Golden Raspberry Awards: 1987

The Golden Raspberries started off as an informal joke.  Something for a publicist and his friends to do after the Oscars had ended.  Over time, it has become and enduring and irreverent tradition.  In theory, The Razzies poke fun at the worst movies of the year.  But like any awards ceremony, the Razzies frequently make the wrong call.  We’re going back and looking at the history of the Golden Raspberry Awards one year at a time.

The eighth annual Razzies nominated the movies of 1987.  Three Men and a Baby and Fatal Attraction were the big movies that year.  The Last Emporerer won Best Picture at the Oscars and Cher and Michael Douglas took home the top acting prizes.  Sean Connery nabbed Best Supporting Actor for The Untouchables which sparked one of the greatest career revivals in film history.  The Razzies were dominated by America’s favorite TV dad.  Oh dear.  This is going to be awkward.

Worst Visual Effects

Jaws the Revenge Shark
  • Jaws: The Revenge, special effects supervisor: Henry Millar
  • The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, animatronics by John Buechler, Mechanical Make-Up Imageries, Inc.
  • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, special effects supervisors: Harrison Ellenshaw and John Evans

Winner: Jaws: The Revenge

This is the second and final year for the Worst Visual Effects category.  The category seemed to be invented as a way to give extra Razzies to Howard the Duck in 1986.  That year, the Razzies also singled out Bruce the mechanical shark from the Jaws movies for a rare Worst Career Achievement Award.  They really seemed to think the idea that the shark in Jaws looked fake was really funny.

The previous year, I commented that all of the Worst Visual Effects nominees were bad movies with what were at the time good special effects.  This year, I’m not going to say that.  Once again, all three movies are bad.  But the effects are pretty terrible as well.  Check out the incredibly fake shark impaling from the winner, Jaws the Revenge.

Last week, I defended Bruce the shark.  It’s a longstanding joke that the shark effect looked fake.  But in the first movie (and to a lesser extent the second one) the filmmakers were aware of the limitations of the mechanical shark and they planned around that accordingly.  They didn’t have a giant shark jump out of the water and impale himself on a boat because 1. That’s stupid and 2. There is no way to film such a thing without it looking incredibly fake.  The makers of Jaws the Revenge did not take this into consideration and thus won a well-deserved Razzie.

Superman IV The Quest for Peace

Even with the rubber shark, I am going to argue that Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was robbed.  Despite the fact that there had been three previous Superman movies and a spinoff starring Supergirl, the flying effects which had been so impressive in those earlier movies have never been less convincing.  The Canon Group ran out of money while making the last Christopher Reeve Superman and it shows.  If the tagline for the first movie was “You will believe a man can fly” the tagline for Superman IV should have been “You will believe a studio can go bankrupt.”

The third nominee was The Garbage Pail Kids.  Some of the younger readers out there may not remember this mid-80’s fad.  The Garbage Pail Kids were based on a series of trading cards that depicted gross children with punny names.  The cards were a parody of the incredibly popular Cabbage Patch Kids toys back at a time when parents were fighting in stores over the last Cabbage Patch doll on the shelves.  That makes The Garbage Pail Kids a movie based on a fad that satirized another fad so three decades later it’s a pretty obscure piece of pop culture.

Were the effects bad?  I guess so.  It’s hard to say.  It’s a low budget movie using practical effects to depict creatures that are supposed to look disgusting.

Worst Original Song

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  • “El Coco Loco (So, So Bad)” from Who’s That Girl, written by Coati Mundi
  • “I Want Your Sex” from Beverly Hills Cop II, written by George Michael
  • “Let’s Go to Heaven in My Car” from Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, written by Brian Wilson, Eugene E. Landy, and Gary Usher
  • “Million Dollar Mystery” from Million Dollar Mystery, written by Barry Mann and John Lewis Parker
  • “You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid” from The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, written by Michael Lloyd

Winner: “I Want Your Sex”

It’s time for Worst Original Song and the winner is the only nominee I recognize.  WTF Razzies?  I didn’t even remember that George Michael’s I Want Your Sex was from the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack.  I don’t think anyone is going to fight me when I say that the song is catchy.  I assume that the Razzies were shaming the controversial for the Reagan era use of the word “Sex” instead of something like “Whoopie”.  Although I would definitely by a George Michael song called “I Want Your Whoopie”.

