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dangan-kagura · 6 months

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Games I No Longer Play Due to Bad Fanbases

So this is a short list (yet long blog) of games that I used to like but no longer play or have any interest in due to issues like bad fanbases. Let me just say that, knowing about just how toxic the Danganronpa fandom can be sometimes, I don’t want to lose my love for that series knowing that some people in the fandom can be untrustworthy or just have different opinions from my own. I’m gonna try my best and explain why I stopped playing these games that I’ll mention.

UPDATE: So a lot of stuff mentioned here isn't really about toxicity in these fandoms, it's more like expression my opinions about these games since I've always had a minority opinion about them, and the fact that no one ever understood how I felt is what caused me to lose interest in them. I hope I didn't confuse anyone.

Devil May Cry and Resident Evil

So the reason I’m mentioning two games first is because this actually regards Capcom. Out of the two games mentioned, one of them is a game that doesn’t really have a bad fanbase, and that’s Devil May Cry. Resident Evil on the other hand has some issues, things like the live-action film series, Resident Evil 6, and a bunch of spinoffs.

The only games in that series I ever did enjoy looking back on them are Resident Evil 4 & 5. However, I stopped playing them since I’ve become fed up with the series popularity and the fact that people were oblivious to things like the badness of the live-action film series. I actually stopped playing Resident Evil right around the time I learned about Resident Evil 6 when it was still being made and could tell just from the trailer that the game didn’t look that good. I’ve been told that there is a lot of hate surrounding that game, but I still don’t have a clear picture as to what it is people hate about it. I just hate it because I remember reading somewhere that Resident Evil 5 was gonna be the series finale and was perfectly fine with it and found it pointless for Capcom to make Resident Evil 6.

Devil May Cry on the other hand, was the series that got me into the beat ‘em up/hack ‘n slash genres in gaming. Despite the very few titles, I still tried to enjoy it while ignoring the toxicity from some of Capcom’s other games. But unfortunately, that toxicity became worse when I started to suspect that Capcom was selling out. It’s hard to try and look back on it, but basically in the last decade, I didn’t like any of the new games Capcom was releasing, and I was becoming fed up with some of the crossover games they were releasing. Examples include:

The crossover with Tekken and Street Fighter

Mega Man’s appearance in Super Smash Bros.

Akuma’s appearance in Tekken 7

The crossover with Ace Attorney and Professor Layton

The appearance of Street Fighter’s Ryu in Super Smash Bros. became the final straw for me as I was dissatisfied with Street Fighter 4 and thought that it was a piece of shit game. Looking back on it, I still didn’t get what the hype was about Street Fighter and thought that compared to my favorite fighting games like Tekken, KOF, and Soul Calibur, everything about Street Fighter 4, from gameplay to opening theme song, just didn’t make me think it was a game worth obsessing, and the upcoming releases for the updated versions (i.e. SSF4 and UST4) just didn’t feel right for me. Basically, since Ryu’s appearance in Smash Bros, I decided to stop playing Devil May Cry because it didn’t feel right to still enjoy it if I wasn’t going to like the other Capcom games the majority was obsessing over, and to this day, I still haven’t played Tekken 7 because I knew that the appearance of Akuma was gonna ruin it for me.

Getting back to Resident Evil, there’s a lot of hate surrounding the film series and although the series is over, it’s unfortunate that the Resident Evil movies don’t have Razzie nominees. I’m of course talking about the Golden Raspberry Awards, that award ceremony that gives awards to the worst movies of the year, pretty much the opposite of the Academy Awards. More to the point, the Resident Evil movies don’t have Razzie nominees, not even for worst sequel. The badness of that film series is somewhere in between the badness of Uwe Boll and Michael Bay movies, and at least their movies get Razzies nominees. So at the time, I found it unfair that Hollywood kept making more Resident Evil movies and the Razzies were more interested in nominating mixed-received movies for categories like worst picture.

Likewise, the popularity and toxicity for Capcom games like Street Fighter and Resident Evil was just too obnoxious for me to handle and it was enough to make me lose interest in Devil May Cry, as well as not play games that have Capcom characters as guest characters (e.g. Tekken 7, Super Smash Bros.). In fact, there’s times where I’m annoyed by the toxicity of memes related to Ace Attorney and the Capcom Vs series. Knowing that my opinion about Street Fighter is negative, these memes are just pretty stupid, because my opinion about Street Fighter 4 is bound to come back to mind.

