Spoilers Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Grading & Discussion

[Commander Richard]

The Oscars is an industry award. They're supposed to be congradulating each other. It's about peers reviewing each other's work. It's not the People's Choice Awards.

As for the Razzies, a joke is one thing but Worst Actor for Ben Affleck who was one of the best versions of Batman ever? That's where the joke is lost on me.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

I still wonder how low hanging fruit like JLaw's Mystique and Eisenberg's Lex Luthor escaped being nominated for razzies.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Actually, Eisenberg was nominated.

 

[Tosk]

The Oscars is an industry award. They're supposed to be congradulating each other. It's about peers reviewing each other's work. It's not the People's Choice Awards.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean they have to exist. There are heaps of industries where people work a lot harder and are better at their jobs that those filmmakers, and they don't hold multiple yearly awards for themselves.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have awards shows, I'm just saying they're totally unnecessary. So for me, the Razzies are no more or less needed than the Oscars.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

This was a bad movie. It deserves to be recognized as such.

 

[dahj]

All this talk about this "horrible" movie is making me wanna rewatch it again...

 

[Ovation]

I've got some time tomorrow. Think I'll give it a whirl (haven't watched it on my new projector, so I even have a good reason).

 

[DigificWriter]

For a supposedly "horrible" movie, this sure hs a lot of votes rating it above-average. I wonder what Tosk and the people who wasted their time "creating" the Golden Raspberry Awards would say to that.

 

[Tosk]

For a supposedly "horrible" movie, this sure hs a lot of votes rating it above-average. I wonder what Tosk and the people who wasted their time "creating" the Golden Raspberry Awards would say to that.

I don't have an opinion one way or the other. I'm not even sure what connection you're trying to draw.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ I mistook you for Corporal Captain, and I apologize.

 

[LJones41]

You couldn't have figured out that they were sh*t just based on the concept alone?

Did my comment bother you?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

^ I mistook you for Corporal Captain, and I apologize.

Who, me?

For a supposedly "horrible" movie, this sure hs a lot of votes rating it above-average. I wonder what Tosk and the people who wasted their time "creating" the Golden Raspberry Awards would say to that.

A lot of votes where? Here at TrekBBS? Hardly. The number of respondents here doesn't constitute "a lot" by any stretch of the imagination.

Anyhoo, I haven't seen anyone say that you can't like the film, and the Golden Raspberry ceremony next month won't stop the world from turning, whatever its results. I wouldn't worry what they think.

 

[Set Harth]

All this talk about this "horrible" movie is making me wanna rewatch it again...

Yeah, seriously!

(Except I'm intermittently in the process of watching some replacement discs for another product to make sure they're ok and for some reason I feel like I need to get that done before watching anything else.)

 

[dahj]

The last time I watched it I was kinda swamped with stuff, so instead of waiting till a gap of 3 hours opened up I watched it over the course of a week as a sort of mini series of six 30 minute episodes.

It actually works pretty well like that too, though as I recall chapter times don't align perfectly with where I thought the breaks should be.

I've got 3 hours tonight however, so I guess that's my evening booked

 

[LJones41]

This was a bad movie. It deserves to be recognized as such.

While we're at it, why not nominate "Deadpool" or "Captain America: Civil War"?

 

[The Lensman]

While we're at it, why not nominate "Deadpool" or "Captain America: Civil War"?

Deadpool was alright, but Civil War was duller than shit. Best part of the movie was when the lights in the theater came back on.

 

[DimesDan]

While we're at it, why not nominate "Deadpool" or "Captain America: Civil War"?

Neither was a "bad" movie (by any stretch of the imagination and they're well liked) nor was Batman Vs Superman, but it's not particularly liked which equals the same thing sometimes.

 

[LJones41]

Neither was a "bad" movie (by any stretch of the imagination and they're well liked) nor was Batman Vs Superman, but it's not particularly liked which equals the same thing sometimes.

So these awards are not about whether one movie is really good or one is really bad. It's all about preference, which makes the whole awards scene irrelevant. I don't see how I'm supposed to view the Golden Razzies as an "accurate" take on the quality of "Batman v. Superman" or any other film it has nominated, along with the Golden Globes, the Oscars, the BAFTAs, the SAG Awards, the DG awards, the National Board of Review, etc. All of these are nothing more than popularity contests.

And considering that the "Transformers" films have been box office hits since the first one in the franchise, I guess I don't have to blindly accept the views of the general public on which films are actually good and which ones are not. Nor do I have to blindly accept the views of the media, as well.

 

[Gaith]

I guess I don't have to blindly accept the views of the general public on which films are actually good and which ones are not. Nor do I have to blindly accept the views of the media, as well.

Dude, chill. Liking a crappy superhero movie and refusing to be brainwashed by the Razzie Elder Gods does not make you modern-day Thomas Paine.

The Razzies are a joke by definition. Some people like the joke, others don't, and that's okay. It's all okay. We're all going to be okay.

(Well, until President Obama leaves office, that is, but that's another story. )

 

[DigificWriter]

A joke, by definition, is something that is funny. Demeaning the hard work of numerous people (which is exactly what the Razzies do) is not funny by any stretch of the imagination, and no amount of saying "well, it's a joke" is going to change that.