but serviceable. And I will say it again, Sex and the City 2 was better than Sex and the City, if only because there were no diarrhea jokes.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at February 28, 2011 6:10 PM

Not that I plan to see it, but why was The Last Airbender so bad? WTF is an Airbender? Was it bad because it had no plot, or bad 3D or what? Is this from a comic book or something?

Posted by: scorzi at March 1, 2011 4:24 PM