Guilty Gear

So Guilty Gear used to be one of my favorite anime games and one of my favorite fighting games. There are two big reasons as to why I stopped playing it, one of them has to do with the popularity of some of Arc System Works’ other games, while the other does kinda have to do with the series’ fanbase.

First off, it was bothering me that there were times that Guilty Gear was being treated as underrated compared to not only Blazblue, but also compared to other kinds of popular anime games like Danganronpa. I’m gonna admit that I’m in the minority that prefers Guilty Gear over Blazblue, and it was bothering me that Blazblue was getting all the things games like Danganronpa were getting but Guilty Gear wasn’t, an obvious example is an anime adaptation. Danganronpa aside, other great anime games like Senran Kagura, Neptunia, Persona 5, and Disgaea all have anime adaptations, but Guilty Gear doesn’t and yet Blazblue got one. Let me just say that I didn’t think Blazblue was as cool looking or as interesting compared to Guilty Gear, and it was bothering me that things like Guilty Gear having a lack of an anime adaptation made me think that people saw Guilty Gear as underrated even though it came out before Blazblue.

Here’s something else that makes Guilty Gear look underrated. There’s a Round 1 arcade at a mall I like to go to that has a lineup of 2D Japanese fighting games. Out of the games they have, they have all the Blazblue games, but they don’t have the Guilty Gear Xrd games. In fact, compared to how the arcade also came with games like KOF, Street Fighter, and Persona 4 Arena, I found it unfair that they included Blazblue but they didn’t include Guilty Gear. It almost made me feel sorry for Guilty Gear.

Moreover, the popularity of Granblue Fantasy only made it worse for me. That game also made Guilty Gear look underrated and it too got an anime adaptation, and the fact that it’s an RPG/gacha game and not a fighting game only made it worse for me to hate the game. In truth, I didn’t see anything special about that game and not only thought it was uninteresting, but the title didn’t sound original enough to convince me. Literally, it felt like they put no effort into coming up with a good or original title, Granblue Fantasy fell flat for me. Of course, I stopped playing Guilty Gear years before Granblue Fantasy came out, so I was more upset about Guilty Gear being underrated compared to Blazblue, and the popularity for Granblue Fantasy was enough to actually make me feel sorry for Guilty Gear.

But another thing that got me to stop playing Guilty Gear has to do with fan favorite characters. Not Dizzy, but that cross-dressing nun Bridget. Not only is Bridget overrated, but his popularity just feels really toxic. It was like, whenever I tried searching for Guilty Gear stuff in the fandom, Bridget was a character fans would reference for the majority. It felt like there were times where Bridget fans would ruin the things that Guilty Gear is really all about, things like awesome rock music, awesome stage designs, references to classic rock music, and some of the other more interesting character designs. To me, it felt like Bridget fans were trying to get people to think that he’s what Guilty Gear is all about, and it was just so annoying because not only did I find Bridget uninteresting, but it was more like everyone was obsessing him all because of the fact that he’s a fucking cross-dresser.

You’re free to call me a hypocrite for saying that about Bridget. I will admit that I do like the Danganronpa character Chihiro Fujisaki. I’d rather not admit that I fell for his trap since I found Chihiro to be cute, especially when he blushes, but at the time I got into Danganronpa, I did my best to avoid Chihiro out of concern that he had the same kind of obnoxious fans as Bridget due to being a cross-dressing male. But unlike Bridget, I’m actually over the whole Chihiro gender debate. His reason for dressing like a girl is more emotional since bullying is involved, compared to Bridget’s reason which is more idiotic, not to mention that Chihiro isn’t as overrated compared to characters like Nagito, Ibuki, and Kokichi who have some toxic fans that are almost as toxic as Bridget fans. In fact, Bridget’s popularity is more on par with Astolfo from the Fate series and his fans are equally as annoying.

