What's the rock bottom worst Comic adaptations ever?

[Brazoo]

I did some googles - and found some more made-for-tv madness I never heard of before.

• Apparently there was a 1991 Power Pack movie?

• "Archie: Return to Riverdale"?!!

• "Justice League of America" unaired in the US

[aquatroy]

I agree that movies like "Spawn" and "Steel" are crappy movies with crappy sources, but what if we were going to rank movies the other way around? 'best source material to worst adaptation' ratio? Personally, I think "The Spirit", "The Fantastic Four" and "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" would be strong contenders on that list.

Agreed. Spirit was so bad I forced myself to forget that I had seen it.

[The Toyroom]

We must be talking about "Frank Miller's Spirit" and not the Sam Jones version....?

[Toyman_Chris]

I vaguely remember a live-action Dr. Strange movie. Did it star the father from the Brady Bunch or is that just how I remember it?

IMDb - Dr. Strange (TV 1978)

Peter Hooten was Dr. Stephen Strange.

The movie was pretty slow moving, but not anywhere near as bad as:

Return Of The Incredible Hulk (Thor was just horrible!)
Manthing (nothing good about that one!)

[Toyman_Chris]

I know it's just me, but I like that Corman FF movie more then the 2 big budget movies.

Nope, it's not just you.

[johnnystorm]

ooh! ooh!

Shaq in STEEL

nuff said!

[Marvelmania]

Yep, I liked the Corman FF, Dr. Strange and the Doc Savage (Ron Ely) movies! Even the 70's Cap Reb Brown movies are a guilty pleasure of mine however The Man-Thing movie was a couple of hours out of my life that I'll regret forever. How about the Thor SyFy movie where he fought the werewolves? Bad, bad, bad and just plain sad!

[palitoy]

We must be talking about "Frank Miller's Spirit" and not the Sam Jones version....?

I had completely blocked out the Miller version. Sam Jones could have done his version sans pants with a scottish accent and it still would have been the more faithful adapation.

[johnmiic]

Does the TV series Mutant X qualify here?

We must be talking about "Frank Miller's Spirit" and not the Sam Jones version....?

There was a 90 minute,(?), made for TV special circa 1988 that not only starred Sam J. Jones, (Flash Gordon, 240 Robert), but Nana Visitor, (Mjr. Kyra Nerys of Star Trek - Deep Space 9). I thought the tearing of the Spirit's costume and the sound effects for that were a bit overstated.

[BlackKnight]

the worst big budget comic movie -Constantine

No Way Dude...., Your way off your Mark here.
FF2, The Spirit ...., Watchmen & Catwoman All the Way.


I agree that The Cap TV Movie ..., was just Horrible.

[thunderbolt]

All the FF movies(even Corman's I don't get what people see in it), Steel, Catwoman

[Brazoo]

I actually thought "Constantine" was alright. It didn't seem below average quality-wise in any way to me. I guess comparing it to the source material might make it worse.

For example, I think "From Hell" is an average to maybe slightly below average movie - not too offensive on it's own - but compared to the book I think it's a piece of trash.

[Brazoo]

All the FF movies(even Corman's I don't get what people see in it)

As a HUGE FF fan I enjoyed the Corman version. The source material lends itself well to all the weirdness going on - for example - who ever thought that Doom's metal mask would make him so hard to understand? It's not very dramatic - but it is funny when you think about it.

I'm also a big Corman fan, and I think the background of why the movie was made is funny. It was produced just so they could hang onto the licensing contract in order to force whoever else wanted to make an FF movie to buy the rights off them, but supposedly the actors and crew didn't know that - so apparently they're being tragically sincere in their effort.

I don't think it's a good movie, and I think anything entertaining in the movie was accidental, but I did enjoy it more than the big budget versions.

[Bruce Banner]

I also prefer Corman's FF over those two aberrant attempts by Tim Story. Marginally.

We have yet to see the definitive FF movie. I hope we'll get it some day.


Budgets aside, some of my most hated comic book movies have to be:

Daredevil (Affleck & Farrell... the worst case of double barrel miscasting ever.)
Fantastic Four 2005 (grossly mishandled and miscast. A true travesty.)
Catwoman
Spawn
Batman (I know Burton's mess of a movie has its fans, but I genuinely find it deplorable... apart from some of the decent production design elements.)
Spider-Man 3
Superman IV
X-Men 3
Wolverine: Origins

To name a few.

[The Toyroom]

No Way Dude...., Your way off your Mark here.
FF2, The Spirit ...., Watchmen & Catwoman All the Way.


I agree that The Cap TV Movie ..., was just Horrible.

I finally saw "Watchmen" and it's actual pretty faithful to the source material...