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    Default 10 Most Disappointing Superhero Movies of All Time - Newsarama

    Newsarama ranks it's 10 Most Disappointing Superhero Movies of All Time.

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    10. Punisher: War Zone
    9. Spawn
    8. X Men Origins: Wolverine
    7. Spider Man 3
    6. Hulk
    5. Fantastic Four
    4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    3. Green Lantern
    2. Daredevil
    1. Justice League

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    No Catwoman? Wow.

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    From the point of view of disappointment as something you trusted and had great expectations of, Thor Ragnarok takes all 10 slots.
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    I'd swap Justice League with Batman v. Superman.

    By the time Justice League came around, expectations were already pretty mixed for the DC movies. Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad weren't exactly universally loved. Batman v. Superman, though, only had Man of Steel before it and was also the first time DC's trinity were on the big screen together. Expectations for it were much higher.

    I also wouldn't say Fantastic Four was disappointing as most hated it before it even came out. Most people were actively wanting it to fail so that Marvel would get the movie rights back.
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    Hmm, not a single MCU film. It's almost as if those movies aren't judged by their individual merits and gain bonus points for being part of a larger cinematic universe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinsir View Post
    Hmm, not a single MCU film. It's almost as if those movies aren't judged by their individual merits and gain bonus points for being part of a larger cinematic universe.
    As someone who said an MCU movie should be on The list, and only that movie, I'd have to argue that in general MCU movies are far superior in quality than the other movies that are on this list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesonAnders View Post
    From the point of view of disappointment as something you trusted and had great expectations of, Thor Ragnarok takes all 10 slots.
    I think you meant amazingly awesome. The first two Thor movies are my two least favorite MCU movies by far and its not even close. I had no intention of seeing Ragnorak but I kept seeing reviews saying it was surprisingly good so I saw it and yeah it was shockingly good. Top 5 MCU for me.

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    My list:

    1. X-men: Last Stand. The first two X-men movies were sooooooo good. Then this movie forgot about storytelling in favor of CGI and pissing all over the Dark Phoenix storyline.

    2. X-men: Dark Phoenix. I liked DoFP and Apocalypse. The cast was great. I hoped they'd do the Dark Phoenix story right this time. Silly me.

    3. Spiderman: Homecoming. This is largely because of my love of the Raimi movies, even the third which while nowhere near the 1st two is still okay. Plus I don't want a teen Spidey. He was barely ever a teen in the comics. Then they made massive changes to the supporting cast that just didn't work IMO -for instance Flash should be a jock not just another smart geek.

    4. Superman Returns. The original Superman movies beyond the score have not aged well. Mimicing them thus really didn't work. Absolutely amazing trailer though.

    5. Green Lantern. Might be higher except I had low expectations going in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinsir View Post
    Age of Ultron is my pick for one of the most disappointing films though. The trailers depicted Ultron as an intimating, serious foe and yet, the film completely emasculated Ultron and turned the character into a joke. People objected to Black Widow suddenly falling in love with Hulk and the line about her being a monster still gets up to this day. Iron Man also straight up makes a rape joke too, whose really the only character in the film to gain some character development, leading the film to be called Iron Man 3.5. The cinematography is also drab and the locations, which vary from New York to Africa, to Korea to Eastern Europe all look the same. Plus there is some pretty bad cgi work, with that opening cartoon depicting the Avengers raiding a Hydra base as a low point for cinema as a whole. There is a reason why Joss Whedon exited the MCU after this film.
    Yeah I remember liking Avengers and AoU at the time just for going to the movies. But sometime after watching AoU only once I thought to myself, opening slo-mo Hydra raid scene in mind, did this really deserve to earn whatever gazillion dollars and endless hours of pre-release online discussions from people like me before actually getting to watch it?

    I thought no, in a way that drifted me away from most MCU movies and into more DC movies and Fox mutant movies even as they imploded. Or just other kinds of movies.