Let’s look at the other nominees which the Razzies thought were better than Michael’s popular hit song.

First up is a non-Madonna song from the soundtrack to a failed Madonna movie, Who’s That Girl?  As we know from 1986, the Razzies already had it in for the Material Girl.  So of course they are going to nominate the heck out of her latest flop.  It’s no surprise to see a song from the Who’s That Girl? soundtrack here.  

Next up we have a song by the legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson from the less than legendary Police Academy sequel, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.

Would this song have been nominated if it wasn’t from the soundtrack of Steve Guttenberg’s last turn as Mahoney?  I doubt it.  But it’s not Wilson’s best work.

Million Dollar Mystery was yet another attempt at a rip-off of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World except instead of using the modern day equivalents of Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, the cast of the Dino De Laurentiis movie was built around Richie Cunningham’s TV dad, Tom Bosley.  The theme song sounds exactly like what you would expect from a late eighties Dino De Laurentiis-produced comedy.

Finally, we have “You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid”.  Let’s check it out.

Clearly a superior song to “I Want Your Sex”.  Nice going, Razzies.

Worst New Star

Stallone - Over the Top
  • The Garbage Pail Kids (Ali Gator, Greaser Greg, Nat Nerd, Foul Phil, Messy Tessie, Valerie Vomit and Windy Winston) in The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
  • David Mendenhall in Over the Top as Michael Cutler Hawk
  • David and Peter Paul (The Barbarian Brothers) in The Barbarians as Gore and Kutchek
  • Debra Sandlund in Tough Guys Don’t Dance as Patty Lareine
  • Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to Camp as Ernest P. Worrell

Winner: David Mendenhall

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way.  David Mendenhall was a child actor at the time he appeared in Over the Top.  He played Sylvester Stallone’s son who goes on the road and bonds with his truck driver dad over arm-wrestling competitions.  Yes, it’s a bad movie.  Yes, he’s bad in it.  Yes, I understand that the Razzies have a mad on for Stallone this decade.  I don’t care.  You don’t give Worst New Star to a kid.  You just don’t do it.  So it’s time for the Boo gif.

booing

I actually let the Razzies get away unbooed in the article for 1984 because I didn’t realize that that year’s winner, Olivia d’Abo, was only 13 at the time.  The nudity threw me.  For the first several years, the Razzies had a habit of nominating children for Worst New Star.  This is the second time that they actually awarded Worst New Star to a child (the other being d’Abo).  In 1983, Aileen Quinn from Annie was nominated for Worst New Star which she lost to Pia Zadora, but they gave her Worst Supporting Actress.  So there is precedent here.

In the past, I have discussed how limiting this category is.  Nominees have to be new, so if they have any notable film experience at all, they are disqualified.  That alone explains why they keep nominating kids.  Which is probably why this category will be going away soon.

Before that happens, let’s look at the rest of this year’s nominees.  Last year, the award was given to the people who operated Howard the Duck.  This year we have another gag nomination in the form of the Garbage Pail Kids.  We’ve also got The Barbarian Brothers, David and Peter Paul.  Never heard of them?  They were two brothers who tried and failed to follow Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career path by starring in an Italian Conan ripoff called The Barbarians.

Barbarians

Debra Sandlund was nominated for Tough Guys Don’t Dance.  We’ll talk more about that movie in future categories.  For now, I’ll just note that Sanlund has worked primarily in TV.

The final nominee was Jim Varney who is best known for the character of Ernest P. Worrell and for voicing Slinky Dog in the Toy Story movies.  Varney is the only nominee of the bunch who went on to do anything that might be considered star-worthy.  He was nomimated for the movie Ernest Goes to Camp which was not his first starring role.  A year before, Varney played multiple characters including Ernest in the sci-fi comedy, Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam.