A minor thing, but it was also bothering me that when it came to seeing Guilty Gear Xrd content, everyone was playing the game in Japanese. No one ever bothered to play the game with the English dub. It bothered me because it gave me the impression that people could think the game doesn’t have an English dub or the game does have an English dub but with terrible voice actors. I will admit that at the time Xrd SIGN came out, I did play the game in Japanese out of concern that the game’s English dub didn’t include professional voice actors, like the ones in Danganronpa. At the time, what came to mind was the spinoff KOF game, KOF: Maximum Impact. That game has a really bad English dub to the point that no one would be familiar with their names. Let me just say that there is some positive reception to that game, but the game's bad English dub and the lack of an option to use the Japanese dub (especially in the PS2 version) makes it almost impossible to play (the Xbox version fixes this by including the option to use the Japanese dub). If I remember right, in IGN’s review of the game, they thought that the game’s English dub was “piss poor”. When I realized that the English dub for Guilty Gear Xrd has professional voice actors, I did try to take more notice of it, but felt left out because everyone played the game in Japanese almost as if they thought the game had a bad English dub.

So to summarize, these are the reasons why I stopped playing Guilty Gear. I thought that Bridget had toxic fans, there were times where Guilty Gear felt underrated compared to Blazblue, and no one played the Xrd games in English. There are actually times where I do miss playing this series, especially with how even more underrated Granblue Fantasy made it, making me feel almost sorry for Guilty Gear. The only thing about Guilty Gear I can’t let go of is it’s awesome music. I think out of the character themes from the Xrd games, the themes for Sol, Millia, and Poketim (I forget how to spell his name) are my favorites and still like to rock out to them. But the other issues here make it impossible for me to try and go back and play the series.

Super Smash Bros.

I have some little info from people who’ve admitted that the Smash Bros fandom is toxic, but let me tell you what got me to stop playing this series. Plain simple, I got fed up with having to see third-party characters take the spotlight. Not only the official ones, but the memes for the unofficial ones made it more annoying for me to handle. The fact that the latest Smash Bros games are focussing more on third-party and not first-party characters felt toxic for me for two reasons. One, they were characters from games I didn’t enjoy, and two, it felt like Smash Bros wasn’t what it used to be back when the series was exclusive to Nintendo only games.

At the time SSB4 came out on the 3DS and Wii U, I did in fact play the game on the 3DS but only for like a week. I stopped due to suspicion that Capcom character Mega Man suddenly became the overrated fan favorite. Let me just say that Mega Man is a Capcom series I’m not into, and out of the SSB4 newcomers when the game came out in 2014, I was more hype about Pac-Man being playable, especially knowing that Namco had some involvement with the game’s development, so I wanted to believe that Pac-Man would make a great guest character. The fact that Capcom games like Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Ace Attorney have toxic fanbases didn’t really give me any hype or interest for Mega Man, and the announcement of Street Fighter’s Ryu as a DLC character only made me want to hate Capcom for selling ou. Worst of all, the announcement of that Cloud guy from Final Fantasy was the last thing I needed to throw my copy of SSB4 in the trash and flame the game. Not only did I not enjoy Final Fantasy 7, but it didn’t feel right for Smash Bros to include that game partly because it came out on the PlayStation, so I’m on the side that believes that Smash Bros should only be limited to characters from games that have an importance to Nintendo’s history. Final Fantasy 7 had no importance with Nintendo’s history, and frankly, I failed to see what made the game so great, and the games popularity especially in online journalism made it so annoying for me to try to ignore it. Seriously, journalists never shut up about that game and the Final Fantasy series in general. I’ve played better.

Even with the release of Super Smash Bros on the Switch, the third-party characters from that game were enough to convince me to delete my save data for the other games in the series because these characters and their fans have destroyed Super Smash Bros for me. Some of them actually are characters from games that I thought were good choices because I admit that I actually like those games better. I would’ve loved to play Super Smash Bros as characters from Castlevania, heck, I wouldn’t mind at all playing Smash Bros with Terry Bogard from KOF. But having to deal with characters from games that I don’t enjoy such as Mega Man, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest is enough to convince me to not play the game at all. And unfortunately, I’ve never met anyone who’s admitted that they’ve done the same thing as me, that they’ve stopped playing Super Smash Bros all because they didn’t like the choice of third-party characters and their popularity in both the fandom and the memes.

Assassin’s Creed

It’s not really the Assassin’s Creed fandom that got me to stop playing this, but it’s the Assassin’s Creed series in general. I’m on the side that says the Assassin’s Creed series just isn’t the same as it was ever since AC Unity came out and yet everyone still enjoys the series. It’s like this, Assassin’s Creed games after Unity just don’t feel like they’re gonna bring back certain things from the Desmond Miles saga. There’s obviously a lot of things about Assassin’s Creed from things like story and gameplay that get me thinking that it’s not the best series to introduce to someone who loves gaming.

