‘Madame Net’ Wins Worst Image of the Yr Award

Madame Net is the worst movie of the 12 months.

At the very least that was the decide for that doubtful honor by the Razzie Awards, the longest-running bad-movie different to the Oscars. Yearly the members of the Razzies (which is actually anybody who needs to pay to be a member) votes on their picks for the worst movies of the 12 months. And this 12 months the consensus alternative for the dregs of cinema was the disastrous Spider-Man spinoff starring Dakoja Johnson as a clairvoyant EMT employee.

Johnson herself gained the Razzies’ Worst Actress prize, and the movie additionally gained the Worst Screenplay award.

The opposite massive Razzie winners of the 12 months (we’re utilizing that time period loosely right here, after all) included Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, which was given the awards for Worst Actor (for Seinfeld himself) and Worst Supporting Actress (for Amy Schumer), and the infamous Joker: Folie à Deux, which obtained the awards for Worst Sequel and for Worst Onscreen Couple for stars Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga.

With only a few historic exceptions, the winners of the Razzies usually avoid the ceremony and ignore the awards totally. However considered one of this 12 months’s winners determined to embrace his prize.

That’s Francis Ford Coppola, who gained the Worst Director Razzie for his Megalopolis, a expensive (however extraordinarily bold) sci-fi flop that Coppola financed himself with tens of millions of {dollars} from his private fortune after many years of makes an attempt to mount the movie by way of extra conventional financing.

“I’m thrilled to simply accept the Razzie award” wrote Coppola on his Instagram account. “On this wreck of a world as we speak, the place ART is given scores as if it have been skilled wrestling, I selected to NOT observe the gutless guidelines laid down by an business so frightened of threat that regardless of the big pool of younger expertise at its disposal, could not create footage that shall be related and alive 50 years from now. What an honor to face alongside a fantastic and courages filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself fully to make considered one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME!”

“Allow us to remind ourselves,” Coppola added, “that box-office is simply about cash, and like warfare, stupidity, and politics has no true place in our future.”

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Playtime by no means gained a Razzie (the awards weren’t even created till 1981) however nonetheless I like Coppola’s defiant spirit, identical to I admired that very same spirit in Megalopolis, even when the film itself was often incomprehensible and sometimes weird. In different phrases: A straightforward goal for the Razzies however not one of many actually unhealthy movies of 2024. (Madame Net, however, was actually and actually horrible.)

Right here’s the total record of winners from this 12 months’s Razzies:

Worst PictureBorderlands Joker: Folie a Deux Madame Net – WINNER Megalopolis Reagan

Worst ActorJack Black, Pricey SantaZachary Levi, Harold and the Purple CrayonJoaquin Phoenix, Joker: Folie a DeuxDennis Quaid, ReaganJerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted – WINNER

Worst ActressCate Blanchett, BorderlandsLady Gaga, Joker: Folie a DeuxBryce Dallas Howard, ArgylleDakota Johnson, Madame Net – WINNERJennifer Lopez, Atlas

Worst Supporting ActorJack Black, BorderlandsKevin Hart, BorderlandsShia LaBeouf, MegalopolisTahar Rahim, Madame WebJon Voight, Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers – WINNER

Worst Supporting ActressAriana DeBose, Argylle and Kraven the HunterLeslie Anne Down, ReaganEmma Roberts, Madame WebAmy Schumer, Unfrosted – WINNERFKA twigs, The Crow

Worst DirectorS.J. Clarkson, Madame WebFrancis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis – WINNERTodd Phillips, Joker: Folie a DeuxEli Roth, BorderlandsJerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted

Worst Onscreen ComboAny Two Obnoxious Characters (However Particularly Jack Black), BorderlandsAny Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors,” UnfrostedThe Complete Forged of MegalopolisJoaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux – WINNERDennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller, Reagan

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or SequelThe Crow Joker: Folie a Deux – WINNER Kraven the Hunter Mufasa: The Lion King Insurgent Moon: Half 2 — The Scargiver

Worst ScreenplayJoker: Folie a Deux Kraven the Hunter Madame Net – WINNER Megalopolis Reagan