Sandra Bullock is a rare artist who calmly received the Golden Raspberry Award.
If Oscar is the prestigious golden statue that most filmmakers want to touch, this raspberry for cinema makes artists frown.
Glorifying the bad
The Golden Raspberry Awards were established in 1980, with the mission of finding, discovering, and awarding the worst films, directors, and actors of the year.
With this year's Golden Raspberry nominations, we have Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey as the most deserving winner of the Worst Picture award.
This film is a horror variation of the classic children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne, which Vietnamese readers are familiar with as the cute Pooh Bear.
The copyright of the Winnie the Pooh bear in the US has just expired and filmmakers have seized the opportunity to copy and ruin a childhood friend.
Of course, Winnie the Pooh is not easy to destroy. No matter how much the movies borrow images and distort the original spirit, people still cherish the values that the original brings.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is probably the worst Hollywood movie of 2023
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey deserves its criticism and should be so, for the voices criticizing cheap attempts at mass appeal without thinking about the long-term consequences. The film also raises the question of how we should treat artistic heritage.
Hollywood studios still have a habit of profiting off successful productions.
A series of remakes, sequels, prequels... are exploited, although often the later waves cannot push the earlier ones.
This year's list of Golden Raspberry Worst Picture nominees proves that.
The Exorcist has remained a classic of the horror genre since its release in 1973. It established a common motif that has recurred in many exorcism films since.
After half a century, The Exorcist: Believer is worse, although the effects may be better. Successful horror movies are not simply about scaring ghosts or demons.
Similarly, Meg 2: The Trench , the sequel to Meg released in 2018, also sits alongside The Exorcist: Believer in the Worst Picture category. Leading the nominations for this year's Golden Raspberry Awards is Expendables (part 4 of The Expendables ) with 7 nominations.
Mr. Trump has been awarded the Golden Raspberry Award three times.
Even if there are mistakes
The Golden Raspberry Awards are known as a satirical award that "the old don't spare the young", not everyone who becomes famous, even wins an Oscar, can avoid it.
In the past, this award has been given to many famous directors, screenwriters, and actors who have won Oscars such as Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck...
Even legendary artists like Laurence Olivier at the end of his brilliant career were hit by this bitter "raspberry".
Or Sandra Bullock, in the same year, she won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in The Blind Side and the Golden Raspberry for All About Steve .
Sandra Bullock is also one of the few actors who came in person to receive this award that many people want to avoid.
Many famous and talented artists have also been named by the Golden Raspberry Awards.
However, satire can sometimes go too far. Just last year, the founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, Mr. John Wilson, had to apologize and withdraw the nomination after public backlash for nominating a 12-year-old girl for the Worst Actress category.
In 2022, just 2 days after awarding the Worst Actor award to Bruce Willis, the Golden Raspberry announced the cancellation of the award when it was learned that the reason he had to retire was due to illness.
Everyone makes mistakes. Filmmakers, actors, film critics, film award juries... they all make mistakes.
Artistic sublimation does not always appear throughout the career. Leonardo DiCaprio also tasted the bitter taste of this golden raspberry when he was young. But his relentless efforts finally brought sweet fruits.
And that's cinema. Especially cinema in its own capital, where every year bad movies continue to be produced alongside good ones.
A place where a star can get bogged down and fall off a cliff right at the peak of his career. A place where a movie with high box office revenue is not necessarily a masterpiece. A place where your talent must always be tested and cultivated, otherwise you will be eliminated.
The Golden Raspberry Awards were not created to counter the Oscars. They were created as a reminder that we, the movie-loving audience, are still here, with a full basket of raspberries and judgment.
Don't think that you are content with success and wealth, this award and that golden statue, and can neglect your career.
That's why the Golden Raspberry Awards receive as much attention as the Oscars. The awards are usually given a few days before or after the Oscars, as if to remind cinema not to be too proud of its recent achievements.
A sarcastic laugh at the halo that Hollywood casts over its followers. A halo that is often not the twinkling of a star but just a flickering electric light that comes and goes.
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