I agree, The Fantastic Four was pretty bad.

The Fantastic Four has always walked a fine line between light and dark. No matter what, a FF movie should be fun. X-Men is too dark, the FF movie that was made was too light.

I've pretty much always expected the worst from comic book films and tend to only get riled up when they totally bastardize one of my favorite characters. Since I'm a big Dr. Doom fan I despise the FF movies even though I think they did a fairly decent job with the vapid heroes themselves (sorry but I've never cared for that group).

Fantastic Four had huge potential, none of which was realized in the first film. I also agree that a 'light' tone with that particular material isn't the problem.
FF the film, was just uninspired hack work.
To dovetail with another thread here- This was the perfect property to dispense with a by-the-numbers, cliched origin story. The characters here are not dual identity do-gooders forged by deep seeded psychological hang-ups or adolescent traumas. They are up front celebrities in the public eye. The exposition of their origin could have been dispensed with during something like Sue Storms appearance as a guest on a day-time talk show. The host could re-cap the origin in a 30 second lead-in, and the simple fact that this character is appearing casually on a daytime talk show implies what the first film took 40 minutes to establish- that these characters are not at all like Spider-man, Superman, Batman, etc.
Very little thought or imagination went into making that film anything special which is a shame since, as someone else pointed out, the technology finally exists to do the premise justice.

But my personal pick would probably be Spider-man 3. The first two films not only did the heavy lifting of establishing the basic conflict, and advancing it, but they also provided a clear guide book for what didn't work so well (the Goblin's power ranger costume for one). S-m 3 could have rectified previous flaws and paid that smoldering conflict off perfectly. Instead we got another cluster-f#ck of merchandising opportunities masquerading as a movie. I still love the second film, and love at least half of the first one- but I've seen S-m 3 once, and will never waste my time watching it again. That film is the main reason I haven't bought the Bd set. I don't want to have to pay even $1 more for that p-o-s.

Well said. Especially coming after, at the time, arguably the greatest comic book movie ever in Spider-Man 2. Probably most disappointing.

I recently re-watched this one, and noticed that for the most part I enjoyed roughly the first two-thirds of it (albiet with the same complaints I have about the first two: Spidey should use fluid cartridges, not biological webs dammit! Tobey McGuire comes across as far too nerdy and goofy/dumb as Peter Parker. And Dunst is nothing at all like Mary Jane of the comics.). It almost instantly devolves into complete garbage, however, at the point where Venom and Sandman meet in the alley. From this point on, nothing in the film works. I just found it interesting, that to me at least, there was such a clear-cut and distinct point in the film where it goes from generally good to terribly bad.

This.

I don't get the Spiderman 3 hate. I found it quite enjoyable with amazing special effects and great action pieces. The storyline suffered a bit by cramming 3 villians into one movie, but it wasn't a huge letdown for me.

I finally watched FF Silver Surfer last week. Definite improvement over the first film. But bringing Doom back was lame, weakly connected to the Latveria origin, and pretty much pointless. Also, we never got to see a shot of Galactus which was a big letdown. Another problem is there is just no good chemistry between the team.

Daredevil was horrible.

Nobody mentioned The Spirit? Maybe because nobody saw it... I know I didn't, even though I was excited about it, mainly due to the bad press. It's out on DVD and I still haven't bothered, though I'm sure I will someday. Same with Batman and Robin, word of mouth was enough to turn me away.

Superman III was bad, but IV was a travesty. I will never forget watching the "rebuild-the-Great-Wall-vision" that Superman had.

Agree with the newer FF movies. I was so excited when they announced that the Silver Surfer would be in it... and then we get Mr. Fantastic dancing.

As a kid, I liked Howard the Duck and Supergirl. I didn't have high expectations for, and never saw, the Catwoman movie. And I'm assuming we're not mentioning the terrible made for TV "movies" like Nick Fury and Gen X.

Yes, I'm kidding. SUPERGIRL is a disaster of mega-proportions. With the sole exception of Helen Slater and the Lucy Lane and Jimmy Olsen characters, the effort is so misguided and poor that it does rank below BATMAN AND ROBIN, and perhaps as low as Corman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR.

I loved SUPERMAN and SUPERMAN II. I was hoping SUPERGIRL would make up for the SUPERMAN III travesty, but it was worse. The invisible monster, the unexplained existence of Argo City, the Omegahedron...just terrible. It's more depressing than interesting.

I thought DICK TRACY was a great attempt at an adaptation, but it was too boring.

Maybe not horrible. I thought Whassisname as Bullseye was bad, and the see-saw fight between Elektra and Matt Murdoch was astoundingly poor, but other than that...I thought it was okay.