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Affleck, Lopez `honored' for being the worst act

The honeymoon's over for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, but their mob-comedy flop Gigli really cleaned up Saturday at the Razzies, the first movie to take all six top trophies in the annual dishonorable-mention awards.

Golden Raspberry Awards voters picked Gigli as last year's worst picture, Affleck as worst actor, Lopez as worst actress and the two as worst screen couple. Gigli filmmaker Martin Brest also took the Razzies for worst director and screenplay.

Gigli hit theaters last summer amid the tabloid frenzy over Affleck and Lopez's on-again, off-again wedding plans. They finally announced in January the romance was off.

The movie, which starred Affleck as a thug smitten by Lopez as a lesbian crime colleague, fell short of the record seven Razzies won by Showgirls and Battlefield Earth.

"But those are much better bad movies, if that makes any sense," said Razzies founder John Wilson. "If you sit through them with the right people or the right brand of liquor, they can be strangely entertaining.

"But I don't care how medicated you are or what people you're watching it with, Gigli is just a pain in the posterior. It's one of those things that is, as opposed to enjoyably embarrassing, just skin-crawlingly embarrassing."

Gigli cost US$54 million to make but earned back just US$6 million.

Among other "winners," Sylvester Stallone padded his Razzie resume with a record 10th prize, this time for worst supporting actor in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. Stallone's past Razzies include one for worst actor of the 20th century.

With the 25th annual Razzies coming up next year, the group is considering a special career-achievement prize for Stallone, Wilson said.

In Spy Kids 3-D, "he plays five characters, so technically the whole supporting-actor category could have been made up of his performances," Wilson said.

Demi Moore took the supporting-actress Razzie for her comeback role in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, which was also named worst remake or sequel.

"She tried to come back, and we said, `No, thanks. We chased you away before. Go away again,'" Wilson said.
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