Worst2First: Worst of the Worst Razzie Picture Winners

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Worst2First: 
My Worst of the Worst Razzie Picture Winners
Since 1980, the Razzies have "honored" the worst of the worst in cinema by acting as the yin to the Oscar yang, selecting the worst films of the year and holding their own award ceremony for them.  Categories such as Worst Picture, Worst Actor/Actress, Worst Director, and so on, gives a voice of the common moviegoer who loves to express how much a movie truly sucked.

I've compiled ten of the worst of the worst Razzie Worst Picture winners, and since they're only films I've seen, you won't be seeing "Battlefield Earth" or "Gigli" because I haven't seen them yet  - and have no plans to.

So here are my personal top ten worst of the worst Razzie Worst Picture winners, Worst2First.

**There will be no spoilers.**



#10
Wild Wild West
Year: 1999
Other Nominees: Big Daddy, The Blair Witch Project, The Haunting, Star Wars Episode I

Will Smith tries to relive his "Men in Black" days by going into the west, playing a hired gun set out to save President Grant from an evil inventor-villain.  Even spaghetti westerns wouldn't have gone this deep off the cliff, as both Smith and his "partner" Kevin Kline have no chemistry, laughable effects, wooden performances, and steam-powered spiders.  Yes, steam-powered spiders.  At least the song was catchy though.





#9
Catwoman
Year: 2004
Other Nominees: Alexander, Superbabies: Baby Genuises 2, Surviving Christmas, White Chicks

Michelle Pfeiffer was an amazing Catwoman in "Batman Returns," and Anne Hathaway held her own in "The Dark Knight Rises."  Sandwiched between the two is the manure-filled ham that was Halle Berry.  She basically plays a multiple personality woman who has the reflexes and mannerisms of a cat, the worst dominatrix costume in superhero history, and an overall laughable plot.

However, I will give Halle Berry some kudos, as she "won" for Worst Actress and was actually present to accept her award, and gave a downright hilarious speech:






#8
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Year: 2012
Other Nominees: Battleship, The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, That's My Boy, A Thousand Words

The final three "Twilight" movies were nominated for Worst Picture, but it took the final stinker to claim the crown.  Overly drawn out, highly disappointing, and still Kristen Stewart.  For those who had a strong desire to see this series to fruition, I feel bad for you.





#7
 Howard the Duck
Year: 1986
Other Nominees: Under the Cherry Moon (tied for winner), Blue City, Cobra, Shanghai Surprise






Did you know Howard the Duck is a Marvel superhero?  Neither did I.  You couldn't tell from this clunker of a story, where a sarcastic duck comes to earth to stop an alien.  It wasn't action-packed, wasn't funny, and featured one of the most uncomfortable love scenes between Lea Thompson and...the animatronic duck.














#6
The Love Guru
Year: 2008
Other Nominees: Disaster Movie, The Happening, The Hottie & The Nottie, In the Name of the King

Michael Myers will always be remembered for bringing the ever-amazing Austin Powers to the big screen.  After three laugh-out-loud crowd pleasing films, he decided to retire the shagadelic superspy and instead decided to bring a new persona to the screen - the Love Guru, a painfully unfunny guru who tries to bring couples together.  Not even having his Mini Me could salvage this disaster, sending Myers into hiding ever since (except his "Shrek" movies and his subsequent cameos).





#5
Jack and Jill
Year: 2011
Other Nominees: Bucky Larson, New Year's Eve, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

What's worse than an Adam Sandler movie?  How about having TWO Adam Sandlers in a movie?  Even worse?  How about having one of those Sandlers dress in drag?  Easily the worst?  When Adam Sandler is involved, there's no bottom to the pit of terrible he likes to dive into, but this one darn near takes the cake.





#4
The Last Airbender
Year: 2010
Other Nominees: The Bounty Hunter, Sex and the City 2, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Vampires Suck
What happens when you take a beloved cartoon, turn it into a live-action blockbuster, and have M. Night Shyamalan direct it?  You get something that isn't even uttered in polite company, because it was a total travesty.  Cheesy effects, terrible acting, and a story that drifted very far from the source material.  It would take Shyamalan years to bring credit back to his name with "The Visit," but after this film he sunk to a new low (yes, even worse than "The Happening" or "After Earth").





#3
Showgirls
Year: 1995
Other Nominees: Congo, It's Pat: The Movie, The Scarlet Letter, Waterworld
Before "Fifty Shades" there was "Showgirls."  Growing up, I loved "Saved By the Bell," and Jessie Spano was the intelligent, good-girl, confident character.  So when the actress (Elizabeth Berkley) decided to shed her good-girl persona and take this role, it turned out to kill her career as the film was universally panned.  Seeing our beloved Spano as a trashy Vegas showgirl for over two hours?  Not only would we want our hours back we lost, but we'd also like a new set of eyes and a new brain to forget everything we just saw.





#2
Movie 43
Year: 2013
Other Nominees: After Earth, Grown Ups 2, The Lone Ranger, A Madea Christmas

On paper, it seemed like a no-brainer.  Twelve amazing directors producing short comedy sketches, turning it into a movie, and featuring some of today's A-list celebrities including Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Naomi Watts, Chris Pratt and Chloe Grace Moritz.  Instead, it turned into one of the worst films of all time, completely not funny, and a pure disaster from start to finish.





#1
Fantastic Four
Year: 2015
Other Nominees: Fifty Shades of Grey (tied for winner), Jupiter Ascending, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Pixels
This may be beating a dead horse, but there's never been a bigger disappointment in the superhero genre than "Fantastic Four" (yes, that includes "Howard the Duck," "Daredevil," "Elektra," etc.).  Director Josh Trank can complain all he wants about the studio killing his vision, but in the end we're given the worst origin story imaginable, an off-kilter script that seemed to split the movie into two and abandoning any concept of characterization, and a terrible villain who is easily vanquished.  Just give the rights to the "Fantastic Four" back to Marvel/Disney so they can do it right, please?

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