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		<title>Top 10 Worst Movies of 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[10. Meet The Spartans This could be easily number one, but since I only made it through the first 15 minutes I&#8217;ve pushed it back to 10. Sorry, Kevin Sorbo. 9. Hancock Bait and switch! I was under the impression that this was a comedy about a homeless superhero. Instead, I was bamboozled into watching [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>10. Meet The Spartans</strong><br />
This could be easily number one, but since I only made it through the first 15 minutes I&#8217;ve pushed it back to 10. Sorry, Kevin Sorbo.</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-149" title="hancock-poster" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/hancock-poster-204x300.jpg" alt="hancock-poster" width="204" height="300" />9. Hancock</strong><br />
Bait and switch! I was under the impression that this was a comedy about a homeless superhero. Instead, I was bamboozled into watching Peter Berg&#8217;s latest Scientology recruitment video. This would have been excellent had it remained a comedy, but the convoluted plot twist in the second act turned this promising movie into <em>Battle Field Earth</em>.</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-150" title="street_kings" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/street_kings-202x300.jpg" alt="street_kings" width="202" height="300" />8. Street Kings</strong><br />
I had high hopes for this movie. A crew of dirty cops. One of them is implicated in the murder of a fellow officer? Sounds like something involving Vick Mackey (Season 2-4), but Keanu as an alcholic vice cop is laughable. This movie also gets negative points for the audacity of calling it &#8220;The Watchmen&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-151" title="x-files-2-poster" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/x-files-2-poster-239x300.jpg" alt="x-files-2-poster" width="239" height="300" />7. X-Files: I Want to Believe</strong></p>
<p>Basically a 2 hour episode. Would have been better if it came out in the 90&#8242;s.</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-152" title="be-kind-rewind-moviehp" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/be-kind-rewind-moviehp-200x300.jpg" alt="be-kind-rewind-moviehp" width="200" height="300" />6. Be Kind Rewind</strong><br />
This movie spawned the most pretentious internet phenomenon of all time, &#8220;swede movies&#8221;.  Although short lived, it did produce a lot of shit youtube videos&#8230; thus adding to the shit phenomenon that was this movie (picture a giant shit supernova, but at a running time of 1:41 mins).</p>
<p>Plus, Jack Black in Blackface. Not cool.</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-153" title="transporter_3_poster2" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/transporter_3_poster2-194x300.jpg" alt="transporter_3_poster2" width="194" height="300" />5. Transporter 3</strong><br />
The Transporter formula is pretty simple. Statham + Cars = Action Movie. How can you mess this up?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, Natalya Rudakova.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-155" title="denirocentpacino_l" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/denirocentpacino_l.jpg" alt="denirocentpacino_l" width="320" height="240" /></strong>&#8220;One of these Things Just doesn&#8217;t Belong&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>4. Righteous Kill</strong></p>
<p>Imagine <em>Scent of a Woman</em> and <em>Analyze This</em>, throw them in a lame serial killer story, toss in a skateboarding pimp, a has been boy band member and 50-Cent&#8230;sigh.  Remember on <em>The Simpsons </em>when Homer tried to build the ultimate car? That&#8217;s probably what the initial meetings for the conception of this movie; &#8220;Yeah, lets make the white male pimp more <em>EXTREME&#8221;</em> &#8211; High Fives!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-142" title="punisherwarzoneposter-62908" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/punisherwarzoneposter-62908-202x300.jpg" alt="punisherwarzoneposter-62908" width="202" height="300" /></p>
<p><strong>3. Punisher Warzone</strong></p>
<p>I understand that the original intention was to be a homage to the Tim Bradstreet/Garth Ennis version of the Punisher (with its own brand of gonzo violence)  but the use of brutality in this movie is set to a cartoonish level. What originally might have looked cool in print fails epically on screen. I think director Lexi Alexander originally intended this to be a comedy, thus making Ray Stevenson&#8217;s already wooden performance the greatest example of deadpan comedy ever documented (look out Steven Wright).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-156" title="markwahlberg" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/markwahlberg.jpg" alt="markwahlberg" width="198" height="284" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>2. The Happening</strong></p>
<p>If the &#8220;disease&#8221; is an airborne virus are you telling me Mark Whalberg survived that long with those nostrils?</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-157" title="thedaytheearthstoodstill_2008_poster_01_small" src="http://nerdup.ca/wp-content/uploads/thedaytheearthstoodstill_2008_poster_01_small-202x300.jpg" alt="thedaytheearthstoodstill_2008_poster_01_small" width="202" height="300" />1. The Day The Earth Stood Still</strong></p>
<p>As if you didn&#8217;t know!</p>
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