2014 Razzie Nominations Short List Blends Obvious And Well-Regarded Choices
When you're celebrating the worst of something, it's impossible to get it right. Just like everyone's favorite movies are subjective, so are the bad, but then there's a whole other level missing. You go out to movies hoping for them to be good. Very few people seek out the really bad movies – at least not on initial release. So unless you see every single movie that comes out in a year, really, you're just picking the worse movies you saw, not the worst movies period. Or even worse, the movies someone thinks are bad without watching them.
That's just one of a hundred reasons The Razzies are so useless. Sure it's funny in theory to crown the worst movies of the year, but the process by which they choose their short list of nominees is a total mystery. For example this year, Noah, a movie with a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is a possible nominee. If this was being serious, shouldn't something like that be automatically be crossed off? Do they really hate a movie like The Interview or is it just included because it's popular at the moment? Is that the same reason why seemingly every single possible actor mentioned is incredibly famous? There are a ton of questions raised, but very few answered, by the 2014 Razzie nominations short list which you can see below.
Here's the full 2014 Razzie nominations short list via their website. Feel free to discuss your thoughts about it below.
WORST PICTUREKirk Cameron's Saving ChristmasTranscendenceA Million Ways to Die in the WestAtlas Shrugged: Part IIIThe Legend of HerculesSex TapeA Haunted House 2Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesLeft BehindThe InterviewTransformers: Age of ExtinctionI, FrankensteinWORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUELNoahThe Legend of HerculesLegends of Oz: Dorothy's ReturnA Haunted House 2The Expendables 3Atlas Shrugged: Part IIIAnnie (RAZZable Remake of a 1981 Worst Picture Nominee)Exodus: Gods and KingsEndless Love (Yet Another RAZZable Remake of a 1981 Worst Picture Nominee)PompeiiTransformers: Age of ExtinctionI, FrankensteinTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesWORST SCREENPLAYTransformers: Age of ExtinctionA Haunted House 2PompeiiThe Legend of HerculesSex TapeEndless LoveLeft BehindThe Expendables 3Winter's TaleKirk Cameron's Saving ChristmasAtlas Shrugged: Part IIIA Million Ways to Die in the WestNoahTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesTranscendenceI, FrankensteinWORST SCREEN COMBO
Any Two Robots, Actors (or Robotic Actors) Transformers: Age of Extinction
James Franco & EITHER Seth Rogen or Randall Park (Kim Jong Un) / The Interview
Kellan Lutz and EITHER His Abs, His Pecs or His Glutes / LEGEND of HERCULES
The Entire Cast of The Expendables 3
The Entire Cast of Atlas Shrugged: Part III
Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron / A Million Ways to Die in the West
The "Rock Monsters" / Noah
Johnny Depp and His "Virtual Doppelganger" / Transcendence
Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde / Endless Love
Kirk Cameron and His Ego / Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Cameron Diaz & Jason Segel / Sex Tape
WORST DIRECTOR
James Manera / Atlas Shrugged: Part III
Jake Kasdan / Sex Tape
Darren Aronofsky / Noah
Seth MacFarlane / A Million Ways to Die in the West
Jonathan Liebesman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Renny Harlin / The Legend of Hercules
Michael Tiddes / A Haunted House 2
Michael Bay / Transformers: Age of Extinction
Wally Pfister / Transcendence
Darren Doane / Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Vic Armstrong / Left Behind
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Shaquille O'Neal / Blended
Johnathon Schaech / The Legend of Hercules
Kelsey Grammer / The Expendables 3 and Transformers: Age of Extinction
Arnold Schwarzenegger / The Expendables 3
Morgan Freeman / Transcendence
Jack Black / Sex Tape
Liam Neeson / A Million Ways to Die in the West
Russell Crowe / Winter's Tale
Mel Gibson / The Expendables 3
Kiefer Sutherland / Pompeii
T.J. Miller / Transformers: Age of Extinction
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sophia Myles / Transformers: Age of Extinction
Jaime Pressly / A Haunted House 2
Susan Sarandon / Tammy
Bridgette Cameron / Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Carrie-Anne Moss / Pompeii
Amanda Seyfried / A Million Ways to Die in the West
Cameron Diaz / Annie
Megan Fox / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Jane Fonda / This Is Where I Leave You
Emily Browning / Pompeii
Nicola Peltz (The Newest Michael Bay "Discovery") Transformers: Age of Extinction
WORST ACTRESS
Charlize Theron / A Million Ways to Die in the West
Elizabeth Banks / Walk of Shame
Jennifer Aniston / Horrible Bosses 2
Cameron Diaz / The Other Woman and Sex Tape
Gabriella Wilde / Endless Love
Nicole Kidman / Before I Go to Sleep
Melissa McCarthy / Tammy
Drew Barrymore / Blended
Gaia Weiss / The Legend of Hercules
Lea Michele (Voice Only) Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
WORST ACTOR
Seth MacFarlane / A Million Ways to Die in the West
Johnny Depp / Transcendence
Adam Sandler / Blended
Seth Rogen / The Interview
Kellan Lutz / The Legend of Hercules
Marlon Wayans / A Haunted House 2
Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sabotage
Aaron Eckhart / I, Frankenstein
Alex Pettyfer / Endless Love
Kirk Cameron /Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
James Franco / The Interview
Nicolas Cage / Left Behind
Look – it's hard to deny that a lot of those movies are really bad. The ones that I actually saw on the list – Transcendence, A Million Ways To Die In The West, Ninja Turtles, Transformers: Age of Extinction, are all pretty bad. Others, like The Expendables III, Noah or The Interview, I actually like. That doesn't make them good, but not the worst of the year. Still, I'm probably taking this way too seriously not to mention these aren't even the final 2014 Razzie nominations anywhere. It's just the short list. But there are definitely lots of very bad movies that aren't mentioned here, probably because they just aren't as funny to nominate.
Any thoughts on this list?