IGN's Top 10 Worst Comic Book Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

[Ipodman]

I found Punisher War Zone 'ok' to watch... but X3 is unbearable
ghost rider is just a little boring... thats all

 

[El Payaso]

On that list, I've only see Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3 and both the 2004 Punisher and PWZ. There's movies so much worse out there then those four put together it's not funny.

But the list is just about superhero movies.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

What about AL's Hulk and FF:ROTSS?!

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

What about AL's Hulk and FF:ROTSS?!

IMO, Ang lee's hulk isn't OMFG AWESOME! but it's very underrated

 

[Deaths Head II]

IMO, Ang lee's hulk isn't OMFG AWESOME! but it's very underrated

I agree.

 

[Hush]

I think the list is almost dead on if you ask me. I mean XO should be there and maybe Trinity but i think Reynolds almost redeems that whole movie. Spiderman 3 is trash and so is X3 too. They fell so far from there predecessors previous standards that its laughable.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

I agree.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

This list is dead on. I believe the reason FF2: Silver Surfer isn't on there is because they didn't want to be redundant (it's a sequel and both punisher films weren't). I assume its bundled with it.

Ang Lee's Hulk was a little dull, but not as bad the films in the top ten.

Same can be said for Superman returns. One word describes Superman Returns for me: Underwhelming. It wasn't terrible, but the film lacked that one powerful scene that would've had people talking. The plane scene was awesome, but I'm talking about a really dramatic scene that would really pack a punch for the film. That and the baby thing.

Bryan Singer screwed Superman over big time.

Also, I think we can safely assume that X-men Origins Wolverine is #11

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

double post

 

[Sloth7d]

Spider-man 3 definitly doesn't deserve to be on that list even if it didn't meet expectations. It wasn't horrible except to hypocrites who don't hold their own favorite super hero movies to such standards. I'd take off the Punisher films as well. They weren't bad enough to be mentioned along side X:3, Catwoman, and the like.

 

[Octoberist]

But I do think Spider-Man 3 should be on there because it's still a fairly controversial movie and the fact that a reboot is happening.

it's an awkwardly made movie but as much as I hated X3, I think Spidey 3 just broke my heart. i don't know.

 

[Hush]

Spiderman 3 ruined a perfectly good franchise. It tried to jam 3 Villians into ONE film. Each one of those villians deserved there own movie, so why jam them all? Another thing they clearly had no idea what the symbiote in the comics was so why try to adapt it anyway? I really do not blame rami so much as I blame the studio for intereferring with it so very much, they forced the symbiote and Gwen if im not mistaken. Dont get me started on Gwen. The movie was just a mess through and through, I will say that it is a GREAT film up until the moment when Harry Osborn wakes up in the hospital. I will blame Rami for the God awful performances from Maguire and Franco, but then again that just goes back to crapy dialogue which is more a scrioting issue. So who knows where to place blame all i know is its one of the worst Superhero movies of all time.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

 

[El Payaso]

So who knows where to place blame all i know is its one of the worst Superhero movies of all time.

Oh, I agree.

 

[Sloth7d]

But I do think Spider-Man 3 should be on there because it's still a fairly controversial movie and the fact that a reboot is happening.

it's an awkwardly made movie but as much as I hated X3, I think Spidey 3 just broke my heart. i don't know.

But the reboot isn't happening because of SM3. It's happening because Raimi left.

Spiderman 3 ruined a perfectly good franchise. It tried to jam 3 Villians into ONE film.

...So? Lots of movies "jam" multiple villains into one film; Batman Begins, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, X-men 2, etc. and that never stopped any of those from being well recieved to the general pubic. The only ones who get all caught up over this are the fans who wanted their favorite villain to be more important than necessary.

Each one of those villians deserved there own movie, so why jam them all?

See? You're only mad because of a predisposition to over glorify villains that do not need to be. Venom, Sandman, and especially Harry (who was alreay developed enough) did not need their own seperate movies anymore than Scarecrow, Ras, and Falcone needed their own. I still believe Sony should not have forced Venom if Raimi didn't want him, but I found he managed for the most part.

