Razzie surprise

Here's a real award season shocker: The Island and Stealth were snubbed by the Razzies!

Two of this summer's biggest disasters, the movies that cemented the great "box office slump" of 2005, combined for a grand total of ZERO Razzie noms. (If you don't know, the Razzies proudly dishonor the worst in film every year.) How Stealth missed out as a Worst Screenplay finalist and both films were snubbed in the Worst Director category is beyond me.

What's so strange about this is that huge Hollywood disasters are usually exactly the kind of movies the Razzies shower with nominations. But this year the voters (anyone willing to shell out cash for a membership) picked on some of the smaller atrocities like Son of the Mask (which got the most nominations, 8, including one for Mrs. Henderson Presents Oscar contender Bob Hoskins), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and Jenny McCarthy's blink-and-you-missed-it vanity project Dirty Love. Also passed over were big contenders like Elektra, Aeon Flux and Herbie: Fully Loaded.

The Razzies did get in a few typically absurd noms (sure Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were an insufferable tabloid target all year long but neither deserved "worst" performance consideration for their work in War of the Worlds and Batman Begins; Cruise was especially strong) but for the most part their targets (Tara Reid, Rob Schneider, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, etc.) are hard to argue with.

It may seem harsh to put Will Ferrell up for Worst Actor but that's what he deserves if he can't say no to crap like Bewitched and Kicking and Screaming. (On the other hand why pick on The Rock for Doom? The movie blew but at least it blew a little less when he was on screen.)

I'm proud to say I haven't seen a lot of the nominees but I did have the misfortune of viewing Bewitched, Into the Blue and Alone in the Dark and wholeheartedly agree with all of their nominations.

You gotta love the Razzies. After all if it wasn't for them what else would Uwe Boll aspire to?