It’s hard to put into words really. There’s lots of things about Assassin’s Creed that don’t make it perfect, things like broken gameplay and unexplained story stuff. Yet, everyone loves the series and are just oblivious to all the big flaws. One thing that has been bothering me about this series is that to this day, Ubisoft has yet to announce a game entitled “Assassin’s Creed 5”. The fact that games since Unity don’t have numbers in the title and the lack of references to characters from the Desmond Miles saga gives me the impression that they aren’t official games but are more like spinoffs. I know that the series does have some spinoffs, it just bothers me that Ubisoft isn’t gonna make a game called “Assassin’s Creed 5”.

And don’t even get me started on the Assassin’s Creed movie. I knew just from the trailer that it was gonna be a bad movie and the fact that the film is rated PG-13, as opposed to the series being rated M, only made it worse. Just because Assassin’s Creed has things like open-world gameplay, historical figures as supporting characters, and is a game where you kill people doesn’t mean it’s the best game series. There’s lots of things about this series I feel like people often overlook such as the ancient human race and its moments of broken gameplay. I don’t think the movie mentioned anything about the ancient humans, almost as if they were unimportant.

I’m gonna admit that I actually think that Far Cry is the better series. One other thing about Assassin’s Creed that bothers me is that Ubisoft tries to sell it as if it were a stealth-action game. Compared to the stealth gameplay in Far Cry, as well as Metal Gear Solid, or even Sly Cooper, the stealth gameplay in Assassin’s Creed is sometimes unfair, especially when you’re doing a mission that requires you to not get caught or it’s game over. At least Far Cry makes things fair by letting you play the game as a regular first-person shooter, so stealth is totally optional. Not to mention, Far Cry sequels stay true by including numbers in the titles. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out that they’re gonna make Far Cry 7, just as I wouldn't be surprised that they're not gonna make Assassin's Creed 5.

Overall, the fact that I accepted Far Cry as being better than Assassin’s Creed was the last thing I needed to say to myself that Assassin’s Creed is not the best series ever and is not as good as it used to be. Even if I played the latest installment, I’ll probably think that it’s not as good as the Ezio trilogy, which I’ve already lost interest in. It just bothers me to go online and see sites promoting the next installment in Assassin’s Creed even though I’m gonna be thinking that AC is not the best game series and the new games aren’t gonna be that good and I have no reason to play them. And did I mention that Assassin’s Creed sometimes feels like a broken mess?

In Conclusion

So to go over almost everything:

I stopped playing Devil May Cry because I was fed up with the popularity of Capcom’s other games that I didn’t like

I stopped playing Guilty Gear because people were treating it as underrated, everyone loves Bridget, and people barely played the games in English

I stopped playing Super Smash Bros because third-party characters and their memes ruined the series

I stopped playing Assassin’s Creed because the new games don’t look good to me, I prefer Far Cry, and no one else feels the same as i do

There are times where I’ll admit that I do miss playing them, but because of all of these flaws they have, there’s no point in going back to play them. As a Danganronpa fan, I honestly don’t want something similar to happen with my love for it, even after getting a better understanding just how toxic the fandom can be sometimes. Maybe I’ll blog about what got me into Danganronpa some other time.

#blog #non-danganronpa stuff #devil may cry #resident evil #guilty gear #super smash bros #assassin's creed #games i no longer play #toxic fanbases

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ultraericthered · 1 month

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Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (really Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey Take 2, For Real This Time!), AKA Where The Bloody Honey Was THIS Last Year???

I’ve not seen this yet but I, as sincere and dedicated a fan of Winnie The Pooh as you’ll ever find, made it no secret how much I loathed last year’s so-called Pooh horror flick (which I did not even actually watch and never will), thinking it an abomination purely because it didn’t have the stones or the vision to actually go all in with what it promised and instead gave us random ass generic slashers in bad rubber Pooh and Pig masks killing screaming girls and tormenting a useless “Christopher Robin” and his fiancé, with a Pooh-related backstory tacked on at the beginning and then never followed through on with what the movie actually delivered on screen. Had the film embraced the absurd camp horror in the very concept of the Hundred Acre Wood gang as feral predators, I’d have respected it. I’m far from alone in thinking this too: the film won the Worst Picture Razzie award for 2023 for a reason. It was garbage in its purest form.

