Top Ten Worst Portrayed Comic Book Characters in a Movie
Amusing Book geeks could debate forever what comic book movies are the best and which comic book movies are the worst. But one thing people fail to mention are which specific characters have been pulled off correctly and which ones have bombed. I have come up with ten comic book characters that were very poorly portrayed in a comical book movie. The bad portrayal is not always the actor or actresses fault though. Sometimes it’s the writing, sometimes it’s the directing and sometimes it’s just bad casting, but all of these characters were done very well.
10. Elektra in Daredevil and Elektra
Yes it pains me to do this because Jennifer Garner is one of my favorites. But Jennifer Garner as Elektra just doesn’t work. I understand that Jennifer Garner was once super recognize Sydney Bristow on the show Alias so she can kick some butt. The scrape is even though Sydney is tough and strong she is still a sweet woman. Elektra is mean and brutal and Jennifer Garner can’t pull it off. Seriously she can’t even gape mean because she has such a sweet face. The baddest ninja assassin that ever lived can’t have cute dimples.
9. Jean Grey in X-Men, X-Men 2, and X-Men 3
Jean Grey is one of the most valuable characters in X-Men history. She is one of the founding members and the first woman member. Jean Grey has always been the heart of the X-Men. That’s why Jean Grey dies so often in the comic book because her dying actually means something (at least it did the first couple of times). Famke Janssen in the X-Men movies is so dull and boring that we were given no reason to care about her. When she died the first time it meant nothing, when she died the second time it meant more nothing.
8. Mary Jane in Spiderman and Spiderman 2
Hello!? Mary Jane is supposed to be a full red headed model. Not a tiny scrawny little blonde who isn’t really even that good looking. The character is also totally wrong. Mary Jane is always a very happy, bubbly girl who never lets anything get her down but in the movies she’s a girl who lets everything get her down and is never happy or bubbly. They might as well change her name to Jary Mane.
7. Lois Lane in Superman Returns
What is it about not being able to correctly cast the hero’s woman? I could say a lot about why Kate Bosworth isn’t a good Lois Lane but here is the main reason. Lois Lane in amusing book = smart. Lois Lane in the movie = complete moron. I don’t know why in movies the woman has to always get in trouble because she’s clueless. It is possible for a woman to be really smart but still get captured because the villain is a mastermind, especially when the mastermind is Lex Luthor.
6. Bullseye in Daredevil
This ruined character was a joint anxiety. First of all whose crazy idea was it to not put a mask with a bulls-eye on Bullseye but instead gash a bulls-eye into his forehead? Are you kidding me? Colin Farrell did his share too unprejudiced by completely reeking. Also what’s up with casting somebody with an Irish accent? Bullseye doesn’t have an Irish accent. We don’t know where Bullseye is from but his word bubbles aren’t written in an Irish accent. If anything he’s probably got a Fresh York accent.
5. Sabretooth in X-Men
Ok so they decided to make Sabretooth in a movie. Let’s sight…is he big? Check. Is he ugly? Check. Does he have the ability to say anything other than arrhhhhh? Umm…no check. I understand that Sabretooth is big and ferocious but the movie made Sabretooth look like some creature that can’t talk but can only make sound effects. This isn’t the Tasmanian Devil, this is Sabretooth.
4. Magneto in X-Men, X-Men 2, and X-Men 3
Apologies to Sir Ian McKellan because he’s one of today’s great actors but Sir Ian as Magneto just didn’t work. This is Magneto we’re talking about possibly the baddest comic book villain of all. But the movie version of Magneto is an old wrinkly man. Just hit him with a wooden chair and he’ll go down no problem. It doesn’t help that Bryan Singer never did anything to make him look powerful. A lot of people dissed Brett Ratner for the scene where Magneto moves an entire bridge because it was too over the top (yeah cause comic books are never over the top). But the truth is that moment is the only time in the series of movies where we see that Magneto is powerful enough to assume over the world. The rest of the movies he’s just a boring old man.
3. Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four was not a very great movie but there were a few good parts. My favorite part though was the first scene where we see Doctor Doom. I was excited because when I saw Doctor Doom’s costume I thought to myself, “They bought that costume at the Walmart I shop at! I just saw it there last week!”
2. Storm in X-Men, X-Men 2, and X-Men 3
If Halle Berry is ever in another comic book movie of any kind then people are just complete morons. Can nobody hear the legions of comic book fans completely tearing Halle Berry to shreds for how horrible she is? First of all it’s obvious she’s there just to get another paycheck. Then for the sequel she didn’t even want to do it, but then changed her mind because she wanted another paycheck. Then in the third one she didn’t want to do it either but again she was there when it was time to get the paycheck. Absolutely nothing about her character is remotely close to Storm. Really why did they keep signing her to come back? She was obviously not very good, why keep paying so much money for the weakest fraction of the cast?
1. Catwoman in Catwoman
Halle Berry’s performance in the X-Men movies might be the second worst performance of all-time and yet her Catwoman role makes her Storm role look Oscar splendid. Again she can’t act, not that it really matters because the movie isn’t really about Catwoman anyway. It’s a completely made up Catwoman that nobody cares about. Halle Berry then comes out and says nobody wants to see the comic Catwoman because they’ve already seen that. The fans would rather spy a new Catwoman. No they wouldn’t! The whole reason these droll book movies are made is so the fans can view the characters they know. Did you reflect people tuned into X-Men to see a short Canadian that wasn’t tough, didn’t have a healing factor and didn’t have claws? Did you think people went to sight Spiderman to watch a guy dressed in a guppy outfit that swims in the ocean? Did you think people wanted to see Punisher to ogle a guy who walks around town handing out pansies? I don’t know about the rest of you but I sure was disappointed when I found out the Fantastic Four didn’t have eight members and man it was a shocker when I went to see Batman Begins and there was no Extraordinary Technicolor Dreamcoat. You are a moron Halle Berry and you can’t act, you’re not even that attractive.
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