Oscars season is upon us!
Which means so is Razzie Awards season, for better or worse (it’s worse).
The thing is, a lot of movies are nominated for Razzies that are actually great.
Dubious Oscar favorites likeCrashandGreen Bookdidn’t pick up any Razzies, but many better films have.
Here are 20 actually good movies that earned Golden Raspberriesenough to program a pretty great film festival.
The nomination (and prize) for lead actress Heather Donahue is a bit more insidious though.
It was a shockingly vulnerable and un-polished moment…that everyone decided was a bit much.
And Shelley Duvall’s performance definitely didn’t deserve to be roasted.
Duvall plays the film’s only recognizably human character surrounded by dark forces and psychic powers.
I’m not buying it.
It just feels like a bunch of people pointing and shouting “gaaaay!”
Make it make sense.
Betsy Palmer, a Worst Supporting Actress nominee, is delightfully vicious as house-mother-turned-serial-killer Pamela Voorhees.
It’s certainly one of that year’s most interesting movies, and a bona fide neo-noir classic.
It made such an impression that it is now getting a much higher budget forthcoming remake with Jake Gyllenhaal.
It might not be high art, but it’s definitely high camp, which is just as good.
And I guarantee I’m not alone.
So they were bad, but only in that they made a lot of money?
middle-aged gay men) frequently able to quote the movie verbatim.
It’s a goofy, spry, screwball comedy with ’30s style, and Madonna is clearly having fun.
She even received a Worst Actress nomination forTruth or Dare…a documentary.
Same with the movie’s score, which received a Razzie nomination butwonthe Oscar.
I don’t see what the problem was.
Where to stream:Max, Tubi, The Criterion Channel
Stop!
But how dare they go after Estelle Getty like that?
