Award Snub / Cinematic Excrement

Beginning in 2018, the Smeghead took it on himself to review every movie that won the Razzie Award for Worst Picture. He reviewed every "winning" film from 1980 until 2022 in chronological order. While he agreed with some Worst Picture wins, he thought others were entirely undeserved.

Disagreements

• The Lonely Lady (4th Razzies, for movies released in 1983): He thought this movie was terrible, as were 1983's other nominees (Hercules (1983), Jaws 3-D, Stroker Ace, and Two of a Kind (1983)), but thought that Yor: The Hunter from the Future, which wasn't even nominated, should have gotten the award. (He did enthusiastically recommend Yor, both in his Lonely Lady review and when he devoted a proper episode to it in 2024, for being So Bad, It's Good.)
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (6th Razzies, for movies released in 1985): He considered it to be just a big, dumb action movie and implied that Red Sonja, which wasn't even nominated, should have won instead.
• A tie between Howard the Duck and Under the Cherry Moon (7th Razzies, for movies released in 1986): He said Under the Cherry Moon should have won and a tie was unnecessary, since on top of being bad it was also boring, whereas Howard the Duck was just silly and stupid.
• Cocktail (9th Razzies, for movies released in 1988): He agreed it was bad, but found it to be only an ordinary sort of bad and said that except for Rambo III, one could at least make a case for any other 1988 nominees (Mac and Me, Hot to Trot and arguably Caddyshack II) being worse, as he does for all of them; he personally felt Hot to Trot was by far the worst. He thought Cocktail likely won because another Tom Cruise movie, Rain Man, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture that year, and officially won the same day Cocktail's Razzie was certified.
• A tie between The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It (11th Razzies, for movies released in 1990): Like with the first tie, he believed there shouldn't have been a tie, thinking Ghosts Can't Do It should've won because it was the worse film in nearly all fields, though he didn't disagree with Ford Fairlane's Worst Screenplay award.
• Hudson Hawk (12th Razzies, for movies released in 1991): He thought fellow Worst Picture nominee Cool as Ice should have won instead. He also criticized the acting nominations for Bruce Willis, Richard E. Grant, and Sandra Bernhard on the grounds that they were giving performances appropriate to what the script called for, though he did agree with Hudson Hawk's awards for Worst Director (for Michael Lehmann) and Worst Screenplay (for Willis, Robert Kraft, Daniel Waters, and Steven E. de Souza).
• Color of Night (15th Razzies, for movies released in 1994): He thought fellow Worst Picture nominee North should have won instead. Sean also notes that the most likely reason Color of Night won Worst Picture was that the version of the movie Razzie voters saw was the inferior theatrical cut approved by the film's producer, Andrew Vajna, over the head of its director, Richard Rush.
• Wild Wild West (20th Razzies, for movies released in 1999): Sean suggested that a movie which was not even nominated — in this case, Vince Offer's The Underground Comedy Movie — should have won instead, but he doesn't complain about its lack of nominations for any Razzies considering it had a very limited release (it played in one theater for one day). He also proposed other, wider releases that weren't nominated as winners, such as End of Days, Baby Geniuses, and Wing Commander (the latter's lack of nominations, in particular, baffled him, as it was a video game adaptation), though he emphasizes that he still thinks The Underground Comedy Movie was the worst. At the very least he agreed that Wild Wild West was 1999's least good Worst Picture nominee based on his opinions of its competitors: Big Daddy (mediocre), The Haunting (1999) ("crap, but wasn't a chore to sit through"), The Phantom Menace (although it had its problems, he "can't bring [him]self to hate it") and The Blair Witch Project (which he has always thought is a good movie). He also rebuked the Razzies for giving the Worst Original Song award to Will Smith's "Wild Wild West", the title tune from this movie, without even nominating any other songs.
• Swept Away (23rd Razzies, for movies released in 2002): He didn't think any of that year's nominees was all that Worst Picture-worthy, calling Swept Away and fellow nominees The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Crossroads (2002), and Pinocchio (2002) bad, but mostly forgettable, and while the last nominee, Attack of the Clones, did many things wrong, he couldn't bring himself to hate it, since it's still a Star Wars film. He instead cited some 2002 films that he thought were considerably worse but weren't nominated for Worst Picture: Eight Crazy Nights, Die Another Day, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, and The Master of Disguise (the first three of which were prior Cinematic Excrement subjects), before deciding that the award should have gone to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, which wasn't nominated for any awards at the Razzies despite its rare zero-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes (with Eight Crazy Nights coming a close second). He also noted that he disagreed with Madonna being named Worst Actress of the Century at the 20th Razzies, believing the award should have gone to Bo Derek, since he had seen Madonna give decent performances, something he could not say for Derek.
