10 Comic Book Movies Everyone Tried To Copy

10. Men In Black

Upon release, it seemed that everyone was losing their mind over Men in Black. After years of movies trying to get by on a bunch of haphazard CGI effects, here was a film with a unique concept that made the summer blockbuster feel exciting again. While the charisma of Will Smith is bound to make any movie more enjoyable (Suicide Squad notwithstanding), people have been cribbing from this movie like its an almighty piece of sci-fi.

Given the more lighthearted tone of the film, many studios ended up playing up the supernatural elements of their stories for comedic effect. While something like Hellboy already had a stellar premise, much of what we ended up getting felt like it was ripped straight out of the Men In Black playbook due to how comedic those films were.

Even ideas like RIPD showed Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges as carbon copies of the Agent K and J dynamic.

While many movie studios have some brilliant material to pull from, Men In Black has been used as the standard if you're not sure what to do with your comic book properties. These films are not necessarily bad on principle, but their royalty checks might owe some compensation to Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.