Posted on 02/26/2017 5:09:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It's Academy Awards time which means Hollywood will get dressed up in its most revealing, sexually provocative dresses and least appropriate formal attire to wallow in narcissistic glory for at least three hours (usually much longer).
Of far more interest to the average moviegoer is not the Best Picture or Best Actor awards, but The Razzies -- the annual list of the worst of the worst Hollywood movies.
This year, politics is featured -- as you might expect. Even The Razzies are liberal. But it's still fun to see just how bad some of the biggest Hollywood celebrities can blow it when given the money and the deficient script to make god-awful entertainment.
The voters went political this year, with "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" winning worst picture.
It faced superhero-tough competition for the year's worst film with "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
"It all came down to two decidedly different examples of cinematic sludge: The $250 million comic book oop-us 'Batman v Superman' and the faux right wing 'documentary' 'Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party,'" a statement from the Razzies read.
Both films received four Razzie Award trophies, traditionally announced the day before the Academy Awards.
Besides worst picture, "Hillary's America" also won worst actor and director for Dinesh D'Souza (who played himself), worst actress for the unnamed person who played Clinton and worst director.
D'Souza was a good sport about it and appeared in the video announcement of the winners.
"Batman v Superman" took home trophies for worst screenplay, worst supporting actor for Jesse Eisenberg, worst remake rip-off or sequel, and worst screen combo for stars Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill.
"Zoolander 2" received one award for worst supporting actress for Kristen Wiig.
Some of the nominees that didn't "win" were interesting. Independence Day: Resurgence was nominated even though I found it very enjoyable, if not as entertaining as the original (certainly not one of the worst films of the year). ID2 was nominated for worst screenplay, worst director, and worst remake.
Also nominated but failing to win was the interminable, boring Gods of Egypt. Usually, I'm a sucker for these historical dramas from antiquity (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra). But I just couldn't get interested in the confusing story and dull, dull, dull overacting.
It was also nice to see the sexually titillating 50 Shades of Black get nominated in the "Worst Sequel" category. I'm no prude, not by a long shot. But congratulations should go out to everyone who worked on this film. They actually succeeded in making sex boring.
Given how putrid and horrifically bad 99.9% of the garbage that Hollywood produces is the razzies are just a redundancy of the Oscars. Basically interchangeable titles.
Batman vs. Superman wasn’t a remake or a sequel. I suppose accuracy isn’t really this groups main focus considering who “won” worst film.
The full name of the category is Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip-off
Batman vs. Superman is both a sequel to Man of Steel (2013) and a rip-off of Superman IV (1987) (same scenes, except Lex Luthor creates Doomsday instead of Nuclear Man in this one). Its predecessor, Man of Steel, was also a thinly veiled remake of Superman II (1980).
Hollywood lazily recycles the same stuff over and over and should rightfully be called out for it.
And not a single refutation od D’Souza’s information?
It was not a sequel to man of steel. The sequel to man of sTeel is still forcoming. It is not a rip off of superman IV, those are different super villains. Although doomsday originally wasn’t created by lex luther, that doesn’t make it either a sequel or a rip-off. The movie in queston certainly had never been done before.
To be fair all super man origin stories could be considered “rip-offs”.
That's funny, when the film was announced, fans of Man of Steel gloated about how the movie was now "getting a sequel that will introduce Batman" and how that "proved" Man of Steel was a success. They even argued it was clearly a DIRECT sequel because the opening scene of Batman vs. Superman recaps the climatic fight from Man of Steel and picks up where the previous film ended. Take it up with them.
>> It is not a rip off of superman IV, those are different super villains. <<
By that logic, Nosferatu was not a ripoff of Dracula, because even though they copy the same plot, they change the name of the character to "Court Orlok" and set the movie in German instead of the UK.
The reality is BvS copied numerous scenes/plot points from Superman IV, recycling what Hollywood had already done 30 years ago:
SUPERMAN IV: A major theme of the movie is the United States and the Soviet Union may engage in nuclear war, which Lex Luthor tries to exploit to his advantage
BS: A major theme of the movie is that the United States may engage in a conflict with the Russians, thanks to Lex Luthor trying to exploit Russian weapon-trafficker Anatoli Knyazev
SUPERMAN IV: A big highlight of the movie is Superman saving a Russian spacecraft
BS: A big highlight of the movie is Superman saving a Russian spacecraft
SUPERMAN IV: Superman appears at the UN in a wannabe "epic, inspirational scene" where he lays down the law and challenges others to do better
BS: Superman appears at the Senate in a wannabe "epic, inspirational scene" where he lays down the law and challenges others to do better
SUPERMAN IV: At the Daily Planet, Clark Kent is conflicted about how much Superman should intervene. Superman goes into self-imposed exile.
BS: At the Daily Planet, Clark Kent is frustrated by his failure to save people. Superman goes into self-imposed exile.
SUPERMAN IV: The "bad guy", yet AGAIN, is Lex Luthor, which the studio spins as "fresh and new" because they claim he does something "different" in this movie besides have a real estate scam
BS: The "bad guy", yet AGAIN, is Lex Luthor, which the studio spins as "fresh and new" because they claim he does something "different" in this movie besides have a real estate scam
SUPERMAN IV: Lex Luthor is reduced to being filler backstory material for the new "Lenny Luthor", an evil annoying whiny eccentric Lex's nephew character who taunts Superman
BS: Lex Luthor is reduced to being filler backstory material for the new "Lex Jr.", an evil annoying whiny eccentric Lex's son character who taunts Superman
SUPERMAN IV: Lois Lane indicates a desire to quit The Daily Planet and seizes Superman's recovered cape for herself.
BS: Lois Lane moves in with Clark Kent and seizes a recovered kryptonite-tipped spear for herself.
SUPERMAN IV: Lex steals kryptonian DNA and combines it with his own traits to create evil unstoppable superpowered monster Nuclear Man
BS: Lex steals kryptonian DNA and combines it with his own traits to create evil unstoppable superpowered monster Doomsday
SUPERMAN IV: The unstoppable Lex created monster proves to be difficult for Superman to fight because it can absorb and redirect energy.
BS: The unstoppable Lex created monster proves to be difficult for Superman to fight because it can absorb and redirect energy.
SUPERMAN IV: Superman becomes deathly ill after being scratched by the evil monster's radioactive kryponite-powered claws
BS: Superman becomes deathly ill after being stabbed by the evil monster's radioactive kryponite-powered bones
SUPERMAN IV: Superman seemingly 'dies' after a big brutal battle with Lex made monster... OR does he?!
BS: Superman seemingly 'dies' after a big brutal battle with Lex made monster... OR does he?!
SUPERMAN IV: Lex is arrested and sent to prison in the end, but remains defiant and gloats about how his evil plan humilated Superman.
BS: Lex is arrested and sent to prison in the end, but remains defiant and gloats about how his evil plan humilated Superman.
>> To be fair all super man origin stories could be considered “rip-offs”. <<
There are 70 years worth of stories in the source material, and they had dozens of scenarios they could have done that involved Superman's origin on Krypton but didn't involve plots we've seen before. Hollywood choose to steal the plots from Superman II for Man of Steel and the plots from Superman IV for Batman vs. Superman because they are lazy hacks, period. There is zero excuse and this movie rightfully deserves to be bashed for its sloppy filmmaking.
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