• Basic Instinct 2 (27th Razzies, for movies released in 2006): He strongly disliked this movie and felt that it was one of five truly awful Worst Picture nominees, alongside Little Man, The Wicker Man (2006), and prior subjects Lady in the Water and BloodRayne. He noted that the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards had picked BloodRayne as their last-ever choice for the worst film of its year in 2006 and found himself agreeing with the Stinkers' choice over the Razzies': both movies had terrible dialogue, acting, and sex scenes, but Sean felt BloodRayne was worse because it also had terrible wigs, editing, rampant Fight Scene Failure, and even Ben Kingsley giving a bad performance, which he had thought impossible. "As bad as Basic Instinct 2 is, it's not Uwe Boll-video game-adaptation-bad." Sean also noted, with a great deal of confusion, that while Boll had won a Worst Director Razzie,^note He won in 2008 for In the Name of the King, Postal, and Tunnel Rats. none of his films had ever won Worst Picture, and only two had ever even been nominated.^note Aside from BloodRayne, the other was 2008's In the Name of the King, which lost to The Love Guru.
• I Know Who Killed Me (28th Razzies, for movies released in 2007): As with the previous year, he thought all five of the nominees (the others being Bratz, Daddy Day Camp, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and Norbit) were terrible,^note Sean is especially baffled that both I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and Norbit feature "an SNL alum [Rob Schneider and Eddie Murphy respectively] doing a racist Asian caricature." and also cited Good Luck Chuck as a terrible movie from that year that was not nominated for Worst Picture. He didn't think I Know Who Killed Me was good, but he recommended it for its Narm-filled use of color and ridiculous story — and having a story that filled its run time was what made it less Worst Picture-worthy than his choice, Bratz. While Bratz starts with what he describes as "a very basic story" that is "perfectly serviceable for a simple teen comedy",^note And, as Sean notes, is ironically very similar to I Know Who Killed Me star Lindsay Lohan's previous film Mean Girls. said story gets resolved in the first half-hour, after which the movie ends up being "two-thirds padding." He also criticized the Razzies awarding Lindsay Lohan Worst Actress and Worst Screen Couple (in both cases jointly with herself), which he thought was more due to her personal troubles during production and the lunacy of the plot than to her actual performance, plus he strongly implied his disapproval for giving it Worst Remake or Rip-off due to the Razzies claiming it ripped off Hostel, Saw, and The Patty Duke Show ("Is there a Razzie for 'lamest joke at an awards show'?").
• The Love Guru (29th Razzies, for movies released in 2008): Again noted as a worthless movie (among other flaws, Sean only found one good joke in the alleged comedy, and only in the final scene to boot) chosen in yet another particularly rotten group of nominees. He didn't go into detail about any of the other nominees except for the one which he considers the worst: Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg's Disaster Movie (2008).^note The only others Smeghead even mentions are Seltzer and Friedberg's other 2008 film, Meet the Spartans, as both were nominated jointly, and The Happening, as he considers it the only Razzie nominee from that year that he thinks could work as an unintentional comedy. Absolutely no mention is made of the other two nominees, The Hottie and the Nottie and In the Name of the King. He gives The Love Guru minimal credit for at least having an actual plot, albeit a poor one, while Disaster Movie — which he said has an apposite title — is just a series of sketches with no plot (or proper jokes) at all.^note He singles out the fact that Disaster Movie included parodies of The Love Guru itself and of Enchanted, which was a parody of classic fairy tales, as proof of it being a Narrow Parody and a Redundant Parody, respectively. He was also displeased that Disaster Movie won zero Razzies despite six nominations. He began the episode by noting that he'd evolved a bit in his opinion of Twilight, which also came out in 2008 and was the subject of the very first episode of Cinematic Excrement in late 2009: while he had previously been baffled and appalled that it wasn't even nominated for any Razzies, he was no longer complaining about that after watching The Love Guru and Disaster Movie.
• Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (30th Razzies, for movies released in 2009): In early 2022, instead of comparing it to 2009's other Worst Picture nominees (All About Steve, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Land of the Lost, and Old Dogs), he did a retrospective on the broader Transformers Film Series as his "second look" at this movie (after having covered the first three in late 2011 and the fourth film, Age of Extinction, in early 2015). He said Revenge of the Fallen, the second live-action Transformers movie (and, to his surprise, the only Worst Picture winner in the franchise even though most of them were critically drubbed), was the second-worst. It was slightly worse than the third film, Dark of the Moon, but less bad than the fifth one, The Last Knight. Meanwhile, he thought Bumblebee, the sixth film made and (initially) a prequel to the others, was very good (mainly because it was "ET with giant robots" and Michael Bay chose not to direct it), the first Transformers was middling, and Age of Extinction was qualitatively somewhere between the first movie and the second, third, and fifth as a group — though he denounced Kelsey Grammer's Worst Supporting Actor win for that movie, saying he was by far the best part of it. In his Twilight retrospective a few months later in 2022, he ultimately said that Dragonball Evolution was the worst film of 2009 and was surprised it failed to get a single nomination.
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 (33rd Razzies, for movies released in 2012): He'd reviewed all five Twilight adaptations years before he took his year-by-year look at the Worst Picture Razzie winners, culminating with a review of this film in 2013. He revisited them in 2022, by which time he felt that That's My Boy was 2012's worst movie, with The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure being a close second.^note He thought Battleship was the least bad Worst Picture nominee of 2012 — the others being Oogieloves, That's My Boy, and A Thousand Words — but thought all five movies were quite bad. (He was also surprised that Last Ounce of Courage didn't even get any nominations.) His verdict was that while the Twilight franchise was not good, with issues like padding and wasting its cast, it was over-hated and not the worst film (or series) he had ever covered, nor even the worst movie he'd covered in its subgenre or even among adaptations of novels by Stephenie Meyer.^note He names the Fifty Shades movies, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and the adaptation of Meyer's The Host (2008) as being worse.
• Movie 43 (34th Razzies, for movies released in 2013): While he commended many of the actors in the movie for their efforts, its writing made it basically worthless — both in its constituent sketches' near-uniform failure to be even mildly amusing and in how dumb (both) its Framing Devices were.^note This was due to different framing stories being used to unite said sketches in its American and international releases; the American one was about a screenwriter pitching various script ideas to a producer, while the international one was about a group of teenagers looking for the titular film. He thought the one shown in non-American theaters at least made more logical sense than the other one. It stood out against fellow nominees After Earth, Grown Ups 2, and The Lone Ranger (2013) (he refused even to acknowledge A Madea Christmas as part of a Running Gag at the time, though he would review it at the very end of 2022). Despite this, he found a still worse movie: InAPPropriate Comedy, another unfunny sketch comedy from Vince Offer. It was even more cheaply made and somehow lazier than Movie 43, since it rehashed ideas from The Underground Comedy Movie (and, in the case of his collaborator Ari Shaffir's "The Amazing Racist" segment, 2004's Lost Reality). He wondered if either movie had consciously imitated the other given that both were in development during similar periods, but since both were awful, it was a moot point. He also called out the Razzies' laziness for giving InAPPropriate Comedy only one nomination: Worst Supporting Actress for Lindsay Lohan for playing herself.
• A tie between Fantastic Four (2015) (a.k.a. Fant4stic) and Fifty Shades of Grey (36th Razzies, for movies released in 2015): He first reviewed these films months apart in 2016, and it was another tie he thought shouldn't have happened even then. He didn't like either movie in the slightest, but he described Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie that consisted of two hours of nothing alternating with sleazy sex, which made Fant4stic slightly less bad by default (Sean ranked Fant4stic fourth and Fifty Shades first on his real-time list of the 2015 movies he most disliked). By the time he looked at them again in early 2023, however, he changed his mind: Fant4stic was worse because its director Josh Trank didn't seem to know what to do with the material and thus failed to please nearly everybody who saw the movie, while the makers of Fifty Shades knew what their target audience wanted and gave it to them.
