The ten worst superhero movies ever

Nowadays filmmakers are getting better at making superhero movies. They never really make a superhero movie anymore that is so bad that you almost want to throw away the comic books that the movie was based on, and that you loved so much, just because you have just seen your favorite characters dragged through the mud on the big screen, their origin stories ruined and misinterpreted, with new elements added that come out of nowhere, just because the filmmakers thought it would make the movie more accessible. But back in the days there have been some real stinkers, and I wondered which superhero movies you, my readers, hated most. And here is the top ten, with a few unexpected surprises, like the fact that enough of you even saw the movie in the first position to make it end that high.

10. Superman 4 (3 percent of total votes)
The Superman franchise is well presented in this list, with three movies connected to Superman making it to the list. The fact that the horrible Superman 4 made it to the list needs no explanation. Rarely has there been a worse superhero movie, which is a crying shame if you have one of the best superhero actors (Christopher Reeve) as your star.

9. Ghost Rider (4 percent)
Even though I had also given Elektra and some other recent movies as options for your choosing, you decided that only Ghost Rider and one other recent superhero disaster were bad enough to make the top ten. I think I have seen a lot worse than Ghost Rider, but for real fans of the comic it must have been a big disappointment.

8. Judge Dredd (5 percent)
This is a movie where the bad news just kept piling on, topped by the fact that the main hero in the movie, who had never shown his face in all the years he had been in the comics, would be shown without a helmet and mask throughout probably most of the movie. The movie really wasn't that bad, but that fact alone made it a movie fan would hate forever.

7. Steel (6 percent)
Steel is also connected to the Superman-family of characters, which made this movie a shoe in for Superman-fanatic Shaquille O'Neal to star in. A shame then that the movie made the worst B-movies look bad, even though it did have a likeability to it that made it hard to hate it too much.

6. Supergirl (7 percent)
And there we have another Supermovie that turned out to be anything but. The plot was horrible, the acting bad and it just wasn't a fun superhero flick at all.

5. Howard the Duck (8 percent)
Though you can hardly call Howard the Duck a real superhero, I thought this movie should be included anyway. I'll admit that I have had it in my DVD collection for quite some time now, and I still haven't mustered the courage to actually watch it...

4. Batman and Robin (10 percent)
When I created this poll, I thought this movie would be a shoe-in for the top position, so it's a surprise to already see it in fourth place, and so far away from the actual winner. Have people actually started liking this piece of crap?

3. Tank Girl (15 percent)
This is one of the few movies I watched that I couldn't bear finishing. I bought the Video after reading a very positive review in one of the British movie magazines of that time, and hated it so much that I threw it in the trash an hour after starting to watch it for the first time.

2. Catwoman (16 percent)
For some reason, DC Comics hasn't been very lucky with it's adaptations, as this horrible, misguided movie proves. Reason enough to ban director Pitof from ever making another movie.

1. Son of the Mask (17 percent)
I never saw this one, but I didn't expect that so many of you hated it enough to vote it into first place. Proof that some movies just shouldn't ever get a sequel.

Comments

[Bar Mats]

We all like superhero movie.

[famous people]

I couldn't agree more. Anyhow, I just must to mention that although Batman movie series had some fall back days in the 90's, they were very important for the raising of the 2 last movies, which were super-good!