What happened to Bruce Willis?

On 8 February, the Razzie nominations were released to honour the worst of last year's Hollywood releases.

The Golden Raspberry Awards, as they are known by their formal title, recognise films ranging from moderately cringe-worthy to downright insulting (this year, Dear Evan Hansen and Space Jam: A New Legacy take pride of place.)

Actors are encouraged by their agents not to take the selections seriously, reassured that it’s all in good fun.

But a Razzie acknowledgment conceivably marks a stain on both future prospects and their Wikipedia pages.

Every so often members of the awarding organisation come up with one-off categories when an unignorably bad trend in film makes itself known to them.

In 2010, a time when cinemas were in the chokehold of new and unsatisfying technologies, they concocted ‘Worst Eye-Gouging Use Of 3D’ (awarded to M. Night Shyamalan’s take on ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’).

When fart-humour was over-utilised for comedic peaks in 2002, ‘Jackass: The Movie’ beat ‘Scooby Doo’ and Britney Spears’ ‘Crossroads’ to the award for ‘Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie’.

For the first time in the awards’ 40-year history, the Razzies have decided one individual's film output deserves its own category.

That actor is Bruce Willis. And disarmingly, he appears to have stopped caring.

The ‘Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie’ award recognises the eight feature-length films released last year starring the 66-year-old American.

It's unlikely that you’ve seen or heard of any of them. Until this news came out it’s safe to assume most people hadn’t, because the productions Bruce Willis finds himself signing up to aren’t made to be seen.

All eight films are – to resurrect a 90s term – direct-to-video features that can be