LOS ANGELES (AFP) – No fewer than eight new Bruce Willis motion pictures had been nominated on Monday (Feb 7) for the Razzies – the irreverent parody of the Oscars that “honours” the worst in movie.
Organisers felt obliged to create a whole new class labelled “Worst Efficiency by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Film” to accommodate the entire former Die Arduous star’s questionable output final 12 months.
Within the primarily ultra-low-budget motion flicks launched on streaming, Willis took roles together with a washed-up sheriff, an ex-cop, a retired army basic and a former CIA spy.
None scored greater than 20 per cent optimistic evaluations on aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes. Three – American Siege, Apex and Out Of Loss of life – scored zero per cent from critics.
Willis, former star of acclaimed hits resembling Pulp Fiction (1994) and The Sixth Sense (1999), seems prominently within the advertising for his latest motion pictures, however usually seems on-screen solely very briefly.
The movie with essentially the most Razzie nominations on Monday was Netflix’s display screen model of Broadway mega-flop Diana: The Musical, panned by British newspaper The Guardian as “the 12 months’s most hysterically terrible hate-watch”. It earned 9 nods, together with worst image. The Broadway present itself lasted simply 33 performances.
Elsewhere on the Razzies, Jared Leto’s campy Italian accent and flamboyant efficiency beneath heavy prosthetics in Home Of Gucci drew undesirable recognition.
His position as a dim-witted trend inheritor has confirmed divisive, drawing each real nominations from his Hollywood friends and widespread Web mockery.
The Razzies took the latter view, together with amongst its “worst display screen couple” class: “Jared Leto and both his 17-pound (7.7kg) latex face, his geeky garments or his ridiculous accent.” Nonetheless, Leto is predicted to be within the working for a finest supporting Oscar nomination, when these are unveiled on Tuesday.
Different distinguished Razzie nominees included basketball star LeBron James for House Jam: A New Legacy.
The Razzies had been first awarded in 1981 in a Los Angeles lounge, the brainchild of UCLA movie graduates and business veterans, who selected the raspberry as an emblem of derision.
This 12 months’s Razzies “winners” will probably be unveiled the day earlier than the Oscars, on March 26. Whether or not any Hollywood stars will present as much as gather their awards stays to be seen.