As a native of Kentucky, I grew up with Varney on TV commercials for Trauth dairy.  It’s pretty impressive that the rubber-faced local managed to parlay his goofy character into a five theatrical releases and four more movies that went direct-to-video.  I get that the Ernest character can be abrasive, but he obviously had a following.

Worst Screenplay

Leonard Part 6
  • Ishtar, written by Elaine May
  • Jaws: The Revenge, screenplay by Michael deGuzma, based on characters created by Peter Benchley
  • Leonard Part 6, screenplay by Jonathan Reynolds, story by Bill Cosby
  • Tough Guys Don’t Dance, screenplay by Norman Mailer, based on his novel
  • Who’s That Girl, screenplay by Andrew Smith and Ken Finkleman, story by Smith

Winner: Leonard Part 6

No doubt about it, we have got four bad movies here.  Although Ishtar isn’t nearly as bad as its reputation.  We’ll get to that one in a second.  As is frequently the case, there is a lot of overlap between Worst Screenplay and Worst Director.  So for this category, I am going to concentrate on the winner, Leonard Part 6.

By this point, The Cosby Show was America’s favorite sitcom and Bill Cosby was a huge TV star.  He was also selling everything in sight.  So of course it made sense to let Cosby star in a movie.  He came up with the idea for a spy spoof.  The “Part Six” in the title refers to the conceit that his character has already starred in five previous movies and is being brought back from retirement in this one.

How bad was Leonard Part 6?  Cosby himself despite having been heavily involved in the movie’s development went on talk shows to disavow it when it was released.  But that wasn’t enough for Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel who still took the actor to task for ripping off his fans.  Check out their rant:

If only they knew that product placement and unfunny comedies were far from the worst things Cosby was doing at the time.

Worst Director

Ishtar
  • James Foley for Who’s That Girl
  • Norman Mailer for Tough Guys Don’t Dance
  • Elaine May for Ishtar
  • Joseph Sargent for Jaws: The Revenge
  • Paul Weiland for Leonard Part 6

Winner: (tie) Norman Mailer and Elaine May

Hey look, it’s the same five movies from the last category!  Who do you think the Worst Picture nominees will be?  Hint: They are the same five movies.

Before we move on to the winners, let’s hear from novice director, Paul Weiland who directed Leonard Part 6.  Previously, Weiland had directed British television commercials which made him a convenient scapegoat for Cosby when the movie failed despite the fact that Cosby produced the movie, came up with the story it was based on and was the lead actor.  Years later, Weiland defended himself against Cosby’s accusations of being too inexperienced:

When anyone gets into that position, they are surrounded by sycophants and no one tells them the truth. But Cosby just wasn’t funny. I couldn’t tell him directly. I’d say it feels slow, and he’d say ‘You worry about construction, let me worry about funny’.

The winners were Elaine May for Ishtar and Norman Mailer for Tough Guys Don’t Dance.  Ladies first, we’ll start with May.  May was part of a famous comedy team with director Mike Nichols.  Nichols went on to become an A-list Hollywood director and May became a sought after screenwriter.  She collaborated with Warren Beatty on Heaven Can Wait (for which she was nominated for an Oscar) and Reds.  She was also an uncredited writer on Dustin Hoffman’s Tootsie having written all the scenes that involved Bill Murray’s character.

May had directed movies before.  She had mild success with the 1972 romantic comedy, The Heartbreak Kid.  But when the 1976 crime drama, Mikey and Nicky, flopped, Hollywood was done with May as a director.  Beatty felt like he owed her for the success of Heaven Can Wait and Reds, so he wanted to give her another shot at directing.  He felt like the producers she had worked with never fully supported her.  So he planned to produce and star in a movie that could revive May’s career as a director.

May’s idea was to do an update on the old Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Road To…” movies.  To mix things up, she wanted Beatty to play against type.  He would be the goofball instead of the ladies’ man.  That role would be played by… Dustin Hoffman.  Hoffman is a lot of things, but a ladies’ man ain’t one of them.  Beatty, May and Hoffman all had reputations for being perfectionists which gave studios pause for thought.  But ultimately, Columbia was afraid to pass up on a movie that could be a hit for a rival studio.

