It's time to ask ourselves if 2004's Catwoman is the worst superhero movie ever made
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Nowadays, it’s hard to remember a time when superhero movies could be bad in a unique enough way that they actually stuck out. The action movie subgenre, aside from the occasional weirdo exception, has now been defined into a market-friendly template too formulaic to allow for the kind of unfettered creativity that leads to truly awful stuff like 2004's notoriously terrible Catwoman. It’s sort of nostalgic, then, to watch the latest entry to The Cosmonaut Variety Hour’s series on the worst superhero movies ever made and see that something like the Halle Berry disaster was even allowed to exist in the first place.
One line from the video does a good job summarizing why Catwoman deserves singling out: “This movie just kind of does whatever it wants, it doesn’t care if things happen for a reason, and once you start to understand a scene you just get distracted by either awful editing or equally awful CGI or both.” To illustrate this, the video shows off a full litter box of great moments, such as a CGI cat breathing magic cat powers into Halle Berry’s face, her playing superhuman basketball with Benjamin Bratt, and a few examples of the movie’s frantic editing and horrible dialogue. It also runs down a strangely complicated plot that involves Berry’s Catwoman fighting a scheme to sell “evil face cream” sold by a corporation led by an evil Sharon Stone who has cosmetics-enabled super strength.
Still, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour also points out that “in every single scene you get something hilarious, like Oscar Award-winner Halle Berry acting like a cat” before showing a few solid examples of just that. The video notes that the whole thing is actually so bad it’s fun to watch, which is the kind of thing you don’t really get from superhero movies anymore.
Matt Reeves’ upcoming Robert Pattinson-led version of Batman (sorry, THE Batman) seems like it will probably at least be okay, especially given its cast is made up of good actors like Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman. But, if it’s not going to be downright excellent, the least it could do is liven up the theaters a little bit by taking notes from Berry’s Catwoman and sucking in a way that distinguishes itself from the competition.
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Counterpoint: there’s nothing fun about watching Catwoman. It never becomes so bad it’s good. It’s just bad. Everything about it is bad.
It’s unintentional comic book parody. Where it seems like the characters are purposely being made fun of. Batman & Robin, Catwoman, Steel, etc. The worst ones are like Jonah Hex, Superman Returns, or maybe even BvS. Movies that are astonishingly boring.😂
It’s time to ask ourselves if 2004’s Catwoman is the worst superhero movie ever madeI feel like this gif tells you all you need to know:
I can’t stop staring at it. Leaving aside the mask… Is that a CGI tongue?
Probably! The most amazing thing to me about that movie was how often they used terrible CGI in cases where it could’ve been cheaper and more effective to use practical effects, green screen, or no effects at all.I mean, *maybe* it was cheaper to pay a dozen Korean animators to spend a few days cobbling together an animated scene of, say, Halle Berry just walking, than it was to pay her to come to set for 15 minutes. Who knows.
It seems to be coming from the top of her mouth…
Yep, just like a cat’s tongue does…right?RIGHT?
Especially since it was loosely based on a character, that doesn’t have supernatural abilities. Catwoman is definitely the most irresponsible comic book movie ever made. Nobody involved, used any common sense.
Fun fact: if you want to use Berry’s real tongue in a film, it’s an extra $50k per scene.
That is amazingly resilient lipstick.
It’s housepaint. Hollywood is really a terrible place.
There’s no yawning before that *mlem*, so it’s clearly a Fake Mlem.
I noticed there was a strange parallel between Halle Berry’s Catwoman and Charlize Theron’s Aeon Flux. Both movies came out immediately after each actress had just won a Best Actress Oscar for similarly named movies (Monster’s Ball and Monster). They each followed up their critically-lauded, career defining roles with absolutely atrocious movies. While Aeon Flux wasn’t based on a comic book character like Catwoman it basically was trying to be a comic book movie. Then in the actual movies there are similar scenes where each heroine is fighting the bad guys, strikes a pose and says, “Amateurs.” Both of these lines were featured prominently in the trailers.Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.
Aeon Flux is based on an anime with a lady in skintight leather, so close enough.
