Jbaker475's Worst Movies of the Year Nominees...

Hollywood is currently in the midst of awards season, where various critics groups, guilds, and the Academy itself try to award the best of the best in film. And while it's all great fun, it can become more than a little repetitive. To give you a change of pace, here's a look at this blogger's nominees for the worst films of the year. Like the Texan awards, these won't be revealed until about a week or so before the Oscars, which gives you plenty of time to see these piles of garbage. In roughly 2 more weeks, I'll follow this up with the annual list of the 12 most overrated things/people of the past year. For now, enjoy (or...don't) these nominees for the Worst Movies of 2008.


Note: Since I didn't do these last year, I needed to come up with an award name, and what better way to pay tribute to trash than by naming an award after the worst movie I've ever seen: Kevin Costner's The Postman.

The first official nominees for The Postman Award for Wasted Film Reels

Worst Picture:

• Choke
• 10000 BC
• The Happening
• The Spirit
• Drillbit Taylor
  

Dishonorable Mention: Wanted

Worst Director:

• Clark Gregg - Choke
• Roland Emmerich - 10000 BC
• M. Night Shyamalan - The Happening
• Frank Miller - The Spirit
• Pete Travis - Vantage Point

Worst Actor:

• Mark Wahlberg - The Happening
• Steven Strait - 10000 BC
• Ben Barnes - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• Gabriel Macht - The Spirit
• Owen Wilson - Drillbit Taylor

Worst Actress:

• Zooey Deschanel - The Happening
• Angelina Jolie - Changeling
• Eva Mendes - The Spirit
• Renee Zellweger - Leatherheads
• Liv Tyler - The Incredible Hulk

Worst Supporting Actor:

• Jeffrey Donovan - Changeling
• Samuel L. Jackson - The Spirit
• Forrest Whitaker - Vantage Point
• Shia LaBeouf - Indiana Jones IV
  
• asd

Worst Supporting Actress:

• Betty Buckley - The Happening
• Scarlett Johannson - The Spirit
• Paz Vega - The Spirit
• Camilla Belle - 10000 BC
• Olga Kurlyenko - Quantum of Solace

Worst Screenplay:

• The Happening
• The Spirit
• 10000 BC
• Choke
• The Incredible Hulk

Worst Line of Dialogue:

• any variation of "I WANT MY SON!!!" - Changeling
• "Shoot this motherf***er!" - Wanted (as said by Morgan Freeman, of all people)
• "If I free you, promise that you will not eat me!" - 10000 BC after the main character is trapped in a pit with a saber toothed tiger
• "TOILETS ARE ALWAYS FUNNY!!" - The Spirit
• "I just want to say that we are sorry..." - The Happening, from the infamous Mark-Wahlberg-apologizes-to-a-plastic-plant scene

Worst Comedy:

• Pineapple Express
• Choke
• Hamlet 2
• Drillbit Taylor

Worst Action Movie:

• Pineapple Express
• The Incredible Hulk
• Wanted
• Quantum of Solace
• 10000 BC

Worst Execution of a Great Idea:

• Vantage Point
• Hamlet 2

Movie Most in Dire Need of Heavy Editing/Retooling:

• Brideshead Revisited
• The Spirit
• Choke
• Wanted
• The Incredible Hulk

Worst Waste of a Talented Cast:

• Choke (Sam Rockwell, Kelly MacDonald, Anjelica Huston)
  
• The Spirit (Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johannson, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson)
  
• The Incredible Hulk (Edward FREAKIN' NORTON, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Tim Roth)
• Leatherheads (George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski)
• Indiana Jones IV (Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Hurt, Cate Blanchett)

Worst Scene:

• Mark Wahlberg and the plastic plant - The Happening
• Shia LaBeouf swings through the vines with monkeys - Indiana Jones IV
• Fox wipes out everyone with a 360 degreee bullet - Wanted
• Samuel L. Jackson and ScarJo confront the Spirit, dressed in Nazi garb - The Spirit
• Demon ostriches!! - 10000 BC

If I think of other categories, I'll add them!