Another batch of Bugsies

Last edition's listing of the worst movies screened in the past year prompted respected Brisbane film critic PRUDENCE to submit her own nominations for the annual Bugsie Awards.

Most blatant attempt to reconstruct a myth into public consciousness as reality through fictional licence:
Ned Kelly

Most clumsy efforts at leaden symbolism:
The death of an African lion in the battle of Glenrowan in Ned Kelly.

Most one-dimensional characters:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Most drawn-out battle scenes inducing yawns:
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Most disappointing allocation of a major budget, which could have been used much more effectively anywhere else:
40 Days and 40 Nights

Most wooden performance and most annoyingly predictable plot:
Killing Me Softly

Most insulting of the audience's intelligence:
The Sum of All Fears and Long Time Dead

Most impressive use of crockery in a gratuitous sex scene:
Tempted

Most blatant product placement:
I am Sam

Worst remake:
Rollerball

Most woeful TV adaptation into film:
Scooby-Doo

Most impressive and convincing portrayal of a has-been:
Sylvester Stallone in D-Tox (It's like he truly is a has-been!)

Most disappointing home-grown film featuring shameless American
teen-movie cliches:
Blurred

Most desperate attempt to remake The Castle:
The Nugget

The inaugural Golden Beret Lifetime Achievement Award recognising a career sparkling with pretentiousness:
Brisbane's own Bill Bennett

I think the movie xXx deserves a reference simply on its own merits. There should be an award for simply bad films.