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    Posted: February 27 2010 at 8:09am
Each Oscar season, it seems everyone's favorite activity is listing past Oscar decisions that they most disagreed with - why not do the same for their opposites? What are some past Razzie winners who you don't think should have won?

For me, the worst (or is that best in this case?) Worst Picture winner was Rambo: First Blood Part II. I'm certainly not saying that it was a good movie, but it's better than any of the other winners, and in a field of nominees that included Revolution and Fever Pitch there's no way that it should have taken the prize that year.

The worst winner overall for me was probably Heather Donahue in 1999. This was when the backlash against The Blair Witch Project was in full swing, so in context I guess I can understand why the film got the nominations it did - a lot of advance hype and very good critical reviews may lead to viewers expecting too much and being underwhelmed by the movie when they finally see it. I thought that the film was good (perhaps because I didn't see it until a few years after it had come out, by which time both the hype and the anti-hype had faded), and that the three people in it were especially good. Look at the other four nominees in the Worst Actress category that year - do you really still think that any one of them was less deserving?

Anyway, which past Razzie decisions would you take back if you could?
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Originally posted by DistinguishedFlyer


For me, the worst (or is that best in this case?) Worst Picture winner was Rambo: First Blood Part II. I'm certainly not saying that it was a good movie, but it's better than any of the other winners, and in a field of nominees that included Revolution and Fever Pitch there's no way that it should have taken the prize that year.
When compared to "Rambo 1" (which was a serious movie about tormented 'Nam Vets) "Rambo 2" is like a live action cartoon. Rambo, who once didn't kill anyone in the first movie, is now killing everyone in his line of vision. Rambo, who once never spoke until the end of the first movie, is now saying one-liners left and right. So I think the reason why it won Worst Picture is because it's viewed as the ultimate example of how sequels ruin good movies because they took something serious and turned it into a dumbed down, money making machine.
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
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