• The Emoji Movie (38th Razzies, for movies released in 2017): This was the choice for Worst Picture that touched off the project. Although Sean didn't like that movie one bit, he thought fellow nominees Fifty Shades Darker (his least favorite movie of 2017 as of the end of that year) and Transformers: The Last Knight were much worse. Also, after he saw The Book of Henry and The Snowman (2017) in 2018, he thought those films deserved to be nominated more than The Emoji Movie and criticized the Razzies for omitting them. He thought The Emoji Movie only won Worst Picture because (1) it was an easy target and (2) the Razzies wanted to grab attention by giving Worst Picture to an animated movie. When he finally reviewed The Emoji Movie in 2023, he still thought it was awful but gave it the bare minimum of credit for having been finished before it was released. He also acknowledged that 2017's other Worst Picture nominees — Baywatch (2017), Fifty Shades Darker, The Mummy (2017), and The Last Knight — were also complete movies. Because The Snowman was not, he now thought it was the year's worst movie and reiterated his bafflement that it got no nominations in any category. He also said Tom Cruise did not deserve Worst Actor for The Mummy since his performance wasn't what sank that film. Nor did he understand the rationale for presenting a special award to Baywatch for being So Bad, It's Good (more precisely, "so rotten you [participating Rotten Tomatoes users] loved it"), or why CHiPs didn't meet the Razzies' eligibility criteria for Worst Picture (for which they gave it that year's "Barry L. Bumstead Award").
• Holmes & Watson (39th Razzies, for movies released in 2018): He didn't think many of the nominations in any category in 2018 made much sense, up to and including Worst Picture. He suggested that Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? was the worst film of the year overall. Still, Holmes & Watson was worthless in its own right and, in his option, the worst film that did get a Worst Picture nod that year. Only The Happytime Murders came within shouting distance of it qualitatively, but it was still less bad because it had enough plot to fill its running time.
• Absolute Proof (41st Razzies, for movies released in 2020 and early 2021): He thought this didn't deserve to win for two reasons. He thought it wasn't even a proper movie but "more a glorified conspiracy theory podcast that went a little off the rails". Also, even given how the COVID-19 Pandemic screwed up Hollywood's release schedule, he thought there were enough terrible movies released in 2020 itself to deserve nominations (the latter being why he also thought Artemis Fowl deserved a nomination more than Music (2021)). He thought 365 Days deserved Worst Picture because it was even more disgusting and incompetent than its inspiration, Fifty Shades of Grey, or Absolute Proof, without even any Bile Fascination or Narm to leaven the experience.
• Diana: The Musical (42nd Razzies, for movies released in the rest of 2021): As in the previous year, he felt this didn't deserve to win partly for not being a proper movie (as opposed to a filmed performance of a stage musical) and partly because, although it wasn't the best of the Worst Picture nominees (a title he gave to The Woman in the Window; he felt Thunder Force should have been nominated in its place for its poor execution of an intriguing premise), it wasn't the worst, either. As to the true worst film of 2021, he couldn't decide between Karen, which he said was the worst nominee of 2021 for being absurdly over the top despite trying to play its material straight, and Music, which he also criticised for its inept handling of sensitive topics but which was nominated the previous year even though many worthy candidates were released in 2020, as covered in the Absolute Proof video.

Agreements

• Can't Stop the Music (1st Razzies, for movies released in 1980): He disagreed with the film's acting nominations because of the material the actors were given, but agreed that it deserved Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay (for Allan Carr and Bronté Woodard).
• Mommie Dearest (2nd Razzies, for movies released in 1981): He agreed that it deserved to be nominated, but not for the reasons why it was nominated (the Razzies considered it an unintentional comedy, while Sean didn't like seeing a story of child abuse portrayed as a farce); however, he did disagree with the decision to name it Worst Picture of the Decade.
• Inchon (3rd Razzies, for movies released in 1982): Agreed with all four of the awards it won (in addition to Worst Picture, Robin Moore and Laird Koenig won Worst Screenplay, Laurence Olivier Worst Actor, and Terence Young Worst Director), although he did wonder why Ben Gazzara didn't win for Worst Supporting Actor or why the film wasn't even nominated for Worst Picture of the Decade over Mommie Dearest.
• Bolero (5th Razzies, for movies released in 1984): He doesn't even mention how it compares to the other films nominated that year (Cannonball Run II, Rhinestone, Sheena, and Where the Boys Are '84), but he says that he “can’t really argue” with it winning Worst Picture. He did however criticise the Razzies for giving that year’s Worst Supporting Actor award to “Brooke Shields with a moustache” (for Sahara (1983)).
