2016 Razzies Nominations: In Defense of Fifty Shades, Pixels & More Nominees

Pixels is actually pretty fun

By Julia Hays Jan 13, 2016 5:36 PMTags
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Ahead of tomorrow's Academy Award nominations, The Golden Raspberry Awards, a.k.a. the Razzies, have announced their nominees for the worst contributions to cinema in the past year.

Fifty Shades of Grey, Pixels, Jupiter Ascending, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 have all tied for the most nominations this year, with each film nabbing 6 noms.

See all of the 2016 Razzie nominees below...

WORST PICTURE

  • Fantastic Four
  • Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
  • Pixels

WORST ACTOR

  • Johnny Depp / Mortdecai
  • Jamie Dornan / Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Kevin James / Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
  • Adam Sandler / The Cobbler & Pixels
  • Channing Tatum / Jupiter Ascending

WORST ACTRESS

  • Katherine Heigl / Home Sweet Hell
  • Dakota Johnson / Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Mila Kunis / Jupiter Ascending
  • Jennifer Lopez / The Boy Next Door
  • Gwyneth Paltrow / Mortdecai

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Chevy Chase / Hot Tub Time Machine 2 & Vacation
  • Josh Gad / Pixels & The Wedding Ringer
  • Kevin James / Pixels
  • Jason Lee / Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip
  • Eddie Redmaine / Jupiter Ascending

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Kayley Cuoco-Sweeting / Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip [Voice Only] & The Wedding Ringer
  • Rooney Mara / Pan
  • Michelle Monaghan / Pixels
  • Julianne Moore / Seventh Son
  • Amanda Seyfried / Love the Coopers & Pan

WORST REMAKE/RIP-OFF/SEQUEL

  • Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip
  • Fantastic Four
  • Hot Tub Time Machine 2
  • Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
  • Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

WORST SCREEN COMBO

  • All Four "Fantastics" / Fantastic Four
  • Johnny Depp & His Glued-On Moustache / Mortdecai
  • Jamie Dornan & Dakota Johnson / Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Kevin James & EITHER His Segue OR His Glued-On Moustache / Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
  • Adam Sandler & Any Pair of Shoes / The Cobbler

WORST DIRECTOR

  • Andy Fickman / Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
  • Tom Six / Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
  • Sam Taylor-Johnson / Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Josh Trank (& Alan Smithee?) / Fantastic Four
  • The Wachowskis (Andy & Lana) / Jupiter Ascending

WORST SCREENPLAY

  • Fantastic Four Screenplay by Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank, Based on the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
  • Fifty Shades of Grey Screenplay by Kelly Marcel, Based on the Novel by E.L. James
  • Jupiter Ascending Written by Andy and Lana Wachowski
  • Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Screenplay by Kevin James & Nick Bakay
  • Pixels Screenplay by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Story by Herlihy, Based on a Work by Patrick Jean

RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARD:

  • Elizabeth Banks (RAZZIE® "Winner" for MOVIE 47 / Multiple Hit Movies This Year)
  • M. Night Shyamalan (Perennial RAZZIE® nominee & "winner" / THE VISIT)
  • Will Smith (For following up AFTER EARTH with CONCUSSION)
  • Sylvester Stallone (All-Time RAZZIE® Champ / Award Contender for CREED)

Sure, it's funny to mock some of the flicks that won't be award show fodder this year.

They're not going to show Dakota Johnson saying "anal beads" aloud in Fifty Shades during the Oscars highlights reel.

But you know what? That movie was so fun to see with our girl friends for a fun ladies night.

Let's take a moment to recognize the redeemable qualities of some of this year's Razzie nominees.

Fifty Shades may be one of the top Razzie contenders this year, but may we please remind you that for the price of one movie ticket, we got to see Jamie Dornan nearly naked on the big screen?

This film had it all: abs, a super-sexy soundtrack, and our sexual fantasies finally realized outside of a book series. Our dreams came... to life. And it was wonderful.

Again, we got to see Dornan doing it in multiple locations and with multiple props. That does not happen in The Revenant. (Thank goodness.)

"Some alien life force has sent real-life video games to attack us."

That is the plot of Pixels, and honestly, that's one badass movie idea.

Some critics questioned the goofiness of the film, but watching a giant Pac-Man destroy a city block while people battle it is awesome.

This movie is filled with arcade nostalgia, and the 11-year-old versions of us think it's a silly, guilty pleasure.

Jupiter Ascending is all of our favorite stars as weird, space people.

Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne as a swole space villain, Channing Tatum with a blonde goatee and elf ears, Mila Kunis as herself but, like, in black leather sometimes.

This movie is like The Fifth Element but with more alien orgies and eggs harvesting.

Critics can be quick to jump on original sci-fi movies that really go for it, but this movie presents an interesting, creative universe.

We can have alien movies that don't involve Marvel heroes sometimes, people.

Like comedic giants before him, Pink Panther's Peter Sellers and Naked Gun's Leslie Nielsen, Kevin James is willing to do what it takes to earn those slapstick laughs.

The actor, who also stars in the Razzie-nominated Pixels, doesn't hold back on physical comedy in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.

We're talking Segway stunts, getting hit by a car, fighting a bird.

We admire how he throws himself (literally) into these situations, just for our amusement.

Who does that in The Big Short? Who does that in The Danish Girl?

Thank you, Kevin James, for your fearless commitment to your craft.

Since Oscar nominations haven't been announced just yet, there's still hope.