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Film Prophet's 5th Annual Best &
Worst Movie Awards:
2008 Edition
2008 is a contender for the worst year of '00 movies
to date. With the exception of a couple hits over the summer, the range
and depth were missing the entire year until December rolled around at
the end of the year like every year that redeemed it somewhat. Most fell
under the slightly below mediocre grade of a C+. Anyways, The Dark
Knight pretty much swept most of Film Prophet's annual awards this year,
more than any other in the past. The summer season of 2008 was basically
The Dark Knight and everything else and the fall season didn't tempt me
much to visit the theaters.
These awards are based on the movies out in 2008 I've seen and reviewed
up to this date of creating this, which is January 2009. I just don't
have the enthusiasm to suffer through certain films and then also sit
back and reflect on them for an hour to type up a review just for this
site. I really do not care to name the bad movies this year I didn't
watch because they're too many and just forgettable to even recall how
dreadful they are.
These aren't the worst films of the year. These are just the ones that
let me down and there were a ton of them this year that had potential
and mostly ended up as a waste.
The 10 most disappointing movies released in 2008:
1. Eagle Eye
2. Quantum of Solace
3. The Forbidden Kingdom
4. City of Ember
5. Appaloosa
6. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
7. Hancock
8. Burn After Reading
9. Body of Lies
10. Righteous Kill
Others: Cloverfield, Jumper, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Other Boleyn Girl
The 2008 Awards
Most original film:
The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL·E
Most Surprising Film:
Slumdog Millionaire
Mentionables - Funny Games U.S., Kung Fu Panda, The Wrestler, Marley &
Me
Most Overrated Film of the Year:
Iron Man
Mentionables - Tropic Thunder, Quantum of Solace, Pineapple Express, In
Bruges
Most Underrated Film of the Year:
Funny Games U.S.
Mentionable - Kung Fu Panda, Revolutionary Road, Marley & Me
Most disregarded film:
Doubt
Mentionables - The Wrestler, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Duchess
Best movies to laugh to:
Step Brothers
Mentionables - Role Models, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Gran Torino
Best Looking Theatrical Trailers:
The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Eagle Eye, Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button, Appaloosa, Milk
Best Looking Television Trailers:
Burn After Reading
Mentionables - Wanted, The Dark Knight, Forgetting Sarah Marshall,
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Best Poster:
The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Wanted, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Doubt
Best Sequel:
The Dark Knight
Mentionable - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Best Box Office Hit:
The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Worst Movie Character:
Jack Lira in Milk
Mentionables - John Hancock in Hancock, Roland in Jumper, Loris Harrow
in City of Ember, Dale Denton in Pineapple Express, Everyone and
everything in Eagle Eye, High School kids in Twilight
Best Movie Character:
The Joker in The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire, Wesley Gibson in
Wanted, Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Po in Kung Fu Panda,
Master Shifu in Kung Fu Panda, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in The Wrestler,
Benjamin Button in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harvey Milk in
Milk, Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino, Marley in Marley & Me
Worst acting ensemble:
Cloverfield
Mentionables - The Forbidden Kingdom, Jumper, Righteous Kill, City of
Ember, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Twilight
Underappreciated performances:
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight
Michael Pitt in Funny Games U.S.
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Viola Davis in Doubt
Angelina Jolie in Wanted
Naomi Watts in Funny Games U.S.
Emile Hirsch in Milk
Sam Rockwell in Frost/Nixon
Amy Adams in Doubt
Keira Knightley in The Duchess
Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges
Jared Harris in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Peter Dinklage in Penelope
Nikki Reed in Twilight
Rebecca Hall in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Javier Bardem in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Overappreciated performances:
Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man
George Clooney in Burn After Reading
Ralph Fiennes in The Duchess
Josh Brolin in Milk
Best Villains:
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda
Denis O'Hare as Dr. Jonathan Steele in Changeling
Jeffrey Donovan as Capt. J.J. Jones in Changeling
Jason Butler Harner as Gordon Northcott in Changeling
Cam Gigandet as James in Twilight
Luke Goss as Prince Nuada in Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Favorite performances:
Actors - Sean Penn in Milk, Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, James Franco
in Milk, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Jason Segel in Forgetting
Sarah Marshall, Gary Oldman in The Dark Knight, Christian Bale in The
Dark Knight, Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Leonardo
DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt,
Peter Dinklage in Penelope, Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, Owen Wilson
in Marley & Me
Actresses - Meryl Streep in Doubt, Keira Knightley in The Duchess, Angelina Jolie in Wanted,
Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler, Kristen Bell in Forgetting Sarah Marshall,
Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Naomi Watts in
Funny Games U.S., Saoirse Ronan in City of Ember, Kate Winslet in
Revolutionary Road, Amy Adams in Doubt, Scarlett Johansson in Vicky
Cristina Barcelona, Jennifer Aniston in Marley & Me
Best Year:
The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Robert Downey Jr., James Franco, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet
Best Direction:
Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Darren Aronofsky for The Wrestler, David Fincher for The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire,
Gus Van Sant for Milk, John Patrick Shanley for Doubt, David Frankel for
Marley & Me
Best Scene:
The Dark Knight - The Disappearing Pencil Trick, which is easily the
easiest to remember, but the best scenes this year all come from this
movie
Mentionables -
The Wrestler -
The 'a little more, a little less' scene at the deli counter
Revolutionary Road - Michael
Shannon telling it like it is and digging deep into Leonardo DiCaprio
and Kate Winslet as to why plans were cancelled
during a pregnancy announcement at a dinner table
Doubt - The hilarious fat steak scene with Adams and Streep at the
Sisters’ dinner table
Gran Torino - Eastwood teaching a kid what to say when entering a
barbershop
Best Ensemble:
The Dark Knight
Mentionables - Doubt, Revolutionary Road, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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