Worst comic book character adaptation to film!!!

[Iron_Stark]

The Hulk & The Incredible Hulk.

WHAT!?!

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I didn't care for TIH, I preferred HULK. But I think they are both good portrayals, I don't know how they can be considered the "worst".

 

[Mutagen]

Same here, it's so hard to make an uncool Hulk.

 

[Octoberist]

I would like to nominate The Punisher 04 and Ghost Rider. I didn't like Fantastic Four but at least it was somewhat watchable. The Punisher 04 and Ghost Rider has some good moments, but overall they are both awkwardly made.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

The best part of Punisher 04 was that fight with the giant Russian. That was hilarious.

 

[Octoberist]

the fight was good. but that was it.

 

[BMM]

Howard the Duck you morons

A response as good as this doesn't deserve to be lost at the bottom of the page.

 

[Hmarrs]

A response as good as this doesn't deserve to be lost at the bottom of the page.

Then let's put it here.

Howard the Duck!!!

But in all actuality was it a bad adaptation or just a bad film?

Because the comic didn't do that great either.

Maybe the adaptation was dead on.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Costume, characterization & just overall portrayal:

SOme (dis)honorable mentions:

 

[Jay#1]

i thought lex luthor kevin spacey was good

 

[Chris Wallace]

I don't blame Spacey; but his recycled plan which wasn't that good to begin with, & his over-the-top antics didn't work for me. I'd gotten used to Lex as a CEO hiding behind a mask of respectability; his wearing his evil like a badge of honor & not being very interesting at that just didn't work for me.

 

[Mutagen]

I thought it was a perfect match, Spacey as Luthor, I just didn't like the way they tries to make him like the 70's version, they should've kept it fresh.

Maybe a tad more threatening than egotistical, and stop giving him imbeciles as henchmen.

 

[Mercy]

Catwoman, Steel, Elektra, FF2, The Hulk

 

[Chris Wallace]

I thought it was a perfect match, Spacey as Luthor, I just didn't like the way they tries to make him like the 70's version, they should've kept it fresh.

Maybe a tad more threatening than egotistical, and stop giving him imbeciles as henchmen.

Precisely. Hackman's luthor was a caricature of a supervillain. I was expecting something more like a cross between Michael Rosenbaum & Clancy Brown.

 

[Hmarrs]

Precisely. Hackman's luthor was a caricature of a supervillain. I was expecting something more like a cross between Michael Rosenbaum & Clancy Brown.

Wow it's really hard.Spacey did come of to me as more sinister.
He always does to me as an actor.There is somthing creepy about him no matter what role he plays.Like he is hiding a secret or somthing.Hackman?Well he is just Hackman I honestly don't think I have ever seen him play a role bad.I remember as a kid watching Superman 1 saying but Luther is supposed to be bald.When I saw the end it wasa pleasant surprise.Spoiler alert:He takes his wig of at the end the reveal....HE IS BALD.

I was just joking no spoiler alert.If you not seen Superman 1 you don't belong here.

Hackman however caricature of not.Always brings his characters to life.
Makes them seem real.

Spacey was probably the best follow up.He even resembles Hackman.
I just think he got a raw deal on the role.Scriptwise and story wise.

 

[Chris Wallace]

I feel that Hackman & Brando gave lackluster performances but we're not supposed to say that b/c they're Hackman & Brando. But if a modern-day actor refused to learn his lines, was too old to play the part in the first place & couldn't even correctly pronounce the name of the planet his character was so desperate to save, fans would rip that movie to shreds.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Green Goblin was a HUGE let-down.

Yeah, that costume was iffy, to say the least. Which is a shame, as Willem Dafoe played a great Norman Osborn.

 

[Hmarrs]

I feel that Hackman & Brando gave lackluster performances but we're not supposed to say that b/c they're Hackman & Brando. But if a modern-day actor refused to learn his lines, was too old to play the part in the first place & couldn't even correctly pronounce the name of the planet his character was so desperate to save, fans would rip that movie to shreds.

HA!That's funny and mostly true.

It's true Brando really didn't do too much although there really wasn't much to do.I would agree it was probably the fact that it was Brando was playing the role.

But now Hackman.Don't you think Hackman did a good job?I mean he to me is the only person in comics or out of comics that made Luthor 3 dimensional.
Also Hackaman at the time was not on the scale of Brando at the time.

He is now.But he wasn't the Hackman we know know.

