*That this is adapted from a board game. One could argue that in December 2000, a film called Dungeons & Dragons was released. D&D has no ties to Milton-Bradley, Parker Bros., Pressman, or Hasbro that I know of, and is more specifically considered a tabletop game, which was a forerunner of board games. My point is that even though Battleship is a board game adaptation, there were still films that people hated more this past year, and relatively few people would consider Battleship the worst wide release of the year. It is my understanding that those who don't like Battleship outnumber those who do by a paltry 2 to 1, which is bad enough for 2 or 3 RAZZIE nods, but not enough to earn Worst Picture beyond much doubt.

*That this had roughly the same graphic style as the Transformers trilogy, but with little or no involvement from Michael Bay. I can see why most people around here wouldn't like Transformers at all, but most commoners didn't mind Transformers 1, so I don't get the passion against the Transformers franchise that outweighs those films, franchises, and figureheads that the common people (particularly young men, whom Hollywood targeted with the Transformers series) hate far worse, such as Eddie Murphy's recent films, The Devil Inside, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the Street Fighter and Dragonball films, Alvin & the Chipmunks, The Smurfs, and Amanda Sayfried as Riding Hood.

 

*That Rihanna sang such songs as "Pon de Replay", "SOS", "If it's Lovin' that You Want", and "Unfaithful" back in 2005 and 2006. Those are the only four Rihanna songs that I can name, and they're all from way early in her career. In circa 2009, she (and IIRC Beyonce Knowles) took up Autotune or some similar program, and their voices lost all distinction they had before. What could possibly be more unsavory about her that I wouldn't know because I pay so little attention to the music industry? My intuition says there's GOT to be a bigger reason for RAZZing her for Worst Supporting Actress than her feature film debut or her music-to-cinema crossover.

*That director Peter Berg had nothing this bad on his resume before last May, which means he isn't as bad a director as Brian Robbins or William Brent Bell...yet.

 

To sum it up, why can't A Thousand Words, The Devil Inside or That's My Boy beat Battleship for Worst Picture if more people in the commonplace loathed those?