It was not an anime. Creator Peter Chung is a Korean-American, and it was produced by and aired on MTV. Fun Fact: the biggest influence on Aeon’s design and the look of the show was Chung’s time on Rugrats. He had spent a while working on Rugrats (specifically animating/directing the opening titles sequence, iirc), and he had grown incredibly frustrated with animating the babies and their stubby little limbs/hands/fingers that greatly limited their range of movement. So when coming up with the Aeon Flux shorts for Liquid Television, he created these characters with long, spindly limbs, long defined fingers, and then proceeded to put them in every crazy pose and motion he could think of.
Aeon Flux is based on an animeAn Anime series made by Americans. For MTV.
As bad as it was, Aeon Flux was still about a thousand times better than Catwoman in my opinion.
AEon Flux was redeemable. The MTV show was a masterpiece, and I get why Chung felt humiliated, but the movie kept true to the themes and, imo, managed to bring some fun exciting new ideas to the table.
I liked Aeon Flux. Saw it twice. *scurries away*
Booo! Bring on Ted Danson!
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Aeon Flux wasn’t bad. It was a perfectly mediocre film, but wasn’t as good as the source material.
Any teeth licking in the movie?
I find it a bit weird how no one ever talks about how Alex Borstein, then best known for Family Guy and now for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, plays Berry’s office friend who literally only exists to pop up and make random sex jokes.
She was awful in it. The Six Feet Under mother was awful in it. So was Sharon Stone. And Christophe “Swallow don’t spit” Lambert. No one got out unscathed, except maybe Ben Bratt cos I know he was in it but can’t actually remember him doing anything but smile at Halle.
That’s Lambert “the Merovingian” Wilson as Sharon Stone’s husband, not Christophe(r) Lambert.
Oh shit, you’re right -Lol!! I mean, my brain knows one was the Merovingian and one was the Highlander, but I have a Dylan McDermott / Dermot Mulroney-type confusion going on with their other roles.Christophe Guy Denis Lambert is a French American actor, novelist, and producer… Born: 29 March 1957 (age 62 years)Lambert Wilson is a French actor, singer and activist …Born: 3 August 1958 (age 61 years)Ahem – For no discernible reason, I’m going to link to this:
This movie wouldve definitely improved with Christopher Lambert.
Ms. Swan would have been the perfect Kato-sidekick for Catwoman.
“She look-a like a cat.”
C’mon, at least have the courage to replace those L’s with R’s. You know it’s funny, I know it’s funny. Everyone knows it’s funny whether they admit it or not. Who cares what these dorks think?
The female counterpart of “Hey, I forgot Taika Waititi was the comic relief in Green Lantern!”
For me, it’s pretty much a tossup between Catwoman and 2015’s Fantastic Four but for different reasons. Catwoman has way more “Da fuck?????” moments, while FF was basically stupefyingly boring.
Superman IV is pretty bad, but at least it had Christopher Reeve as Superman
The UN speech in that movie is really damn good.
I was about to complain that Chris Evans was a decent Human Torch, but then I realized you were talking about Fant4stic.
The part that puts FF on its own level is when you realize that one of the changes the director made was so horrifically, stunningly misogynistic that it leaves you in breathless wonder for why Sue didn’t just leave them to die:During the drunken scene when Reed sells Johnny and Victor on stealing the suits and entering the rift on their own on the basis that “This is our work, damn it. We deserve to see it through!” He not only doesn’t call Sue, he calls Ben who has literally not been involved in any part of the work or even in the movie since they left each other in the beginning at high school, and he GIVES. BEN. HER. SUIT. The one of the suits that SUE MADE. And nobody says anything about how wrong that is. They’ve literally convinced each other that they have the right because of all of their hard work, and he substitutes her out for an old high school friend who did nothing because he misses Ben. And then when everything goes to hell, Sue is irradiated because she’s in the control room trying to contain the damage as they try to get back.So to recap: Sue Richards has her right to literally see another universe stolen by the men that she worked with because in a drunken stupor, they decided a random moron from college had more of a right to sit in the pod than their only female peer.. Oh, and as a consolation prize, let’s expose her to likely lethal levels of radiation as she has to mother us back to Earth.Like, when I sat there watching the movie and realized how bad they fucked Sue over I was 1000% done. I just kept muttering “How the fuck did Reed Richards convince her to marry him? How are any of these people anyone she cares lives or dies?”
