The 2008 How Dare You Awards

Worst Title:

• 21

• 27 Dresses

• 88 Minutes (WINNER!)

• 10,000 B.C.

• W.

Most Unnecessary Sequel:

• Big Momma’s House 2

• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

• Rambo (WINNER!)

• Saw V

• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Movie That Took Itself Way, Way Too Seriously:

• 10,000 B.C. (WINNER!)

• Australia

• The Happening

• Stop Loss

• Twilight

Biggest Disappointment:

• The Incredible Hulk

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (WINNER!)

• The Love Guru

• Quantum of Solace

• Speed Racer

Least Successful Remake or Reboot:

• The Day the Earth Stood Still

• Death Race

• The Incredible Hulk

• Journey to the Center of the Earth (WINNER!)

• Prom Night

Movie Not Even a Child Wanted to See:

• Delgo

• Igor

• Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggitales Movie

• Space Chimps (WINNER!)

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Least Frightening Horror Movie:

• The Eye: A blind woman receives an eye transplants and sees nothing but ghosts

• The Happening: Trees are killing us (WINNER!)

• Mirrors: Crafty ghosts are using mirrors to enter our world

• One Missed Call: People call themselves from the future to tell themselves how they will die

• The Ruins: Silly teenagers on vacation are attacked by vines

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actor:

• Nicolas Cage: Bangkok Dangerous

• Robert DeNiro: Righteous Kill

• Robert DuVall: Four Christmases

• Ben Kingsley: Love Guru (WINNER!)

• Al Pacino: Righteous Kill

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actress:

• Kathy Bates: The Day the Earth Stood Still

• Susan Sarandon: Speed Racer

• Sissy Spacek: Four Christmases

• Charlize Theron: Hancock

• Reese Witherspoon: Four Christmases (WINNER!)

Movie You Least Wanted to See:

• Bangkok Dangerous

• Deception

• The Hottie and the Nottie (WINNER!)

• Meet Dave

• The Midnight Meat Train

Movie That Sounds Like a Porno Title:

• Bangkok Dangerous

• Choke

• Frost/Nixon

• Let the Right One In (WINNER!)

• Over Her Dead Body

Formulaic:

• 27 Dresses: Can a woman who is literally always the bridesmaid instead of the bride find love? We’ll find out (WINNER!)

• Bangkok Dangerous: A remorseless assassin on assignment in Thailand manages to think there is more to life than killing people

• Deception: A fish out of water story in which a total regular Joe has a chance meeting with a charismatic lawyer and somehow manages to delve deep into a world of treachery and murder

• Four Christmases: Two fairly shallow people trying to leave town for Christmas learn love each other and their families

• Made of Honor: It is not a surprise that in this formulaic movie a serial dating jerk realizes his best friend should be the woman he marries

• Untraceable: A common current formula in which a brilliant serial killer is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse and most likely going to make it personal with a beautiful FBI agent

Most Ridiculous Concept:

• The Happening: The trees are killing us

• Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Indy is on an adventure with his son and ex-lover and must bring an actual alien crystal skull back to where it belongs while avoiding a German soldier with a terrible haircut

• Meet Dave: A ship from outer space that happens to look exactly like Eddie Murphy has fallen to Earth and is trying to learn how to act human when the crew inside of Dave starts to feel profound emotional changes (WINNER!)

• Max Payne: After a cops family and partner are murdered he inexplicably teams up with a deadly Russian mobster to travel into a dark underworld to find the truth but forces both worldly and supernatural battle against them

• You Don’t Mess with the Zohan: The world’s greatest Israeli assassin wants to be a hairdresser and although he does not discriminate about who he makes love to he will fall in love with a beautiful woman