AFT Awards: Worst Movie of the Year

This is the twenty-fifth category of the 4th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors, or dishonors in this case. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category, which includes films that received an F grade.

Runners-up:
THE OTHER GUYS
HEMINGWAY’S GARDEN OF EDEN
SALT
COP OUT
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
AFTER.LIFE
HAPPINESS RUNS
DADDY LONGLEGS

The winner:
Knucklehead was appallingly bad, and one of its worst offenses was that it was so unbelievably unclear who was supposed to be its target audience, since jokes seemed to be aimed alternately at adults and at babies.

Other nominees:
Skyline tried to be inventive in its alien invasion storyline but failed so miserably, valuing senselessness over dialogue, characters, and, you know, plot. The Last Airbender, by far M. Night Shyamalan’s worst project, should have been dazzling and exciting. Instead it was deathly boring and hopelessly childish. Clash of the Titans featured superhuman beings and therefore didn’t feel as if it needed to be grounded in logic or coherence, emphasizing stupidity instead. Centurion gave way to violent tendencies and one of its characters’ senses of smell rather than a compelling epic wartime survival story.