Movies I liked that got RAZZed

How about Danny DeVito in Batman Returns, said to be one of his greatest performances, and he got Razzie nominated...

I agree on both counts.

Yes, and one of those people is Faye Dunaway herself. It is too bad that she cannot have some sense of humor about it by this time and accept the fact that people love this movie because of its kookiness and absurdity. Given the premise, how could it NOT have turned out to be campy? Ultimately, her success as a performing artist in Mommie Dearest is not to be denied; Dunaway is simply astounding in the role. She achieves what few actors have been able to do when portraying a famous person; she truly makes you believe she is Joan Crawford. My rating is based on the fact that Mommie Dearest is, as Joan herself might have put it, one hell of an entertaining movie. As a reviewer in The New York Times put it: on its own terms, fierce and compelling.   

Originally posted by moorlock2003 Response from Head RAZZberry: I was also one of those giving MOMMIE 5 Stars on Amazon -- But I'm fairly sure I wasn't the only one giving it that rating as a "Camp Classic."  It's beyond me how anyone can sit through this movie without bursting out laughing at the make-up, wigs, costumes, dialogue and mile-a-minute melodrama. Almost every aspect of MOMMIE is deliciously, deliriously over-the-top. While we should all appreciate a good laugh wherever and whenever we can get one these days, I'm afraid some people still take this movie WAY too seriously...

I thought Tripplehorn was extremely miscast and gave a lazy annoying performance.

Just Google "Theodore Cleaver"...It becomes clear.

I have another question about the 1992 awards-

I have not seen Hoffa or Man Trouble, but I can't imagine Jack Nicholson giving a Razzie worthy performance. Plus, I think he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his Hoffa performance. So...how did he get a Razzie nomination?

Response from Head RAZZberry: If you've never seen MAN TROUBLE, consider yourself lucky. It's got an astoundingly high 25% Approval Rating at RT, considering it is one of the most lifeless, disjointed and nearly-unwatchable movies of the 1990s. And one of its biggest problems is Nicholson's performance -- The man simply cannot do screwball comedy to save his life. In addition to being listed for MAN TROUBLE on that year's RAZZIE Nominating Ballot, Nicholson also got write-in votes for HOFFA -- and enough of them that it seemed appropriate to add it to his nomination. As a film, I found HOFFA to be an overblown, lumbering mess without an ending (since to this day no one really knows what did happen to Jimmy Hoffa). I think it speaks to the mediocrity of Jack's work in HOFFA that he managed to "win" neither our Worst Actor statuette nor the Golden Glob award for Best Actor... 

And while we're on the subject of the Golden Globs, most people are not aware that they were widely regarded as an industry in-joke until about 10 years ago. The voting body for the Globs is actually less than 95 people, most of whom claim to be show business journalists (but many of whom are actually cab drivers, restaurant owners and otherwise run-of-the-mill folks) who've ridden Dick Clark's clever exploitation of their awards to a degree of respectability they really don't merit. If you do the math, in a field of five nominees, it is statistically possible to win a Golden Globe by getting as few as 20 votes -- How can that be construed as important? They also have a long and ill-lustrious history of nominating high-profile performers they hope will show up and draw media attention to their ceremonies -- Given that it got no other major award nominations, Nicholson's Best Actor Glob nod for HOFFA looks to me like a possible example of that trend...

I always had a soft spot for Howard the Duck.  True, the plot rambles and everyone goes well over the top, especially with the myriad gratuitous duck jokes, but that, I think, adds to its charm.  Jeffrey Jones is an unintended scream when he's possessed (although it's tempered a little nowadays that we know he's been possessed by worse internal demons than shown here).  Maybe Lucas shouldn't be as embarassed by Howard as he seems to be...     

Pacino and Walken for Gigli, they were only in it for a minute, and those few minutes were the best in that movie (Although that admittedly isn't saying much)

I also consider Nothing But Trouble to be deeply under-appreciated by many.  Again, there's not much of a script to work with, but the cast makes the best of it, and tries to get as much out of it as they can. And they don't always fail at squeezing something out of nothing ("Ah, so that's where they buried Flipper."  "FLIPPER'S DEAD!?").  Aykroyd's Judge Valkenheiser is a pretty interesting and original character--if a little shallow--while John Candy in drag is easily better than most jokes they cook up today (and really, do we really want to put down one of Hollywood's rare compassionate persons that much? Especially since they often duped him into doing bad scripts, then rewrote them for the worse after he signed on, without giving him any input?).  There's still a kernel of a unique idea underneath the slow parts, and a few bizarre scenes that manage to shine through.