Best movie to have won "Worst Picture" at the Golden Raspberries

You're asking me to choose between Showgirls and Howard the Duck? The only possible answer is some fantasy version of Showgirls starring Leah Thompson

And a duck, I guess

Mommie Dearest vs. Showgirls vs. Freddy Got Fingered

I think Freddy Got Fingered is gonna run away with this, tbh

Mommie Dearest really shines in the makeup department.

Mommie Dearest.

Fortunately I've not seen too many of these. Showgirls is pretty hilarious, especially the sex scene in the swimming pool, where Elizabeth Berkley flaps about like a fish gasping for air on dry land and Kyle McLachlan grimaces. Cocktail is excruciating, particularly the orgasm joke. Poor Gena Gershon: surely she can't be the only actress to be in at least two of these abominations? She deserves better.

Showgirls really is the best movie here, but Mommie is way closer to my heart. Went with that.

wild Wild West is also awesome, guys.

Man, some of their choices in recent years just feel so desperate and uninteresting.

UNDER THE CHERRY MOON

Which may be the best 'bad' movie I love, next to Grease II.

Torn between Wild, Wild West and Can't Stop The Music

Steampunk vs "Leathermen don't get nervous"

showgirls, i know who killed me and indecent proposal are all big hits in my book

I need to see I Know Who Killed Me. Art Bell!

how come i don't remember the pia zadora epic "the lonely lady"??
also, this
Jerilee Randall (Pia Zadora) is an innocent schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley with heartfelt dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter. Shortly after winning a trophy for her creative writing, she meets the son of a famous screenwriter, Walter Thornton (Lloyd Bochner), at a party. She goes home with the son, along with some other friends. During a late evening pool party, Jerilee is sexually assaulted with a garden hose nozzle by one of the "friends" (Ray Liotta). !!!

I love a lot of these movies.

For Pia Zadora-ty, though, you really need to see "Butterfly," with Pia, Stacey Keach, and Orson Welles.

Zadora was really the halcyon days of the golden raspberries.

Wtf, I didn't know Hudson Hawk was considered a turkey, it's great!

i thought hudson hawk was up there with ishtar as one of the greatest bombs of all time

I'm gonna get all Rosenbaum and argue that turkey and bomb are not qualitative terms but strictly related to financially success.

Yeah, I have no idea if it was financially successful or not, but it's not a bad movie.

Can't Stop the Music is perfect rainy Sunday viewing.

I don't think I've seen any of these except maybe Howard the Duck, which I have a vague memory of having seen as a child.

I can't believe Star Trek V was the worst movie they could pick for 1989, when Police Academy 6 also came out that year.

Also, re: Hudson Hawk, it was the kind of movie that was a punchline on Carson and Letterman for several months after it came out -- whether that was related to its financial success or its quality, I don't quite remember -- but those are always the kind of movies that win Golden Raspberries. I think Gigli was probably the last movie that was like that: no one saw it, but the buzz was so bad that it briefly became a sort of shorthand for something shitty ("worse than Gigli," etc.).

This is one of the best polls ever.

I'd say:

1. Mommie Dearest
2. Rambo: First Blood Part II
3. Hudson Hawk
4. Under the Cherry Moon
5. Showgirls

I think Gigli was probably the last movie that was like that

I watched this the second week it was out. My friend and I were the only two people in the theater at an 8pm showing.

It is a profoundly bad movie, but it had enough unintentional comedy to make it a worthwhile experience, especially when you sneak some whiskey into the theater.

I suspect Showgirls may walk away with this one.

And yeah, I'm very surprised that Star Trek V took the prize in '89. Surely there were worse movies (though maybe not so high-profile/directed by The Shat).

star trek v is such a wtf? movie

I'm tempted to go Under the Cherry Moon just for the "wrecka stow" scene ("Where do you go if you wanna buy a Sam Cooke album?). But it's gotta be Showgirls, which is no great shakes as a Verhoeven movie but I think a lot of the alleged unintentional comedy there is very intentional.

Yeah, as a whole, this is a very boring selection. Maybe they should start taking risks?

star trek v is stunningly bad in the context of star trek films. you don't expect much from a police academy movie, but you expect more from the sequel to star trek iv.

voted for show girls.

Man, some of their choices in recent years just feel so desperate and uninteresting.

-- Eric H., Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:30 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah I didn't realize it until I saw this list, but for the last 6 years straight they've picked some kind of indulgent passion project of a woman whose career is on the decline, which is almost less easy target than just kinda creepy.

I had a roommate in college who had a VHS dub of Inchon that remained unwatched the entire schoolyear.

I cannot remember if this bit makes any more sense in the context of Gigli or not

I had a roommate in college who had a VHS dub of Inchon that remained unwatched the entire schoolyear.

Inchon isn't a good movie at all, but it's interesting viewing because of the Moonie Unification Church connection. Moon financed the production, rewrote some of the script, and made a mess of things. Check this out

how bad/good was star trek 6? is it an improvement on 5?

it is twice as good

I must see I Know Who Killed Me

NO. WIRE. COATHANGERS. EVER!!!

Hudson Hawk.

that shit is Gold.

close call between Mommie Dearest and Showgirls... Star Trek V really is just unwatchable, its such a shame. Star Trek VI is almost infinitely better (really only the even-numbered ST movies are worth watching, although 3 has its moments)

re: I Know Who Killed Me - I commented on this on the Lindsay Lohan thread but I really wish the film was actually WORSE than it is. Its not quite bad enough to be enjoyably campy, but it isn't good enough to actually be interesting either. Its just... boring. And it had so much promise! It wastes its time with some ho-hum torture-porn nonsense and heavy-handed color-coding masquerading as "symbolism" and just goes nowhere. There's, like, a grand total of four characters in it! Not worth watching. I swear.

i can watch cocktail any time.

Yeah, Cocktail is very watchable.

under the cherry moon is so weird, but way watchable compared to graffiti bridge.

it looks kinda crap tho, isn't it shot on video...? I haven't watched it in a long time. kidna classic for the scene of Prince taking a bath with Jerome.

First Blood Part II OR SHWGRLZ

Can't remember freddy got fingered at all.

Freddy Got Fingered is a great. Sloppy and austere like punk rock Jerry Lewis.

I Know Who Killed Me was fun but the climax dragged. A mixture of Depalma and Lynch, they seemed to know what they were doing overall so it can't be described as a failure.

I thought Freddy Got Fingered was tedious. I admired its formlessness and anarchy, but it didn't do a good job of keeping me entertained.

The way they treated that kid next door who was constantly running his face into cars and falling into airplane propellors was practically Buñuellian.

showgirls is the best movie on this list and I've seen like, 90% of these.

Hudson Hawk was directed by the director of Heathers, for that at least you'd expect more (though he did "meet the applegates" in between, and then his movie career went stone dead, though he's oddly directed a ton of very good tv series)

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I must see I Know Who Killed Me

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i would watch several of these movies again (and some never again)
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He wears that hat in heaven, at the end, while shaking some maracas.

I often wear a hat when I bathe as well. usually a sombrero.

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