What are the worst comic book movies of all time?

[Rowsdower!]

Bad:

X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Hellboy: The Golden Army
Batman Returns
Superman III
Superman Returns


Awful:

Spider-Man 3
Blade Trinity
Ghost Rider (I'm assuming GR2 would make this list too, but I haven't seen it)
Batman Forever
Supergirl

So Unbearably Terrible That I'm Trying Hard to Repress the Memory:

Wanted
Catwoman
Batman & Robin
Superman IV
The Spirit
The Phantom
Jonah Hex
Steel

[Green Goblin]

Ghost Rider 2 is even worse than 1

[Tanin]

Steel doesn't count since they flushed everything Superman from it.

[Mace Dolex]

Originally Posted by Ms. Marvel

Batman & Robin can not be taken seriously as a Batman movie. It's pretty entertaining though.

It's more tolerable watching it in Spanish for those that can speak it because Arnold's puns cannot be directly translated thereby sparing us of facepalms.

Originally Posted by Tanin

Steel doesn't count since they flushed everything Superman from it.

But he's still John Henry in the movie, even if it's just called Steel in name only I still consider it a CBM.

[Chris Wallace]

My personal list, in no particular order:
The Spirit
Amazing Spider-Man
Superman Returns
Captain America (90's version)
Punisher (89)
Vampirella
Phantom
Catwoman
Ghost Rider-Spirit Of Vengeance
Supergirl
Superman III
Superman IV
Kick-Ass
Wanted
Hellboy II
Son Of The Mask
The Crow: City Of Angels
Virus

[Green Goblin]

TASM is not awful by a long shot.

[Chris Wallace]

Too each his own. I won't debate about it but for me, it was a nightmare. And I WON'T be watching the next one.

[Green Goblin]

Come one I'd like you to explain. I've seen you post before saying you hate it. I'ma big Spidey fan, it was my personal favourite and I felt it was defo better than spidey 1. You just broke my heart ahaha

[Tony Stark]

Originally Posted by RedBlueWonder

TASM is not awful by a long shot.

No it's not awful, but it's not very good either.

[Green Goblin]

Originally Posted by Tony Stark

No it's not awful, but it's not very good either.

Explain?

[Tony Stark]

Originally Posted by RedBlueWonder

Explain?

It's better than Spider-man 3, but that's about all I can say for it. The movie for the most part is a copy cat of Rami's first film, without a lot of the heart. The one thing I can say, is I liked Garfield as Peter, better than Toby Maguire, but that's about all.

[Green Goblin]

Originally Posted by Tony Stark

It's better than Spider-man 3, but that's about all I can say for it. The movie for the most part is a copy cat of Rami's first film, without a lot of the heart. The one thing I can say, is I liked Garfield as Peter, better than Toby Maguire, but that's about all.

Thanks, I feel it's kinda unfair tho to hate on it because it's the origin again and I thought there was lots of new elements. Did people not realise it was the origin again? I hate IM3 but it's not even remotely because it has similaritys to The Incredibles. I thought it had as much heart as the rami films. Don't get why it's blamed for similaritys when BB and MOS get away with it.

[James]

I don't think anyone's hating on The Amazing Spider-Man because it's an origin story (nor do I think anyone watched it and 'didn't realize' it was an origin story...???). Some people just genuinely don't like it...is that really that difficult to comprehend? I mean surely there's movies you don't like that plenty of other people do.

[Iron_Stark]

There are bad cbms out there then there are the worst of the worst, these are the latter.

Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fantastic Four (Roger Corman)
Batman & Robin
Supergirl
Catwoman
Elektra
The Crow sequels
Howard the Duck
Jonah Hex
Green Lantern
Superman III
Superman IV
The Spirit
Batman: The Movie ('66)
Man-Thing
Steel

[Green Goblin]

Originally Posted by James

I don't think anyone's hating on The Amazing Spider-Man because it's an origin story. Some people just genuinely don't like it...is that really so difficult to comprehend? I mean surely there's movies you don't like that plenty of other people do.

90% of the people who hate on it here say that

[James]

Originally Posted by RedBlueWonder

90% of the people who hate on it here say that

Could be, I don't visit the Spider-Man boards. But in the sections I do read, the majority of complaints are more to do with Peter Parker's characterization, among other issues. I agree that the film being an origin story doesn't in and of itself make it a bad film. Heck, I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a "bad" film. I still won't be watching it again or bothering with the sequel though.

