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The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst Paperback – January 1, 2005
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- Print length380 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGrand Central Publishing
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2005
- Dimensions6 x 1.13 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100446693340
- ISBN-13978-0446693349
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"(Wilsons) writing, ribald with pithy puns, proves highly entertaining and had me smiling the whole way through." -- Bookloons
"Extremely well-written...highly entertaining...highly recommended...a tool no open-minded and well-rounded film buff should be without." -- EDGE Boston
"Extremely well-written highly entertaining highly recommended a tool no open-minded and well-rounded film buff should be without." -- EDGE Boston:
This book compiles Wilson's bitingly funny commentary on Razzie dis-honorees (and ) hurls hilarious barbs at 'meteoric misfires.' -- Publisher's Weekly
This book compiles Wilsons bitingly funny commentary on Razzie dis-honorees (and ) hurls hilarious barbs at 'meteoric misfires.' -- Publisher's Weekly
Wilson provides wonderfully droll reviews and acerbic plot summaries a surfeit of saccharine Goobers, empty calories but fun to eat. -- ----Library Journal
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- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing; First Edition (January 1, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 380 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0446693340
- ISBN-13 : 978-0446693349
- Item Weight : 1.07 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.13 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,291,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #653 in Movie Guides & Reviews
- #12,097 in Performing Arts (Books)
- #26,874 in Humor (Books)
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JOHN WILSON
Founder/Head RAZZberry, The Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Awards
In his more than fifty years on planet Hollywood, John Wilson has seen more than 4,500 movies, many of them as the founder of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and creator of the RAZZIE Awards, which have dis-honored Worst Achievements in Film since 1980. He was recently saluted by E!TV as "the foremost authority on all things that suck on the big screen."
A staff film critic at The Daily Bruin while attending UCLA's prestigious movie/TV studies program, Wilson's lifelong movie mania is the result of a childhood spent skipping school to sit in the bleachers at several Oscar ceremonies and major movie premieres in the 1960s, staying up 'till all hours with his parents watching middle-of-the-night reruns of LOST HORIZON and SUNSET BLVD, and being a subscriber to Variety from the tender age of 12.
As an adult, Wilson has spent more than thirty years as a producer, copywriter, and creative consultant for many entertainment industry clients. He has worked on countless major movie campaigns, including those for the first three STAR WARS films, three of the four Christopher Reeve SUPERMAN movies, and such classic Disney reissues as PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP, and 101 DALMATIANS. He has worked for CBS, PBS, HBO and the Playboy Channel, and worked on such projects as a three-minute retrospective look at MGM/UA's renowned video library, the EPK (electronic press kit) for the Academy Awards, and hundreds of on-air promos for Fox Movie Channel.
Wilson's first book, a compilation of film-still-illustrated cinematic cliche's entitled EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES, was published in 1995. His current book, THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE, which lists his choices as the 100 funniest bad movies ever made, appeared on the Los Angeles Times Best Seller List.
Wilson now lives with his equally movie-crazy son, 4 DVD players, a 597-volume film reference library, and more than 2,000 DVDs and videotapes in an ever-more-crowded home in a quiet Tinseltown suburb of Los Angeles, California.
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What I love about this book (and the Razzies in general) is the ability to skewer not only small, insignificant films like "The Creeping Terror" and "Devil Girl From Mars", but to take on hugely bloated yet unspeakably bad tripe like "Glitter", "Exorcist II: The Heretic", and "Spice World".
Truly, this is a treasure trove of bad cinema and has given me many good (bad) suggestions for future viewing, as well as helping me plan future gifts for fellow movie lovers.
If you have any interest in movies, especially if you love the bottom of the barrel so-bad-it's-good film, this book is a must.
Cons: Misspelled words and other errors in some places; questionable choices for worst list
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I’m fairly certain the typos are a result of errors that can occur when printed text is scanned to produce an electronic copy, in which case, they shouldn’t reflect on the author. But this should also serve as a reminder to publishers, editors, and authors that all text, scanned or otherwise, needs a copyeditor.
No, I’m not one of those people who howls every time she finds a minor misprint. But, to give you one example, when the first word I see on a page is ‘Avelanche’ in large, bold type, I can’t help wincing. (The mistake is repeated in the Table of Contents but not in John Wilson’s hilarious description of the film itself.) As I said, that’s one example but sadly, not the only one.
Other than that, the person who gave us the Razzies deserves two-thumbs-up and many, many thanks.
All in all, worth to read.
This book compiles a list of some of the best (or worst) and is quite a funny read, I just wish there was more of it!