‘Fant4stic’ just makes one baffling decision after another. The Fantastic Four are meant to have this family dynamic, but Ben is absent for most of the film, then Reed is separated from everyone else for most of the rest of it. Sue is essentially cut out of the team’s origin story. There’s a time jump that means we skip over the part where the team react to getting their powers. The final threat is introduced and disposed of within about twenty minutes.But my favourite part is that they were originally going to call Dr Doom “Victor Domavitch” or something, before realising people would hate that. But they didn’t change the bit where he’s predicting the worst and Sue says “Look at Doctor Doom over here”, which means instead of making an audience-winking joke she’s now just actually saying his name.
And any movie that basically has 30 minutes ripped out of it from an executive decision is pretty much writing its own death warrant. About half the Fantastic trailer isn’t even in the damn movie, which renders it into this weird big-budget black box play where there’s only two sets, the lab and the negative zone.
That is more attention to the film than I could muster, that’s for sure.
That’s where I’m split too.
In a world where Black Cougar exists, no, Catwoman is not the worst superhero movie ever.If you limit it to big-budget studio films, then, sure.
Bah, I looked it up, it’s NOT the Asylum’s Black Panther knock off.
I was curious, and IMDB made me curiouser. Almost the entire cast is named DiSalvatore. The movie involves characters name Mayor Creeps and Nurse Hatchet. There’s a character named Arab played by a guy whose last name is Breuer. I may need to witness this at some point.
Even then, there’s Fant4stic.
I felt bad for Mis-Teeq. After a string of UK hits, they thought they’d finally fulfil the dream of many British pop acts of “breaking America”, thinking their moment had come when Scandalous was going to be featured prominently in a Hollywood superhero blockbuster movie … but alas …The basketball scenes where the song popped up, with its quick-cuts of Halle ‘playing’ were dizzyingly atrocious!
Howard The Duck?
The small but crucial difference between comic book character and superhero comes into play there. Howard doesn’t have any powers, just a tiny dick and a passing knowledge of quack-fu.
1) ‘Howard the Duck’ is not technically a superhero movie. 2) It is, however, only the fourth best film with Howard the Duck in it.
My vote for worst is Fantastic Four from 2005. It is weird, in that I’d describe it as an inaction movie. A film about four superheroes desperately trying to avoid doing anything super or heroic.Catwoman might be shit but at least something happens in it. Everything that happens is STUPID, but it’s better than NOTHING.
OK, now I’m going to say it: Chris Evans was a decent Human Torch.I remember that movie being decent but forgettable, so much so I can’t find anything more to say.
Speaking of Human Torch, everyone loses their damn mind when they cast a black guy as Johnny Storm, meanwhile they stuck a blonde wig and blue contact lenses on Jessica Alba and nobody talks about how fucked up that kind of is.
I bring the Alba thing up all the time! In fact, I brought it up recently when I got into an argument here with someone after I said the only reason anyone had a problem with casting a black man as Johnny was because they were racist. At least they cast Jordan because he could act, had charisma, and was having a Moment in Hollywood at the time, whereas Alba has always just been a pretty face who was in a few semi-popular shows and movies. My choice back then for Sue would have been Elisha Cuthbert (from 24 and Happy Endings).
As Canadian who grew up in the late 90s, I remember Elisha Cuthbert as one of the hosts of Popular Mechanics For Kids.
But sadly, the haters were actually kinda proven right, with the Michael B. Jordan casting. He basically played a stereotypical young angry black man, with very little charisma and humor. A very bad take on Johnny Storm. Same thing happened to Halle Berry with Catwoman. It’s the actor’s job to make sure that when their character is racebent or clearly different from the source material, that the director is still respecting the essence of the character.