Another thing they clearly had no idea what the symbiote in the comics was so why try to adapt it anyway? I really do not blame rami so much as I blame the studio for intereferring with it so very much, they forced the symbiote and Gwen if im not mistaken. Dont get me started on Gwen. The movie was just a mess through and through, I will say that it is a GREAT film up until the moment when Harry Osborn wakes up in the hospital.

You'll have to tell me what you mean, but for the most part you have to remember this is an adaption of the Spider-man mythos. If you could deal with mecha-goblin from the first movie, Doc Ock being characterized differently from the comics, organtic webbing, and Peter meeting MJ first without hating the first or second films then I don't see why the changes in this film should be a big deal. I admit that MJ from the first films comes off more like Gwen from the comics while Gwen comes off more like MJ from the comics though. Again, I didn't mind so much as it's an adaption, and so long as the story is enetertaining, I'm sold.

I will blame Rami for the God awful performances from Maguire and Franco, but then again that just goes back to crapy dialogue which is more a scrioting issue. So who knows where to place blame all i know is its one of the worst Superhero movies of all time.

I found it on the same level as the other films myself with notable exceptions; "Soooo good." Yeah, they could have done that take again. "I'm not a bad man; I just have bad luck." Yeah, just needed reoving right there. And maybe there's one I'm forgetting, but other than that I was content. Though I think most superhero movies have had a couple of cringe inducing lines that everyone tries to forget; just look at al the one liners in Batman Begins, look at Halle Berrlyactress' performances in the X-men films and even Hugh Jackman in a couple of instances, "Tony Stark built this in a cave from a bunch of scraps!", etc. You see, when everyone harps on about how bad certain parts of SM 3 is, I honestly believe they forget about the same glaring problems in their other beloved films.

 

[The Joker]

I think Spider-Man 3 deserves to be on this list. It really is a mess of a movie. Which is a shame because it has all the main cast, crew, and director of the first two movies, which were great, especially Spider-Man 2.

Spider-Man 3 has some good stuff in it, like the Peter/Harry mansion fight, birth of Sandman, and the scenes with Peter and Aunt May are well written as always.

But the movie suffers from cramming too many plots and new characters into it, that the script suffers badly from it. Sandman being the worst offender, as his connection to Uncle Ben's death was so contrived and silly. Church is a good actor, but he rarely got to give Sandman some personality, and was often given a back seat to silliness like giant Sandman, or the flying sand storm.
I was also disappointed that they never showed any kind of reaction from Marko about his new powers. Osborn and Octavius both got to show how they came to terms with their new found powers. Marko just re-forms himself into human form and goes off and starts robbing money.

With regards to Harry, I think after building up Harry for two movies, when he does finally become the Goblin (if you can call what he looked like in the movie a Goblin), his master revenge plan is to break up Peter and MJ (and MJ agrees to it instead of just telling Peter Harry is behind it, which was the worst part). So disappointing. But again, had the script had more room to deal with Harry's story, no doubt they could have come up with something better. And I won't even get started on the deux ex machina crap with the butler at the end.

As for MJ, her relationship with Peter in this is simply awful, and MJ is at her worst in this. From her jealousy of Peter getting some recognition for his heroics as Spider-Man, to kissing ANOTHER guy when she's with someone already, to breaking Peter's heart instead of telling him about Harry's pathetic threat to hurt Peter if she didn't break up with him, she was just an awful character.

And finally the most controversial part of Spider-Man 3 for most fans: the symbiote story and Venom. I actually applaud what Raimi did with Eddie Brock. Venom is one of my least favorite characters in the comics. I think he's a terrible character because his motives for hating Spider-Man are pathetic. Right up there with Hush's reasons for hating Batman. But in SM-3, Brock had an actual connection to Peter Parker. Peter did in fact cause Brock to lose his job and ruin his career (even though it was Brock's fault for being a cheat). So I could buy his hatred for Peter.
But the symbiote story was rubbish for the most part. Why did the symbiote decide to attach to Peter's motorcycle at a time when Peter was happier than he'd ever been? All the dancing, the emo look, and other cheese that came from 'dark Peter' was just awful. The only highlights from it was when he tried to kill Sandman, and when he bombed Harry's face.

