The Worst Films I Saw in 2008: Part 3

The final three films on this list are bad. Really bad.

3. The Women
In 1938, George Cukor directed a classic movie called The Women. The genius behind Murphy Brown decided to remake it, proving that lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place. She turns The Women into more of a Maury Povich episode than a witty slapstick. The worst thing of all is how stupid and cliche she makes the characters. So what once was a movie (and play before it) championing the rights and competencies of women becomes the exact opposite.

2. Meet the Spartans
It gives me chills to think that this is a year where Meet the Spartans isn't the worst movie. This one has no recognizable plot. It's just a bunch of spoofs plugged into the plot of the Spartan movie 300, which was a little light on plot itself. The problem lies not with the form of the movie, but with the way in which it is undertaken. Instead of sending up a genre that is ripe for a little ribbing (gladiator movies, essentially; although, one of those comes along maybe once every 10 years now...this might have been a better idea had it been made around 1967 or so), the directors/writers attempt to cram as many pop culture references into 84 minutes as they can. The references don't even make sense. I wish I had a time machine so I could smack this out of my hand at Blockbusters.


1. 10,000 BC
This one is worse that the previous movie for one reason: it takes itself seriously.
The only thing good about this film is that, eventually, it ends.
The director and screenwriter are co-writing a feature film about the Mayan predictions of 2012. It's supposed to be released in November, but let's all collectively pray that, if the end of the world is coming, 2012 will be pushed back until the middle of 2012 so we never, ever have to see it.



There you have it. The 20 worst films that I saw in 2008.

Tune in on Monday for the first scheduled entry of this blog.