Piggybacking on yesterday's countdown of the All Time Top Five Mainstream Comic Book Movies, today we're counting down the All Time Top Five Worst Comic Book Movies That You Probably Didn't Even Know Were Comic Book Movies. These are the movies that were made from lesser known comic books. While the Batmans, Spider-Mans, and X-Men of the world get plenty of hype, there are plenty of other movies out there that are made from comic books that only hardcore fanboys are aware of; and oddly enough, plenty of them actually turn out pretty solid. Films like 'A History of Violence' or 'The Road to Perdition' are just a couple of the movies based on lesser-known comics that turned out to be great cinema. But for every one of those, there is some hack who thinks it'd be a good idea to show off his street cred by butchering one of these lesser known works. And that's what we're here to glorify today. So, without further ado, the All Time Top Five Worst Comic Book Movies That You Probably Didn't Even Know Were Comic Book Movies:
5) Blade - This movie actually was okay, I just fucking hate Stephen Dorff. That guy's a tool.
4) Tank Girl - This movie was an unmitigated mess. I honestly couldn't tell what the hell was going on throughout the whole thing. Usually the hallmark of a crap movie. It also starred the insufferable Lori Petty (AKA Geena Davis's annoying little sister from 'A League of Their Own'), who has apparently been rightfully shunned from Hollywood since this piece of crap came out. Interestingly enough, though, it also features a pre-Ring/Hot lesbian sex scene in 'Mullholland Drive' Naomi Watts as the dorky best friend. So that's funny.
3) Steel - Hey! Let's get Shaq to play an obscure superhero! And we can get Shaft to play his father figure! Awesome. Or not.
2) From Hell - The final chapter of Johnny Depp's 'Trilogy of Shit.' Depp still owes me six hours of my life for having to sit through 'Sleepy Hollow', 'The Ninth Gate' and this piece of crap. And if I ever see him in person, I want it back.
1) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Based on an Alan Moore graphic novel, this film just fell short...of sucking. Because if it sucked, it would have been a significant improvement. This movie featured horrible special effects, terrible acting, and at one point, I'm pretty sure Sean Connery actually asks if his check has cleared yet on camera. Maybe getting a bunch of fictional literary superheroes together to fight crime (or something) sounded good on paper. In action? Not so much.
All Time Top Five Worst Comic Book Movies That You Probably Didn't Even Know Were Comic Book Movies That Just Missed the Cut: Constantine (Crap, sure, but I'll sit through anything with Rachel Weisz), Catwoman (was it supposed to be the same Catwoman from Batman? What the hell was going on here? I can't put it on the list until I figure that out), Howard the Duck (I actually kind of liked this piece of 80's nostalgia. Lea Thompson never looked better), and Judge Dredd (Hasn't Rob Schneider suffered enough?).
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