• Leonard Part 6 (8th Razzies, for movies released in 1987): The only other nominee he felt one could make a case for being worse was Ishtar, though he firmly believed "Leonard was worse, and being worse than Ishtar is no small feat." He also agreed with Bill Cosby winning Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay (in the latter case, jointly with Jonathan Reynolds, though he attributed it all to Cosby) for Leonard.
• Shining Through (13th Razzies, for movies released in 1992): Didn't make a comparison with 1992's other nominees (The Bodyguard, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Final Analysis, and Newsies), but instead compared it with 2019's Jojo Rabbit, noting that while Jojo Rabbit was a sillier World War II film, it was an intentionally silly film. Nor did he dispute the other two Razzies Shining Through got, Worst Director for David Seltzer and Worst Actress for Melanie Griffith. He did disagree, however, with that year's ceremony awarding Worst Original Song to Alan Menken for "High Times, Hard Times" from Newsies and nominating Enya in the same category for "Book of Days" from Far and Away.
• Indecent Proposal (14th Razzies, for movies released in 1993): He agreed that it was the year's worst nominee, which included two erotic thrillers (Sliver and Body of Evidence) and two action films (Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero), noting that the first two each had only one main factor responsible for their bad quality (Sliver's ending and Madonna's bad performance in Body of Evidence), whereas Indecent Proposal had many, while Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero were simply mindless-but-fun action films without any flagrantly inept elements. Although Sean did question Woody Harrelson's Worst Supporting Actor win for Indecent Proposal, it was because he thought that Harrelson, not Robert Redford, who got a Worst Actor nomination for the same film, was the male lead (though his performance was terrible), so it was more akin to Award Category Fraud. He did, however, complain that Cop and a Half wasn't nominated for Worst Picture and expressed astonishment that it didn't kill the career of Burt Reynolds, who won Worst Actor for his performance in that movie.
• Showgirls (16th Razzies, for movies released in 1995): Declared it a fair winner as "one of the best bad movies of all time" while also agreeing with the wins for Worst Director for Paul Verhoeven, Worst Screenplay for Joe Eszterhas, and Worst Actress for Elizabeth Berkley. While he didn't compare it with fellow Worst Picture nominees Congo, It's Pat!, The Scarlet Letter (1995), or Waterworld, or say anything on the other Razzies it "won" (Worst New Star for Berkley, Worst Screen Couple for "any combination of two people (or two body parts)", and Worst Original Song for "Walk into the Wind" by David A. Stewart and Terry Hall), he did have a problem with U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from Batman Forever being nominated for Worst Original Song.
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (19th Razzies, for movies released in 1998): He said this film was "worse than Showgirls" (quoting from the movie itself) and easily the worst of 1998's Worst Picture nominees, no easy win against the other nominees; Armageddon (1998), Godzilla (1998), and The Avengers (1998) were all "crappy", while he described Spice World as "whatever the hell that was". He also made a point of noting his agreement with Burn Hollywood Burn's win for Joe Eszterhas' "I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz" as Worst Original Song, a Razzie category he frequently criticized. His only disagreement with any of its nominations was with Ryan O'Neal's Worst Actor nomination, saying that his performance was decent.
• Battlefield Earth (21st Razzies, for movies released in 2000): He first reviewed it in early 2014, at which point it was the oldest Worst Picture winner he had covered, and he revisited it almost exactly seven years later in 2021. He considers 2000 to be an unusually fruitful year for bad cinema, up to and including Battlefield Earth and the other nominees (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Little Nicky, and The Next Best Thing). To that end he proposes not only an alternate Worst Picture winner, Dungeons & Dragons (2000) (which managed not to score a single Razzie nomination that year despite being terrible in every way^note He compared the Razzies unfavorably with the now-defunct Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, which gave Dungeons & Dragons eight nominations but no awards, most of which it lost to Battlefield Earth. He thought D&D's overall acting, with Thora Birch, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Payne, and Marlon Wayans each delivering a distinctive kind of terrible performance in their major roles, was even worse than that in Battlefield Earth.) but more nominees too, such as Big Momma's House, Mission: Impossible II and Ready to Rumble. However, he felt that Battlefield Earth was indeed the worst of the lot compared to the other nominees (he didn't see The Next Best Thing because it was hard to find, but considering it's a Madonna film, he didn't think it would be that good, while he thought the other three were bad, if less so than Battlefield Earth), describing it as incompetently made and laughable. His only complaint out of the film's seven awards won (he agrees that Roger Christian deserved Worst Director, that Corey Mandell and J.D. Shapiro deserved Worst Screenplay, and accepts John Travolta winning Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple — in the latter case, alongside "anyone sharing the screen with him" — and Barry Pepper winning Worst Supporting Actor) is the late Kelly Preston winning Worst Supporting Actress for an extended cameo in which "she was fine."