Spider-Man 3 was supposed to be the darkest of the three movies, and it's got more cheese, goofiness, and laughs than the first two movies. The cons far outweigh the pros for SM-3, IMO. It's a cluttered mess, with a few redeeming aspects, but nothing that saves it.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I think Spider-Man 3 deserves to be on this list. It really is a mess of a movie. Which is a shame because it has all the main cast, crew, and director of the first two movies, which were great, especially Spider-Man 2.

Spider-Man 3 has some good stuff in it, like the Peter/Harry mansion fight, birth of Sandman, and the scenes with Peter and Aunt May are well written as always.

But the movie suffers from cramming too many plots and new characters into it, that the script suffers badly from it. Sandman being the worst offender, as his connection to Uncle Ben's death was so contrived and silly. Church is a good actor, but he rarely got to give Sandman some personality, and was often given a back seat to silliness like giant Sandman, or the flying sand storm.
I was also disappointed that they never showed any kind of reaction from Marko about his new powers. Osborn and Octavius both got to show how they came to terms with their new found powers. Marko just re-forms himself into human form and goes off and starts robbing money.

With regards to Harry, I think after building up Harry for two movies, when he does finally become the Goblin (if you can call what he looked like in the movie a Goblin), his master revenge plan is to break up Peter and MJ (and MJ agrees to it instead of just telling Peter Harry is behind it, which was the worst part). So disappointing. But again, had the script had more room to deal with Harry's story, no doubt they could have come up with something better. And I won't even get started on the deux ex machina crap with the butler at the end.

As for MJ, her relationship with Peter in this is simply awful, and MJ is at her worst in this. From her jealousy of Peter getting some recognition for his heroics as Spider-Man, to kissing ANOTHER guy when she's with someone already, to breaking Peter's heart instead of telling him about Harry's pathetic threat to hurt Peter if she didn't break up with him, she was just an awful character.

And finally the most controversial part of Spider-Man 3 for most fans: the symbiote story and Venom. I actually applaud what Raimi did with Eddie Brock. Venom is one of my least favorite characters in the comics. I think he's a terrible character because his motives for hating Spider-Man are pathetic. Right up there with Hush's reasons for hating Batman. But in SM-3, Brock had an actual connection to Peter Parker. Peter did in fact cause Brock to lose his job and ruin his career (even though it was Brock's fault for being a cheat). So I could buy his hatred for Peter.
But the symbiote story was rubbish for the most part. Why did the symbiote decide to attach to Peter's motorcycle at a time when Peter was happier than he'd ever been? All the dancing, the emo look, and other cheese that came from 'dark Peter' was just awful. The only highlights from it was when he tried to kill Sandman, and when he bombed Harry's face.

Spider-Man 3 was supposed to be the darkest of the three movies, and it's got more cheese, goofiness, and laughs than the first two movies. The cons far outweigh the pros for SM-3, IMO. It's a cluttered mess, with a few redeeming aspects, but nothing that saves it.

When I first saw that scene my reaction honestly was "Are you F**king kidding me!? He couldn't had told him earlier? So you tell him this years after his father died and he blamed Spiderman for it?" It was incredibly forced.

Allegedly, the Butler was supposed to be in his mind. If he was, it was still terribly done as they really did a poor job of actually showing it was in his mind.

 

[Hush]

...So? Lots of movies "jam" multiple villains into one film; Batman Begins, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, X-men 2, etc. and that never stopped any of those from being well recieved to the general pubic. The only ones who get all caught up over this are the fans who wanted their favorite villain to be more important than necessary.