So then this “sequel”, which I was not anticipating and was feeling I’d rather ignore, comes out and actually gives us exactly that! Like, what the Hell? This movie isn’t just doing what its predecessor ought to have been all about doing from the get-go, it even does what the 2022 Grinch-themed holiday slasher The Mean One failed at as well! It improves on what came before through two things: being competently made in all areas (like, it actually has a significant budget this time around), and actually taking some real twisted joy and fun in its reimagining of Milne lore and what can be done with that. Suddenly, Christopher Robin is a major player in the story and a psychologically distraught man played by a different, better actor. Pooh and Piglet now actually resemble mutant animal people instead of human killers in masks and they’re properly motivated in their killing. Tigger appears as a very Freddy Krueger-esque murderous maniac who puts his “bouncy” style of killing to great use. And good lord, Owl is a badass, terrifying menace who really makes the horror of the story work while still not losing his own morbid humor. And that throwaway backstory from before? Thrown away! In its place is a much stronger one that serves as perhaps the darkest possible medium answer to the age old “so are they real sentient critters or stuffed animals that Christopher only imagines are real?” question. And how it manages to get away with all this is perhaps the one area of pure genius that the film has got. Tellingly, the screenplay was written by an actual script writer this time rather than the hack director, and both this writer and the producer came up with the remedy for the disaster that was the first film: its events did not truly occur in this universe. In-universe, what was turned out last year was a cheap, low budget, schlocky horror film based on the real Christopher Robin’s account of a massacre he’d survived out in the woods, with that film lazily misrepresenting what had actually happened and what he’d actually experienced when it did. By having the first Blood and Honey exist as exactly the godawful film that it is within this new cinematic universe, Blood and Honey 2 is giving us permission to pass on watching it and disregard it entirely, as it’s just a bastardization of the true story that actually matters to films starting with this one. You could not ask for a better saving throw than that!

Its core area of weakness, however, is the story itself and how it’s managed in terms of the film’s pace and tone. Maybe this would’ve played better if this had been what we got in early 2023, but since it instead has come after last year’s Five Nights At Freddy’s film adaptation, the similarities become impossible not to notice, complete with our main protagonist being haunted by childhood trauma and playing this dead straight even while off on the side there are absurd looking animals slaughtering people in ridiculous ways and being very tongue-in-cheek about it. It’s like the writer envisioned a plot to a serious horror/thriller film but applied it to this gleefully dumb, schlocky B movie horror campfest based on a beloved child-friendly property, and these things just don’t go together very well.

All things considered, this is a mediocre indie horror film based on famed A.A Milne stories and characters that revels in its own mediocrity and the gross, senseless, nonsensical novelty of its premise…and in being so, is a HUGE glow up from the first attempt at it, which was a complete nothing of a film offering nothing of value to any human being who could ever have the misfortune of watching it. This one at the very least delivers on what it promises to be and does so with far more confidence, competence, sincere passion and amusement than its predecessor. If we end up getting more Pooh horror films like this, I’d not mind giving them a look, though I doubt there’s anything they could do that’d really wow me or anyth…….

This is the start of a cinematic “Poohniverse” that will go full Avengers in crossing the films over? Okaaaay, that’s interes……

Heffalumps and Woozles confirmed for B&H3?!??!

#Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 #opinion #criticism #review #horror #surprisingly improved sequel #discontinuity

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movieandgossip · 5 months

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Which actor has improved their craft the most since their first big break in Hollywood?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Affleck

The Golden Raspberry Awards, known colloquially as the ‘Razzies,’ added a noteworthy category at the 2010 edition of the event – the ‘Worst of the Decade’ awards.

Nominated in the ‘Worst Actor of the Decade’ category, alongside the likes of Rob Schneider and John Travolta, was one Ben Affleck.

Affleck didn’t win. And two years later, he won the Best Picture Oscar for Argo. And that is Ben Affleck’s career distilled into a sentence.

It’s difficult to pin down Affleck the actor; he’s all over the place. But dare I say, his talent in front of the camera is undervalued, and he has grown into a dependable actor, capable of at-least approaching greatness with the right material.

And for a large part of his career, that wasn’t the case.

Affleck and Matt Damon were both launched into the Hollywood stratosphere with Good Will Hunting.

Damon went the route of being a ‘serious’ actor – he followed up his wicked smaht performance with roles in Saving Private Ryan, Rounders and The Talented Mr Ripley.

