Razzies Given Out!
Well, it was a big night for Sharon Stone. Her movie BASIC INSTINCT 2, the long-feared sequel to BASIC INSTINCT, took home four awards. Among them were Worst Screenplay, Worst Sequel, Worst Picture and a Worst Actress Razzie for Miss Stone herself.
The Golden Rasberry Awards are the hilariously mean-spirited brainchild of John Wilson. First conceived in the early eighties, the ceremony is a reaction to the movie industry’s colossal self-importance. It’s an annual shout to the marketing people - you lied to us!
M. Night Shyamalan won both Worst Director and Worst Actor for his career-threatening vanity project LADY IN THE WATER. The Wayans Brothers got a couple of awards for LITTLE MAN. I didn’t get to see it myself but the trailers creeped me out.
In a catagory probably designed to ensure that this movie didn’t fall through the cracks, RV won Worst Excuse For Family Entertainment.
Perhaps the most diplomatic thing about this affair (perhaps the only thing) is that it takes place exactly 24 hours before the Academy Awards, ensuring that by Monday only bad movie fans will even remember it happened. I think the Razzies are important, and I encourage you to go to the site right now and join the foundation. You get a quarterly mailer which is pretty damn funny, you get invitations to screeings - Wilson has a bigscreen and his wife has been known to cook spaghetti - and best of all you have a say in which movies will be ridiculed next year. I think it’s $35 bucks a year, and you spend that on a tank of gas.