1. 10,000 BC
I never would have guessed that Roland Emmerich's (the guy who did Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow) historically inaccurate 10,000 BC would stay top of my list of worst films of the year right until the end (note sarcasm there). Words cannot adequately describe how historically inaccurate this thing is, with mammoths helping to make the pyramids, leading characters speaking English thousands of years before anyone actually was speaking it, and people who look like they've just stepped out of a magazine wearing lipstick and eye-liner. It's just laughable, utterly embarrassing. Emmerich usually has a knack of making a film entertaining in spite of everything else that may be wrong with it simply with enjoyable action sequences but he even fails to get that right here. The action is sub-par at best and sleep-inducing at worst; not even the vast array of different predatory animals — such as tigers, lizards, and mammoths — can make it even halfway enjoyable. This is the dumbest, least enjoyable, least worthwile, official worst film of 2008.
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1 - Jordan Richardson
Interesting list.
I actually quite liked Redacted and didn't mind The Happening either. Zohan had a few laughs, too.
I'd consider:
Space Chimps
Meet the Spartans
Disaster Movie
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Rambo
Ugh. I honestly rather watch Zohan ten times over than see any of those again.
2 - Ross Miller
Thankfully I managed to avoid all but one of those (I did see Rambo, but I ended up not minding because of the last half hour of full-on, crazy violence).
My list isn't "the worst of the worst" of ALL movies from 2008 because I managed to skip some of the absolute crap (such as Disaster Movie and Meet The Spartans). My list is just the worst of those I personally saw.
3 - Arlo J. Wiley
Oh man, The Happening is awesome. I mean, yeah, it's actually awful, but it is so rare to see a filmmaker of Shyamalan's stature fail so completely and spectacularly that it kind of inspires awe.
Definitely the funniest movie I saw all year.
4 - jaylord l.
uhm...i think the happenin g is really awful...indeed. your right it is somewhat like incomplete...but if polished can be a very nice film..
5 - heloise
Ihave not seen any of your worst movies. But I did see Australia. It is not a worst just confused. My worst so far is Mama Mia, why did they make it? My question.
Heloise