Hoffman required some convincing as well.  He felt that the script needed work.  The action elements in Morocco didn’t work as well as the comedy elements in New York.  Others agreed, but May dug in her heels and Beatty backed her.  Once it became clear that the script wasn’t going to change, Hoffman decided to defer to Beatty who assured him that May was talented and they should let her call the shots.  What nobody saw coming was that once they got to Morocco, Beatty and May would stop speaking to each other.

In an effort to set May up for success, Beatty hired renowned cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.  But May and Storaro clashed over every decision.  In these fights, Beatty frequently backed the cinematographer which created a rift in his relationship with May.  According to Hoffman, he would ask for direction but no one would give it to him.  Making matters worse, May didn’t like co-star Isabelle Adjani who happened to be Beatty’s girlfriend at the time.  This added an extra layer of awkwardness when Beatty and Adjani weren’t getting along either.

As it turns out, the movie that Beatty produced in order to support his friend and collaborator ended up burying her as a director.  Ishtar became synonymous with the word flop so much so that the Hollywood press’ nickname for Waterworld was Fishtar.  The movie isn’t as bad as all that, but it turns out Hoffman was right.  Ishtar would have been better if it had concentrated on the career of two goofball singers in New York instead of taking them out for an adventure in the dunes.

The other winner was Norman Mailer for Tough Guys Don’t Dance which he adapted from his own novel (along with rewrites by the legendary Robert Towne.  

Worst Supporting Actress

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  • Daryl Hannah in Wall Street as Darien Taylor
  • Gloria Foster in Leonard Part 6 as Medusa Johnson
  • Mariel Hemingway in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Lacy Warfield
  • Grace Jones in Siesta as Conchita
  • Isabella Rossellini in Siesta and Tough Guys Don’t Dance as Marie and Madeleine Regency (respectively)

Winner: Daryl Hannah

I’m not going to quibble too much with the nominees here.  It’s a bit weird to me to see two nominees from Siesta.  Siesta was a little arthouse movie starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne and Julian Sands.  It was directed by Mary Lambert who got her start directing music videos for Madonna and would later go on to make the Pet Sematary movies.  Rossellini and Jones aren’t really in the movie all that much.  Of course, Rossellini’s nomination is mostly for Tough Guys Don’t Dance and Jones’ is probably belated nomination for Conan the Destroyer and A View to a Kill.

I have always liked Mariel Hemingway, but Superman IV is awful.  I don’t understand how Jon Cryer wasn’t nominated in the next category.

Daryl Hannah took home the prize and it’s hard to disagree.  Even writer-director Oliver Stone thought the blonde beauty was miscast in Wall Street – and he cast her!  Costar Sean Young repeatedly pleaded with Stone to let them switch roles.  But Stone was so annoyed with Young that he refused even though he grudgingly admitted that Young was better-suited to Hannah’s role.

Worst Supporting Actor

Stallone - Over the Top
  • Billy Barty in Masters of the Universe as Gwildor
  • Tom Bosley in Million Dollar Mystery as Sidney Preston
  • Michael Caine in Jaws: The Revenge as Hoagie Newcombe
  • Mack Dryden and Jamie Alcroft in Million Dollar Mystery as Fred and Bob
  • David Mendenhall in Over the Top as Michael Cutler Hawk

Winner: David Mendenhall

And here we go again.  Not only did they give the kid Worst New Star, they also gave him Worst Supporting Actor.

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I have said enough on the subject of the Razzies giving awards to child actors.  I won’t repeat myself.  I will let the angry Simpsons mob do the talking for me.

The only other nomination I am going to gripe about would be Billy Barty in Masters of the Universe.  Sure, Masters of the Universe is a lousy movie.  But this is another instance of the Razzies nominating a little person because they think it is funny to do so.  This is the second time the Razzies have nominated Barty specifically and it won’t be the last.

