The 1999 How Dare You Awards

Worst Title:

  • A Dog of Flanders

  • A Slipping Down Life

  • Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

  • Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

  • Pokemon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back (WINNER!)

Most Unnecessary Sequel:

  • Fantasia 2000

  • Muppets From Space

  • The Rage: Carrie 2 (WINNER!)

  • Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season

  • Universal Soldier II: The Return

Biggest Disappointment:

  • Eyes Wide Shut

  • Mystery Men

  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (WINNER!)

  • Summer of Sam

  • Wild Wild West

Movie That Should Have Had Action Figures, But Didn’t:

  • Angela’s Ashes (WINNER!)

  • Flawless

  • Girl, Interrupted

  • Stigmata

  • The Straight Story

Biggest Computer-Generated Obscenity:

  • Gadgetmobile: Inspector Gadget

  • The Tarantula, Wild Wild West

  • The House, The Haunting

  • Jar Jar Binks: Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (WINNER!)

  • The Sharks: Deep Blue Sea

Most Regrettable Performance by a TV Actor in a Film Role:

  • Calista Flockhart: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar: Cruel Intentions

  • Melissa Joan Hart: Drive Me Crazy

  • James Van Der Beek: Varsity Blues (WINNER!)

  • Betty White: Lake Placid

Most Regrettable Performance by a Non-Actor in an Acting Role:

  • Bill Goldberg (WCW Wrestler): Universal Soldier: The Return

  • Jewel Kichre (Singer/Poet): Ride with the Devil

  • Alanis Morissette (Singer): Dogma

  • Dennis Rodman (NBA Player): Simon Sez (WINNER!)

  • Lawrence Taylor (NFL Player): Any Given Sunday

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actor: 

  • Cuba Gooding Jr: Chill Factor

  • Kevin Kline: Wild Wild West

  • John Voight: Varsity Blues (WINNER!)

  • Christopher Walken: Blast From the Past

  • Robin Williams: Jakob the Liar

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actress:

  • Faye Daunaway: The Messenger

  • Goldie Hawn: The Out-of-Towners

  • Diane Keaton: The Other Sister (WINNER!)

  • Mira Sorvino: At First Sight

  • Sissy Spacek Blast From the Past

Most Reprehensible Body of Work in a Single Year:

  • Ben Affleck: 200 Cigarettes, Dogma, Forces of Nature

  • Claire Danes: Brokedown Palace, The Mod Squad, Princess Mononoke

  • Ellen Degeneres: The Love Letter, EDtv, Goodbye Lover

  • Omar Epps: In Too Deep, The Mod Squad, The Wood, Breakfast of Champions

  • Brendan Fraser: Blast from the Past, Dudley Do-Right, The Mummy (WINNER!)

Title that Best Fits a Porno Movie:

  • The Bone Collector (WINNER!)

  • Bowfinger

  • Boys Don’t Cry

  • The Insider

  • Jawbreaker

Most Formulaic:

  • Chill Factor: A dangerous bomb must get to a fort but must be kept below 50 degrees or it explodes so an ice cream truck is the perfect place for it. It’s speed with an ice cream truck.

  • Double Jeopardy: This formula entails Ashley Judd being in danger

  • Jakob the Liar: The formula is not only hope in a WWII movie but that Robin Williams is giving us that hope

  • Lake Placid: Your classic monster movie formula in which nobody believes that this monster lurks nearby to kill

  • Runaway Bride: The formula is two people not made for each other are made for each other (WINNER!)

Most Ridiculous Concept:

  • Baby Geniuses: Baby talk prior to the age of two is actually highly sophisticated communication and an escaped baby from the Babyco company is trying to unite babies from outside the company

  • Chill Factor: A dangerous bomb must get to a fort but must be kept below 50 degrees or it explodes so an ice cream truck is the perfect place for it (WINNER!)

  • Deep Blue Sea: A group of scientists are trying to cure Alzheimers by experimenting on sharks and somehow make them super smart

  • Flawless: A homophobic security guard who has a stroke is sent for singing lessons to a flamboyantly gay coach awaiting gender reassignment

  • Molly: An autistic woman lives with her estranged brother and gets an experimental treatment that makes her smart and makes her brother less of a jerk

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