    The only worst experience I can think of is Amazing Spider-Man 2, which has ever since eye rolled me away from live Spider-Men. Loved Into the Spider-Verse though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TriggerWarning View Post
    I think you meant amazingly awesome. The first two Thor movies are my two least favorite MCU movies by far and its not even close. I had no intention of seeing Ragnorak but I kept seeing reviews saying it was surprisingly good so I saw it and yeah it was shockingly good. Top 5 MCU for me.
    I'm a huge fan of the comic book character Thor, so the first two movies were a big disappointment to me. Chris Hemsworth seems like a nice guy, but he's about as intimidating as a wet sock. The third movie was *also* nothing at all like 'my' Thor, but at least it was *fun* and I was able to sit back and enjoy the ride.

    I find, in my case, I'm much more likely to be super-impressed by a movie about a character I don't know or care as much about, like Spider-Man or Iron Man, than one based on a character I really like, whom I'm much more likely to be super-fussy about, like Thor or Dr. Strange. (For that same reason, I don't care at all that WB's Green Arrow is little or nothing like the comic book character, but kind of want more from any TV/movie appearances of the Justice Society, Teen Titans, Young Justice or Legion of Super-Heroes, who I *really* like!)

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    Interesting, Thor 1 is my favorite Phase I movie overall. Thor 3 pretty much has only one bit I absolutely love - "Get Help," which has me chuckling just thinking about it. It's not bad, I like Thor 3 better than Thor 2 in a lot of ways, but it was very successful at being something I wasn't necessarily interested in.

    By contrast, I really like both Batman v Superman and Justice League, and the big disappointment was how much hate they got, rather than anything about the movies themselves.

    I mean, I'm looking forward to the Snyder Cut, because I felt like JL was too short, and Snyder and some of the actors were robbed, but not because I disliked the Justice League that I've seen and got.

    Judging from how people seem to feel about it online, I think I might be theatrical JL's biggest fan on the internet. :P

    Most disappointing super-hero movie? I don't know, probably the animated Batman and Harley Quinn. It got my hopes up so high, and then mugged and shot them in an alleyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bunch of Coconuts View Post
    No Catwoman? Wow.
    Was anyone expecting Catwoman to be good?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coal Tiger View Post
    Was anyone expecting Catwoman to be good?
    I certainly don’t hope that a movie would be bad. At worst, I hope that it’ll surprise me.

    Halle Berry’s a talented actress and the in-every-movie-at-the-time-because-he’s-“hot” male lead isn’t terrible himself. Can’t ever speak for story till you’ve seen the thing, and...well...yeah it disappointed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bunch of Coconuts View Post
    I certainly don’t hope that a movie would be bad. At worst, I hope that it’ll surprise me.

    Halle Berry’s a talented actress and the in-every-movie-at-the-time-because-he’s-“hot” male lead isn’t terrible himself. Can’t ever speak for story till you’ve seen the thing, and...well...yeah it disappointed.
    It's easy to forget the moment when it's so far in the past, but given the lead actress and the popularity of Batman at the time, there was almost no one expecting Catwoman to be a complete failure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesonAnders View Post
    It's easy to forget the moment when it's so far in the past, but given the lead actress and the popularity of Batman at the time, there was almost no one expecting Catwoman to be a complete failure.
    In a way, Catwoman’s potential place on the list relies entirely on where you think expectations would have reasonably been set. By the same Hollywood logic that led to the changes in the story and character from her more traditional roots, there was no reason it should have failed - they had Halle Berry, and a recognizable IP, what more do you need? By the logic of the Catwoman fans already shaking their heads and going “WTF?”, there was no reason it should have been made - you were removing the connection to the parent franchise so thoroughly it effectively wasn’t the IP that the name belonged to.

    So I think for comic fans, it really didn’t have expectations to fail, whereas for movie fans, it maybe did.

    If they’d had Berry play Selina Kyle and did a simple heist story, there’d maybe be more of an alignment between the two groups.
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