Worst Actress

Madonna - Who's That Girl
  • Lorraine Gary in Jaws: The Revenge as Ellen Brody
  • Sondra Locke in Ratboy as Nikki Morrison
  • Madonna in Who’s That Girl as Nikki Finn
  • Debra Sandlund in Tough Guys Don’t Dance as Patty Lareine
  • Sharon Stone in Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold as Jesse Huston

Winner: Madonna

The Razzies doubled down on Madonna for the second year in a row.  And hey, who can blame them?  Madonna hand-picked the script and the director (James Foley was Sean Penn’s best man at their wedding and had directed several of Madonna’s music videos).  So she absolutely owns the failure of Who’s That Girl.

The nomination for Sondra Locke is a bit surprising.  Any time you see a nominee for a movie that doesn’t carry over into a bunch of other categories, something is probably up.  At the time, Locke was still cohabiting with Clint Eastwood.  When that relationship dissolved, things got ugly and rumor has it that Eastwood had his ex blacklisted.  But that was still a couple of years off.  It seems like Locke’s crime was in directing Ratboy.  The Razzies don’t like it when actors, writers or anyone but established directors attempt to direct.

This is also the year in which the Razzies finally take notice of Sharon Stone for starring in the Indiana Jones rip-off, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold.  The movie was a sequel to King Solomon’s Mines which had flopped two years prior.  The only reason the sequel ever got made was that it was filmed simultaneously with the first movie.  Both films are lousy and should have been better represented at the Razzies.  How Richard Chamberlain went unnominated is a mystery to me.

Worst Actor

Leonard Part 6
  • Bruce the Shark in Jaws: The Revenge
  • Bill Cosby in Leonard Part 6 as Leonard Parker
  • Judd Nelson in From the Hip as Robin “Stormy” Weathers
  • Ryan O’Neal in Tough Guys Don’t Dance as Tim Madden
  • Sylvester Stallone in Over the Top as Lincoln Hawk

Winner: Bill Cosby

Once again we have another gag nomination for Bruce the Shark.  It’s funny because he’s not real!  Get it?  Of all the Brat Packers, the Razzies seem especially offended by the presence of Judd Nelson.  Fortunately, they won’t have him to kick around any more.  After the failure of From the Hip, his time as a leading man was up.

Of course they are going to nominate Stallone.  They always nominate Stallone.  But this time, it’s well deserved.  Over the Top is an ill-advised attempt to apply the Rocky formula to arm-wrestling, a “sport” that is significantly less cinematic than boxing.  On top of that, the movie which was co-written by Stallone, went for the heart strings by having Stallone play a dad trying to reconnect with his son.  Bad doesn’t really cover it.  

Very few actors can do so much acting with their lower lip the way Stallone can.  I feel his lip acting has been overlooked by critics for far too long.  I’m not even sure Stallone’s lower lip is connected to the rest of his face.  This kind of performance can only benefit from slo-motion photography which is abundant in the appropriately titled Over the Top. But the winner was the Coz.  Which is a good segue into our next category…

Worst Picture

Leonard Part 6
  • Ishtar – (Columbia) – Warren Beatty
  • Jaws: The Revenge – (Universal) – Joseph Sargent
  • Leonard Part 6 – (Columbia) – Bill Cosby
  • Tough Guys Don’t Dance – (Cannon Group) – Golan-Globus
  • Who’s That Girl – (Warner Bros.)

Winner: Leonard Part 6

Today, we all know that Bill Cosby is a monster.  He is and was a horrible human being.  But thirty years ago, this son of a bitch was beloved.  He didn’t just have a popular TV show.  He was constantly selling us shit.  Cosby was shilling for Coca Cola, Jello and Kodak and EF Hutton just to name a few.  He was also a best selling author.  It seemed like he could do whatever he wanted and get away with it.  And with the exception of Leonard Part 6, he could.  At least until recently anyway.

So when Leonard Part 6 flopped, Cosby was easily able to brush it off.  He blamed the movie’s failure on a novice director and embraced its awfulness.  He even went so far as to collect his trophies on the late night talk show circuit.  Here he is laughing off his high profile failure with Johnny Carson.