• Freddy Got Fingered (22nd Razzies, for movies released in 2001): He called this one of the worst movies he had ever seen and firmly believes it was the worst of its year (and added it was particularly frustrating after liking what Tom Green did for MTV), such that he made only fleeting, albeit unfavorable, mentions of two of the other nominees (Pearl Harbor and Glitter) and no mention of the other two (Driven and 3000 Miles to Graceland), while he expressed disbelief that Corky Romano followed in Dungeons & Dragons' footsteps by being terrible in many ways and still scoring zero Razzie nominations.
• Gigli (24th Razzies, for movies released in 2003): While he technically considers Gigli to be 2003's second-worst film, the one movie he thought was worse (the So Bad, It's Good anti-classic The Room (2003), and that by a wide margin) had such a limited release in its initial run^note It played in two theaters in Los Angeles for two weeks in a vain attempt on the part of Tommy Wiseau to qualify it for the Academy Awards. that he doubts that the Razzie nomination committee had even heard of it at the time, much like most other people; with that in mind, he fully agreed with Gigli winning Worst Picture. Considering that he also strongly panned 2003's other Worst Picture nominees (The Cat in the Hat, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, From Justin to Kelly, and The Real Cancún), he did not agree with the Golden Raspberry Foundation lightly in picking Gigli. However, he disagreed with Christopher Walken's and Al Pacino's nominations for Worst Supporting Actor, claiming that their cameos (especially Pacino's) were the only good parts of the movie.
• Catwoman (2004) (25th Razzies, for movies released in 2004): This was the fifth overall film and first Worst Picture winner Sean reviewed, in early 2010. At the time he said it deserved all four of its wins, the others being Worst Actress for Halle Berry, Worst Director for Jean-Christophe "Pitof" Comar, and Worst Screenplay for Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers. He revisited Catwoman (calling it "CINO", for "Catwoman In Name Only") in mid-2021, and he maintained that it deserved Worst Picture of 2004, though with the caveat that he couldn't bring himself to watch fellow nominee Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. Even so, he doubted he was missing much. He compared Catwoman unfavorably to other 2004 duds, like Alexander, White Chicks (also Worst Picture nominees), Christmas with the Kranks, Home on the Range (also prior Cinematic Excrement subjects), and Surviving Christmas (which was in both categories). He rebuked the Razzies for giving their other acting awards to George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Britney Spears for playing themselves in Fahrenheit 9/11, however. He said this revealed their shallowness as they totally abandoned their motive of mocking bad movies just for the sake of a Take That! at the Bush administration (even though he agreed with it) and Bush, Rumsfeld, and Spears (the last of whom was not even a member of the administration) weren't acting and didn't appear in any of Michael Moore's original footage for that movie.
• Dirty Love (26th Razzies, for movies released in 2005): Sean thought there were two nominees of comparable quality: Son of the Mask (in his opinion the second-worst film of 2005, and the most Razzie-nominated movie of the year, though it won only Worst Remake or Sequel) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (which won Rob Schneider the award for Worst Actor and was the subject of one of his favorite of the late Roger Ebert's reviews). He also seriously considered an earlier Cinematic Excrement subject, Alone in the Dark (2005) (which he'd reviewed for Halloween in 2013 and for which Uwe Boll was nominated for Worst Director, making him wonder why it was passed over for Worst Picture; he'd personally have dropped The Dukes of Hazzard as a nominee in favor of Alone in the Dark). However, he ultimately agreed with the Razzies, saying he felt as if Dirty Love "actively hated me and wanted me to suffer" by being annoying, lazy, disgusting, and unfunny, and even acknowledged that targeting a non-mainstream film,^note It only played in 44 theaters, and Sean had to buy a used DVD because it was unavailable anywhere else. even if made by prominent easy target Jenny McCarthy (who personally won Worst Actress and Screenplay and whose then-husband John Mallory Asher won Worst Director), was a refreshing change of pace for the Razzies. His only complaint was that Carmen Electra's "wigger" character deserved Worst Supporting Actress more than Paris Hilton in House of Wax (2005).