At this point, one could make a very persuasive argument that Damon is one of the ten best actors of his generation.

Affleck, however, went a different, more ‘leading man-esque’ route – Armageddon, Forces of Nature, Reindeer Games.

And then came the dreaded early 2000s, undoubtedly Affleck’s nadir as an actor – Pearl Harbour, Gigli, Daredevil, Paycheck and the likes were critically panned. And Affleck wasn’t spared.

Although it might be too grand an assumption to make, it appears that at that point, Affleck wasn’t particularly concerned with his craft. Setting aside the quality of the films, he wasn’t starring in movies where he would be tested as a performer.

If I had to use one word to describe those performances, it would be ‘stiff.’

His career was in limbo. But everything changed with 2007’s Gone Baby Gone, Affleck’s directorial debut. A great film that won him back some goodwill.

His follow up, The Town, was an even better film. And I felt not only was it the best movie Ben Affleck had starred in since Good Will Hunting, it was also his best performance up to that point.

Since then, it has been an uphill climb for Affleck the actor, who delivered good to great performances in Argo, Gone Girl, Batman Vs Superman, The Accountant.

It’s apparent that taking some time off had done him a world of good. Affleck seemingly developed a more mature approach towards his characters; he could do more, emote more, express more.

Perhaps his greatest weakness as an actor was his inability to pick the right project. And by and large, he's come out of that funk.

Further, with age and experience, his craft has doubtless developed.

And now, he’s a true phenomenon, a bona fide triple threat - the guy co-wrote Good Will Hunting, directed Argo and The Town, and delivered a bravura performance in Gone Girl.

Oh, and he was goddamn Batman. And all that in a span of five years.

How you like them apples?

Although he's morphed into a more-than-capable actor, his greatest talent lies behind the camera - I think he's a fantastic director, and there's certainly more to come on that front.

If the Razzies include a ‘Best Redemption of the Decade’ award, Ben Affleck is as strong a contender as any.

P.S. He's currently dating Ana de Armas. Man, our boy is wicked smart.

#hollywood #movie #films #movies #cinema

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nancydrewwouldnever · 5 months

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Do they still do razzie (is that what it's called) awards. Do you think he'll get on there for ghosted

Oh.

Yes, they do, at the same time as the Oscars each year. Blonde won worst picture last year.

Well, Jared Leto won worst actor last year for Mobius, so that's the kind of level you're looking at in Razzies.

#ask

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yelena-bellova · 1 year

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Whenever I feel down, I just remember the fact that Blonde, a film that clearly wanted to win Oscars considering the fact that it premiered at Venice Film Festival, only got nominated for one Oscar that it didn’t win was also nominated for 8 Razzie Awards and won for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay. Perhaps the only time a slap in the face to a movie is satisfying.

#anon #boycott blonde

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popculturebrain · 1 year

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Razzies Apologize for Nominating 12-Year-Old Actor, Introduce Age Limit for Nominations

The Razzie Awards have introduced an age limit for nominations following blowback after 12-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong (pictured above) was nominated for Worst Actress. In a statement, Razzies founder John Wilson apologized and confirmed Armstrong’s name has been removed from the ballot.

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azspot · 1 year

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The Final Frontier came into theaters with guns blazing, but attendance fell like Shatner’s mountain-climbing stunt double as word-of-mouth spread that this new outing just wasn’t very good. Critics, too, savaged the film, calling it poorly crafted and nonsensical. And everyone was all too happy to lay the blame at Shatner’s feet. The official story of Star Trek V was now the story of William Shatner’s bloated ego, his hubris at thinking he belonged on the other side of the camera, leading to the very worst of the Trek films. The Razzies, which fancy themselves the punishers of hubris, happily obliged, bestowing upon the film the Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Actor (also Shatner).

Raspberry Picking: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

#movies #startrek

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watching-pictures-move · 1 year

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Movie Review | Color of Night (Rush, 1994)

Two things I learned about this movie's reception:

Reviews at the time of release were not kind, and awards it received include a Worst Picture Razzie and a Worst Actor award for Bruce Willis at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.

A less dubious honour earned by the movie is the #1 ranking on a Maxim Magazine list of the best sex scenes of all time.