I will say that Batman Begins does have two villians and does it right but really Scarecrow and Falcone, to an extent, are merely an underling of Ras and the same could be said for Lady Deathstrike in X2 who I think uders 4 lines of dialogue? If your speaking of Magneto he is no villian in X2, he HELPS the X-men so really you have just Stryker who raids the X-mansion and tries to kill all of Mutantkind. Star Wars has Multiple Villians? Really? Last I heard it was the Empire, maybe Jabba but he really only shines for like 15 minutes in Jedi. I will concede LOTR's but look at the source and look how it was adapted that is a special thing. Potter has one main villian for practically ALL of its stories, except the 3rd where the primary threat is the Dementors that tie back to Voldy.

So you see those films dont suffer due to to many villians like Spiderman 3, I would have been fine with Goblin II and Sandman but they shoehorned in Venom and by doing so they made the film cluttered and contrived. Also connecting Sandman to Ben, really?

See? You're only mad because of a predisposition to over glorify villains that do not need to be. Venom, Sandman, and especially Harry (who was alreay developed enough) did not need their own seperate movies anymore than Scarecrow, Ras, and Falcone needed their own. I still believe Sony should not have forced Venom if Raimi didn't want him, but I found he managed for the most part.

I suppose your right, they do not need there own seperate movie but they sure as hell do not need to be in the same one. Two tops. I think that maybe Falcone could have handled his own movie rather well if you ask me but thats another topic. How did Raimi MANAGE Venom? Really explain cause last I looked he just butchered what could have been an AMAZING story with great character beats and just threw it out the window, but I digress this is Sony's fault. Not his.[/QUOTE]

You'll have to tell me what you mean, but for the most part you have to remember this is an adaption of the Spider-man mythos. If you could deal with mecha-goblin from the first movie, Doc Ock being characterized differently from the comics, organtic webbing, and Peter meeting MJ first without hating the first or second films then I don't see why the changes in this film should be a big deal. I admit that MJ from the first films comes off more like Gwen from the comics while Gwen comes off more like MJ from the comics though. Again, I didn't mind so much as it's an adaption, and so long as the story is enetertaining, I'm sold.

I will say that the 1st two films took liberties and i lived with them because they were for the greater good of the films the third takes liberties that it just didnt need to. I mean I like the movie up until harry wakes up in the hospital but after that its downhill. The tieing Sandman to Ben's murder and including Gwen for no reason along with Venom being vaporized, something i have a huge problem with when it comes to the villians in the Spiderman movies. Why must they all die? Except Sandman.

I found it on the same level as the other films myself with notable exceptions; "Soooo good." Yeah, they could have done that take again. "I'm not a bad man; I just have bad luck." Yeah, just needed reoving right there. And maybe there's one I'm forgetting, but other than that I was content. Though I think most superhero movies have had a couple of cringe inducing lines that everyone tries to forget; just look at al the one liners in Batman Begins, look at Halle Berrlyactress' performances in the X-men films and even Hugh Jackman in a couple of instances, "Tony Stark built this in a cave from a bunch of scraps!", etc. You see, when everyone harps on about how bad certain parts of SM 3 is, I honestly believe they forget about the same glaring problems in their other beloved films.

Yeah I know there are bad parts in all movies they just seem to glare in this movie. Dancing down the street, cooking the dinner, in the hospital when Harry wakes up, I think the pie scene with harry? Just I mean it seems like Rami called it in. Oh and that british reporter in the movie was just atrocious. I won's say the films you named didnt have bad scenes just they are oscar worthy compared to this.

 

[OctaviusINC]

Spider-man 3 was on cable last night. It's really not bad, like, at all.

Really the only thing that's a bit silly is Peter's emo hair and the dance scenes. And those take up, what? 3 minutes of the movie? It has good action, good CGI, decent acting. The story is a bit cluttered but it's nothing to slit my wrists over. It's decent. For someone to cry and whine about it makes them an idiot. Get laid. It's just a movie.

I liked both Punisher movies too. War Zone was great, it was like a modern day grindhouse film. Over-the-top violence, corny dialouge, sadistic villains. By the title alone you should know you're not going to see an Oscar worthy film. Same goes for Ghost Rider. You're watching a film about a C list superhero with a flaming skull for a head starring Nick Cage. Don't expect Shakespeare.

