'Love Guru' Leads Razzie Award Nominations for Worst Movies

by Jarrett Martineau | January 6, 2009 at 03:13 pm

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UPDATED | Jan. 21 — Nominations for the 29th Annual Razzie awards (aka the Golden Raspberry Awards) for the most awesomely bad moments in movie-making have been released — and this year's list is full of egregious examples of awfulness.

Leading the losing pack is Mike Myers' The Love Guru which "swept all the major categories and virtually the entire cast...was Razzie'd".

It's hard not to see agree that certain films (The, ahem, Love Guru) simply should never have been made; that some "actresses" are barely worth the designation (Paris, ahem, Hilton), and that many a recent prequel has completely "nuked the fridge" (Indiana Jones, what happened?).

Which films, actors, directors, and sequels do you think comprised 2008's 'worst of the worst'? Vote in our Worst of the Worst poll!

WORST PICTURE

Disaster Movie

The Happening

The Hottie and the Nottie

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

The Love Guru

Meet the Spartans

WORST ACTOR

Larry the Cable Guy, Witless Protection

Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

Mike Myers, The Love Guru

Al Pacino, 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill

Mark Wahlberg, The Happening and Max Payne

WORST ACTRESS

Jessica Alba, The Eye and The Love Guru

The cast of The Women (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)

Cameron Diaz, What Happens in Vegas

Paris Hilton, The Hottie and the Nottie

Kate Hudson, Fools' Gold and My Best Friend's Girl

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Uwe Boll (as himself), Uwe Boll's Postal

Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!

Ben Kingsley, The Love Guru and The Wackness

Burt Reynolds, Deal and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Verne Troyer, The Love Guru and Uwe Boll's Postal

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Carmen Electra, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Paris Hilton, Repo: The Genetic Opera

Kim Kardashian, Disaster Movie

Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection

Leelee Sobieski, 88 Minutes and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

WORST SCREEN COUPLE

Uwe Boll and Any Actor, Camera or Screenplay

Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas

Paris Hilton and either Christin Lakin or Joel David Moore, The Hottie and the Nottie

Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection

Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL

The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good

Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Speed Racer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

WORST DIRECTOR

Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and Uwe Boll's Postal

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Tom Putnam, The Hottie and the Nottie

Marco Schnabel, The Love Guru

M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening

WORST SCREENPLAY

Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

The Happening

The Hottie and the Nottie

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

The Love Guru

WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT

Uwe Boll

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Terri Potratz

at 15:22 on January 6th, 2009

Uwe Boll, makes the list again! I worked on a couple of his movies a few years back, he does many of them here in Vancouver. And I know I will incur the wrath of Uwe's haters, but I thought Postal was hilarious.

jordan

at 07:31 on January 7th, 2009

Also, Boll is infamous for challenging his detractors to a boxing match. So far, none have stepped up.

Terri Potratz

at 10:56 on January 7th, 2009

Yes, 3 challenged him actually. They had a boxing match at Plaza of Nations a few years ago, I was there. He then wrote at least one of them into Postal, and the blogger ended up changing his tune and saying Boll wasn't such a bad guy after all...

ross w (not verified)

at 15:44 on January 6th, 2009

Why is Rambo on there? I thought it was great.

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at 17:37 on January 6th, 2009

I can understand why X-Files: I want to believe is on that list. It was a poor sequal to the X-files series.

rebeccafeder

at 20:53 on January 6th, 2009

Larry the Cable Guy performing at Konocti Harbor, CA; August 2008

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yuls.source

at 10:04 on January 8th, 2009

Tom Cruise in Valkyrie for worst actor

TheDa (not verified)

at 00:46 on January 10th, 2009

Rambo 4 was a great flick. Not the crap like 2 or 3. Straight forward, semi-believable from a tactical standpoint. Probably pissed off a lot of weenies, since people like John Rambo are evil in the eyes of media, yet its people like John that save their asses from their false fantasy worlds time and again. I liked it for that simple realistic irony.