Russell Crowe among worst actor nominations for Razzies

“In 2023, the whole lot went pink … however fortunately there was nonetheless lotsa stink”

Organisers of the forty fourth Razzies (Golden Raspberry Awards) – held unceremoniously the night time earlier than the Academy Awards on March 10 – have introduced nominations for the worst movies, actors and actresses who graced our screens final 12 months … and there’s no surprises for the highest 5 in every class.

With no awkward backdowns or embarrassing shocks by voters this 12 months – suppose Bruce Willis’s worst actor nomination after being identified with dementia, or nominating 12-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong – 1179 film buffs, movie critics and journalists from 49 US states and two dozen international nations have regrouped and expertly narrowed the sphere.

And a few would possibly say, nailed the very worst in cinema.

Within the worst actor class, Russell Crowe in The Pope’s Exorcist is up in opposition to Vin Diesel’s efficiency in Quick X, Chris Evans in Ghosted, Jason Statham in Meg 2: The Trench and lastly Jon Voight in Mercy.

All are movies worthy of watching free of charge on long-haul worldwide flights.

Receiving a lot hype within the lead-up to its premiere, Crowe’s portrayal of Father Gabriel Amorth left critics and reviewers giving it blended blessings with only a 50 per cent approval score.

” … [it’s] nonetheless laborious to fathom how an actor who gained one Oscar (for Gladiator) and will have simply gained two extra (for A Stunning Thoughts and The Insider) ended up right here,” wrote Rolling Stone after the “chintzy, by-product” and low-budget movie was launched in April.

Crowe spent weeks filming in Rome, frequently gave us teasers by way of his social media using a Vespa in priestly robes by cobbled streets, and ultimately delivered a whisky-guzzling priest with a doubtful Italo-English accent making an attempt to exorcise Devil’s demons from an unsuspecting household.

To be honest, Selection reckoned Crowe saved the movie, which was directed by Australian “style stylist” Julius Avery.

“Because the movie’s model of Father Amorth … the slumming Oscar champ props up proceedings with simply the precise steadiness of gruff, paternalistic credibility and wry, self-mocking irony,” it opined.

As for movies, the unnamed Razzie workforce stated that after a 12 months of double strikes, “lingerings of a worldwide plague and a basic sense of common agoraphobia”, “the decline of the cinematic expertise goes with out saying”.

They made particular point out of Barbie and Oppenheimer for saving cinema, as each movies have already gained a number of awards at this season’s Golden Globes, Critics Selection Awards and Primetime Emmys and introduced in enormous box-office receipts for studios.

“A doll pic and a bomb film jump-started The Trade … [and] left a path of Pooh behind for the Razzies to select up”.

‘Motion stinks, wasted solid’

Starring Sylvester Stallone, Statham, Megan Fox, Fifty Cent and Dolph Lundgren, the fourth installment within the Expendables franchise, Expend4bles, acquired a whopping seven nominations.

Tied for second place with 5 nominations have been The Exorcist: Believer and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, about serial-killing bears.

Two big-budget superhero motion pictures, DC’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, each landed 4 nominations and the Meg sequel landed three.

Of Expend4bles, there have been numerous excuses as to why it flopped.

“… [it was] one other installment of a franchise that’s fading sooner than Razzie ‘winner’ Donald Trump’s psychological acuity,” wrote the Razzies.

Lundgren was surprisingly candid in explaining the sequel’s lack of success.

“The venture had points from the start. It actually didn’t have script … Stallone wasn’t concerned, like he often is [with the writing]. He simply performed a personality in it, and when he’s in cost, the standard goes to be fairly good,” he advised Display screen Rant.

” … the director was changed, like, a month earlier than taking pictures … the image opened throughout the strike, which wasn’t very intelligent, in order that they couldn’t do any publicity.”

Followers on social media agreed there was one thing lacking.

“Expend4bles simply lacks any of the appeal from the primary two motion pictures. The motion stinks, the modifying was uneven as hell, flat route, a narrative that’s been-there-done-that, wasted solid, and a number of the worst CGI from 2023 subsequent to The Flash.

“Significantly, I don’t advocate it,” he wrote.

The remaining train-wreck movies embody The Exorcist: Believer, “a fifty-years-later remake/rip-off that was horrifying in unintended methods”, Meg 2: The Trench, Shazam! Fury of the Gods – “considered one of 2023’s a number of comic-book motion pictures failing to avoid wasting the superhero style”

Serial killer flick Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey rounds out the class.

Do the celebs flip as much as obtain their awards?

Largely, no.

A day after receiving the Golden Raspberry for worst actress in All About Steve in 2010, US actor Sandra Bullock was awarded the Oscar for finest actress for The Blind Aspect.

With good humour, she accepted the award on stage.

In the course of the Los Angeles ceremony, she shocked Razzie attendees by displaying as much as accumulate her award with an entourage carrying “Group Bullock” T-shirts.

She additionally had a trolley filled with All About Steve DVDs.

“You promise to look at the film and actually think about whether or not it was actually and really the worst efficiency,” Bullock joked throughout her acceptance speech.

“In case you are prepared to look at it, I’ll come again subsequent 12 months and provides again the Razzie.”

In 2005, Oscar winner Halle Berry turned as much as accumulate the Worst Actress raspberry for her efficiency in Catwoman.

“I need to thank Warner Brothers, for placing me in a chunk of s—, god-awful film … it was simply what my profession wanted. I used to be on the high, after which Catwoman simply plummeted me to the underside.”

She advised Harper’s Bazaar in 2021 she ultimately set her Golden Raspberry Award “on hearth”.

Is Crowe prone to flip up?

He’s been selling his Indoor Backyard Celebration gigs on the Gold Coast and is filming a documentary, Final Breath, whereas his native movie, Sleeping Canines, is in post-production.

He additionally has 4 movies in pre-production – American Son, Nuremberg, Beast in Me and Rothko.

Is likely to be too busy.

–TND

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