 

[Hush]

You seriously just said that some one posting on these boards stating his opinion needs to get laid? Why the **** do you even post here if your going to be that way? You took the time to go out of your way to tell us to get laid on the Internet. Do you realize how ****ing hypocritical that is? I hate ****s like you, this is our hobby if you think we don't have lives outside of this your sadly mistaken! We talk and argue because we care for the source material, gotta problem shut your ****ing mouth cause it's what we do here. Stupid ****.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

Spider-man 3 was on cable last night. It's really not bad, like, at all.

Really the only thing that's a bit silly is Peter's emo hair and the dance scenes. And those take up, what? 3 minutes of the movie? It has good action, good CGI, decent acting. The story is a bit cluttered but it's nothing to slit my wrists over. It's decent. For someone to cry and whine about it makes them an idiot. Get laid. It's just a movie.

I liked both Punisher movies too. War Zone was great, it was like a modern day grindhouse film. Over-the-top violence, corny dialouge, sadistic villains. By the title alone you should know you're not going to see an Oscar worthy film. Same goes for Ghost Rider. You're watching a film about a C list superhero with a flaming skull for a head starring Nick Cage. Don't expect Shakespeare.

Yes! FX right?

I let a girl borrow the DC of daredevil. She said it was the best superhero film ever. and yes, she's seen TDK.

 

[OctaviusINC]

You seriously just said that some one posting on these boards stating his opinion needs to get laid? Why the **** do you even post here if your going to be that way? You took the time to go out of your way to tell us to get laid on the Internet. Do you realize how ****ing hypocritical that is? I hate ****s like you, this is our hobby if you think we don't have lives outside of this your sadly mistaken! We talk and argue because we care for the source material, gotta problem shut your ****ing mouth cause it's what we do here. Stupid ****.

See how defensive you get? Throwing around all these expletives and for what? Don't get so high strung, man. Getting all worked up over what someone said on a message board. If anything you're proving my point.

And I do the same thing as everyone else around here. My "insult" wasn't aimed at anyone particular and not a poster on these boards. I never said that. If anything it was aimed at IGN. It was my response to their somewhat silly article.

I'd like to think we have logical arguments and discussions here on the hype.

So, please, on with the discussion.....

Yes! FX right?

I let a girl borrow the DC of daredevil. She said it was the best superhero film ever. and yes, she's seen TDK.

Yeah, that was the channel!

And I liked DD DC too. DD is one of my favorite comic characters and I thought the DC was pretty dang good.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

See how defensive you get? Throwing around all these expletives and for what? Don't get too high strung, man. Getting all worked up over what someone said on a message board. If anything you're proving my point.

And I do the same thing as everyone else around here. My "insult" wasn't aimed at anyone particular and not on these boards. If anything it was aimed at IGN. It was my response to their article.



Yeah, that was the channel!

And I liked DD DC too. DD is one of my favorite comic characters and I thought the DC was pretty dang good.

and yes! The featurette's were cool, I don't recall all of em being on the 2 disc DVD....but agreed. DD, the DC is like, my...4th favorite comic book movie.

 

[OctaviusINC]

and yes! The featurette's were cool, I don't recall all of em being on the 2 disc DVD....but agreed. DD, the DC is like, my...4th favorite comic book movie.

I haven't seen it in awhile, but if I recall I remember saying it would be in my top 3 if they got rid of the playground fight scene. And I didn't realize how many people hated Farrell as Bullseye! I thought he was fun as hell. Now I want to watch it again haha!

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

I haven't seen it in awhile, but if I recall I remember saying it would be in my top 3 if they got rid of the playground fight scene. And I didn't realize how many people hated Farrell as Bullseye! I thought he was fun as hell. Now I want to watch it again haha!

Agreed. The playground scene was stupid, but it really doesn't bother me that much. But people disliked farrel as bullseye? That one scene in the airplane beats a hundred pencils to the eye, IMO.