If there was any award a movie would rather lose, it’s the Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies for short).
Even though Transformers: The Last Knight received nominations for the most number of Razzies during their 38th edition, the movie failed to “win” any one of them. As we predicted, we can thank The Emoji Movie for being the worst movie of 2017.
Speaking of which, despite the fact that Sony’s Emoji Movie was on this year’s list of nominations, quite a lot of media outlets decided to point out Transformers: The Last Knight among the list of nominees. A quick Google search would unearthed that fact. Bit of a biased behavior, but being nominated ever since Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen came out, may have been a contributing factor.
In addition to being nominated for the Worst Picture, the movie was nominated for Poisonous Performance by an Actor (Mark Wahlberg), Worst Supporting Actor (Josh Duhamel, Sir Anthony Hopkins), Worst Supporting Actress (Laura Haddock), Worst Sequel, Worst Director (Michael Bay), Worst Screen Combo (Any Combination of Two Humans, Two Robots, or Two Explosions) and The Worst Screenplay. We are happy to announce that TLK did not managed to win any of it.
You can take a look at the full list of “winners” for this year, after the jump.
The Golden Raspberry Awards 2018 (38th Edition)
- Worst Picture: The Emoji Movie (Columbia) – Michelle Raimo Kouyate
- Worst Director: Tony Leondis – The Emoji Movie
- Worst Actor: Tom Cruise – The Mummy as Nick Morton
- Worst Actress: Tyler Perry – Boo 2! A Madea Halloween as Mabel “Madea” Simmons
- Worst Supporting Actor: Mel Gibson – Daddy’s Home 2 as Kurt Mayron
- Worst Supporting Actress: Kim Basinger – Fifty Shades Darker as Elena Lincoln
- Worst Screen Combo: Any two obnoxious emojis – The Emoji Movie
- Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel: Fifty Shades Darker (Universal/Focus Features)
- Worst Screenplay: The Emoji Movie – Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White; based on the trend of emojis
Kyekjeliesh Jum
It's been said before on this thread, but I want to stress this observation. The Transformers movies have been like an unwanted guest for the general public. First, cautiously welcomed, then more and more aggressively opposed and shown the door. Then came the point of TLK, when the general public just started ignoring the presence of these movies, because after years of being shown the door in the most aggressive manner possible, they just wouldn't fucking leave. It became exhausting. That's the message here. The general public loves Transformers as an idea, but not these Transformers. It took 5 empty, unfulfilled promises for us to get here, but so be it. Let's hope for the best from now on.
pilot00
Do people actually celebrate that it didnt win a Razzie? Really? Wow……
RodimusSupreme
I've actually been here years, but I just joined the site recently.
Aernaroth
Dude. You've been here a month.
At least you've picked up the pattern quickly enough.
If you're already sick of this kind of discussion, the best thing you can do (and this goes for all of us) is to add something else to the discussion. Make a thread about a topic that is important to you, or that you think might benefit from a group discussion. Go put a well-thought-out post in one of the other threads, to bring it back to the top of the list over the threads you're sick of. Contribute positively to the discussion, instead of the endless spiral of complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining…
Autobot Burnout
In a way, that is true, because if a film is bad enough to win a razzie, then in a kind of ironic way it's still a memorable film if only because it's so goddamn awful. After all, people still sometimes mention that godawful Catwoman film – though Berry's excellent tongue-in-cheek reception of her award helped admittedly.
But with Last Failure? It's just utter trash that isn't even worth mentioning – not like it ever stood a chance because Emoji Film is absolutely devoid of any attempt of being good. If there's any bit of praise I can give The Last Failure, it's that at some point, somebody clearly tried to make the best of that shitpile. The same can not be said of Emoji Film.
Ash from Carolina
About the only way you "win" with the Razzies is if you show up to accept your award. Doesn't make your movie any better but people do applaud you for being a good sport.
RodimusSupreme
I know, right?
Razzy
I like how before it was "It's so bad it's going to win all the Razzies", now it's "It won none, clearly means it's even worse."
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Cya
Raziel-chan
Haywired
It's not surprising. Aside of wrecking the movieverse, which is relevant for Bayverse fans only… For the casual public TLK was just yet another by-the-numbers movie of this franchise.
The overcomplicated plot with far too many ideas for a single movie, the epic continuity snarl – those were important for the people who were paying any attention to this continuity to begin with.
For anyone else the movie was just an average bad blockbuster.
Emoji on the other hand… That was like the Hollywood's excercise in finding new ways of making things as bad as it's possible.
Dyno98
It\'s mediocre even in a bad movie contest…
Septimus-Prime
This doesn\'t shock me, Micheal Bay is a tornado of disater when it comes to any type of movies!
RodimusSupreme
It gets very tiring hearing the same exact crap-throwing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again…
RodimusSupreme
Yes they do (At least the buying toy's part).
general saberwi
Exactly. I don't like it, but I won't be a dick if you do. If you enjoyed it, that's all you need.
DOTM Bumblebee
Why does it matter if other people criticize a Transformers movie? I liked The Last Knight, but why should I waste time being offended just because others didn't?
DOTM Bumblebee
I'm actually happy about this. I actually enjoyed TLK, in spite of its flaws. I won't deny coming out the same year as The Emoji Movie helped, though. In the grand scheme of things, TLK was just another Michael Bay Transformers movie, whereas The Emoji Movie is a black hole of failure from which nothing of value can be extracted.
UltraAlanMagnus
You're welcome.
Lazerwave
At least I now know not the watch the Emoji movie.
Thanks for the warning.