It was curious to me that Johnny could be changed because it felt like tokenism. Sue Storm, of course had to remain white because she’s the love interest. Especially when their dad was black, and we could have got a smart black girl in a leading superhero role. It says a lot that nobody in Hollywood wanted to do this until Black Panther, so Josh Trank isn’t getting any points from me. He claims he did it because that was the family he knew growing up, but then in the film they have no message to actually make about that, so it ended up being this pointless change that had the opposite effect: instead of feeling like siblings, they just felt like really good childhood friends. It didn’t help that they were all so young. Now there’s no Mom and and Dad analog for the team- The entire family dynamic was lost. And I have even more to say about Billy Elliot as Ben Grimm…The casting sabatoged the film before it even started.
Yeah but Latinos are Caucasian adjacent so it’s cool.
The Alba casting bothered me. She came across looking like one of the White Chicks. I guess the pairing of Alba and Evans as siblings is what bothered me. It really reeked of some producer having a boner over Alba instead casting appropriately. If you they were dead set on Alba, then cast an appropriate sibling. It was extremely unnecessary to go to such lengths to fit her into that movie. I can only imagine the guy that wanted Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman is the same culprit.
That was more weird than anything. All of sudden trying to make her look more like the comic book version, in the sequel. Jessica Alba could’ve/should’ve said no. Tim Story, an African American director, could’ve/should’ve said no. In both Jessica Alba & Michael B. Jordan’s cases, they were kinda set-up for failure, by their directors.
I remember kinda enjoying this movie, honestly. I think it was in that era when movies – particularly action movies – were still taking themselves waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously. I suspect that would have rubbed the audience the wrong way if said audience were a bunch of adults who were living in a state of proud arrested development and expected their every whim and expectation to be catered to with “100% faithful adaptations”What’s that you say? This is a comic book character? Well, nevermind, the whole thing checks out now.
Supergirl is still the champ. Worse effects, a less sensible plot, and a lead actress too inexperienced to make it fun.
Also, Supergirl seems to be written by someone who either has never met a woman, or just fucking hates them. The villain is a witch who obtains an object of immeasurable power, that can let her make real magic spells. What’s the first thing she does? Try to take over the world, or at least the tri-county area? Nope, she tries to make a magic date rape drug to fuck her gardener.
I wrote a 2500+ word review of Catwoman in January on my blog Flash Cinema at afilmaday.com in January for “So Bad, It Is Good? month. I also did a 2800+ word one for Howard the Duck.. Between the two, I think you would be hard-pressed to say which is the worse superhero movie.
http://afilmaday.com/2020/01/catwoman-2004http://afilmaday.com/2020/01/howard-the-duck-1986
I would say Catwoman is the worse superhero movie since Howard the Duck isn’t a superhero movie.
Pretty sure “Catwoman” only gets the crown because humanity has collectively agreed to forget that “Elektra” ever existed.“Catwoman” is at least batshit-bad, whereas “Elektra” is just incompetent-bad.
Oh gods, I forgot about Elektra.But actually, IMDB, RT (critic and audience) and Metacritic all agree that Catwoman was even worse. Also worse than Green Lantern, Ghost Rider 2, Blade Trinity, Supergirl, and The Phantom. Bizarrely, Fant4stic and Catwoman have managed to exactly tie in RT critic score (9%), RT audience score (18%), AND Metacritic score (27)… but even then, Fant4stic pulls ahead by an entire point on IMDB (4.3 to 3.3).Looking up Elektra informs me that there was a film called Electra in 1996 that was arguably a superhero film. In it, an evil mastermind has his lab develop a serum that gives people superhuman powers. But our hero steals it, but the villainness is determined to get its powers, even though they’ve now mysteriously changed to only be transferrable by sex. The tagline is “Erotic pleasure was never so deadly”……and even THAT is rated better than Catwoman. (they tie on IMDB, but the 90s softporn sci-fi has a massively higher audience score on RT, a whole 31%)….So yeah, it seems to be legitimately difficult to find a worse superhero film, even when stretching the definitions.
The only thing I can think of is that, if you consider an immortal, invulnerable swordsman to be a superhero, Highlander 2 has a 0% RT critics score, and Highlander 3 has a 5% score. But both of them have higher audience scores than Catwoman![sidenote: Metacritic is insane. It rates Highlander 2, objectively one of the worst films of all time, as the best of the 4 highlander films, and the original Highlander as the second worst. I don’t understand how ANYBODY could consider Highlander to be worse than Highlander 2…]
A bit of hyperbole with Highlander 2 being one of the worst films of all time.It’s not in the same class as Manos, Plan 9, The Room, Beginning of the End, etc.