Leonard Part 6 was an awful movie.  Cosby would have you believe that despite the fact he came up with the idea, oversaw the production and starred in the damn thing, he had nothing to do with its awfulness.  He’s as amazed by how bad it is as we are.  But Bill Cosby would have you believe a lot of things that aren’t true.

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jeffthewildman
8 years ago

Looking at these, I realize that if anyone has any reason to be grateful for Leonard Part 6, it’s Stallone. It saved him from another Razzie win even though it was a case where he was far more deserving than the time he did win.

jeffthewildman
8 years ago

Here are the ones I’d regard as the 10 worst of 1987
http://letterboxd.com/jeff_wilder/list/10-worst-films-of-1987/
And for the other side:
http://letterboxd.com/jeff_wilder/list/top-10-films-of-1987/

jeffthewildman
8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

My primary reason for placing Creepshow 2 on there is that it is a bad sequel to a great original. The original 1982 Creepshow is one of my all-time favorites. Masters of The Universe is very bad as I recall. But it’s been years since I last saw.

Nonami
Nonami
8 years ago

Over the Top sounds and looks like a comedy. It must be a comedy, right? 🙂
Gotta say it’s a bit boring too see the same movies in different categories all the time, their effort seem somewhat lackluster.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Nonami

Over the Top strikes me as Sylvester Stallone trying to do to arm wrestling what he did with boxing with Rocky. Or as Leonard Maltin suggested in his review, Stallone was trying to make an arm wrestling variation of The Champ, complete with perpetually crying son.

Leo
Leo
8 years ago

A two-for-one with Welcome to the Basement taking a look at both Tough Guys Don’t Dance and Ishtar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_cIHKQOsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH13BsFEmVs

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Reply to  Leo

Ishtar (1987): a recap (part 1 of 9) http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Ishtar_1987/Part_1.aspx Ishtar is a 1987 comedy starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as a pair of untalented, over the hill singer-songwriters who book a gig in the Middle East and get caught up in lackluster political intrigue. It’s one of those movies with a title that at one time was synonymous with “failure”, much like Heaven’s Gate before it, and Waterworld after. (Though, probably not so much anymore; What are the “synonymous with failure” titles these days? Battlefield Earth? Gigli? Pluto Nash?) Ishtar cost roughly $50 million to make, an insane amount… Read more »

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8 years ago

1) I think they were a bit mean to Darryl Hannah – it wasn’t her fault that Stone didn’t switch up the casting and she is who she is – with no preconceived notions about what role should be, I thought then, and still do today, that she did a perfectly fine job, maybe she gave the character a different dimension than what was intended, I don’t know, But it worked for the movie and for that reason I disagree with her nomination. 2) Loved the reminder about George Michael’s “I Want Your Sex.” It’s not a bad song at… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

Daryl Hannah is another one of those performers who is a very specific type of character actress. What that means is that you can’t just cast her in any type of role and hope that she’ll make it work. Daryl Hannah perhaps functions best when you need an actress who can believably play a cipher type of character or an individual remove from society in some way (i.e. prostitute, killer, mermaid). She’s also perhaps a person who’s “good performances” are either accidental or because she took direction well. In Splash for instance, she was with the help of Tom Hanks,… Read more »

daffystardust
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8 years ago

The worst song nomination for Brian Wilson fits in with the Razzies taking a swipe at respected artists who do bad work. And boy is this song bad. If I was given the chance to vote on the “winner” based on these five nominees, I’d be tempted to choose “Let’s Go to Heaven in My Car.” The only one that I might select as the worst song in its place would be that awful filler from Who’s That Girl. “(I Want Your) Sex” is nobody’s masterpiece, but yes, it’s kinda catchy. A high school friend of mine did a funny… Read more »

Leo
Leo
8 years ago

Cinemadonna: Who’s That Girl? (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBdTEcLjlDo
Who’s that girl? A RAVING PSYCHOPATH, that’s who.