[Tony Stark]

Originally Posted by RedBlueWonder

Thanks, I feel it's kinda unfair tho to hate on it because it's the origin again and I thought there was lots of new elements. Did people not realise it was the origin again? I hate IM3 but it's not even remotely because it has similaritys to The Incredibles. I thought it had as much heart as the rami films. Don't get why it's blamed for similaritys when BB and MOS get away with it.

Let me deal with that last statement. I was very critical of MoS because it's a retread of Superman 1 and 2, even though it's supposed to be a new story.

BB, on the other hand, is nothing like Burton's Batman. The only similarity is in showing Bruce's parent's getting shot, and barely at that.

TASM had all the promise of showing us "the secret origin of Spider-man" having something to do with his parents. In the end, he gets bit by a spider, Uncle Ben dies, so-on, so-forth.

[Green Goblin]

lol people don't like Ultimate Peter parker

[Rowsdower!]

Ah, how could I forget the Fantastic Four films? They were awful, though at least Chris Evans played a good Johnny Storm. He deserved better and I'm glad to see that he got better (Captain America).

Speaking of which, the 1990 Captain America movie was complete garbage.

I've never seen the Corman F4 but I'd like to, just to see if it was somehow more enjoyable than the more recent bad F4 movies. The more I think about it, F4 might be one of those properties than movie studios should just give up on. Some things ARE better left to the comics.

Others...

Punisher: War Zone
The Punisher (Lundgren)
The Punishert (Jane)

I still fail to understand how they managed to screw up The Punisher THREE times on film. That character, you would think, has to be one of the easiest ones to adapt. He's just a guy whose family is murdered and he's taking revenge on the criminal underworld. He doesn't even wear a mask or much of a costume. Charles Bronson made that movie about 10 times in the 70s and 80s. I don't know why they keep screwing the Punisher up.

[James]

Originally Posted by Rowsdower!

Punisher: War Zone
The Punisher (Lundgren)
The Punishert (Jane)

I still fail to understand how they managed to screw up The Punisher THREE times on film. That character, you would think, has to be one of the easiest ones to adapt. He's just a guy whose family is murdered and he's taking revenge on the criminal underworld. He doesn't even wear a mask or much of a costume. Charles Bronson made that movie about 10 times in the 70s and 80s. I don't know why they keep screwing the Punisher up.

Amen.

The most successful comic book adaptions to films are the ones that keep the basics of the character(s) in tact. These core elements are the things that made those characters successful in the first place, it really should not be a difficult thing to grasp. But no, come time to make a movie some jerk decides they can improve on it or put their own spin on it, add this, take away that, and lo and behold it stinks. I do wonder if the people who make these decisions act surprised, or just shrug and move on.

[Senator Pleasury]

Fantastic Four movies, yes. Among the very worst.

[Mace Dolex]

Originally Posted by Rowsdower!

Punisher: War Zone
The Punisher (Lundgren)
The Punishert (Jane)

I still fail to understand how they managed to screw up The Punisher THREE times on film. That character, you would think, has to be one of the easiest ones to adapt. He's just a guy whose family is murdered and he's taking revenge on the criminal underworld. He doesn't even wear a mask or much of a costume. Charles Bronson made that movie about 10 times in the 70s and 80s. I don't know why they keep screwing the Punisher up.

I scratch my head on Punisher sometimes too, how hard can it be to adapt the character. But maybe in a way the audience too has just gotten tired of all the copycat revenge vigilante themed movies ever since.

[kedrell]

Originally Posted by Chris Wallace

Too each his own. I won't debate about it but for me, it was a nightmare. And I WON'T be watching the next one.

I'd personally take it well over any of the Raimi movies, and that's not to say I hated all of them(but none of them are much in the way of being my cup of tea as I find Raimi's sensibilities in and of themselves annoying).

[Godzilla2000]

Originally Posted by Monsieur Xavier

I guess no one here remember the old Captain America or Spiderman movies.

These were really bad even next to Catwoman or Ghost Rider.

Oh I have fond memories of myself and my friends watching and lampooning the 90's Albert Pyun Captain America film! Actually to veer off topic Pyun can slap together a good action scene or two but oh my the acting...there's a series of terminator rip off movies he made, two I have somewhere that starred a pretty masculine looking female bodybuilder that are guilty pleasures of mine he'd directed.

[StarLord]

I think I forgot to add Daredevil to my list.

What an absolute suck fest that was.