Well, there are millions of people with cameras these days, so no doubt there are countless truly awful films. Some of my friends made a sci-fi film when we were about 12, and that was really pretty bad. Maybe – maybe! – even worse than Highlander 2.But honestly, Highlander 2 is probably right up there with any of them. I mean, it’s a film in which the plot hinges on the protagonist of the original film simply never mentioning that he’d secretly been an alien from another planet the whole time (and the other good guy is just resurrected). The plot is as bad as could be written, the dialogue is awful, the sets and costumes are awful, the directing is awful, much of the acting is awful and even the not-awful acting is too over-the-top to be considered ‘good’… you don’t get a 0% RT score out of nowhere! [the RT audience score is SLIGHTLY above that for Manos, but only by 3%]. I’d rather watch something like ‘Plan 9′ or ‘Manos’, which you an at least enjoy on some ironic level. Plan 9 in particular is actually not bad, as reflected in its quite respectable RT scores – it’s an INEPT film, but that doesn’t make it unwatchable.
With bad films, people walk out of the cinema. With Highlander 2, the director walked out of the cinema. After 15 minutes.
In any case, I’d be happy to say that Highlander 2 is one of the worst “movies” ever made, where a “movie” is a film made by an established studio, with recognised professional actors, with a budget in the millions of dollars, shown in hundreds of cinemas, and in multiple countries.
Anyone who says they enjoy Manos ironically, I don’t believe them. I can’t wrap my brain around the idea that something so boring could be enjoyed.
Why has no one mentioned the first Wolverine movie? Damn that was bad and it almost killedthe chance of Ryan Renolds putting out a Deadpool movie.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was bad, but it wasn’t appallingly bad (if you treat it as a brainless film and forget about it as a representative of the franchise). 58% audience score and 37% critical score on RT: ordinary bad film territory.One thing I did forget was Superman IV. It has even low RT audience score, Metascore and Metacritic user score, although it has a marginally higher RT critics score and IMDB score.
I had little to no knowledge of Highlander 1 when we all decided to go see Highlander 2 in the theater on weekend. I’ve still never had anything to do with the franchise. I mean holy crap.
Excellent point about superhero movies, even bad ones, no longer being so bad they stick out. What was the last truly atrocious big-budget superhero movie? (As opposed to just mediocre or generically bad.)Hmm. I’m going with The Spirit! That thing was unwatchable.
Worse than Flesh Gordon, or is that sci-fi, not superhero?
Flesh Gordon isn’t that bad. It’s a campy skin-flick send-up of the old Flash Gordon serials. The people who made it had no pretensions about it being anything more than that, and it largely succeeded at being what it was. A classic midnight movie.
I’m skeptical of this guys channel because he has a 20 minute video about how Return of the Jedi sucks.
Sounds like a red flag to me.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it sucks, but it is the weakest of the original trilogy.
Weakest of the trilogy, but only because it’s in the ring throwing fists with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
Anything that someone doesn’t like is immediately the worst thing in the world and everyone who likes it is stupid and wrong.
Return of the Jedi is a classic flick, but anyone who thinks Rise of Skywalker was the first SW to conjure plot points and surprises out of thin air (surprise, Luke and Leia are twins, that kiss is now really gross!) and abandon hanging threads (hey, remember that whole “there is another [hope]” business?) should really re-watch ROTJ. In regards to Star Wars writing by the seat of its pants, this is, and has always been, the way.
Watching some of the latest “making of” documentaries about the original trilogy kinda killed the SW Universe for me. Some of the ridiculous ideas that nearly made it on screen. Sheesh. Makes it look like the quality of SW and ESB were entirely accidental.
Yeah but its still better then pretty much anything else Star Wars that has come out since
Its not better than Rogue One.
Debatable. But even if I give you that one its better then any of the Lucas prequels. Better then the Disney Trilogy(Which I liked a lot of) and better then Solo.