Furienna
8 years ago

Oh my God, do I hate Bill Cosby these days! Something about him mildly irked me earlier too, but it was so vague that I couldn’t put it into words. But now I know what he tried to hide, and I have every right to want to smask the bastard’s face!
How did “The Garbage Pail Kids” not win one single cathegory? I have not seen the movie in full, but it looks like it’s the epitome of terrible.

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8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

I consider Bill Cosby a phony, which, not to get all Holden Caulfield (maybe I should get Maxwell Caulfield, not Holden yet) but I mean, this guy gave Lisa Bonet a hard time for undressing in “Angel Heat”, yet this was…always that. Yeah, alright.

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8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

I heard we got those nat-zi’s covered; the whites of their eyes, they like eggs and bacon, no yoke?

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8 years ago

I’m not going to say “Over the Top” is any good (I wonder if there is someone out there in the world who’s two favorite films are “Out of Bounds” and “Over the Top”; in title, they kind of go together), but I really like the Kenny Loggins (Mr. ’80’s soundtrack himself) song “Meet Me Halfway” attached to it, my father was a trucker, and I was about the age of David Mendanhall’s character at the time it played on HBO, so that’s where my affection resides (the concept is total junk though). I’ve never seen “Leonard Part 6” other… Read more »

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8 years ago

I forgot to mention “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie”. That’s another film I never viewed due to word of mouth, but I was around the age to collect those suckers like a demon. Heck, I remember going to the local corner store to play the “Return of the Jedi” arcade cabinet (the phrase “Here goes nothing” uttered in that game will likely always be with me, probably longer than the force) and buying some packs of Garbage Pail Kids. Man, those cards were twisted!

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8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Is that the first person space shooter “Star Wars”, with using the shields, vector graphics and such? If so, that’s timeless:-). Yeah, I totally sucked at the “Return of the Jedi” game; I basically pumped 8 weeks (could be longer) worth of allowance to get past the “Here goes Nothing” mission. I remember making it to the end, but then not thinking that was a big deal (probably because I didn’t know the stages repeated). Thing is, that wasn’t my favorite arcade cabinet: I loved “Arkanoid” (that was at the pizza place next door though). I mention that because it’s… Read more »

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8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Okay: your dad, the 1980’s, pizza, and arcade games? The 1985-1989 version of me is sold (aw heck, the 2015 version of me is buying it)! As space shooters go, “Galaga” (“Galaxian” too) and “Centipede” are my favorites (love the look of “Centipede”; this goes back to my general love of pastels:-).

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8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Wow, that looks kind of yummy. Nowadays, I buy these Take’n Bake Pizzas. 375 degrees, 13 minutes, pure gold.
Wait, a sitdown cocktail cabinet “Ms. Pac-man” (my favorite of the “Pac-Man” games; faster and more intuitive, plus I like the level treats)? Wow, that’s freaking awesome! Before I got into these open world games with stories, I really only played sports games or arcade classics, so I collected for those type of games.
Yeah, “Arkanoid” though, that’s not in any collection, and I wonder where that cabinet ended up. For the time being, I guess I’ll settle for “Breakout”:-)

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8 years ago
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This was the same machine I spent a lot of time at in the local Pizza Hut while STYX and Blondie played on the juke box. Good times. The best…
http://www.arcadegamesales.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pgc2.jpg

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8 years ago
Reply to  daffystardust

Wow, that is one great looking cocktail arcade cabinet!

jeffthewildman
8 years ago
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The Garbage Pail Kids movie is by far one that earns its place in the Hall Of Awful. I loathed it the one and only time I saw it. Even at 11 I could tell it was just what its name implied: Garbage.

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8 years ago
Reply to  jeffthewildman

Wow, it really sounds like I dodged a bullet (I still say it’s the reflexes). Looking back, I can’t believe I didn’t stumble upon that picture in general. Then again, I can’t recall “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie” on television either. As a kid in 1987, I was so into recording with my VHS present (he he, my father recorded “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” from NBC Saturday Night movie. You know, it was on HBO. He recorded “The Shadow” that way too. Funny to me).

