At Least 10 Razzie® Mid-term Contenders

Ten 2019 Movies to Watch Out for at The 40th Annual Razzies® 
by Raleigh Welch

Turns out the revolution will be televised! The 40th Annual Razzie Award Show will blast off one night before the Oscars to every ivory tower, every little mudhut and iWatch on earth.  Now the stakes are higher than ever!  So, what’s racing to the Razzies this year? 
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Hellboy: Hellboy just isn’t the same without Guillermo del Toro, and the fans (and critics) noticed. This film crowned itself as the first bomb of the year, falling short of its $50 million dollar budget at the box office. 
Dark Phoenix : What was supposed to be redemption for the X-Men franchise was instead a nail in its coffin. Dark Phoenix butchered one of the most iconic comic storylines, along with the good will fans had for the series. X-Men fans were dying for a reason to love these films, but Fox wasn’t ready to hand them one just yet. 
Replicas: Ironically, this movie about a man trying to recreate his family feels itself like a clone of some other movie. Not even Keanu Reeves at the height of his fame could make audiences watch this. Unfortunately it’s not quite bad enough to venture into “so bad it’s good” territory. Keanu is no stranger to the Razzies, with seven nominations total and a Razzie Redeemer nomination--he’s a regular here. So maybe he’s trying to earn both Worst Actor for this film and the Razzie Redeemer award for John Wick 3? That would be a first!
A Madea Family Funeral : Tyler Perry is the Razzie gift that keeps on giving. At this point, we wonder if he can stop making these films. This could easily be a contender in any and every category: Worst Screenplay (Tyler Perry), Worst Director (also Perry), Worst Actor (Perry again), Worst Actress (yep, Perry again), and/or Worst Screen Couple (a two-fer -- Perry & Perry!). Allegedly, this may be the final Madea movie…but we here at the Razzies sure hope not. 
Hustle – This female-led remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was as rotten and scoundrelous as fans and critics attested. We’ve gotten reports that some members find this one so amusingly bad that they’ve actually subjected themselves to seeing it more than once!
Glass : With a combined nine Razzie Nominations, M. Night Shyamalan will always make our watchlist. While Glass isn’t The Last Airbender, it’s also not The Sixth Sense. Superhero films that don’t quite fly are always a smash at the Razzies, and with MNS at the helm, what could go wrong…did go wrong.
Wonder Park : This film has no credited director. That’s right. For the first time in Razzie history, the title of Worst Director might be “won” by…literally nobody.
Serenity: Mathew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway have won a lot of awards, but neither have won a Razzie… yet. That may change with this box office bomb, which crashed before it even left harbor. Critics and audiences alike panned it. The greatest mystery of this film is how it attracted such starpower.
Godzilla: This monster of a movie didn’t make as much of a smash at the box office as it would have liked. With so many other franchises out there, there doesn’t seem to be room for the Warner Brothers Cinematic Monster-Verse. This Godzilla hasn’t been able to ignite the series, but maybe Zilly can make a big splash at the Razzies this year.
Rambo: Last Blood - we can't say enough - just see it!

We’re halfway to the finish line and already there’s a lot of Razz to contend with -  Let us know your favorite potential 2019 Razzie contender in the comments.
 

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