“Love Guru” tops Razzie nominations

The Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation has announced its “Razzie” nominations for the worst efforts in movie-making in 2008. Topping the list is The Love Guru:

Voters for 2008’s worst movies love Mike Myers. They really love him.

Myers’ comedy flop “The Love Guru” led the field Wednesday for the Razzies with seven nominations, among them worst picture and worst-acting slots for Myers, Jessica Alba, Verne Troyer and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.

The other worst-picture contenders were “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans,” Hollywood spoofs that shared a nomination for a “badly beaten dead horse of a concept”; the fright flick “The Happening”; Paris Hilton’s romantic comedy bomb “The Hottie & the Nottie”; and the sword-and-sorcery fantasy “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.”

I managed to avoid Guru. Did anybody here actually see it?

Here’s some more history on the Razzies from Time magazine including this:

So where did the idea for the Razzies come from? Wilson blames attempting to host an Oscars party while living in the Pacific Time Zone. “The Oscars come on at five and are over some time around nine, and when you have that many people over, you have to have something to do, so I set up a cardboard podium and invited people to offer up nominees for the worst film of the year.” The first Razzie statues were sculpted pieces of foam, and the inaugural Worst Picture award went to Allan Carr’s Can’t Stop the Music, a musical comedy that fictionalized the story behind the Village People. “I happened to pay 99 cents for a double feature of Can’t Stop the Music and Olivia Newton John in Xanadu and was refused my money back afterward,” Wilson says.

What’s the worst movie you have ever seen?

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