Empire is my favourite Star Wars film. Rogue One is a close second, then A New Hope is a close third.After that comes Jedi and The Force Awakens, with those two films being too close to call. Then comes The Last Jedi, which itself is ahead of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.Scraping the bottom of the barrel, I have Phantom Menace and Rise of Skywalker.I actually haven’t seen Solo, so I don’t have it ranked.
As much as I love Empire, I think A New Hope is the best of the movies just because what it does in its run time. I put Jedi and Rogue One pretty close together, Then Force Awakens and Last Jedi. Then its a pretty big drop off to the rest. Although I think that Phantom Menace has more to offer then Attack of the clones.I need to give Rise of Skywalker another watch to really decide on it. I am so sad how bad it ended up, so I may just be pretending it may be better in a rewatch
You’re right about The Phantom Menace having some good things to offer. As goes for the entire prequel trilogy, Ewan MacGregor was great as Obi-Wan. Liam Neeson was great as Qui Gonn. Darth Maul is ultra cool, and it’s easy to see why fans kept wanting to see him in the cartoons. There were cool spaceship and starfighter designs.And every single one of those good things in that movie is spoiled by the existence of Jar Jar. Jar Jar singlehandedly makes that film one of the worst in the franchise.
Catwoman lead to the best unintended insult I have ever heard. A little background, first: my mother-in-law has an exceedingly poor grasp on the mechanics of pop-culture. She literally just learned what TV seasons are and how they work last year, as an example. One day, while channel surfing, she came upon the Catwoman movie. After watching for a few minutes, she asked my wife, “Is this a made-for-TV movie?” I was surprised she was even aware of TV movies, let alone the usual gulf in median-quality between TV/theatrical, and yet even she saw that Catwoman was so shitty that she assumed it could not have been released in theaters.
…let your mom-in-law know that her moment of suffering has led to a brilliant nirvana of understanding. That might just be the best take I’ve heard about it – well done her!
All movies are made-for-TV-movies.
You’re going to need to throw a lot more specifications on that title. Needs to be “Hollywood big budget” to avoid stuff like Black Cougar or 3 Dev Adam, needs “in the last 20 years” on there to dodge Supergirl or Steel, should probably have “from DC or Marvel” to get around shit like The Spirit, and even then, even after all of that, it’s still basically not better or worse than 2005’s completely boring Electra, so basically, tough competition.
I feel like it doesn’t need to be qualified. It’s easy for a cheapy sub-B-movie made for $50 and a tax writeoff to be bad, or a movie like Steel where clearly corners are cut everywhere; to spend the resources that Catwoman did, to be the big lead project of Academy Award Winner (TM) Halle Berry, and be THAT bad? That’s a special ascension of bad.
I mean saying that it’s easy to make shitty cheap movies and therefore Catwoman is special IS adding a qualifier. You’re just rewording what I said.
I don’t think it can beat The Spirit. Oof that movie. I have vague memories of Sam Jackson dressed as a Nazi dentist.
…The Pumaman.
That’s “pooma-man”.
Pyoo-MAY-mun.
“Ah, yes, the goal of all heroes: to be left alone.”
I don’t even think there’s a comparison here with how much better Catwoman is than Steel. You want sexist? Steel has a scene where Shaq goes to get the help of an old friend in a wheelchair, and when she says no, he just picks her up chair and all and drags her to her new home, a literal dump in LA. Guess he knows better.
ALTHOUGH…Steel also has a scene where Annabeth Gish’s wheelchair turns into a laser-firing weapon of destruction and it’s not everyday a movie has THAT
Punisher 1989, Captain America 1990, Fantastic Four 1994, Supergirl, X-Men Origins Wolverine, Superman IV.All significantly worse.
The opening of Wolv Origins was some of the best X-Men stuff put to film. I think The Wolverine was way worse, most X films were worse imo… Is Pootytang a super hero flick cuz that’s the shit
Thank you! Wolverine was the worst. The ones from the 90’s and before I sort of put in a different category due to the lack of quality CGI available. It existed but wasn’t very good or most movies.
It was Terminator 2 level CG, only 18 years later and a sequel to movies where we saw practical effects that looked better (like the claws).