If I can try to address the first point, I imagine in an era where tacky erotic thrillers were in abundant supply in cinemas, it might have been easy to dismiss the movie's level of exaggeration as unintentional or miscalculated. I'm approaching this movie in 2023 as part of an erotic thriller retrospective on the Criterion Channel (this is the first one I went to, although a few of the other movies I'd seen before), but also with knowledge of and ready access to the giallo movies which this movie seems to echo, so that level of exaggeration reads to me more readily as conscious influence. Had this been released a decade earlier, when Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, with its Americanized giallo stylings, was fresher in the collective memory, would it have been better received?

As for the second point, I don't know if this is the "best" sex scene I've seen in a non-pornographic movie, but it might be the "most", transporting from a pool to a bed through elaborate choreography and the magic of editing. The heroine is so cartoonish a sexpot, dramatically dropping her clothes at the earliest opportunity and later cooking with nothing on but an apron, that little of what transpires in the movie plays with any real sexual tension or eroticism, although I should disclose that as a straight man I did not find the sight of Jane March in the nude to be entirely unpleasant. But this portrayal can also be chalked up to narrative developments, which are sold by the cheerful illogic of the movie. Without spoiling too much (although a close enough look at certain characters' faces will reveal many of the movie's mysteries), like its inspirations, this does not present a terribly sensitive portrayal of mental illness, positing that it can be resolved by the power of good dick. (Alas, the version of the Criterion Channel is not the international cut, which I understand shows Bruce's Willie.)

All of these references to inspirations would be for moot were the movie not engagingly executed, but Richard Rush cranks up the style to match the story's daffiness, shooting this in DePalmaVision, with split diopters, aggressive rack focus, reflections and refractions, fracturing the images into the weird collective headspace in which it resides. We even get some of the De Palma touches in the characters, with Ruben Blades playing a cantankerous cop in the mold of Dennis Franz with the added character trait of being Hispanic (this isn't a Dennis Franz character, what are you talking about bro, check out all the Spanish he's dropping mid-sentence). Add to that a stalk and slash sequence in the form of a car chase, fun supporting roles by Lesley Ann Warren, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen and Kevin J. O'Connor, some gruesome kills and a climax involving a nailgun and thunderbolts and lightning, and I had a blast with this. As for Willis, he brings a lot of Marky Mark in The Happening energy, in which a normally very masculine presence is left stranded and confused in a movie totally at odds with his usual strengths. But Willis is a much more sympathetic (and better) actor than Wahlberg, and I think he acquits himself well enough here. Worst Actor of 1994? Fuck off.

#film #movie review #color of night #richard rush

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dirhwangdaseul-archived · 1 year

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Blonde has been “honored” with two Golden Raspberry Awards — aka the Razzies — which also bestowed an award upon themselves for the first time in the group’s history. Andrew Dominik’s film, which led the Razzies with eight nominations, won worst picture of the year along with worst screenplay for Dominik. The Razzies called the film “misogynistic, salacious and fallacious” and said it “shamelessly exploits the memory of the late Marilyn Monroe.” The Razzie Awards, which honor the worst of the year, are announced annually ahead of the Oscars ceremony, which takes place Sunday. Incidentally, Blonde star Ana de Armas is up for best actress in a leading role at the 2023 Academy Awards.

the only awards that matter

#i used to only pay attention to them and the saturn awards one of the few that ever recognized fringe's hard work #anyway #award season #librero

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I agree with you about the Oscars; it's pretty much become overly pretentious and predictable (Disney/Pixar always wins Best Animated Feature, something really long and depressing wins Best Picture, etc.). What I tend to pay more attention to are the Razzies (awards for the year's worst films). Can you believe the Razzies nominated Tom Hanks in 2 categories for his performance in Elvis? Like, okay, maybe his accent was a little weird at times, but his performance was great! What the heck were they thinking?

..im gonna be absolutely honest w you, i thought the accent was the most bizarre thing ive ever had someone try to tell me was southern-passing. i was honestly baffled by the way the colonel kept insisting he was from west virginia in the movie bc of how ludicrously dutch he sounded at all times 😂😂 and then i listened to the colonel's real-life speaking voice and said oohhhh.

p sure they spent so much of their budget getting austin up to par w his ten billion vocal coaches that tom had to fend for himself 😉

i did think his acting was Great, in a perfectly sleazy, tongue-in-cheek, baz-luhrmann-movie kind of way ! but i can also see how it could come off as over-the-top if you weren't familiar or comfortable with the way baz's work tends to bash you over the head. personally i found the beauty of tom's performance in how even his needling the audience for sympathy was obvious and hamfisted... but as we've already established, critics don't know jack shit ! 😁

