That sets up the labored, lifeless, stitched-together cavalcade of spoofs, goofs, Family Guy-style cutaways, and ham-fisted cameos that follows. MGK's character, evoking the charmless, confused exasperation that will define this role, can't compute what the text means, though he takes the massive leap that it's relationship-ending. "Good mourning" it reads, setting up the flimsy-as-fuck premise that our hero is being broken up with via iPhone on the very day he's meeting for the role of a lifetime-Batman. Don’t get too high.” The babe in question is London Clash (MGK), the megastar TV actor who awakens to a text from his girlfriend Apple (Becky G). The film opens with a floating tarot card descending to opulent L.A., as we hear a whispered quote: “Today’s the biggest day of your life babe. Good Mourning was just like being chained at the ankle for a day with someone you would not want to spend time with.” Silly as they may be, those movies sort of have plots. It’s like Adam Sandler times 10 with the cameos he has a track record of inviting his friends to be in his movies, but he has actual writers. It’s one of the most slack, indulgent, uninteresting… I mean it all revolves around a misinterpreted cell phone message. If I were marketing the movie, I would figure out what those two guys were on when they made it and hand it out in the lobby, just so audiences could follow the dumb thing. "“Those two guys beat out the director of Blonde, the director of Pinocchio, the directors of way better-known movies. We connected with Razzie founder John Wilson by phone Monday to hear why the movie deserved his unenviable award: Spoiler: The current 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.1 out of 10 on IMDb are perhaps generous. Mod's opportunist pivot to the revitalized genre du jour, pop punk, coincided with his unlikely tabloid ubiquity spawned from messy public romances with Bella Thorne, Tana Mongeau, and Avril.Īs Racket's resident sucker for punishment, I spent $3 plus 93 minutes of my Sunday evening suffering through Good Mourning. His collaborators include fellow Minnesotan Riff Raff, MGK, Blackbear, G-Eazy, and Travis Barker, the latter of whom is actually good. He'd then rebrand as the acronym Mod Sun (“Movement On Dreams, Stand Under None”), and became a progenitor of the so-called "hippy hop" genre, a druggy, positive, psychedelic style of rap. The real-life Derek Smith emerged from the 'burbs as drummer for post-hardcore band Four Letter Lie (the "Lie" is. Mod Sun being formally recognized for creating bad art won't be surprising for those who've tracked the 36-year-old Bloomington native's career. (Be sure to revisit Racket's MGK panning from last summer, which even drew praise from literary icon Roxane Gay.) The rapper/singer/songwriter/ recent pop-punk purist received the "Worst Director" Razzie for Good Mourning, the stoner comedy he co-directed with Machine Gun Kelly. Freshly dumped by fiancé Avril Lavigne, Mod Sun endured additional indignity at Saturday's 43rd annual Golden Raspberry Awards-aka The Razzies. (The prolific 94-year-old actor enjoyed some light ribbing from host Jimmy Kimmel.)Īt the polar opposite end of the excellence spectrum, another Minnesota talent was recognized for his contributions to the world of film. The only major local connection at last night's slap-less Oscars was James Hong, the Minneapolis-born Hollywood great who co-starred in "Best Picture" winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.
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