If you said that about somthing he does now I can see that but he wasn't as big then as he is now.

Right about now he is the star that Brando was then and then even maybe.

Even still that is just in popularity because I personnely feel he is a much better actor than Brando.

Brando was just more popular.

 

[sleepwalk]

To this:

I will give this to the late Jeep Swenson: He was big as hell!!! He was a decent enough body double for Bane (Michael Clarke Duncan may have been the only other option.) This was another unfortunate case of Schumacher's sensory overload. Many of these actors seemed to be doing the best they could with what they had been given.

Michael Clarke Duncan's Wilson Fisk? Too engaging. The cold and calculating Fisk may not have translated well to a 90 minute movie, however.

Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face? Obviously phoned in after no attempt to learn the source material. Perhaps even purposefully directed to do so(?).

Kate Bosworth's Lois Lane? Not the tough cookie, firecracker Lois that we've seen from . . . everybody else since George Reeves hung up the cape.

James Marsden's Scott Summers? His portrayal was rather good. the treatment of the character was not. This Cyclops listens to N-Sync, lands a plane crappy and is a tactical nimrod. Lightning inside a giant copper conductor indeed.

Steel and Catwoman I can't even include as they ran screaming from the source material on purpose.

Most of X3 and Batman and Robin were a travesty to the previous (and future) installments.

 

[Chris Wallace]

HA!That's funny and mostly true.

It's true Brando really didn't do too much although there really wasn't much to do.I would agree it was probably the fact that it was Brando was playing the role.

But now Hackman.Don't you think Hackman did a good job?I mean he to me is the only person in comics or out of comics that made Luthor 3 dimensional.
Also Hackaman at the time was not on the scale of Brando at the time.

He is now.But he wasn't the Hackman we know know.

If you said that about somthing he does now I can see that but he wasn't as big then as he is now.

Right about now he is the star that Brando was then and then even maybe.

Even still that is just in popularity because I personnely feel he is a much better actor than Brando.

Brando was just more popular.

I hated Hackman's Luthor. Half b/c of what he did & half b/c of how it was written. His inability to pronounce words like "missile" & "debris" conflict with his much bragged-about intelligence. Add to this his constant need to remind us that he is "the greatest criminal mind of our time", his being surrounded by incompetent buffoons & the fact that he discovered kryptonite in his head without any point of reference.
The only thing I really like about that movie 30 years later is Reeve.

 

[Mutagen]

I will give this to the late Jeep Swenson: He was big as hell!!! He was a decent enough body double for Bane (Michael Clarke Duncan may have been the only other option.) This was another unfortunate case of Schumacher's sensory overload. Many of these actors seemed to be doing the best they could with what they had been given.

Michael Clarke Duncan's Wilson Fisk? Too engaging. The cold and calculating Fisk may not have translated well to a 90 minute movie, however.

Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face? Obviously phoned in after no attempt to learn the source material. Perhaps even purposefully directed to do so(?).

Kate Bosworth's Lois Lane? Not the tough cookie, firecracker Lois that we've seen from . . . everybody else since George Reeves hung up the cape.

James Marsden's Scott Summers? His portrayal was rather good. the treatment of the character was not. This Cyclops listens to N-Sync, lands a plane crappy and is a tactical nimrod. Lightning inside a giant copper conductor indeed.

Steel and Catwoman I can't even include as they ran screaming from the source material on purpose.

Most of X3 and Batman and Robin were a travesty to the previous (and future) installments.

Who could forget what they did to Cyclopes? Well, I did. I get so caught up in the other characters that I seem to misplace what they do to the less-than-acurate ones.

I'm glad you reminded me.

On one hand anyway.

 

[Mutagen]

I hated Hackman's Luthor. Half b/c of what he did & half b/c of how it was written. His inability to pronounce words like "missile" & "debris" conflict with his much bragged-about intelligence. Add to this his constant need to remind us that he is "the greatest criminal mind of our time", his being surrounded by incompetent buffoons & the fact that he discovered kryptonite in his head without any point of reference.
The only thing I really like about that movie 30 years later is Reeve.

I hope you're just forgetting the musical score.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Okay-that was nice. But honestly, I liked the one from TAS more.

 

[Mutagen]

I thought it fit with the image we were watching, more than the fact that it was better.

 

[Chris Wallace]

It lent itself well, yes. But I don't put a lot of focus into film scores.