Raspberry to the Raspberries

The Golden Raspberry Awards made a couple of "decisions" this year that were asinine.

They named Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as worst sequel, prequel or rip-off. So right away that kind of statement says they can't be watching very many movies.

They named The Love Guru as Worst movie of the year, when one of their other nominees was Disaster Movie - the hardest thing I've forced myself to sit through (and on-line, illegally, at that). The Love Guru isn't Austin Powers, but it is in no way what the headlines made it out to be.

I don't know how they decide their "nominees," but any member of their site can vote.

I went so far as to write an e-mail to John Wilson HeadRAZZberry@razzies.com to
point out their (admittedly obvious) core problem:

While anyone can vote, who exactly is a) paying to vote and b) dilligently sitting through the alleged worst movies of the year to determine in all fairness which they feel should be assessed as the worst of the worst?

And you know something, The Happening was a well made movie. It was dark and had something to say and presented disturbing ideas - but if like me you view the world's problems as mostly someone else' fault it has a welcome message.

This is not to say they are always wrong. But noting Ewe Boll as worst director is not something that requires a knack for that kind of observation. You read a blurb or a dozen polls that call him worst, see his movies tank, and there it is. But he doesn't exactly represent the Hollywood elite that the razzies claim to be making fun of.

If you do go to razzies.com, by the looks of some of the ads on their page I'd say make sure you have good spyware protection. It looks like their sponsors aren't exactly top drawer, nor the brilliant minds that frequent that site let alone pay to.

Consider the mentality of people who pay the following rates to participate in discussions at razzies.com and to vote:

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