I really don’t understand how movies get made like that. You have a great IP, everybody is clamoring for a movie, then you completely shit the bed. It was probably a short sighted rush to production cash grab with no thought to how it would wreck the IP. Wolverine 2 wasn’t great but was passable. Logan was great, because if it weren’t about a mutant, it would still be a good movie. Think how much more they would have made if they had waited for a great script and a decent director.
The Wolverine and Logan had the same director.
I was not aware of that. Good for him, learning how to do his job better. I couldn’t imagine hiring him, but they must have seen something in him.
I’d say Wolverine 2 was actually quite good, with excellent fight/action sequences, and a much better character study after Origins. (What does it mean to hate your immortality until someone might take it away from you?) The movie is undone only by a silly climax, but thats nothing new for superhero movies.
Fair. I only saw it once when it was in the theater. I remember thinking it was fine. It reminded me of the comics when they delved into his past. Not really a Save The World scenario, more of a “this is what it’s like to be him on any given day.”
Are we forgetting that Spawn exists?
But Spawn has Michael Jai White, therefore, it is disqualified from the conversation on the grounds that he is that cool.
Excellent point.
Don’t get me wrong – Catwoman was gawdaweful, but it was nowhere near the utter and complete trainwreck that was Batmanslaughter vs Space Jesus.
I didn’t think it could stoop lower than Pa Kent suggesting Clark let a busload of kids drown, but that movie proved me wrong over 150 excruciating minutes.
This is an absurd supposition! Multiple movies are seriously inferior from several different aspects! What clickbait this article is! I won’t read it at all! I definitely will not comment!: I watched Daredevil. I watched Elektra also. I watched Iron Man 2. I watched Lone Ranger (Depp). I did not watch Supergirl 2 but trust* my fellow commenters. I DID watch Superman IV. Oh, Superman? Yeah, each of these was worse than this POS:
https://www.imdb.com/find?q=superman&s=tt&ttype=ft
Have you all been successful in wiping Green Lantern from your memory? Please – PLEASE – tell me how you did it!
Wade Wilson took care of it.
I haven’t seen ‘Catwoman’, so it’s possible it’s the worst superhero film. The worst of the genre that I have seen is ‘Daredevil’, a movie that does absolutely nothing right. I remember watching in sheer disbelief when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have their street-fight meetcute in a public street in broad daylight and a bunch of bystanders are watching happily as if they aren’t just witnessing a woman and a blind man engaging in physical violence for no apparent reason.
The weird thing is, Daredevil isn’t even the worst movie in its own canon.(I may not be helping my case picking the one scene where Jennifer Garner makes out with another woman, but trust me, this is an awful movie!)
If the worst you’ve seen is Daredevil, then you’ve done well, since there are way crappier ones out there (Superman III, Superman IV, Batman & Robin, Fant4stic, etc). DD’s biggest problem was trying to be Spider-Man when the material clearly needed it to be more like Blade. But to its credit, they had the grit (Bullseye racks up quite a body count), and it surprisingly gets a lot of source material stuff right- it even handles his blindness better than even the Netflix show did.
I actually believe ‘Daredevil’ is worse than ‘Batman & Robin’, which I’ve also seen. ‘B&R’ is atrocious, yes, but at least has some sense of fun; I kind of like the scene where Batgirl enters a street bike race, because it has all these wacky, flamboyantly dressed biker gangs and you get the sense that this is just what Gotham is: a loose collection of psychedelic punks strung together with the occasional normal citizen.
The Helen Slater Supergirl was pretty bad.
I’d argue Elektra was worst.
But like, only because Halle Berry.
“This movie isn’t interested in adapting any content from comic books.”Not that I’m defending this movie (I’ll never see it) but nope. People don’t get to make this complaint anymore. Nerds need to stop picking and choosing when this is okay and when it isn’t.
It’s hilarious how obvious it is that Pitof (or his publicist) wrote his own Wikipedia entry. Which is pretty fitting for a guy who calls himself Pitof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitof
counterpoint:Lots of tits, ass and her moving like a cat and licking a lot
Nothing with that much Halle Berry booty in it can ever be the worst of anything. Besides, Fantastic Four and Batman vs Superman were both much worse in my book because bzzzzzzzzzzzz snoooooooooooooozefest.