The worst movies of the 21st century

made the list. From the treesthat-want-to-kill-us in The Happening to the complete letdown of Glass and the still-noidea-what-it-was Lady in the Water.

However, I went with The Village for its overwhelming pretension, for the twist that absolutely everybody saw coming and for being the one thing Shyamalan had never been before. Boring. cinema laughing from beginning to end.

My favourite moment? Young Hannibal glaring at a platoon of German soldiers and intoning ‘‘you ate my sister’’. Twice.

There has to be at least one locally made debacle in here and I’m going with The Vintner’s Luck.

If you hadn’t read the book, maybe it passed as a stagy, inert, but quite beautiful couple of hours about winemaking.

But, if you had read the book, you were left wondering what happened to the love story at its heart. As someone said, ‘‘imagine filming Brokeback Mountain and focusing mostly on the sheep’’.

The Twilight Saga was spread across five interminable films, which ran the gamut from likeably hilarious to utterly atrocious, often within one instalment. But they saved the worst for last.

Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was a film with no reason to exist.

The books were exhausted, but there was still an audience to fleece. And so, a cynical cash-in made up of one long dream sequence fight and a couple of tranches of cringe-inducing dialogue.

Everything looked cheap, the ‘‘vampire baby’’ was seemingly made out of plasticine and the wigs and hairpieces were straight out of the $2 shop.

I took a date to The Counselor. Both of us were in tears of laughter by about the 30-minute mark. Which is probably not what director Ridley Scott had in mind for a thriller, starring Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Michael Fassbender, about high stakes cocaine dealers.

The Counselor is endearingly awful. And probably worth watching again just to see Brad Pitt’s head actually fall off.

Just because I loved every minute of it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t an atrocious film.

The plot – Mila Kunis is a cleaning lady who gets caught up in an intergalactic King Lear,