10. Daredevil
Theatrical: 103 minutesExtended: 133 minutes As movies go, the extended cut of Daredevil is still the worst on this list. From the get-go, you're looking at a superhero movie where the hero - a pre-Best Picture Winner, pre-loved Ben Affleck - is blind, and his only real powers are four heightened senses and the ability to murder humans without mercy. But when Daredevil landed, distributors decided the odds weren't stacked against the movie enough, so they removed 30 minutes, excised scenes that were integral to the plot, then dropped it in cinemas and said "do your worst." In the 133-minute version of Daredevil, some of the action remains muddled, and the woeful soft rock/power ballad soundtrack is still slathered on to mercilessly neuter the tension. But the extended cut at least transforms a very bad, somewhat incoherent film into a watchable one. There's also an intriguing adultness to this version, and a lack of morality to its superhero - can you imagine a superhero movie now that would feature a protagonist so sadistically eager to slaughter his enemies? - that make it somewhat unique. The extended version remains a very flawed comic book movie, made back in the early days of the genre's resurgence, but the instances of camp or portentousness are no worse than what's found in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies. This is a much more complete cut that has new, entertaining moments of its own - Jon Favreau, who has a surprising and light chemistry with Affleck, welcomes his extra time on-screen.