Madame Net is the worst movie of the 12 months.
No less than that was the choose for that doubtful honor by the Razzie Awards, the longest-running bad-movie different to the Oscars. Yearly the members of the Razzies (which is actually anybody who desires to pay to be a member) votes on their picks for the worst movies of the 12 months. And this 12 months the consensus alternative for the dregs of cinema was the disastrous Spider-Man spinoff starring Dakoja Johnson as a clairvoyant EMT employee.
Johnson herself received the Razzies’ Worst Actress prize, and the movie additionally received the Worst Screenplay award.
The opposite large Razzie winners of the 12 months (we’re utilizing that time period loosely right here, in fact) included Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, which was given the awards for Worst Actor (for Seinfeld himself) and Worst Supporting Actress (for Amy Schumer), and the infamous Joker: Folie à Deux, which obtained the awards for Worst Sequel and for Worst Onscreen Couple for stars Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga.
With only a few historic exceptions, the winners of the Razzies usually steer clear of the ceremony and ignore the awards completely. However certainly one of this 12 months’s winners determined to embrace his prize.
That’s Francis Ford Coppola, who received the Worst Director Razzie for his Megalopolis, a pricey (however extraordinarily formidable) sci-fi flop that Coppola financed himself with thousands and thousands of {dollars} from his private fortune after many years of makes an attempt to mount the movie by means of extra conventional financing.
“I’m thrilled to simply accept the Razzie award” wrote Coppola on his Instagram account. “On this wreck of a world right this moment, the place ART is given scores as if it have been skilled wrestling, I selected to NOT observe the gutless guidelines laid down by an trade so petrified of threat that regardless of the large pool of younger expertise at its disposal, could not create photos that shall be related and alive 50 years from now. What an honor to face alongside an excellent and courages filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself utterly to make certainly one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME!”
“Allow us to remind ourselves,” Coppola added, “that box-office is just about cash, and like struggle, stupidity, and politics has no true place in our future.”
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Playtime by no means received a Razzie (the awards weren’t even created till 1981) however nonetheless I love Coppola’s defiant spirit, identical to I admired that very same spirit in Megalopolis, even when the film itself was sometimes incomprehensible and sometimes weird. In different phrases: A simple goal for the Razzies however not one of many really unhealthy movies of 2024. (Madame Net, however, was actually and really horrible.)
Right here’s the complete record of winners from this 12 months’s Razzies:
Worst Image
Borderlands
Joker: Folie a Deux
Madame Net – WINNER
Megalopolis
Reagan
Worst Actor
Jack Black, Pricey Santa
Zachary Levi, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker: Folie a Deux
Dennis Quaid, Reagan
Jerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted – WINNER
Dakota Johnson – LA Premiere – Madame Net – 2024 – Sony Footage – Getty
Worst Actress
Cate Blanchett, Borderlands
Woman Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux
Bryce Dallas Howard, Argylle
Dakota Johnson, Madame Net – WINNER
Jennifer Lopez, Atlas
Worst Supporting Actor
Jack Black, Borderlands
Kevin Hart, Borderlands
Shia LaBeouf, Megalopolis
Tahar Rahim, Madame Net
Jon Voight, Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers – WINNER
Worst Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose, Argylle and Kraven the Hunter
Leslie Anne Down, Reagan
Emma Roberts, Madame Net
Amy Schumer, Unfrosted – WINNER
FKA twigs, The Crow
Worst Director
S.J. Clarkson, Madame Net
Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis – WINNER
Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie a Deux
Eli Roth, Borderlands
Jerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted
Worst Onscreen Combo
Any Two Obnoxious Characters (However Particularly Jack Black), Borderlands
Any Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors,” Unfrosted
The Total Solid of Megalopolis
Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux – WINNER
Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller, Reagan
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
The Crow
Joker: Folie a Deux – WINNER
Kraven the Hunter
Mufasa: The Lion King
Insurgent Moon: Half 2 — The Scargiver
Worst Screenplay
Joker: Folie a Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Madame Net – WINNER
Megalopolis
Reagan
Good Films That Received Razzie Awards
The Razzies are purported to be awards for the worst in cinema. So why did they offer awards to those titles?!?