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Nostalgia Critic: Garbage Pail Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEvJHym8NKg
Doug Walker on The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ik0xbSjSY

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8 years ago

I really liked what Doug Walker did with his 11 favorite episodes of “Batman :The Animated Series” (I honestly couldn’t select just a few, since that series just rocks my world).

Craig Hansen
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8 years ago

I would say that the Razzies, more or less, got it right this year. There were some craptacular films in 1987 and they all got called out. Over The Top, Superman 4, Jaws 4, Ishtar, Leonard Part 6…. sheesh. More than enough lousy films to go around this year. The only thing I would disagree with is Darryl Hannah. I’ve seen Wall Street a few times over the years and I’ve never had any problem with her performance in the film.

Eliseu O Calvo
8 years ago

“The Razzies were dominated by America’s favorite TV dad”.
The first person that came to my mind was Al Bundy.

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8 years ago
Reply to  Eliseu O Calvo

Ha ha, Al Bundy, the football hero turned shoe salesman. Wow, “Married…With Children” was pretty racy and cutting edge for it’s time.

Eliseu O Calvo
8 years ago
Reply to  admin

I had to take a look in the dictionary to know what racy means and I totally agree with you.

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8 years ago
Reply to  Eliseu O Calvo

I hope I didn’t put you through too much trouble (looking facts up can exhausting), but I am glad you agree with me (though I should’ve wrote “its”, not “it’s. Dur!):-).

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8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

This sounds perfectly awful, but my maternal grandfather would cover over any issue of TV Guide if Bill Cosby was featured. That was totally racist (he was born in 1914; it was an era I suppose), but now that doesn’t bother me anymore. Wow, how he was a corporate shill as well… Hey, there’s this former football player named Darren Sharper (he called himself “the pick magnet”). Oh, he was cocky all right: apparently his fetish was hooking up with woman at bars/clubs, spiking their drink, then having his way with them. He ended up being wanted in Arizona, California,… Read more »

RB
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8 years ago

MWC was pretty damn well done comedy. Cosby, I still have a difficult time wrapping my head around the recent news about him. Oddly, it gives the picture at the top of this article an almost creepy vibe with that expression.

Furienna
8 years ago
Reply to  RB

Yeah, now I want to cover his face as well. That smug rapist bastard…

Furienna
8 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Even though I have never seen “Leonard 6”, I’m so glad to that Bill Cosby got this razzie. Not that it’s enough punishment for using all those women for his pleasure, and it seems like he tried to put the blame on the movie’s failure on the director. But now at least he had been shown, that not everything that he touched could be turned into gold… I’m thinking of the actor, who played Theo’s best friend Coackraoch during the first four seasons of “The Cosby Show”. Supposedly he was fired because he refused to have a haircut, but I… Read more »

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8 years ago
Reply to  RB

Yeah, I have issues too. I mean, I love “Fat Albert”, but the guy, his lessons, what he acted like, what he stood for, it’s a lie? I think the worst type of individuals in life are those who sell one a bogus bag of goods. I mean, mistakes are going to be made, you say sorry and keep on moving. But when you are happily deliberate about that negative persona (or vibe, as you said), sorry or “oopsie” doesn’t cut it. We’ve been told that absolute power corrupts, but in his case, maybe he has a problem.

gluserty
4 years ago

I have to admit, in 2018 I caught the 1992 film “Double Trouble” with The Barbarian Brothers, Peter & David Paul. Before that, I KINDA heard of them, and recall them from this Leblog Razzie write-up, but never saw them in action before then. Um, “I think “Double Trouble” is unbelievably stupid, but that’s what I liked about it. Also, just like the “Cutting Class” I mentioned yesterday (continuity!), Roddy McDowall’s in it (he’s a long way from “Dead of Winter”, and thankfully, so are we:-), as is James Doohan, so there’s that. Also, The barbarian Brothers have raging early… Read more »

Goldwater
Goldwater
1 year ago

About all those Billy Barty nominations… I know you also have mentioned the Razzie hates Republicans. Barty was a very prolific supporter of the GOP. So maybe that has something to do with it?

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