• The Last Airbender (31st Razzies, for movies released in 2010): He first reviewed this movie near the end of 2010, before the ceremony. At the time he revisited it in 2022, he fully agreed with the Razzies that this was 2010's worst film. He actually thanked M. Night Shyamalan for having made the film, in Sincerity Mode no less, because it got him into Avatar: The Last Airbender (he watched the show just before he first reviewed the movie to get background knowledge and enjoyed it immensely in its own right), but the movie itself was only watchable with the RiffTrax Alternate DVD Commentary. As for the year's other Worst Picture nominees, he thought they were all far less bad. He thought The Bounty Hunter was just mediocre and hinted that he'd leave his final comments on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse for a later video, as Breaking Dawn Part 2 was 2012's Worst Picture winner.^note He found it mediocre compared to the "insanity" of predecessor New Moon, while also noting both were fairly uneventful and could have been compressed into one film with no narrative loss. The other two were, in his view, laugh-free and racist comedies; he thought if the Razzies had created a one-time category for "most racist movie of the year", Sex and the City 2 would have won in a landslide, and he gave Vampires Suck the concession of being a step up from the usual Seltzer–Friedberg fare because it was a proper parody of its source material rather than a random hodgepodge of pop culture references like their previous films. All that said, The Last Airbender remained the deserving winner.
• Jack and Jill (32nd Razzies, for movies released in 2011): Years before Sean even started his project, he reviewed Jack and Jill in early 2012 and said it deserved the Worst Picture trophy for 2011. As much as he disliked fellow nominees New Year's Eve, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, the only nominee that he thought was close to as bad as Jack and Jill was Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star. He thought this choice was appropriate because both were laugh-free comedies produced by Happy Madison with bad premises and inept execution. He disliked Jack and Jill more because it was annoying and grating, while Bucky Larson was merely stupid. In his revisit as part of his Razzie marathon, almost exactly ten years later in 2022, he reaffirmed his belief that Jack and Jill deserved Worst Picture. He did, however, criticize the Razzies' decision to give it every award for the year solely for the sake of doing so, citing the Worst Supporting Actor award for Al Pacino as being suspect (as were all the nominations in that category) and calling the Worst Prequel, Remake, Ripoff, or Sequel award "straight-up bullshit" as the only thing it shared with Glen or Glenda, the movie that the Razzies claimed it was a remake of, was that their respective lead actors, Adam Sandler and Ed Wood, played major roles in drag. Having run out of new observations about the movie itself for his second look after less than ten minutes, he filled out his video with a look at the Dunkaccino meme.
• Saving Christmas (35th Razzies, for movies released in 2014): He first covered this film in mid-2016 and he revisited it in late 2022. Both times, he said it was terribly written, acted, and produced, shot through with Insane Troll Logic, and in general, mostly worth watching for the Bile Fascination it offered regarding both its own poor quality and what Kirk Cameron's religious beliefs may have done to his psyche. In his second look, he said Saving Christmas was very much 2014's worst film because as bad as the year's other Worst Picture nominees (Left Behind (2014), The Legend of Hercules, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and Transformers: Age of Extinction) were, they had all been made with more effort.
• Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (37th Razzies, for movies released in 2016): He first covered this movie in early 2017, not long after it was awarded Worst Picture, and when he revisited it almost exactly six years later in 2023, he agreed that it deserved Worst Picture without hesitation or reservations. He didn't even mention any of the other nominees (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Dirty Grandpa, Gods of Egypt, Independence Day: Resurgence, and Zoolander 2). Indeed, he had few complaints about the 37th Razzies, though he still didn't understand why the Foundation nominated six movies in every category that year instead of five.^note In their press release, the Razzies said that 2016's slate made them want to spread out to recognize more nominees, just like the Oscars expanded Best Picture to have as many as ten movies. He also had almost nothing new to say about Hillary's America, so he filled out his second look with a review of director Dinesh D'Souza's next movie, 2018's Death of a Nation; Sean called this "a mistake". Death of a Nation exemplified everything wrong with D'Souza's movies, being cheaply and ineptly made and riddled with logical fallacies and contradictions, which made it more a bad bore than anything. He also questioned giving the special "Barry L. Bumstead Award (for a movie that cost a lot and lost a lot)" to Misconduct, which was made for only $11 million, a modest budget by Hollywood's standards. At the beginning of 2017, he had also reviewed the 2016 animated film Norm of the North, calling it an absolute mess where nothing worked, and was baffled that the Razzies did not give it a single nomination even with the number of nominees being increased. He ascribed that to the Golden Raspberry voters collectively either making a point of forgetting it or finally losing their minds.