#ask #ik they were bashing him for his prosthetics too but honestly i didnt think they were that bad ?#or maybe its just that tom does such a fatastic job at making me Hate him so fervently #that i cant stand to look at him for long enough to tell ?? sdfsfd

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Ji Chang-wook "15 years of debut, I can not help being greedy as an actor"

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#Ji Chang-wook #Razzie Award for Worst Picture

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digitaltariq · 2 months

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Winnie the Pooh & Sylvester Stallone Lead The Means In 2024 Razzie Awards "Winners" Checklist

Abstract - Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey dominated the Razzie Awards, profitable Worst Image, Director, and Screenplay for Rhys Frake-Waterfield. - The sequel's trailer guarantees extra low-budget gore, banking on the recognition of the horror retelling of the traditional kids's story. - Different notable “winners” included Stallone and Fox in The Expend4bles, with Fran Drescher receiving the Razzie Redeemer Award. It actually was a Pooh yr on the forty fourth Razzie Awards, with slasher film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey taking residence 5 of the doubtful honors on supply. Forward of the Oscars on Sunday night time, the Razzies unveiled their outcomes earlier at the moment, and it was in all probability no shock the sudden hit film that makes essentially the most of A.A. Milne's characters falling into the general public area got here out on prime. Or backside, relying on how one views it. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey launch DateFebruary 15, 2023 DirectorRhys Frake-Waterfield ForgedNatasha Tosini , Amber Doig-Thorne , Craig David Dowsett Runtime1hr 24min WritersRhys Frake-Waterfield StudioJagged Edge Productions TaglineA horror retelling of the well-known legend of Winnie-The-Pooh. Main the pack of this yr’s most (un)honored movies, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey achieved a lot of the ceremony’s greatest awards, together with Worst Image, Director, and Screenplay for Rhys Frake-Waterfield, in addition to Worst Display Couple for the childhood-destroying pairing of a monstrous Pooh and Piglet. The movie additionally secured the award for Worst Remake, Rip-off, or Sequel. This little question signifies that Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 will in all probability be vying for a similar awards this time subsequent yr – until considered one of Frake-Waterfield’s different deliberate horror films is available in to take the prize. The primary trailer for the quickly-created sequel to Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey just lately landed, revealing extra low-budget gore and ultra-violence all within the identify of creating a bit of cash from a well-liked character identify. Though the brand new movie does include an elevated price range, it does appear to be taking part in to the identical viewers as its predecessor. The Razzie panel will in all probability have already given out 2025’s awards of their heads.

Different Razzie “Winners” Included Some Large Names

Lionsgate Movies The Expend4bles, the newest installment within the action-packed franchise, additionally managed to nab itself a few huge awards within the Supporting Actor and Actress classes. Franchise veteran Sylvester Stallone claimed the previous, whereas costar Megan Fox was given the latter, which is able to sit properly together with her Worst Actress award for her function in Johnny & Clyde. The ultimate performing award, for Worst Actor, went to a different trade old-timer, Jon Voight, for his half in Mercy – which is one thing the Razzies know little or no about. 1:28

Associated Dolph Lundgren Candidly Shares His Ideas on Why Expendables 4 Flopped Expendables 4's field workplace collapse comes down to 1 particular factor in line with Dolph Lundgren The opposite award of the night time, entitled the Razzie Redeemer Award, was introduced to SAG/AFTRA president Fran Drescher. Having beforehand been nominated for an award in 1998 for The Beautician and the Beast, it appears that evidently the organizers do have one thing of a coronary heart, as they selected Drescher to be “redeemed” with this award for “her good shepherding of the actors’ guild via a chronic 2023 strike with a profitable conclusion.” You possibly can see the total checklist of all winners under: CATEGORY WINNER WORST PICTURE Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey WORST ACTOR Jon Voight / Mercy WORST ACTRESS Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde RAZZIE® REDEEMER AWARD Fran Drescher WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Megan Fox / Expend4ables WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables WORST SCREEN COUPLE Pooh & Piglet in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey WORST DIRECTOR Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey WORST SCREENPLAY Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey Read the full article

#Awards #Lead #List #Pooh #Razzie #Stallone #Sylvester #Winners #Winnie

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