The Razzies are here!

The Razzies are here!, originally uploaded by macslost.

Once Award Season hits, most people are simply concerned with things like the Golden Globes, Oscars, SAG Awards, Writer's Guild, yadda, yadda. What we FORGET is that it's also the season for the Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies for short!

These are the awards that honor the SHITTIEST movies of the year. Past winners include Catwoman, Showgirls, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone and the list goes on and on and one. Joe Eszterhaus actually showed up to claim his award one year.

Anyway! I actually joined this year so I could vote! AND attend! The award ceremony is at the Ivar theater in Hollywood the night before the Oscars on Feb 24th.

For $25 you can vote (but you have to sign up ASAP as the voting concludes on 1/14) and they'll send you two tix for the show. I'm going! This year's nominees mostly fall under things like Shaggy Dog, Bloodrayne, Little Man, Lady in the Water, Da Vinci Code, RV and Basic Instinct 2 (which they refer to as Basically It Stinks Too).

So join up and we'll all go get drunk before the show!

And don't foget the REAL Oscar party on Sunday the 25th. This year's a-gonna be HUGE!

BEST OF THE YEAR!!!

One of my favorite things about movies opening in January is how they twist marketing in their favor. See, the MAJORITY of films opening in theaters in January are the expansions of everything that needed to be released prior to 12/31 to be considered for a 2006 Oscar. So a lot of January will be filled with things like Babel, Pan's Labyrinth, etc. But hidden amongst the gems are things like...


BEST OF THE YEAR!!!, originally uploaded by macslost.

"THE CLEANER is the best comedy of the year!"

"FREEDOM WRITERS is the most touching drama of 2007"

"HAPPILY 'N' EVER AFTER is the number 1 family film!"

And they get to boast whatever they want for about 1-2 months before any real benchmarks are set.

My love for this started back when Leprechaun came out and Saturday Night Live, during Weekend Update, hailed it as the greatest movie of the year, as it was the only thing to open that weekend. Ever since, it makes me laugh when the January crap sneaks out amongst the Oscar contenders and tries to polish their shit with half-truths. It's marketing well-played, I tell ya.