Recently nominations for the prestigious awards for BAFTA, VES and Oscars have been declared that honors some of the biggest and greatest Hollywood’s work over the year and while these award shows are rewarding the best players in the industry, we got Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards to recognise the worst film and artist of the year. Recently the nominations for the Razzie awards were declared and we witnessed not just box-office stinkers, but also a number of the films that triumphed at the box office.
Fantastic Four, the animated adorable chipmunks sequel Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip and the movie that tried to incorporate life sized gaming characters in real life- Pixels.
One of the worst comic book adapted movie in the recent times, Fantastic Four has been nominated under five categories including the Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Remake/Sequel/Rip-off and Worst Screenplay. The movie got such negative reviews that there have been rumors that Fox might discontinue with this Marvel comic based franchise altogether. It also failed to generate much revenue as the budget for the film was $120 million and earned only $169 million at the box office.
Pixels on the other hand got six nominations under its hood including Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay. Though Pixels had some great cast working in it like Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James, it didn’t manage to live up to people’s expectations. The film did deliver some amazing visual effects but what it lacked was story and bad jokes. The movie did end up earning $244.1 millions at the box office and got 17% rating by Rotten Tomatoes.
The surprising yet not so surprising nomination is of Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip. Till date, the mischievous yet adorable chipmunks have always managed to attract the audiences with their stunts and animated voices but seems like this time it failed to do so. The movie got nominated under the Worst Remake/Sequel/Rip-off along with Worst Supporting Actor. The movie failed miserably at the box office and got 3.9 rating by IMDb, 17% by Rotten Tomatoes and 33% by Metacritic.
The most dreaded award winners will be announced on 27 February, the night before the Oscars.