• Cats (40th Razzies, for movies released in 2019): At the beginning of 2020, when Sean put out his list of his least favorite movies of 2019, he put Cats in the top (or, rather, bottom) spot. He began his eventual review in 2023 by reaffirming his opinion that it was the worst film of 2019, which was no mean feat against terrible nominees The Fanatic, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, A Madea Family Funeral, and Rambo: Last Blood. (He did question, however, why Wonder Park was not nominated in any category, given its production issues and lack of credited director.) As bad as Cats was, he enthusiastically recommended it as a compellingly awful train wreck.
• Blonde (43rd Razzies, for movies released in 2022): His review came out in December 2023, making it the last film to be discussed as part of the Razzie marathon. He also thought fellow nominees Good Mourning, The King's Daughter, Morbius, and Pinocchio (2022, Disney) had very little to recommend them, but he still thought Blonde was 2022's worst movie because it was pretentious, exploitative, dramatically lightweight, and did a disservice to the life of Marilyn Monroe. However, he criticized the Razzies for nominating Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress for Firestarter (2022) (a nomination they retracted after heavy backlash and awarded to themselves instead) and giving Worst Supporting Actor to Tom Hanks for Elvis (2022) (his accent sounded nothing like Colonel Tom Parker, but that was all that was really wrong with his performance).

Neither

• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (10th Razzies, for movies released in 1989): He found all five nominees (the others being The Karate Kid Part III, Lock Up, Road House (1989), and Speed Zone) to be about equally bad, although he figures that The Final Frontier might have had the edge as the biggest disappointment, as it came off the back of the previous three Star Trek films being successful. However, he thought William Shatner probably did not deserve to win Worst Director for Final Frontier, since he failed by being too ambitious on his first outing as director, and giving him Worst Actor made a bit more sense but still seemed an easy potshot. He also disagreed with the Worst Original Song nominees: The Ramones' "Pet Sematary" for Pet Sematary, Kool Moe Dee's "Let's Go", and (eventual winner) Bruce Dickinson's "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter", the latter two for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child ("These people wouldn't know good music if it jumped up and bit them in the face!").
• Striptease (17th Razzies, for movies released in 1996): As with The Final Frontier, he found all five nominees (the others being Barb Wire, Ed, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), and The Stupids) to be about equally bad (and only Dr. Moreau was all that interesting, mainly due to the story of its Troubled Production). Again, however, he disagreed with the Worst Original Song winner, Light Crust Doughboys' "Pussy Pussy Pussy"; he agrees that it's a terrible song, but questions its inclusion since it was already 50 years old at the time, and proposes that Tommy Lee's "Welcome to Planet Boom" for Barb Wire should have won instead, describing it as "what a poor man's Rob Zombie sounds like."
• The Postman (18th Razzies, for movies released in 1997): Sean didn't compare The Postman with 1997's other nominees (Anaconda, Batman & Robin, Fire Down Below, and Speed 2: Cruise Control — though he had torn Batman & Robin a new one in a 2016 episode, a couple of years before looking at the Worst Picture winners year by year), but he didn't make explicit whether he agreed or disagreed with most of the awards it "won" (except Worst Original Song, see below — the others were Worst Director and Actor, both for Kevin Costner, though he did extensively criticize Costner's direction and performance, and Worst Screenplay for Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland). He did emphasize that he disliked the movie, even stating that despite some newfound relevance some people found in it due to being eerily prophetic for American politics in 2020, it was still silly enough to warrant his mockery. Despite this, he disagreed again with the Worst Original Song choice, saying that The Postman winning this award for its entire score was "incredibly lazy" and citing the same year's nomination of Trisha Yearwood's cover of LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live" for Con Air as another example of such ("I hate country music with the fire of a thousand suns and even I know that's bullshit").

---