Last year was by far one of the worst years for film in recent memory. There have been terrible movies and giant let downs that I am (with great difficulty) putting together my list of the 10 worst films of 2008. I apologize for films that may be missing like Meet the Spartans, Over Her Dead Body or The Love Guru, but I simply never had the time or inclination to see such drivel.

It gives me no pleasure to present the worst films of 2008:

10. The Foot Fist Way – Danny McBride was hilarious in Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder, but this R-rated Napoleon Dynamite is boring and unfunny. I’d rather watch the entire filmography of Mr. Dynamite himself, Jon Heder, than watch this again.

9. Strange Wilderness – The apparent follow up to Grandma’s Boy was a complete waste of time. How is it possible that a movie with so many actors who are usually pretty darn funny (Jonah Hill and Steve Zahn) manages to produce not one laugh in 90 minutes?

8. Saw V – I shouldn’t have expected this to be any good, but this is by far the worst entry into the Saw canon. I don’t know why they keep making these. Well, maybe I do. Don’t judge me when I go see Saw VI and complain about how terrible it is.

7. The Strangers – I rarely go out of my way to see horror films unless they warrant an R-rating and look semi-decent (hence Shutter and The Eye not being on this list). The Strangers looked promising and was receiving decent reviews. Actually, it was a giant pile of crap that shouldn’t be viewed by anyone. You get to watch Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler crawl around and cry for an hour while three people in masks prance around and screw with them. Not scary, and not actually based on true events as it claimed.

6. Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull– This movie is much better than any other on this list, but everyone knows by now that the biggest letdown of 2008 deserves a spot on any 10 worst list. Shia LeBeouf? Monkeys? Aliens? A refrigerator? You’ve done it again, Mr. Lucas.

5.Untraceable– Diane Lane and Colin Hanks star in this ultra-lame suspense thriller that involves a guy running a website that puts people closer to their death every time someone visits the page. The torture scenes were boring, the movie moved along at a snails’ pace and the acting wasn’t worthy of cheap television. It was like a dramatic version of Saw but not entertaining in any sense of the word.

4. The Happening– How can a movie with Marky Mark and the beautiful Zooey Deschanel not be good? The answer: If M. Night Shyamalan directs it. I defended his previous movie, Lady in the Water, as mediocre and semi-imaginative, but this guy needs to stop making movies. The plants did it? Really? Nice twist, idiot.

3. Righteous Kill– Once again, this movie is not as bad as the other entries on the list, but director Jon Avnet managed to take two of the greatest actors of all time, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, and make a cop drama that is as predictable as it is terrible. Throw in Donnie Wahlberg and 50 Cent and you have a real loser. Where’s Martin Scorsese when you need him?

2. Disaster Movie– Right up front, I have to admit that I never sat down and watched this whole mess. I peeked in and watched 15 minutes of this, and, in that 15 minutes, they referenced Iron Man, Hellboy II, Sex & the City, The Incredible Hulk, Juno, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Enchanted, Twister and Hancock. Note: They referenced them but didn’t spoof them. Iron Man getting hit by a cow doesn’t count as a spoof. It counts as brain damage.

1. 88 Minutes – Jon Avnet’s action-thriller-drama 88 Minutes tops my list for many reasons. Words can’t describe how awful this movie is. It may be called 88 Minutes, but its runtime was somewhere around an hour and 45 minutes, which is the biggest crime of all. Who wants to watch an aging and mildly crazy Al Pacino run around a college campus and the streets of Seattle trying to find a killer threatening his life? Why are the college aged girls in the movie attracted to Pacino? Why doesn’t Al Pacino just retire? There are so many things I want to ask that may never be answered. There may have been worse movies this year, but none blew me away in such a terrible way as 88 Minutes. I was laughing at all the wrong times.

I completely forgot to put 10,000 BC on this list, which you can fit in at about 5.5 on the list. Roland Emmerich really needs to stop making movies. This was his worst yet. A bunch of dreaded cavemen go to Egypt to save a surprisingly clean cavewoman. Throw in a saber-toothed tiger, dinosaur birds and some mammoths and you have a recipe for an awful movie.

There you have it: The worst of 2008.