32 Comments Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
The 10 Worst Comic Book Movies
Want to make a nerd angry? Bring up one of these memorably bad flicks in casual conversation.
10. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Why’s it so bad? In what could be the final role of his career, Sean Connery joins a group of C-list actors to play a band of famous literary characters who moonlight as superheroes. Were producers surprised that teen boys weren’t excited by heroes like Dorian Gray and Captain Nemo?
Aftermath: A 16% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an underperforming $66 million domestic box office take were only half the film’s problems. If it wasn’t for this debacle Connery might still be making movies and Extraordinary Gentleman creator Alan Moore, who became even more disgusted with Hollywood after this film, might actually support the upcoming Watchmen flick.
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32 Responses to “The 10 Worst Comic Book Movies”
01.13.09 at 5:33 pm
The 10 Worst Comic Book Movies says:
[…] King-Mag.com put together a list of the 10 Worst Comic Book Movies. […]
01.13.09 at 6:35 pm
Art says:
How could you leave out Howard the Duck, Spawn, and Tank Girl?
01.14.09 at 10:51 am
critic says:
you left off the dark knight…
01.15.09 at 11:20 am
Blood Jason says:
critic is a cocksuckin maggot who eats babies
01.19.09 at 4:31 pm
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02.23.09 at 5:09 pm
JV says:
Catwoman: WRONG! I can watch it with the sound off. Hottie alert. Wrongful omission: Unbreakable (what a let down at the end) …and others. Others MUCH worse than these. You obviously never saw them.
02.23.09 at 5:15 pm
Superior To You says:
The Dark Knight; worst shit ever made “Let’s give an oscar to the mediocre dead guy LOLOL”
02.23.09 at 5:22 pm
Me says:
The Punisher!
02.23.09 at 5:24 pm
mo says:
STFU!
02.23.09 at 5:45 pm
theJoker says:
forgot about ’spawn’
02.23.09 at 6:09 pm
jm1204 says:
You forgot Judge Dredd, Howard Duck, and The Mask.
02.23.09 at 7:07 pm
truedat says:
“Howard the Duck” kicked ass. Dark Knight should be on here. Batman’s voice sounded so gay. The Joker should have been kicked in the sack for how annoying he was.
02.23.09 at 7:10 pm
John JOnes says:
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02.23.09 at 7:19 pm
Jason says:
I hate to be “That guy” but
“A lack of financing turned out to be krypton for the Superman series.”
Krypton was the hope of superman and didn’t hurt him. Kryptonite, irradiated shards of planet Krypton are what is dangerous.
02.23.09 at 7:20 pm
Jason says:
I hate to be “That guy” but
“A lack of financing turned out to be krypton for the Superman series.”
Krypton was the home of superman and didn’t hurt him. Kryptonite, irradiated shards of planet Krypton are what is dangerous. EDIT: Spelling
02.23.09 at 7:22 pm
abbi says:
youve managed to mesh together both batman forever and batman and robin, and tim burton had nothing to do with the one that george clooney was in, he was only executive producer on the val kilmer one. and i thought they wer great movies, i loved them when i was a kid, you critics completely over look what films are made for, to entertain! and comic book movies mainly appeal to children and i loved them not everything has to be brilliant
02.23.09 at 7:23 pm
abbi says:
i do however agree that all the others where crap, yes fantastic four was very badly planned out… concluded too quickly
02.23.09 at 7:55 pm
M says:
Blade 2 and 3, anyone? X-Men 3 and Spiderman 3, Ghost Rider?
02.24.09 at 12:54 am
anin says:
Man, you must have missed the early 90’s and earlier superhero movies. I offer Fantastic Four(1994), Captain America(1990), Doctor Strange(1978), and The Punisher(the Dolph Lundgren one)
02.24.09 at 6:49 am
JA says:
dark knight tops this list - overblown, pretentious and the batman voice - omg worst thing ever
02.24.09 at 7:26 am
GO-Getta' says:
Nah,ja ah u retard? All of tha above were trash but Halle & Jennifer did look good 2 eat.
02.24.09 at 11:09 am
Faust says:
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. the hasslehoff at his best.
02.25.09 at 12:22 am
Pytheus says:
A lot of those are recent. Like others pointed out, Captain America, Judge Dread, and the first Punisher should be on that list. And there are plenty of made for TV movies for the pickings. I liked Fantastic Four and loved the sequel with Silver Surfer. Ghost Rider was ok. The Incredible Hulk I thought was great and set that franchise in the right direction after Ang Lee’s failure. They were fun, entertaining films, not oscar winners, but weren’t horrible. Dark Knight was a good film, dunno why people feel it was that bad. I didn’t notice the growling voice problem till people pointed it out. If they remixed the audio, which they digitally altered Bale’s voice to be deeper, then things would be fine. At least this revision of Batman disguises his voice, which is more realistic.
02.25.09 at 5:55 am
tony grand$ says:
I’m surprised nobody brought up that old ass spiderman movie, with that cat with blue eyes, horrible effects & the web was like a net. I know somebody old school remembers that! It sucks now, but it was hype as a kid. How about Creepshow? That movie was based on an old ass comic! I still watch that duck sauce horror movie every now & then. I pretty much lump the comic movies now in the same catergory of business moves. They try & squeeze some authenticity into them for the few “fans” left, but when it’s all said & done, the ploy is to generate revenue. Iron Man is the best comic movie to date, hands down. Even if a person knew nothing of Tony Stark’s legacy, it was still a hella flick. Plenty joints coming out starting this year, but they have a lot of space to fill in IM’s shoes. I’m really looking forward to Avengers. I heard Ant-Man has a movie in the works (ugh!!), but we’ll see what it do.
02.25.09 at 6:15 am
gack says:
I agree with JV. ‘Unbreakable’ was about the worst movie ever - comic book or no. Talk about let down. It was like 90 minutes of waiting for something (anything) to happen. And it never did.
02.25.09 at 10:42 am
Erik says:
Nah,ja ah u retard? All of tha above were trash but Halle & Jennifer did look good 2 eat..
02.25.09 at 11:38 am
10 Worst Comic Book Adaptations Ever « Not About The Bloggings says:
[…] As someone with a new blog about reading, I feel like I should be talking about the Kindle 2 this week. But since I don’t have one, and don’t really want one, I thought I’d focus instead on King Magazine’s new list of the 10 Worst Comic Book Movies. […]
02.25.09 at 4:38 pm
DarthVain says:
Pffft! Thats nothing. I can’t believe some of those made the list when these did not: The Phantom (1996)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117331/ and The Shadow (1994)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111143/
03.1.09 at 7:07 pm
Lee says:
I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I never read the comic book, but I actually enjoyed the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It’s not in my top five or anything like that, but I could watch it again
03.3.09 at 1:13 pm
Erik says:
Nah,ja ah u retard? All of tha above were trash but Halle & Jennifer did look good 2 eat…
03.16.09 at 2:32 pm
Alex M says:
hahah us nerds don’t get angry when you mention these movies although they are a little sad to behold. Now, say that Dark Knight is a load of rubbish and people really do get upset. I think that Dark Knight is a load of rubbish, btw.
08.10.10 at 6:58 pm
Nick says:
The writer of this article is a complete and utter idiot. The second Hulk film received MOSTLY positive reviews…not mixed…AND was considered a success(it garnered more revenue than the first film) but not as much as Marvel hoped. Do your homework.