Razzie voters drive stake through Twilight
Seven awards for cinematic undertainment
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The 33rd Razzie Awards honoured Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 over the weekend with no less than seven statuettes for outrages against the cinematic art, with the final installment of the teen vampire franchise picking up Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Kristen Stewart) Worst Supporting Actor (Taylor Lautner), Worst Screen Couple (Lautner and Mackenzie Foy) and Worst Screen Ensemble (the entire cast), Worst Remake/Rip-Off or Sequel and Worst Director (Bill Condon).
Who farted?
The movie fell short of last year's "unprecedented all-ten-category sweep" by Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill, as Bajan popstress Rihanna pipped Twilight's Ashley Green to the Worst Supporting Actress post with her notable performance in Battleship.
Sandler secured Worst Actor for That's My Boy, and the "comedy" also walked away with the Worst Screenplay title.
That the Razzies took this last opportunity to have a pop at the Twilight franchise came as no surprise. The Academy Awards waited until the final Lord of the Rings outing to dish out a Best Picture Oscar, and Razzies founder John Wilson said last month: "This is our equivalent to The Lord of the Rings. It's our members' last chance to razz Twilight."
Similarly, Sunday's Oscars love-in went according to expectations. Argo took Best Picture, while Daniel Day-Lewis soaked up the applause for his Best Actor in a Leading Role achievement (Lincoln).
Jennifer Lawrence, of Silver Linings Playbook, now has an Actress in a Leading Role Oscar to put on her mantelpiece, and Anne Hathaway went home with the Actress in a Supporting Role gong for her part in Les Misérables.
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was never a real contender for Best Picture, but the film's Christoph Waltz mounted the podium to collect the Actor in a Supporting Role statuette, followed by Tarantino himself who is now the owner of an Original Screenplay Oscar.
Brit contender Skyfall's Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers nailed the Sound Editing category, and Adele's theme song for the latest Bond outing was named Best Original Song. ®
COMMENTS
Re: probably closer to the actual public's view of the commercial film scene
"The actual public's views are measured by bums in seats and pounds in tills. Therefore in the public's view, those twilight films are worth watching even if we think they suck."
I take issue with that assumption - you pay your money before seeing the film to judge it well. Bums-in-seats is a measure of the hype assigned to a film.
As for the "public" decreeing the Twilight films worth watching, it's fair to say that they could just put a One Direction music vid on loop and show it at the local Odeon and achieve similar ratings. It's just swoon-worthy tosh.
Re: probably closer to the actual public's view of the commercial film scene
@JDX
See what you mean, but I have to disagree.At least one of the categories was a vote by RottenTomatoes.com, and the rest are by votes from a large community - so is more likely to be 'public' perception than en elite oscar committee ( plus the average age of the oscar committee is over 60), and just because people go to see a film (bums on seats) does not mean that they enjoyed it or liked it. How many people saw Twilight BD pt 2 just because they had seen the rest and wanted to know the end?
Surely the best way to find out how good a film is, is to ask the people who have seen it - e.g. IMDB or RT. Their views are surely better than just 'bums on seats', as this is just the number of people prepared to sit through the film.
Therefore things like the razzies (which use the community) are, if anything, MORE representative than the oscars.
Don't confuse 'commercial success' with 'being a good film'. (by commercial success I mean box-office and not obviously the profits - which of course no film ever makes). Does 'What car?' give awards simply for the model that sells the most (bums on seats), or does it ask owners what they think?
Re: Razzies are gr8
And the award for "most gratuitous insertion of own prejudices into a comment on an unrelated forum" goes to...
Eadon!
WIth extra credit for the childish use of "txtspeak" (or does your Linux install not support a proper keyboard driver?)
To put it in his own terms: "EPIC RELEVANCE FAIL!"
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